Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.
6: 249
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Viola Tree | Throughout her life, VT
took direction from her father, the actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
, who had abandoned his job in the family corn-trading business to pursue a career on stage, and had changed... |
| Friends, Associates | Evelyn Glover | Though not known to the eminent residents of the nearby square, EG
enjoyed a cordial acquaintance with many of their cooks and butlers, based on a shared love of cats. She mentions some theatrical friends:... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Charlton | The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes that Thomas Dibdin
used a translation from La Fontaine by MC
as the basis of a comedy, Guilty or Not Guilty, which opened at the Haymarket
in... |
| Occupation | Elizabeth Sarah Gooch | |
| Occupation | Mary Cowden Clarke | A production of The Merry Wives of Windsor by Charles Dickens
's Amateur Company
opened at the Haymarket Theatre
, with MCC
as Mistress Quickly, wearing Elizabethan costume she had made herself. Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead, 1896. 136-7 |
| Performance of text | Elizabeth von Arnim | EA
's stage adaptation of her earlier novel Princess Priscilla's Fortnight (1905) premiered at the Haymarket Theatre
as Priscilla Runs Away. Usborne, Karen. "Elizabeth": The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Bodley Head, 1986. 115, 145, 152 |
| Performance of text | Catherine Gore | CG
's first comedy, The School for Coquettes, opened a long run (thirty-seven performances) at the recently opened Haymarket Theatre
. Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34. 3 Athenæum. J. Lection. 194 (1831): 460 |
| Performance of text | Enid Bagnold | Following its success on Broadway, EB
's play The Chalk Garden, began its impressive twenty-three-month run at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket
, directed by John Gielgud
and starring Peggy Ashcroft
and Edith Evans
. Billington, Michael. Peggy Ashcroft, 1907-1991. Mandarin, 1991. 160-2 Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. 192 |
| Performance of text | Catherine Gore | CG
's new play, The Queen's Champion, opened as an afterpiece at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket
: it was translated from a French vaudeville entertainment. Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34. 7 Gore, Catherine. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore. Editor Franceschina, John, Garland, 1999. 158 |
| Performance of text | Catherine Gore | CG
's The Maid of Croissey; or, Theresa's Vow, a village melodrama adapted from French, opened at the Haymarket Theatre
. Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34. 13-14 |
| Performance of text | Catherine Gore | CG
's prize-winning final play, Quid Pro Quo; or, The Day of Dupes, opened at the Haymarket Theatre
. Donkin, Ellen. “Mrs. Gore gives tit for tat”. Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 54-74. 57 Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34. 26 |
| Performance of text | Catherine Crowe | A later romantic drama in five acts by CC
, The Cruel Kindness (dating from 1853), was performed at the Haymarket Theatre
in London. Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993. |
| Performance of text | Bryony Lavery | In spring 2018 Frozen was revived at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket
. Billington, Michael. “A Criminal Coldness”. Country Life, 7 Mar. 2018, pp. 94-5. 94 |
| Performance of text | Dodie Smith | DS
's critically acclaimed play Touch Wood—the first to be produced under her real name—opened at the Haymarket Theatre
in London. Gale, Maggie B. West End Women: Women and the London Stage, 1918-1962. Routledge, 1996. 218 Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 89, 92 |
| Performance of text | George Bernard Shaw | Vedrenne
and Barker
first presented Getting Married, GBS
's discussion play critiquing Britain's marriage laws, at the Haymarket Theatre
in London. Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press, 1998. xxv Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research, 1982. |
Timeline
9 April 1705: Vanbrugh's new Haymarket Theatre (at this...
Building item
9 April 1705
Vanbrugh
's new Haymarket Theatre
(at this date also known as both the Queen's Theatre
and as the Opera House) opened with an anonymous Italian opera.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 75, 91
