Robert Elliston

Standard Name: Elliston, Robert

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Harriette Wilson
She wrote a farce which she submitted to Robert Elliston , manager of Drury Lane (and an old friend who later proposed marriage to her). But he did not accept her play. In 1829 (after...

Timeline

1810: The Surrey Theatre in Blackfriars Road, Lambeth,...

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1810

The Surrey Theatre in Blackfriars Road, Lambeth, was opened by Robert Elliston on the site of the former Royal Circus ; with various ups and downs it continued as a theatre until 1920.
Hartnoll, Phyllis, editor. The Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 4th ed., Oxford University Press, 1983.

By September 1819: Facing debts of £90,000, Drury Lane Theatre...

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By September 1819

Facing debts of £90,000, Drury Lane Theatre was forced to close.
Roose-Evans, James. London Theatre from the Globe to the National. Phaidon, 1977.
76, 78
Dobbs, Brian. Drury Lane: Three Centuries of the Theatre Royal, 1663-1971. Cassell, 1972.
141-3

1822: Drury Lane Theatre was closed for a complete...

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1822

Drury Lane Theatre was closed for a complete internal overhaul.
Roose-Evans, James. London Theatre from the Globe to the National. Phaidon, 1977.
79
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
67, 282
Dobbs, Brian. Drury Lane: Three Centuries of the Theatre Royal, 1663-1971. Cassell, 1972.
143

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