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Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
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Publishing | Ann Yearsley | As early as March-April 1788 AY
's backers Eliza Dawson
and Wilmer Gossip
were suggesting that a play would offer a better chance of financial return than poetry. Yearsley drafted her lost play Bawdin at... |
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... |
Reception | Joanna Baillie | In general JB
was criticised for lacking stage-craft—by Elizabeth Inchbald
, for example, who must have been a good judge. It was said that her sonorously-voiced passions float unanchored; her comedies are too sweet. |
Textual Features | Mary Julia Young | MJY
's poem, in fast-moving heroic couplets, opens with Genius invoking the aid of Fancy. Fancy insists that the most beautiful and versatile of the muses is Thalia (who presides over comedy). After urging the... |
Textual Production | Marianne Chambers | The same year it played at the Theatre Royal
itself, and also reached print. |
Textual Production | Frances Brooke | FB
's Virginia a Tragedy, with Odes, Pastorals, and Translations appeared in print. David Garrick
and John Rich
had rejected this tragedy for the stage. The play had been in competition with one of the... |
Textual Production | Jane Porter | JP
wrote several plays. She had already refused one invitation to write for Drury Lane
when in March 1816 she met and was impressed by both Edmund Kean
and his wife, Mary
. Mary described... |
Textual Production | Clotilde Graves | Many of CG
's sixteen plays (often but not all light comedy), have remained unpublished, though produced on stage in London and New York. The earliest of these, the blank-verse tragedy Nitocris, was... |
Textual Production | Robert Browning | RB
's play A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, the fifth instalment of his Bells and Pomegranates series, opened at the Drury Lane Theatre
with Helen Faucit
playing Mildred. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. Thomas, Donald. Robert Browning: A Life Within Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 64 |
Textual Production | Jane Porter | JP
's next play had a long gestation. Nearly finished in November 1817, it was accepted by Drury Lane
in January 1818, then postponed to accommodate Kean
's revival of The Jew of Malta... |
Textual Production | Eliza Fenwick | EF
published, again with Tabart
, The Life of Carlo, the Famous Dog of Drury-Lane Theatre. Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2ndnd ed, Broadview, pp. 7 - 34, 361. 12 |
Textual Production | Joanna Baillie | JB
sent her friend Mary Berry
a prologue for Fashionable Friends, Berry's play produced at Drury Lane
by Anne Damer
in 1802; she also wrote an epilogue for it. Baillie, Joanna. “Editorial Materials”. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie, edited by Judith Bailey Slagle, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, pp. ix - xiv, 1. 2n7, 3 Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1: 153n2 |
Textual Production | Frances Burney | After the triumph of Evelina, FB
's first intention was to write for the stage. She had the encouragement of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
, manager of Drury Lane Theatre
, and of dramatist Arthur Murphy
. Burney, Frances. The Complete Plays of Frances Burney. Editor Sabor, Peter, William Pickering. 1: xviii, 3 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Griffith | EG
's last comedy, The Times (a sentimental piece adapted from Goldoni
), opened at Drury Lane
. Griffith, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Delicate Distress, edited by Cynthia Booth Ricciardi and Susan Staves, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xviii. xxxii |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Gunning | EG
's confusing preface to her translated melodrama The Wife with Two Husbands, 1803, says she is printing it because she has heard that Drury Lane
is about to put on her first essay... |
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