29 December 1720: A new playhouse, the New Theatre in the Haymarket,...
Building item
29 December 1720
A new playhouse, the New Theatre in the Haymarket
, opened with a company of French comedians providing the entertainment.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 591, 606
25 February 1729: The Haymarket Theatre, hitherto occupied...
Building item
25 February 1729
The Haymarket Theatre
, hitherto occupied by temporary foreign troupes, opened as a mainstream theatre.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 987, 1017
23 September 1782: Covent Garden Theatre re-opened after a three-month...
Building item
23 September 1782
Covent Garden Theatre
re-opened after a three-month reconstruction, enlargement, and renovation.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 541-3, 555
4 July 1821: The second Haymarket Theatre (that is not...
Building item
4 July 1821
The second Haymarket Theatre
(that is not the New Theatre, Haymarket, or the King's Theatre, now Her Majesty's, but the present Theatre Royal) was opened, somewhat to the south of the former New Theatre.
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
95, 283
2 September 1829: Fatality, a play written by Caroline Boaden,...
Women writers item
2 September 1829
Fatality, a play written by Caroline Boaden
, premiered at the Theatre Royal
.
Moody, Jane. “Illusions of authorship”. Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 99-124.
100
Mullin, Donald C. Victorian Plays: A Record of Significant Productions on the London Stage, 1837-1901. Greenwood Press, 1987.
106
Newey, Katherine. Women’s Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
197
12 November 1833: Julia Glover caused a sensation when she...
Building item
12 November 1833
Julia Glover
caused a sensation when she appeared as Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Haymarket
.
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
98
June 1837: Elizabeth Planché's drama The Ransom opened...
Women writers item
June 1837
Elizabeth Planché
's drama The Ransom opened at the Haymarket
.
Mullin, Donald C. Victorian Plays: A Record of Significant Productions on the London Stage, 1837-1901. Greenwood Press, 1987.
November 1842: Elizabeth Planché's comedy The Welsh Girl...
Women writers item
November 1842
Elizabeth Planché
's comedy The Welsh Girl premiered at the Haymarket
.
Mullin, Donald C. Victorian Plays: A Record of Significant Productions on the London Stage, 1837-1901. Greenwood Press, 1987.
404
June 1843: Ben Webster, manager of the Haymarket, announced...
Writing climate item
June 1843
Ben Webster
, manager of the Haymarket
, announced a play-writing contest.
Donkin, Ellen. “Mrs. Gore gives tit for tat”. Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 54-74.
55
August 1843: Lady Emmeline Wortley's play Moonshine was...
Women writers item
August 1843
Lady Emmeline Wortley
's play Moonshine was condemned by the critics when it opened at the Haymarket
.
Donkin, Ellen. “Mrs. Gore gives tit for tat”. Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 54-74.
60
1855: The Haymarket Theatre became known as the...
Building item
1855
The Haymarket Theatre
became known as the Theatre Royal, Haymarket.
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
95
29 July 1862: Madge Robertson made her London stage debut...
Building item
29 July 1862
Madge Robertson
made her London stage debut at the Haymarket Theatre
, aged fourteen.
Macqueen-Pope, Walter James. Ladies First: The Story of Woman’s Conquest of the British Stage. W. H. Allen, 1952.
350-1
2 October 1862: Dion Boucicault wrote to The Times pointing...
Writing climate item
2 October 1862
Dion Boucicault
wrote to The Times pointing out the widely varying rents for West End theatres.
Booth, Michael R. Theatre in the Victorian Age. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
32, 37
By 24 December 1881: Lillie Langtry became the first English society...
Building item
By 24 December 1881
Lillie Langtry
became the first English society woman to appear professionally on the stage when she played Kate Hardcastle in Goldsmith
's She Stoops to Conquer at the Haymarket Theatre
, London.
Norback, Craig T., and Melvin Gray. The World’s Great News Photos 1840-1980. Crown Publishers, 1980.
23
Hartnoll, Phyllis, editor. The Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 4th ed., Oxford University Press, 1983.
2
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2826 (1881): 861
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