Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Thomas, Donald. Robert Browning: A Life Within Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982.
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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 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...
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, 2nd ed., Broadview, 1998, pp. 7 - 34, 361.
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Textual Production Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
SSW adapted The Travellers; or, Prince of China: An interesting story from an opera, The Travellers, with music by Domenico Corri and libretto by Andrew Cherry , which had opened at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
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 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, 1999, pp. ix - xiv, 1.
2n7, 3
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
1: 153n2
Textual Production Catharine Trotter
CT 's first play, Agnes de Castro. A Tragedy, opened at Drury Lane .
Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate, 2002.
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Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
406
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 455
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, 1995, 2 vols.
1: xviii, 3
Wealth and Poverty Caroline Norton
The burning down of Drury Lane Theatre on 24 February 1809 was a financial catastrophe for CN 's parents, as well as for her grandfather Richard Brinsley Sheridan .
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Wealth and Poverty Anna Williams
David Garrick put on a benefit performance at Drury Lane Theatre for a Gentlewoman of Learning, distressed by blindness, that is AW .
Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, The Hyde Edition, Princeton University Press, 1992–1994, 5 vols.
1: 124 and n3

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