Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Performance of text Sophia Lee
SL 's tragedy Almeyda, Queen of Granada began its four-night run at Drury Lane , after repeated delays amounting to two and a half years.
Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - lii.
xxxiii, xlvii
Performance of text Sophia Lee
SL 's last work, her comedy The Assignation, was produced at Drury Lane .
It has no connection with The Assignation: A Sentimental Novel in a Series of Letters, published by Noble in 1774.
Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - lii.
xlviii
Family and Intimate relationships Sophia Lee
SL 's father, John Lee , was a quarrelsome and impecunious actor. The year of her birth he acted at Richmond and Covent Garden , with an interim desertion to Drury Lane , where, however...
Occupation Charlotte Lennox
Charlotte Ramsay (later CL ) first appeared on stage in London: at Drury Lane , as Lavinia in The Fair Penitent by Nicholas Rowe .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
3: 1214
Performance of text Charlotte Lennox
CL 's comedy Old City Manners (an adaptation from Eastward Hoe! by Ben Jonson and others) opened at Drury Lane .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
4: 1928
Intertextuality and Influence Charlotte Lennox
Seventeen years after the brief, inglorious appearance of The Sister, Sir John Burgoyne raided it for his successful comedy The Heiress, which opened at Drury Lane on 14 January 1786. Twenty years after...
Family and Intimate relationships Delarivier Manley
At the time her first play was produced DM was said, perhaps not accurately, to be having an affair with Skipwith , co-manager of Drury Lane .
Manley, Delarivier. “Editorial Materials”. A Woman of No Character: An Autobiography of Mrs Manley, edited by Fidelis Morgan, Faber, p. various pages.
87-8
Performance of text Delarivier Manley
DM 's Lost Lover was produced at Drury Lane ; it was published the same year.
Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, p. v - xxviii.
xi
Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press.
393
Performance of text Delarivier Manley
DM 's tragedy Lucius, the First Christian King of Britain, was acted at Drury Lane .
Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press.
393
Performance of text Mary Russell Mitford
MRM 's tragedy Rienzi opened at Drury Lane Theatre ; it ran for thirty-four nights, making her reputation as a dramatist.
Sullivan dates the opening 11 October, but MRM herself, as edited by L'Estrange, suggests...
Family and Intimate relationships Caroline Norton
Tom Sheridan , CN 's father, son of the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan , bore the same name as his famous eighteenth-century grandfather, the actor, and great-grandfather, the clergyman and schoolmaster. He had been an...
Wealth and Poverty Caroline Norton
The burning down of Drury Lane Theatre on 24 February 1809 was a financial catastrophe for CN 's parents, as well as for her grandfather Richard Brinsley Sheridan .
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Textual Production Amelia Opie
Despite the volume's title, The Ruffian Boy had been in print well before this, and had spawned several theatrical incarnations. These included one based on the story, written by Edward Ball and produced at Norwich...
Performance of text Hester Lynch Piozzi
The Regent, by Bertie Greatheed (one of the Della Cruscans ) appeared at Drury Lane with an epilogue by HLP .
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press.
331
Performance of text Mary Pix
The play had opened at Drury Lane about a month previously.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago.
413
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
1: 464
It was printed with MP 's name, a dedication, and brief preface apologising for the misnumbering of her emperor or sultan.

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