Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

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Occupation David Garrick
Riots at Drury Lane greeted Garrick 's attempts at price reform.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
4: 947, 974
Occupation Richard Brinsley Sheridan
In June 1776, the year after his first comedy had snatched success from the jaws of defeat, RBS added to the career of a dramatist the position of joint manager of Drury Lane Theatre ...
Occupation David Garrick
Garrick succeeded in a reform which put an end to on-stage audience seating at Drury Lane .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
4: 947, 979
Occupation Sir Richard Steele
Richard Steele was appointed governor of Drury Lane Theatre . He was suspended from this position in 1720 and restored to it the following year.
Steele, Sir Richard. The Tender Husband. Editor Winton, Calhoun, Edward Arnold.
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Occupation David Garrick
The Drury Lane theatre audience demonstrated its consumer power by compelling Garrick to alter the regular opening time.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
4: 1347, 1356
Occupation Henrietta Battier
HB acted at Drury Lane Theatre in the role of Lady Rachel Russell in Thomas Stratford 's tragedy on the death of Lord Russell .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
Occupation Frances Eleanor Trollope
During the 1850s the Ternan women acted in London, at theatres such as Drury Lane , the Princess's Theatre , and Sadler's Wells .
Ackroyd, Peter. Dickens. HarperCollins.
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Occupation David Garrick
Drury Lane Theatre was left in parlous condition at the retirement of David Garrick ; the next manager to make his mark on it was Richard Brinsley Sheridan , who now became joint-manager with three others.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
5: 5-6
Occupation Anne Damer
AD appeared in private theatricals first at her brother-in-law the Duke of Richmond 's, and later at Strawberry Hill.
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press.
97
In November 1800 she delivered Joanna Baillie 's Epilogue to the Theatrical Representation at...
Occupation David Garrick
Garrick sported this lavish headgear in The Provoked Wife by Vanbrugh at Drury Lane .
Occupation Clemence Dane
The posters, she later wrote, made her nice pocket-money.
Dane, Clemence. London Has a Garden. Michael Joseph.
108
Her portrait of Ivor Novello (the playwright, composer, and actor best-known for his music to the World War I song Keep the Home Fires...
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.
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Morgan, Fidelis, and Charlotte Charke. The Well-Known Troublemaker: A Life of Charlotte Charke. Faber and Faber.
52-3
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.
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Material Conditions of Writing Elizabeth Boyd
The British Library copy is 161 g. 56. An advertisement says that William Rufus Chetwood (prompter at Drury Lane ) had hoped to get it staged, but it was delayed by the author's ill-health. Again...
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...

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