Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - lii.
xxxiii, xlvii
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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 | Marianne Chambers | MC
's second five-act play, Ourselves, A Comedy, opened at the Lyceum
in London with actors from the Theatre Royal
. Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press. 383 Lamb, Charles, and Mary Lamb. The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb. Editor Marrs, Edwin J., Cornell University Press. 3: 73n5 |
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 |
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. 5: 2178 |
Performance of text | Catherine Gore | CG
's second comedy, Lords and Commons, opened at the patent theatre of Drury Lane
, almost within five months of her first. Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, pp. 1-34. 5 |
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, only to be summarily withdrawn after its single, disastrous performance.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... |
Performance of text | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | An epilogue she wrote for Joanna Baillie
's tragedy De Montfort was spoken by Sarah Siddons
when the play opened at Drury Lane Theatre
, London, on 29 April 1800. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins. 331 |
Performance of text | Catherine Gore | CG
, still resident in Paris, had another play open in London: The King's Seal at Drury Lane
, featuring the French monarch Henri IV
. Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, pp. 1-34. 11 |
Performance of text | Charlotte Charke | CC
's topical farceThe Art of Management; or, Tragedy Expell'd, a satire on Fleetwood
and other Drury Lane
personnel, played at York Buildings
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 3: 513 |
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 |
Performance of text | Frances Burney | FB
's tragedy Edwy and Elgiva, the only one of her plays to reach the stage in her lifetime, had its single performance at Drury Lane
, starring Sarah Siddons
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. |
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 | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | Elizabeth (Berkeley), Lady Craven
(later Margravine of Anspach), defied social convention by having her comedy The Miniature Picture (Larpent MS 525) acted at Drury Lane
, with a prologue by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
, and... |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Griffith | EG
's comedy The Platonic Wife (based on one of Marmontel
's tales, L'heureux divorce) 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. xxx Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Rizzo, Betty. “’Depressa Resurgam’: Elizabeth Griffith’s Playwriting Career”. Curtain Calls, edited by Mary Anne Schofield and Cecilia Macheski, Ohio University Press, pp. 120-42. 126 |
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 |
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