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Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
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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 | Ann Yearsley | As early as March-April 1788 AY
's backers Eliza Dawson
and Wilmer Gossip
were suggesting that a play would offer a better chance of financial return than poetry. Yearsley drafted her lost play Bawdin at... |
Reception | Joanna Baillie | In general JB
was criticised for lacking stage-craft—by Elizabeth Inchbald
, for example, who must have been a good judge. It was said that her sonorously-voiced passions float unanchored; her comedies are too sweet. |
Textual Features | Mary Julia Young | MJY
's poem, in fast-moving heroic couplets, opens with Genius invoking the aid of Fancy. Fancy insists that the most beautiful and versatile of the muses is Thalia (who presides over comedy). After urging the... |
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, pp. ix - xiv, 1. 2n7, 3 Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1: 153n2 |
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. 1: xviii, 3 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Griffith | EG
's last comedy, The Times (a sentimental piece adapted from Goldoni
), 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. xxxii |
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 | Joanna Baillie | Mary Berry
and Anne Damer
both offered comments and revisions four years before this play was published. Lady Louisa Stuart
did the same (through Walter Scott) in 1809. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1: 158-9, 244 Slagle, editor of JB |
Textual Production | Hannah Cowley | It was badly presented, by two of the cast in particular. Escott, Angela. Email about supposed quarrel between Hannah Cowley and Hannah More to Isobel Grundy. |
Textual Production | Amelia Opie | Despite the volume's title, The Ruffian Boy had been in print well before this, and had spawned several theatrical incarnations. These included one based on the story, written by Edward Ball
and produced at Norwich... |
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. 254 Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago. 406 The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 1: 455 |
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... |
Textual Production | Phebe Gibbes | A musical drama by PG
was accepted for production, but then lost, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
, new manager of Drury Lane Theatre
. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Textual Production | Mary Pix | After asking the actor George Powell
to help her get it accepted at Drury Lane, she had then taken it to the other theatre, and claimed that Powell plagiarised it in his The Imposture Defeated... |
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