CT
was one of those playwrights who took seriously Jeremy Collier
's call in 1698 for reform of the stage. This campaign became an element in her theatrical writing.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
406-7
Her association with Congreve, however, brought CT
(together with Mary Pix) some hostile...
Literary responses
Mary Pix
MP
, again with Trotter
, was attacked in Animadversions on Mr. Congreve
's Late Answer to Mr. Collier, probably by George Powell
.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
413
Textual Features
Mary Pix
The dedication mentions the Countess's experience of travel, and of suffering with her husband. The two widows of the play are differentiated as they are a good and a bad mother. Several motifs familiar from...
Timeline
30 April 1695: Thomas Betterton, Elizabeth Barry, and Anne...
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 439, 443, 445, 446
Hume, Robert D. “Jeremy Collier and the Future of the London Theatre in 1698”. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) Conference, Oxford, 3 Jan. 1998.
By May 1697: Sir John Vanbrugh's comedy The Provok'd Wife...
Writing climate item
By May 1697
Sir John Vanbrugh
's comedy The Provok'd Wife had its first performance.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
April 1698: Jeremy Collier published his Short View of...
Writing climate item
April 1698
Jeremy Collier
published his Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, a book in heavy-handed pamphlet style with exaggerated typography.
Hume, Robert D. “Jeremy Collier and the Future of the London Theatre in 1698”. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) Conference, Oxford, 3 Jan. 1998.
December 1704: Vanbrugh and Congreve were licensed to operate...
Building item
December 1704
Vanbrugh
and Congreve
were licensed to operate a new theatre, the Haymarket
, on the grounds that they would help reform and clean up the stage.
Hume, Robert D. “Jeremy Collier and the Future of the London Theatre in 1698”. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) Conference, Oxford, 3 Jan. 1998.