The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
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Performance of text | Mariana Starke | MS
's first original play, The Sword of Peace; or, A Voyage of Love, a prose comedy in five acts, opened at the Haymarket Theatre
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 5: 1080 |
Performance of text | Cicely Hamilton | CH
's comedy Just to Get Married opened at the Little Theatre
in London, directed by Gertrude Kingston
. Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press, 1996. 192 |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Cooper | Elizabeth Cooper
's second comedy, The Nobleman; or, The Family Quarrel, opened at the Haymarket Theatre
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 3: 585 |
Performance of text | Hannah Cowley | HC
's second full-length play, the tragedy Albina, Countess Raimond, opened at the summer Haymarket Theatre
(managed by George Colman
), which did not usually perform tragedy. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 5: 268 Link, Frederick M., and Hannah Cowley. “Introduction”. The Plays of Hannah Cowley, Vol. 1 , Garland, 1979, p. v - xlxx. xvi Escott, Angela, and Isobel Grundy. Email about supposed quarrel between Hannah Cowley and Hannah More to Isobel Grundy. 24 Oct. 2002. |
Performance of text | Eliza Haywood | A ballad opera, The Opera of Operas; or, Tom Thumb the Great, by EH
and her lover, William Hatchett
, was performed at the Haymarket. It was published the same day and the... |
Performance of text | Eliza Haywood | Transactions of both EH
and William Hatchett
involving theatre tickets now make it seem certain that she was indeed the Author of an adaptation of the sixteenth-century tragedy Arden of Feversham (as Arden of Feversham... |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Inchbald | EI
's The Mogul Tale; or, The Descent of the Balloon (her first play to reach the stage) was produced at the Haymarket
under the pseudonym Mrs Woodley. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 5: 717 Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987. 31 |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Inchbald | I'll Tell You What, a comedy by EI
, opened in the Haymarket
summer season and proved to be her second success. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 5: 813 Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987. 31 |
Performance of text | Sarah Gardner | SG
's comedy The Advertisement, or A Bold Stroke for a Husband had its single, disastrous performance at the Haymarket Theatre
(the word Matrimonial was absent from the title on this occasion). The manuscript for... |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Inchbald | The Widow's Vow, an afterpiece adapted by EI
, had its first performance, following Nicholas Rowe
's Jane Shore at the Haymarket Theatre
: it was published the same year. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 5: 895 |
Performance of text | Sophia Lee | |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach | Among the later plays written in England as by Lady Craven, The Silver Tankard, or The Point at Portsmouth (Larpent MS 564, acted at the Haymarket
on 18 July 1781) is a comic opera with... |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach | EMA
resumed play-writing when she and her second husband were re-settled in London, opening their first season at Brandenburg House in Fulham in autumn1792. Anspach, Elizabeth, Margravine of. “Introduction”. The Beautiful Lady Craven, edited by Lewis Saul Benjamin and Alexander Meyrick Broadley, Bodley Head, 1914, p. i - cxxxviii. lxxxvi |
Performance of text | Christopher St John | The Theatre of the Soul, a translation by Marie Potapenko
and CSJ
of Nikolai Evreinov
's expressionist play V kulisakh dushi, was first performed by the Pioneer Players
at the Little Theatre
, London. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973. 893 Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998. 119 |
Publishing | Sarah Gardner | SG
submitted to George Colman
, new manager of the Haymarket Theatre
, her three-act comedy The Matrimonial Advertisement, or A Bold Stroke for a Husband. In her manuscript, SG
uses The Matrimonial Advertisement... |
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