Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America.
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George Colman
Standard Name: Colman, George,, the elder
Used Form: Mr Town, critic and censor-general
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| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Employer | Elizabeth Inchbald | EI
performed in both winter and summer seasons, at Covent Garden and the Little Theatre, Haymarket
(under manager George Colman
). During the season 1780-1781, the Covent Garden
theatre paid her two pounds a week... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Inchbald | She was working on a farce again in December 1779, and a year after that she submitted another one, on the topic of polygamy, to Harris
, who rejected it. Yet another farce, The Ancient... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Inchbald | EI
anonymously submitted The Mogul Tale; or, The Descent of the Balloon, to Colman
in March 1784. He paid her 100 guineas for it, having asked for and got some revisions. It was at... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Inchbald | It appeared, four months after she submitted it to Colman
, and ran for ten days. EI
played a small role, Selina, and at one point dried up completely on stage. |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Inchbald | |
| Literary responses | Eliza Haywood | The Monthly Review found the heroine of this book more interesting than Betsy Thoughtless (with better character-drawing but a continued deficiency in plot and sentiments. It conceded that the whole was doubtless much superior to... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Griffith | |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Griffith | 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... |
| Textual Features | Catherine Gore | CG
calls Quid Pro Quoa bustling play of the Farquhar
, or George Colman
school. Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, pp. 1-34. 28 |
| Occupation | Sarah Gardner | SG
appeared at the Haymarket Theatre
in a play called The Female Dramatist, by her old adversary George Colman
. Grundy, Isobel. “Sarah Gardner: "Such Trumpery" or ‘A Lustre to Her Sex’?”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol. 7 , pp. 7-25. 15 The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 537 |
| Publishing | Sarah Gardner | 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. In her manuscript, SG
uses The Matrimonial Advertisement... |
| Employer | Sarah Gardner | Her regular Haymarket engagement ended the first summer after George Colman
took over from Foote, when Colman first accepted her own play The Matrimonial Advertisement, then botched its staging and blamed her for its... |
| Textual Production | Sarah Gardner | 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Gardner | SG
relates a classic story of blaming the victim, in which Colman
, apparently unwilling to entertain the idea that one of his minor performers might have written something of value to him as well... |
| Reception | Sarah Gardner | 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... |
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