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Early Nineteenth-Century Drama
1955 | 1956
Cox, J. N. (ed). Seven Gothic melodramas, 1789–1825. Athens OH
1992.
Mayer, D. (ed). Playing out the [Roman] empire: Ben Hur and other
toga plays and films. Oxford 1994. Mayer.
Booth, M. R. (ed). The lights of London and other Victorian plays.
Oxford and New York 1995 (WC). Booth WC.
Scullion, A. (ed). Female playwrights of the nineteenth century.
1996.
Taylor, G. (ed). Trilby and other plays. Oxford and New York 1996
(WC). Taylor WC. [jrs]
ii. Early nineteenth-century drama
1800–1835
This section has been restricted, with a few exceptions, to writers born between
1760 and 1800. Moreover, here, and in the following sections, cross-references
have not usually been included to the unacted poetic dramas of the period,
which will be found under Poetry, col 207, above. Plays are listed in order of
production, not of pbn and, for the most part, unpbd plays are not included.
The following abbreviations have been adopted:
Ba burletta, Bal ballet, Bsq burlesque, C comedy, Ca comedietta,
CD comic drama, CO comic opera, D drama, DO dramatic
opera, DSk dramatic sketch, Duol duologue, Ent
entertainment, Ext extravaganza, F farce, FC farcical comedy,
Int interlude, Mat matinée, MD melodrama, Monol
monologue, MF musical farce, O opera, Oa operetta, OF
operatic farce, P pantomime, Rev Revue, RD romantic drama,
Sk sketch, Spec spectacle, T tragedy, TC tragi-comedy, TF
tragic farce, Vaud vaudeville and for theatres, the word ‘theatre’
being omitted: Adel Adelphi, Aven Avenue, Brit Brittania, CG
Covent Garden, CL Royal City of London, Cob Royal Coburg,
Com Comedy, Crit Criterion, DL Drury Lane, DofY Duke of
York’s, EOH English Opera House, Gai Gaiety, Gar Garrick,
Glo Globe, Grec Grecian, H Haymarket, HM Her Majesty’s, K
Kings, Lyc Lyceum, M’bone Marylebone, NT New Theatre, OH
Opera House, Olym Olympic, Pav Pavilion, P’cess Princess’s,
PW Prince of Wales’s, Roy Royalty, RA Royal Amphitheatre, RC
Royal Circus, Sav Savoy, StJ St James’s, Shaft Shaftesbury, Str
Strand, Sur Surrey, SW Sadler’s Wells, TR Theatre Royal, Vaud
Vaudeville, Vic Victoria. Cumberland, Dicks etc refer to their
collections of plays (listed in full cols 1951–1955, above). References to
vols 4, 5 and 7 of A. Nicoll, A history of English drama, Cambridge
1955, 1959, 1973, have been abbreviated to Nicoll; to C. J. Stratman (ed),
Bibliography of English printed tragedy, 1966, to Stratman; to
J. P. Wearing, The London stage 1890–99: a calendar of plays and
players, 2 vols Metuchen NJ 1976, and The London stage
1900–1909, 2 vols 1981, as Wearing; to L. W. Conolly and J. P.
Wearing, English drama and theatre, 1800–1900, Detroit 1978, as
Conolly English drama; and to J. Ellis, J. Donohue and L. A. Zak (ed),
English drama of the nineteenth century: an index and
finding guide. New Canaan CT 1995 as Readex Index.
Samuel James Arnold 1774–1852
Auld Robin Gray: a pastoral entertainment, in two acts. CO. (H 26
July 1794). 1794.
The shipwreck: a comic opera, in two acts. (DL 10 Dec 1796). 1796,
1797, 1807 (2 edns), 1820 (2 edns); New York 1805, 1882; Oxberry 9;
Cawthorn 29 .
The songs, duetts [sic], chorusses [sic] &c in The shipwreck. 1796.
The Creole: or the haunted island. 3 vols 1796 (Novel).
The veteran tar: or a chip off the old block, a comic opera, in two acts.
(DL 29 Jan 1801). 1801. From Pigault-Lebrun’s Le petit matelot.
The songs, choruses, &c in The veteran tar. 1801.
