Manley, Delarivier. “Editorial Materials”. A Woman of No Character: An Autobiography of Mrs Manley, edited by Fidelis Morgan, Faber, p. various pages.
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Performance of text | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
's tragedy Rienzi opened at Drury Lane Theatre
; it ran for thirty-four nights, making her reputation as a dramatist. Sullivan dates the opening 11 October, but MRM
herself, as edited by L'Estrange, suggests... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Delarivier Manley | At the time her first play was produced DM
was said, perhaps not accurately, to be having an affair with Skipwith
, co-manager of Drury Lane
. Manley, Delarivier. “Editorial Materials”. A Woman of No Character: An Autobiography of Mrs Manley, edited by Fidelis Morgan, Faber, p. various pages. 87-8 |
Performance of text | Delarivier Manley | DM
's Lost Lover was produced at Drury Lane
; it was published the same year. Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, p. v - xxviii. xi Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press. 393 |
Performance of text | Delarivier Manley | DM
's tragedy Lucius, the First Christian King of Britain, was acted at Drury Lane
. Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press. 393 |
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. 3: 1214 |
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. 4: 1928 |
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... |
Performance of text | Harriet Lee | HL
's comedy The New Peerage; or, Our Eyes may Deceive Us opened at Drury Lane
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 1019 |
Performance of text | Sophia Lee | SL
's tragedy Almeyda, Queen of Granada began its four-night run at Drury Lane
, after repeated delays amounting to two and a half years. Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - lii. xxxiii, xlvii |
Performance of text | Sophia Lee | SL
's last work, her comedy The Assignation, was produced at Drury Lane
. It has no connection with The Assignation: A Sentimental Novel in a Series of Letters, published by Noble
in 1774. Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - lii. xlviii |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sophia Lee | SL
's father, John Lee
, was a quarrelsome and impecunious actor. The year of her birth he acted at Richmond and Covent Garden
, with an interim desertion to Drury Lane
, where, however... |
Textual Production | Bryony Lavery | BL
collaborated with Nona Shepphard
on The Drury Lane
Ghost, staged in London in 1989, Peter Pan, 1991 (in which she played the voice of Tinkerbell), and The Sleeping Beauty, 1992. On... |
Performance of text | Maria Theresa Kemble | MTK
performed the role of Lady Julia at Drury Lane
in her second play, Personation; or, Fairly Taken In, a farce or comic interlude. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 326 Feminist Companion Archive. |
Performance of text | Maria Theresa Kemble | MTK
's first play, the five-act comedy First Faults, had its single performance (a benefit), at Drury Lane
. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 325 |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Inchbald | The Wedding Day, a comedy by EI
, opened at Drury Lane
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 1700 |
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