The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
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Frances Abington
Standard Name: Abington, Frances
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Mary Robinson | Early in her marriage MR
's friends included two lesser-known women novelists, Mary Ann Hanway
and Catherine Parry
(the Welsh author of a single, moralising novel, at whose house she met the actress Frances Abington |
| Performance of text | Anne Plumptre | The Count of Burgundy, based on a work by Kotzebue
translated by AP
, opened at Covent Garden
: this was the last stage appearance of the great comic actress Frances Abington
. |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Hands | The advertisement for the book in print, like the pre-notification, was carried by Jopson's Coventry Mercury. The volume was dedicated to the dramatist Bertie Greatheed
. It was issued in two forms: ordinary copies... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Christopher St John | The First Actress draws an implicit parallel between the admission of women to the vote and their admission to stage acting at the Restoration. Peggy Hughes
, presented as first woman in the London professional... |
Timeline
10 February 1786: For her benefit night at Covent Garden Theatre,...
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10 February 1786
For her benefit night at Covent Garden Theatre
, Frances Abington
chose to play the comic male part of the servant Scrub in Farquhar
's Beaux' Stratagem.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 820, 861
12 April 1799: Frances Abington, a popular actress who had...
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12 April 1799
Frances Abington
, a popular actress who had been before the public for forty-four years (with a short-lived retirement in 1797-8), made her last appearance at Covent Garden Theatre
.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 1992, 2098, 2160-1
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