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Header Image

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The Auditorium

Eliza Haywood Image

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Setting the Scene

Summary

Haywood, E. F. (1757). A Wife to be Lett: A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, Written by Mrs. Eliza Haywood. United Kingdom: James Knox, and sold at his shop.

Actor Biography: Theophilus Cibber

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Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. “Theophilus Cibber”. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1 Jan. 2021, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theophilus-Cibber.

Highfill, Philip H, Edward A. Langhans, and Kalman A. Burnim. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800, vol. 3, Southern Illinois University Press, 1973.

Salmon, Eric. “Cibber, Theophilus (1703–1758), actor and playwright.” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.  September 23, 2004. Oxford University Press. https://www-oxforddnb-com.libproxy.ncl.ac.uk/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-5418

The London Stage Database. https://londonstagedatabase.uoregon.edu/  , 2021.

Who’s Laughing at Who?

Baumgold, Deborah, editor. “Chapters 7, 9 and 12 of The Elements of Law / Chapter 6 of Leviathan.” Three-Text Edition of Thomas Hobbes’s Political Theory: The Elements of Law, De Cive and Leviathan, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2017, pp. 44–62.

Image: Haywood, E. F. (1757). A Wife to be Lett: A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, Written by Mrs. Eliza Haywood. United Kingdom: James Knox, and sold at his shop.

The Encore

Production History

Donohue, Joseph, et al. The Cambridge History of British Theatre, 1660-1895. Cambridge UP, 2004.

Hume, Robert D. “Theatre Performance Records in London, 1660-1705”. The Review of English Studies, Volume 67, Issue 280, 2016.

Hume, Robert D. and Judith Milhous. Playwrights’ Remuneration in Eighteenth-Century London. Harvard University, 1999.

The London Stage Database. https://londonstagedatabase.uoregon.edu/  , 2021.

Wilputte, Earla A. “Eliza Haywood’s ‘Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lunenburgh.’” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, vol. 41, no. 3, 2001, pp. 499–514. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1556280.   

Power in Disguise

 Friedman-Romell, Beth H. “Breaking the Code: Toward a Reception Theory of Theatrical Cross-Dressing in Eighteenth-Century London.” Theatre Journal, vol. 47, no. 4, 1995, pp. 459–479. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3208987. Accessed 18 Mar. 2021.

Haywood, E. F. (1757). A Wife to be Lett: A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, Written by Mrs. Eliza Haywood. United Kingdom: James Knox, and sold at his shop.

Klett, Elizabeth. Re-dressing the Balance: All-Female Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre.  Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, pp. 166-188. Academia, https://www.academia.edu/36277515/Re-dressing_the_Balance_All-Female_Shakespeare_at_the_Globe_Theatre  

Pat Rogers, “The Breeches Role,” in Sexuality in Eighteenth Century Britain, ed. Boucé, 255

Physical Space and the Audience

Avery, Emmet L. and Scouten, Arthur H. “The Theatrical World, 1660-1700”. Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy, Second editon. W.W.Norton, 1997.

Levine, Lawrence W. (1988) Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

“Theatre Database / Theatre Architecture – Database, Projects”. Theatre-Architecture.Eu, 2021, https://www.theatre-architecture.eu/db.html?filter%5Blabel%5D=Drury%20Lane&filter%5Bcity%5D=London&filter%5Bstate_id%5D=34&filter%5Bon_db%5D=1&filter%5Bon_map%5D=1&filter%5Bis_perspective%5D=1&searchMode=&searchResult=&theatreId=380&detail=history.

Tidworth, Simon : Theatres: An Illustrated History. London 1973 p. 124-128