They were The Reprobate, from a French translation, Tableaux de famille, of a German novel by Augustus La Fontaine
; The Philosophic Kidnapper (said to be adapted from French, March 1803, though no...
Textual Production
Augusta Gregory
AG
followed this first, successful Molière translation with two more: The Rogueries of Scapin (produced on 4 April 1908) and The Miser (produced on 21 January 1909). In 1910 these plays were published in a...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Griffith
EG
's last comedy, The Times (a sentimental piece adapted from Goldoni
), opened at Drury Lane
.
Griffith, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Delicate Distress, edited by Cynthia Booth Ricciardi and Susan Staves, University Press of Kentucky, 1997, p. vii - xviii.
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Timeline
25 October 1976: The National Theatre's new home on the South...
Building item
25 October 1976
The National Theatre
's new home on the South Bank officially opened with a royal gala performance of a comedy by Carlo Goldoni
in its larger auditorium, the Olivier.