Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

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Performance of text Mary Pix
It had been given at Drury Lane , probably during August, with songs set by Daniel Purcell , Henry 's brother. Next year MP , like Catharine Trotter , transferred her allegiance to the new...
Textual Production Mary Pix
After asking the actor George Powell to help her get it accepted at Drury Lane, she had then taken it to the other theatre, and claimed that Powell plagiarised it in his The Imposture Defeated...
Performance of text Anne Plumptre
AP was paid £25 for the use by Sheridan and the Drury Lane Theatre of her translation of Kotzebue 's Die Spanier in Peru.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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Performance of text Jane Porter
JP 's tragedy Switzerland (which has been sometimes wrongly attributed to her sister Anna Maria ), was performed at Drury Lane , only to be summarily withdrawn after its single, disastrous performance.
Archival evidence is...
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 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...
Occupation Mary Robinson
That season MR appeared in the breeches role of Eliza Camply in The Miniature Picture by Lady Craven, later the Margravine of Anspach .
Her playing this part on 24 May was not, as her...
Occupation Mary Robinson
MR made her stage debut at Drury Lane as Juliet to William Brereton 's Romeo; she was an instantaneous success.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, pp. 19-64.
26, 63
Robinson, Mary. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson. Editor Levy, Moses Joseph, Peter Owen.
87-9
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, pp. 19-64.
59
Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press.
397
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
5: 167
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.
xiii
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
5: 1707
Occupation Mary Robinson
The following season, 1777-8, MR 's salary was £2.10s. weekly. She received in addition the profits from at least two benefit performances. She also acted, this season and the next, at benefit nights for the...
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 ...
Performance of text Frances Sheridan
FS 's first play, the comedy The Discovery (which had been in rehearsal the previous November), opened at Drury Lane .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
4: 976
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press.
xiv
Performance of text Frances Sheridan
FS 's second comedy, The Dupe (called by editor Joyce Coates Cleary an interesting cross between a farce and a morality play), opened at Drury Lane ; but it flopped.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
4: 1025
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press.
xiv
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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