‘Foul deeds will rise’: a musical drama. (H 18 July 1804). 1804. From
The traveller’s story, in Miss Lee’s Canterbury tales.
A prior claim: a comedy, in five acts. (DL 29 Oct 1805). 1805. With
Henry J. Pye.
The tyger’s theatre. [1808.] (Verse.)
Man and wife: or more secrets than one, a comedy in five acts. (DL 5
Jan 1809). 1809 (8 edns); New York 1809, Philadelphia 1810,
Boston 1855; Dicks 575.
Songs, duetts [sic], &c chorusses [sic] and finales of Up all night! or
the smuggler’s cave, a comic opera, in three acts. (Lyc 26 June
1809). 1809.
Songs, duetts [sic], choruses, finales, &c of The maniac! or the Swiss
banditti, a serio comic-opera. (Lyc 13 Mar 1810). [1810].
Songs, duetts [sic], chorusses [sic] &c in Plots: or the north tower, a
melo-dramatic opera in three acts. MD. (L 3 Sep 1810). [1810?]
Songs, duets, trios, chorusses [sic] &c in The Americans: a comic
opera in three acts. (EOH 27 Mar 1811). [1811?], 1818.
Free and easy: a musical farce in two acts. (Lyc 16 Sep 1816). 1812;
Cumberland 42.
Songs, duets, choruses in the operatic romance of The Devil’s
bridge. (See performance date below.) 1812, 1815, 1818.
Illusion: or the trances of Nourjahad, an oriental romance in three
acts. Spec. (DL 25 Nov 1813). 1813.
The jovial crew: or the merry beggars, a comick opera. (Lyc 7 Sep
1815). 1813. Based on The beggar’s bush?
The woodman’s hut: a melo-dramatic romance, in three acts. (DL 12
Apr 1814). 1814, 1814 [2 edns], 1818; Oxberry 4; [1822], Hodgdon’s
juvenile drama 1; [1859]. Sub-titled as: or the burning forest, a
melodrama in two acts. [1859]. Lacy 36; Dicks 935.
Songs, duetts [sic], chorusses [sic] in the new operatick anecdote
called Frederick the Great: or the heart of a soldier. (Lyc 4 Aug
1814). [1814?], 1815.
Jean de Paris: a comic drama in two acts. F. (DL 1 Nov 1814). 1814.
From C. Godard d’Ancour de Saint Just, Jean de Paris.
My aunt: a petite comedy, in two acts. OF. (Lyc 1 Aug 1815). [1815];
Boston 1820, London 1855, New York 1828, Philadelphia 1829;
French’s Minor Drama 302.
Songs, &c in the musical farce of My aunt. 1815.
Songs, duets, chorusses [sic], &c in The King’s proxy: a comick opera,
in three acts. (Lyc 19 Aug 1815). 1815.
The maid and the magpye: or which is the thief? A musical
entertainment, in two acts. (Lyc 21 Aug 1815). 1815. From Caigniez
and D’Aubigny, La pie voleuse.
The Devil’s bridge: an opera in three acts. (Lyc 6 May 1812). New York
1817; Dublin 1820, London [1825?], [1842]; Cumberland 42.
A letter to all the proprietors of Drury-Lane Theatre, excepting
Peter Moore esq. 1818. Letters.
Songs, recitative and duetts [sic], trios, chorusses [sic] &c in the new
grand opera Tarrare: the Tartar Chief. (EOH 15 Aug 1825). [1825.]
Marian: or the prisoner of Elville Castle, a drama in three acts.
([Never performed?]). 1825.
Recitative, songs, duets, chorusses [sic] in Tit for tat: or the tables
turned, a grand comic opera. (EOH 29 July 1828) [nd.] Adapted
from Mozart’s Cosé fan tutte.
Forgotten facts in the Memoirs of Charles Mathews, comedian,
recalled in a letter to Mrs Mathews, his biographer. [1839.]
(Letters).
The sergeant’s wife: a drama in two acts. (DL 8 June 1835). Boston
1855.
See also Nicoll 3, pp. 234, 377; 4, pp. 255–6, 569. [bjo’c]
Joanna Baillie 1762–1851
See col 226.