Nash, Mary. The Provoked Wife: The Life and Times of Susannah Cibber. Little, Brown.
202-3, 222-3
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Occupation | David Garrick | Susannah Cibber
tried to persuade David Garrick
that together she and he and James Quin
might buy the patent of Drury Lane Theatre
. She failed. Nash, Mary. The Provoked Wife: The Life and Times of Susannah Cibber. Little, Brown. 202-3, 222-3 |
Occupation | David Garrick | DG
signed an agreement with James Lacy
, by which he became joint owner of Drury Lane Theatre
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 3: 1247 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. 6: 17 |
Occupation | David Garrick | David Garrick
's grand entertainment The Chinese Festival played to near riots at Drury Lane Theatre
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 4: 493, 505-9 |
Occupation | David Garrick | Garrick
staged Shakespeare
's Henry IV, Part 2 at Drury Lane
in historical costume instead of in the present fashions. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 4: 947-8, 960 |
Occupation | David Garrick | Riots at Drury Lane
greeted Garrick
's attempts at price reform. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 4: 947, 974 |
Occupation | David Garrick | Garrick
succeeded in a reform which put an end to on-stage audience seating at Drury Lane
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 4: 947, 979 |
Occupation | David Garrick | The Drury Lane
theatre audience demonstrated its consumer power by compelling Garrick
to alter the regular opening time. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 4: 1347, 1356 |
Occupation | Sarah Gardner | Sarah Cheney (later SG
) made her first appearance on the London stage, before her marriage, as Congreve
's Miss Prue in Love for Love: A Comedy 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. 5: 463 |
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, 2ndnd ed, Broadview, pp. 7 - 34, 361. 12 |
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... |
Publishing | Maria Edgeworth | This literary satire was the first fruit of his wish that she should write a series of dramas for young people. Its manuscript survives in the Bodleian Library
. Sheridan
rejected it for Drury Lane |
Publishing | Mary Davys | Something occurred to make Drury Lane
reject MD
's next play, The Self-Rival, which it should have Bowden, Martha F., and Mary Davys. “Introduction”. The Reform’d Coquet; or, Memoirs of Amoranda; Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady; and, The Accomplish’d Rake; or, Modern Fine Gentleman, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix. xlviii Bowden, Martha F., and Mary Davys. “Introduction”. The Reform’d Coquet; or, Memoirs of Amoranda; Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady; and, The Accomplish’d Rake; or, Modern Fine Gentleman, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix. xlviii |
Occupation | Clemence Dane | The posters, she later wrote, made her nice pocket-money. Dane, Clemence. London Has a Garden. Michael Joseph. 108 |
Occupation | Anne Damer | AD
appeared in private theatricals first at her brother-in-law the Duke of Richmond
's, and later at Strawberry Hill. Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press. 97 |
Performance of text | Catherine Cuthbertson | A play entitled Anna opened at Drury Lane
, ascribed to Miss Cuthbertson. Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press. 385 |
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