Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press, 1997.
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Dorothy Jordan
Standard Name: Jordan, Dorothy
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Mary Robinson | It was condemned first by the performers, then by the audience, on the grounds that it was aimed at particular individuals. The audience barracked it at the first performance so fiercely that Dorothy Jordan
could... |
| 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 | Constance Smedley | CS
persevered with writing plays, and began studying drama and theatre history. One of her early plays, also performed at the Birmingham School of Art
, starred her sister
. Another centred on an actress... |
| Textual Production | Anne Devlin | AD
wrote for Free Range Films
the screenplay of Mrs. Jordan
's Profession, based on a biography by Claire Tomalin
of the eighteenth-century comedy actress and morganatic wife of a royal duke. “Anne Devlin”. Alan Brodie Representation. |
| Textual Production | Catherine Fanshawe | According to Sir Walter Scott
, CF
and her sisters were responsible for the first publication, in 1829, of the memoirs of their seventeenth-century ancestor Ann Fanshawe
. He described it as a new publishd... |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | The first-named is George I
's rejected queen
(accused of adultery and imprisoned for life before her husband came to the English throne, while her alleged lover
was assassinated). The protagonist of the second novel... |
| Textual Production | Mary Robinson | Dorothy Jordan
, who starred in it, set songs by MR
to music. The manuscript of the play is in the Larpent Collection at the Huntington Library
. Highfill, Philip H., Kalman A. Burnim, and Edward A. Langhans. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993. 13: 37 The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968. 5: 1707 |
Timeline
18 October 1785
The great comic actress Dorothy Jordan
made her London debut at Drury Lane Theatre
.
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