Barbarina Charlotte, Lady Grey,. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray.
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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | The senior Wilmots' circle of friends included people still remembered, like Hannah More
, David Garrick
, Sir Joshua Reynolds
, and Lady Charlotte Finch
. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Aphra Behn | Aspects of this story were re-used by Jane Barker
(for Philinda's Story out of the Book in The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen, 1725) and by Thomas Southerne
and David Garrick
for works for... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Brooke | Eight months after Brooke's broadside against Garrick
, he put on a version of Lear which was slightly closer to Shakespeare. McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press. 22 |
| Literary responses | Frances Brooke | Garrick
called FB
's Virginia (before it reached print) a play, which I did not like, & would not act. Garrick, David. Letters. Editors Little, David M. and George M. Kahrl, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 461 A footnote in his correspondence says it was published in Dublin in 1754, but... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Frances Brooke | This novel became notorious for its hostile portrait of Garrick
. It also complains of the lack of outlets for new plays, attacks Town and Country Magazine for its Tete-a-Tete feature of gossip or scandal... |
| Publishing | Frances Brooke | |
| Reception | Frances Brooke | David Garrick
emphatically warned Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni
against using FB
as a translator again in the future. Garrick, David. Letters. Editors Little, David M. and George M. Kahrl, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 461 |
| Textual Features | Frances Brooke | The periodical's theatre reports, provided by a little court of female criticism Brooke, Frances. “Introduction”. The Excursion, edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix. xiv Brooke, Frances. “Introduction”. The Excursion, edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix. xiv |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Burney | FB
made friends in the older generation as well as her own. The whole Burney family loved and were loved by David Garrick
. Sir Joshua Reynolds
, who lived barely fifty yards away from... |
| Publishing | Dorothea Celesia | |
| Friends, Associates | Dorothea Celesia | DC
's birth family had accustomed her to moving in literary, political, and theatrical circles, and her friends included Mary Lady Hervey
, David Hume
, David Garrick
, and Edward Gibbon
. Her father... |
| Friends, Associates | Dorothea Celesia | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothea Celesia | Garrick
took some trouble to revise her draft: cutting over-long speeches, for example. She was grateful and appreciative but, surprisingly in view of the skilful way she shifts the play's emphasis from hero to heroine... |
| Literary responses | Dorothea Celesia | A prologue by William Whitehead
mentioned DC
's right to inherit her father's theatrical talent, in spite of her sex: No Salick law here bars the female's claim. It concluded with the statement that critics... |
| Reception | Susanna Centlivre | SC
hinted in A Woman's Case that her husband was upset at her threatening his livelihood with the political rashness of her dedication. The man-in-skirts role became a favourite of David Garrick
, which kept... |
Timeline
12 January 1675: William Wycherley's comedy The Country Wife...
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12 January 1675
William Wycherley
's comedyThe Country Wife probably had its first performance.
About March 1681: Nahum Tate's re-written version of Shakespeare's...
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About March 1681
Nahum Tate
's re-written version of Shakespeare
's tragedyKing Lear was staged in London; it was printed the same year.
By May 1697: Sir John Vanbrugh's comedy The Provok'd Wife...
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By May 1697
Sir John Vanbrugh
's comedyThe Provok'd Wife had its first performance.
1734: John Williams's Method to Learn to Design...
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1734
John Williams
's Method to Learn to Design the Passions, translated from a manual by French painter Charles Le Brun
, appeared; it proved highly influential.
1759: David Garrick finally barred non-paying servants...
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1759
14 October 1769: Garrick's afterpiece The Jubilee opened at...
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14 October 1769
Garrick
's afterpieceThe Jubilee opened at Drury Lane
, where it enjoyed the record run of the century: ninety performances in one season.
14 October 1769: Garrick's afterpiece The Jubilee opened at...
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14 October 1769
Garrick
's afterpieceThe Jubilee opened at Drury Lane
, where it enjoyed the record run of the century: ninety performances in one season.
20 June 1787: Actor John Palmer briefly opened the first...
Building item
20 June 1787
Actor John Palmer
briefly opened the first new London theatre since 1732: the Royalty
in Well Street.
24 April 1889: The Garrick Theatre opened in Charing Cross...
Building item
24 April 1889
The Garrick Theatre
opened in Charing Cross Road, London.
Texts
Garrick, David. Correspondence. Editor Boaden, James, H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831.
Garrick, David. Letters. Editors Little, David M. and George M. Kahrl, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1963.