Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

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Performance of text Susanna Centlivre
Drury Lane put on a farce or opening piece by SC entitled A Bickerstaff's Burying; or, Work for the Upholders.
Upholders were undertakers or funeral directors.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 217
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
133
Performance of text Catherine Gore
CG , still resident in Paris, had another play open in London: The King's Seal at Drury Lane , featuring the French monarch Henri IV .
Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34.
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Performance of text Aphra Behn
Charles Gildon had a manuscript of this play. The success of Southerne 's adaptation of Oroonoko probably inspired him to get The Younger Brother staged; he may well have revised it first.
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
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Performance of text Mary Robinson
MR 's comic opera The Lucky Escape opened at Drury Lane , given for her benefit at its first appearance.
Pascoe differs from the London Stage and from Mann and Garnier as to the exact date.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, 2000, pp. 19-64.
59
Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press, 1996.
397
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 167
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, 1996.
383
Performance of text Mary Berry
MB 's comedy The Fashionable Friends reached the public stage at Drury Lane Theatre , after a private performance at Strawberry Hill (November 1801). It ran for three nights, just enough to achieve a benefit...
Performance of text Mary Robinson
MR 's afterpiece or satiric comedy Nobody opened at Drury Lane , with prologue and epilogue by herself.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994.
xiii
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 1707
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, 1996.
383
Lamb, Charles, 1775 - 1834, and Mary, 1764 - 1847 Lamb. The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb. Editor Marrs, Edwin J., Jr, Cornell University Press, 1975, 3 vols.
3: 73n5
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, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
4: 1928
Performance of text Elizabeth Griffith
EG 's comedy The Platonic Wife (based on one of Marmontel 's tales, L'heureux divorce) opened at Drury Lane .
Griffith, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Delicate Distress, edited by Cynthia Booth Ricciardi and Susan Staves, University Press of Kentucky, 1997, p. vii - xviii.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Rizzo, Betty. “’Depressa Resurgam’: Elizabeth Griffith’s Playwriting Career”. Curtain Calls, edited by Mary Anne Schofield and Cecilia Macheski, Ohio University Press, 1991, pp. 120-42.
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Performance of text Elizabeth Griffith
EG 's comedy The School for Rakes opened at Drury Lane ; it was adapted from Eugénie by P. A. Caron de Beaumarchais , and had a highly satisfactory run.
Griffith, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Delicate Distress, edited by Cynthia Booth Ricciardi and Susan Staves, University Press of Kentucky, 1997, p. vii - xviii.
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Performance of text Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire
An epilogue she wrote for Joanna Baillie 's tragedy De Montfort was spoken by Sarah Siddons when the play opened at Drury Lane Theatre , London, on 29 April 1800.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
331
The duchess said...
Author summary Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre
BBBD wrote as an amateur in the Romantic period. She wrote dramatic works, mostly tragedies, often adapted from texts by other authors, and poems, mostly occasional verse and often translated from poems by others. Her...
Publishing Maria Edgeworth
This literary satire was the first fruit of his wish that she should write a series of dramas for young people. Its manuscript survives in the Bodleian Library . Sheridan rejected it for Drury Lane
Publishing Frances Sheridan
She had written it after fleeing to Blois in France with her family after a theatre riot greeted a performance of Voltaire 's Mahomet, and had intended it to be the first of a...

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