Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

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Performance of text Hannah Cowley
HC 's unpublished interlude The School of Eloquence (a satire on the currently fashionable debating clubs) was performed at Drury Lane .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
5: 328
Performance of text Hannah Cowley
HC 's tragedy The Fate of Sparta; or, The Rival Kings opened at Drury Lane .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
5: 1038
Textual Production Hannah Cowley
It was badly presented, by two of the cast in particular.
Escott, Angela. Email about supposed quarrel between Hannah Cowley and Hannah More to Isobel Grundy.
It had been completed by 1777, but rejected by Thomas Harris of Covent Garden , who then produced Hannah More 's Percy instead. Tragedy...
Performance of text Hannah Cowley
HC 's first play, the comedy The Runaway, opened at Drury Lane , as the only new mainpiece of David Garrick 's final season; it had the successful run of seventeen nights.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
4: 1952
Link, Frederick M., and Hannah Cowley. “Introduction”. The Plays of Hannah Cowley, Vol.
1
, Garland, p. v - xlxx.
vii, x
Performance of text Hannah Cowley
HC 's farce or afterpiece Who's the Dupe? opened at Drury Lane under Garrick 's successor, Sheridan .
It was normal practice for light-hearted sketches to follow more serious plays to complete the evening's entertainment.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
5: 246
Employer Elizabeth Cooper
As a means of earning money she went on the stage. In January 1734 she appeared at Drury Lane , and in April that year she organised her own benefit at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre
Occupation Charlotte Charke
Colley Cibber retired abruptly from managing Drury Lane , passing it not to his son Theophilus but to John Highmore ; Theophilus, CC , and other performers defected to the illicit Little Theatre in the Haymarket .
Baruth, Philip E. “Who Is Charlotte Charke?”. Introducing Charlotte Charke: Actress, Author, Enigma, edited by Philip E. Baruth, University of Illinois Press, pp. 9-62.
18
Morgan, Fidelis, and Charlotte Charke. The Well-Known Troublemaker: A Life of Charlotte Charke. Faber and Faber.
52-3
Performance of text Charlotte Charke
CC 's topical farceThe Art of Management; or, Tragedy Expell'd, a satire on Fleetwood and other Drury Lane personnel, played at York Buildings .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
3: 513
Family and Intimate relationships Charlotte Charke
Charlotte's father, Colley Cibber , was an actor, manager of Drury Lane Theatre , and Poet Laureate: he had become an unfaithful husband before Charlotte was born, and he was at the peak of his...
Occupation Charlotte Charke
Her career opened well. Next year she took the demanding role of Alicia in Nicholas Rowe 's Jane Shore. She became stock-reader or general understudy in the Drury Lane Company , in which capacity she played Cleopatra.
Baruth, Philip E. “Who Is Charlotte Charke?”. Introducing Charlotte Charke: Actress, Author, Enigma, edited by Philip E. Baruth, University of Illinois Press, pp. 9-62.
18
Performance of text Marianne Chambers
MC 's five-act comedy The School for Friends opened at London's Drury Lane .
James Mason published a comedy of the same title in the second volume of his Literary Miscellanies, 1809.
Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press.
383
Performance of text Marianne Chambers
MC 's second five-act play, Ourselves, A Comedy, opened at the Lyceum in London with actors from the Theatre Royal .
Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press.
383
Lamb, Charles, and Mary Lamb. The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb. Editor Marrs, Edwin J., Cornell University Press.
3: 73n5
Textual Production Marianne Chambers
The same year it played at the Theatre Royal itself, and also reached print.
Performance of text Susanna Centlivre
SC 's Molière adaptation Love's Contrivance; or, Le Medecin Malgre Luy opened anonymously at Drury Lane .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
2: 37
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press.
51
Performance of text Susanna Centlivre
SC 's comedy The Basset Table opened at Drury Lane .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
2: 107
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press.
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