In Garrick
's absence in France, it was produced by George Colman
.
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, 1984, pp. 13-35.
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It ran for only three nights, though after the first performance FS
hastily rewrote passages in act four. The meagre single...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Sarah Gardner
SG
relates a classic story of blaming the victim, in which Colman
, apparently unwilling to entertain the idea that one of his minor performers might have written something of value to him as well...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Susanna Haswell Rowson
In this humorous poem the author draws on her first-hand knowledge, as an actor and singer, with the London stage. She marshals thirty-four of it actors and writers to appear before Apollo, who metes out...
Wealth and Poverty
Anna Williams
This meant that she received the night's profits after the theatre covered its expenses: friends made a special effort to attend or to buy tickets for others. Johnson enlisted in the cause Elizabeth Carter
...