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.
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
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Performance of text | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | A five-act tragedy by Barbarina Wilmot (later Lady Dacre)
, Ina, set in Anglo-Saxon England, ran for a single night at Drury Lane Theatre
in London. |
Performance of text | Aphra Behn | AB
's comedy The Luckey Chance; or, An Alderman's Bargain was licensed; it had probably already opened at Drury Lane
with the new United Company
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. |
Performance of text | Susanna Centlivre | Drury Lane
put on a farce or opening piece by SC
entitled A Bickerstaff's Burying; or, Work for the Upholders. Upholders were undertakers or funeral directors. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 2: 217 Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press. 133 |
Performance of text | Mary Pix | The play had opened at Drury Lane
about a month previously. Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago. 413 The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 1: 464 |
Performance of text | Catharine Trotter | CT
's only comedy, the didactic Love at a Loss; or, Most Votes Carry It, probably opened on this day at Drury Lane
. Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate. 256 The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 2: 5 |
Performance of text | Aphra Behn | AB
's comedy The Widdow Ranter; or, The History of Bacon
in Virginia, the first play to be set in British North America, had a posthumous performance at Drury Lane
which may have been... |
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 | Marianne Chambers | MC
's five-act comedy The School for Friends opened at London's Drury Lane
. James Mason
published a comedy of the same title in the second volume of his Literary Miscellanies, 1809. Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press. 383 |
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... |
Performance of text | Catharine Trotter | CT
's fourth play and third verse tragedy, The Unhappy Penitent, probably opened on this day at Drury Lane
. It bore her name as Mrs. Trotter. Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate. 257 The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 2: 7 |
Performance of text | Aphra Behn | Charles Gildon
had a manuscript of this play. The success of Southerne
's adaptation of Oroonoko probably inspired him to get The Younger Brother staged; he may well have revised it first. Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press. 336-7 |
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 | 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 | 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 |
Timeline
14 November 1874: Dion Boucicault's The Shaughraun opened at...
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14 November 1874
1940: Ernest Bevin and Basil Dean established the...
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1940
Ernest Bevin
and Basil Dean
established the Entertainments National Service Association
(generally known as ENSA) to boost the morale of factory workers, allied servicemen, and civilians in underground air-raid shelters.
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