Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

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Performance of text Elizabeth Griffith
EG 's comedy The Double Mistake opened at Covent Garden Theatre : in contrast to her first effort it ran well, bringing her several benefits and a royal command performance.
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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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Performance of text Elizabeth Griffith
EG 's comedy A Wife in the Right opened at Covent Garden Theatre , only to be damned for Edward Shuter 's bad acting and fluffing his lines (he was drunk on stage).
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
4: 1567
Publishing Mary Latter
Rich had accepted the play for Covent Garden and encouraged ML to train further as a dramatist. She here ascribes good intentions to Rich, but sharp practice to the present Managers, their Adherents, and Dependants...
Publishing Anna Maria Porter
Thomas Harris of Covent Garden Theatre visited AMP to compliment her on a play, The Runaways, which she had apparently submitted to him.
Davis, Tracy C. “The Sociable Playwright and Representative Citizen”. Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 15-34.
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Publishing Elizabeth Inchbald
Several known plays by EI were never published. All on a Summer's Day, 1787 (about a couple ill-matched in age), and The Hue and Cry, 1791, are known only from the copies provided...
Publishing Elizabeth Griffith
After The School for Rakes, Garrick appeared to think he had done all for EG that she could expect from him, and repelled a series of advances from her about a new play. By...
Reception Joanna Baillie
In general JB was criticised for lacking stage-craft—by Elizabeth Inchbald , for example, who must have been a good judge. It was said that her sonorously-voiced passions float unanchored; her comedies are too sweet.
Feminist Companion Archive.
Baillie...
Textual Production Mary Latter
This play by ML is distantly related to Tasso 's Gerusalemme liberata (as is The Siege of Jerusalem by Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore , which was privately printed in 1774). An early draft...
Textual Production Elizabeth Inchbald
EI 's comedy To Marry, or Not to Marry was published, as recently performed at Covent Garden .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 5 (1805): 333
Textual Production Elizabeth Inchbald
EI 's The Midnight Hour, translated from Guerre ouverte, by Antoine-Jean Bourlin (better known as Dumaniant), was published after a production at Covent Garden .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
64 (1787): 479
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987.
192
Textual Production Jane Porter
JP 's next play had a long gestation. Nearly finished in November 1817, it was accepted by Drury Lane in January 1818, then postponed to accommodate Kean 's revival of The Jew of Malta...
Textual Production Elizabeth Inchbald
A two-act farce by EI , Appearance is Against Them (played at Covent Garden the previous month), was published by George Robinson .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
60 (1785): 393
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987.
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Textual Production Joanna Baillie
Mary Berry and Anne Damer both offered comments and revisions four years before this play was published. Lady Louisa Stuart did the same (through Walter Scott) in 1809.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
1: 158-9, 244
Slagle, editor of JB
Textual Production Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre
Another play by BBBD , called Isaure and having as protagonist a refined patrician beauty,
Kemble, Fanny. Records of a Girlhood. Henry Holt, 1879.
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was intended to be performed at Covent Garden as a benefit piece for Fanny Kemble , but it...
Textual Production Mary Latter
Three months after the death of John Rich , licensee of Covent Garden Theatre , ML finally lost hope of staging of her blank-verse tragedy The Siege of Jerusalem, by Titus Vespasian.
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