Rizzo, Betty. “’Depressa Resurgam’: Elizabeth Griffith’s Playwriting Career”. Curtain Calls, edited by Mary Anne Schofield and Cecilia Macheski, Ohio University Press, 1991, pp. 120-42.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Elizabeth Griffith | This was EG
's least successful play. Both in the theatre and in print, responses sound designed to put an impudent female newcomer in her place. Bookseller Tom Davies
claimed there was a positive cabal... |
| Reception | Elizabeth Griffith | |
| 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... |
| Textual Features | Georgina Munro | A debauched earl is the narrator of this novel, which, typically for the genre, is peopled by characters from the gentry and the upper classes. Athenæum. J. Lection. 744 (1842):110 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
| 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, 1997, p. ix - xlix. xiv Brooke, Frances. “Introduction”. The Excursion, edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton, University Press of Kentucky, 1997, p. ix - xlix. xiv |
| Textual Features | Madeleine Lucette Ryley | Mice and Men is about a male middle-aged guardian who falls in love with his ward, a girl. This situation had already been seen on stage, and critics likened the play to earlier versions of... |
| Textual Features | Susan Smythies | In this third-person narrative (again well supplied with subsidiary, episodic stories) Lucy is a well-bred ideal orphan, who is discovered by Mrs Goodall, a benevolent widow of fifty-nine, living with the vulgar and unpleasant Searls... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Griffith | Many of EG
's letters to Garrick
survive on film among Papers of David Garrick at the Victoria and Albert Museum
. A few of her holograph letters to other people are at Harvard
. |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Lennox | Lennox made the adaptation at Garrick
's suggestion, following an unsuccessful one by Robert Dodsley
decades earlier. Carlile, Susan. Charlotte Lennox. An Independent Mind. University of Toronto Press, 2018. 259 |
| Textual Production | Hannah Cowley | She was said to have begun it on impulse when her husband laughed at her claim that she could produce something better than another play which they had just seen and disliked. She finished it... |
| Textual Production | Carola Oman | After doingDavid Garrick in 1958, CO
published Ayot Rectory, a biography of the unknown Mary (Sneade) Brown
(1780-1858). British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987. 1967 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Textual Production | Frances Sheridan | In Garrick
's absence in France, it was produced by George Colman
. Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, 1984, pp. 13-35. 24 |
| Textual Production | Carol Ann Duffy | They accompanied in performance all that remains of David Garrick
's ode written for his Shakespeare Jubilee of September 1769. After the Stratford performance the masque went on tour. Clements, Andrew. “Carol Ann Duffy’s life of Shakespeare tops a wigs’ n ’breeches blast from the past”. The Guardian, 25 Apr. 2016, p. Review 29. |
| Textual Production | Anna Seward | AS
wrote an elegy for David Garrick
after his death on 20 January 1779. Feminist Companion Archive. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. |
| Textual Production | Sarah Fielding | SF
sent David Garrick
the draft of an unfinished play; it remains unpublished, unperformed, and lost. Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, 1998, p. vii - xli. xxxix-xl |
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