George Colman

SL had the idea for it while in debtors' prison with her father . Contemporary rumour said she had written it to get him out of prison; but at that time she apparently made no...

CL had probably begun this play immediately after the appearance of her novel Henrietta, 1759, which it reworks. Indeed, the play bore the same title as the novel when it was seen in manuscript...

JM says the idea of writing a comedy was first suggested to her by Hope amid the disappointments that attended the appearance of her first novel. Again she published allusively, as the Author...

She hoped to get a volume of her collected poems published while she was in London in 1784, and enlisted the aid of Samuel Johnson. Johnson offered positive encouragement (assuring her he had often been...

After The School for Rakes, Garrick appeared to think he had done all for EG that she could expect from him, and repelled a series of advances from her about a new play. By...

SG submitted to George Colman , new manager of the Haymarket Theatre , her three-act comedy The Matrimonial Advertisement, or A Bold Stroke for a Husband.

George Colman pursued his enmity against SG for almost twenty years, twice staging at the Haymarket Theatre farces in mockery of women dramatists which aim at her, and for each of which he was able...

MM 's friendship with Johnson laid her open to suspicion that he had revised and polished her poems. But this work was praised in the Gentleman's Magazine. A selection was reprinted...

In her preface MS makes fun of rumours that were circulating about her identity—that she was a grocer's daughter, or an adventuress, or a mother of six starving children. She concludes, however, that it is...

Steven Epley finds Eumea reminiscent of the native woman betrayed in Inkle and Yarico, and that the Irishman is used, like Trudge in Colman 's version of that story, to demonstrate the superiority of...

CG calls Quid Pro Quoa bustling play of the Farquhar , or George Colman school. Her prologue makes the point that the rapidity of modern life, symbolised by the railway, leaves no time...

As EI developed her playwriting career, she took advantage of the competitive rivalry between Harris at Covent Garden and Colman at the Haymarket to have her plays produced, offering scripts to one, then the other...

In Garrick 's absence in France, it was produced by George Colman . It ran for only three nights, though after the first performance FS hastily rewrote passages in act four. The meagre single...

Its full title was The Barber of Seville; or, The Useless Precaution, A Comedy in Four Acts. It was never performed, probably because of a rival translation by George Colman , as The Spanish...

SG wrote and kept a detailed account of her dealings with George Colman over staging The Matrimonial Advertisement, which her manuscript sets out like a preface to a play in print, or like the...