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Debtor And Creditor (play)
''Debtor and Creditor'' is an 1814 comedy play by the British writer James Kenney. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London's West End on 20 April 1814.Valladares p.273 The original cast included Daniel Terry as Churlton, William Abbot William Abbot or Abbott (12 June 1790 – 1 June 1843) was an English actor, and a theatrical manager, both in England and the United States. Life Abbot was born in Chelsea, London, and made his first appearance on the stage at Bath in 1806, ... as Etherington, William Blanchard as Average, John Liston as Gosling, John Emery as Sampson Miller, William Chapman as Hammond and Jane Powell as Mrs. Wallis. It marked the final performance on the London stage of Dorothea Jordan who played Barbara. References Bibliography * Nicoll, Allardyce. ''A History of Early Nineteenth Century Drama 1800-1850''. Cambridge University Press, 1930. * Tomalin, Claire . ''Mrs Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Fut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Kenney (dramatist)
James Kenney (1780 – 25 July 1849), an English dramatist, was the son of James Kenney, a founder of Boodles' Club in London. He produced more than 40 plays and opera libretti. Career His first play, a farce called ''Raising the Wind'' (1803), gained success through the popularity of the character of " Jeremy Diddler". Kenney produced more than 40 plays and opera libretti between 1803 and 1845. Many, in which Mrs Siddons, Madame Vestris, Foote, Lewis, Liston and other leading players appeared from time to time, enjoyed a considerable vogue. Kenney's most popular play was ''Sweethearts and Wives'', produced at the Haymarket Theatre in 1823 and revived several times. Among his other successful works were ''False Alarms'' (1807), a comic opera with music by Braham, ''Love, Law and Physic'' (1812), ''Spring and Autumn'' (1827), ''The Illustrious Stranger, or Married and Buried'' (1827), ''Masaniello'' (1829) and ''The Sicilian Vespers'', a tragedy (1840). Kenney numbered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Emery (English Actor)
John Emery (1777–1822), was an English actor. Emery was born at Sunderland, 22 September 1777, and obtained a rudimentary education at Ecclesfield in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His father, Mackle Emery (died 18 May 1825), was a country actor, and his mother, as Mrs. Emery, sen., appeared 6 July 1802 at the Haymarket Theatre as Dame Ashfield in Morton's ''Speed the Plough'', and subsequently played at Covent Garden Theatre. From musician to actor Emery was brought up for a musician, and when twelve years of age was in the orchestra at the Brighton Theatre. At this house he made his first appearance as Old Crazy in the farce of ''Peeping Tom'' by O'Keeffe.’ John Bernard says that in the summer of 1792 Mr. and Mrs. Emery and their son John, a lad of about seventeen, who played a fiddle in the orchestra and occasionally went on in small parts, were with him at Teignmouth, again at Dover, where young Emery played country boys, and again in 1793 at Plymouth. Bernard claims to ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Plays
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West End Plays
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1814 Plays
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Dorothea Jordan
Dorothea Jordan, née Bland (21 November 17615 July 1816), was an Anglo-Irish actress, as well as a courtesan. She was the long-time mistress (lover), mistress of Duke of Clarence, Prince William, Duke of Clarence, later William IV, and the mother of ten illegitimate children by him, all of whom took the surname FitzClarence. She was known professionally as Dorothea Francis and Dorothea Jordan, was informally Dora Jordan, and was also commonly referred to as Mrs Jordan and Mrs FitzClarence. Early life Dorothea Bland was born near Waterford City in Ireland on 22 November 1761, and was baptised at St Martin in the Fields, Middlesex, on 5 December of that year.Anthony J. Camp: ''Ancestry of Mrs Jordan'' [retrieved 4 December 2014]. She was the third of six children born to Francis Bland (1736 – 2 January 1778, in Dove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mrs Powell
Jane Powell or Mrs Powell (c. 1761 – 31 December 1831) was a British actress. She was also known as Mrs Renaud and Mrs Farmer. Life Powell made her debut as Alicia in Nicholas Rowe's ''Jane Shore'' to mixed reviews in 1787, but her name was uncredited. She came to notice when she appeared at the Haymarket Theatre in the 1780s under the name of "Mrs Farmer" or "Mrs Palmer" as the papers failed to agree. She is thought to be the first woman to take the title role of Hamlet in London in 1796 when she appeared at Drury Lane. She then took the role of Edmunda in ''Vortigern and Rowena'' after Sarah Siddons refused the role. The newly discovered play that was said to be by Shakespeare proved to be a forgery. Mrs Powell had a benefit at Drury Lane on 2 May 1795 when she played Young Norval. This role was recorded in Norval's death scene from Act V in a painting by Samuel De Wilde. Samuel De Wilde had made a painting of her as Mary Queen of Scots and another of her as Boadicea. How ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Chapman (actor)
William Chapman was a British stage actor active in the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. Considerable uncertainly exists about his early biography, but he became an established performer in London's West End at the major theatres Covent Garden, Drury Lane and Haymarket. Considerable crossover may exist with other actors of the era named Chapman.Highfill, Burnim & Langhans p.164 Selected roles * Orozembo in ''Pizarro'' by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1800) * Manly in '' The Will for the Deed'' by Thomas Dibdin (1804) * Mr Balance in ''Guilty or Not Guilty'' by Thomas Dibdin (1804) * Heartly in '' Who Wants a Guinea?'' by George Colman the Younger (1805) *Squire Flail in '' Five Miles Off'' by Thomas Dibdin (1806) * Malcolm in ''Edgar'' by George Manners (1806) * Old Mannerly in '' Errors Excepted'' by Thomas Dibdin (1807) * Trusty in ''Begone Dull Care'' by Frederick Reynolds (1808) * Hammond in '' Debtor and Creditor'' by James Kenney (1814) * Sir C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Liston
John Liston (c. 1776 – 22 March 1846), English comedian, was born in London. He made his public debut on the stage at Weymouth as Lord Duberley in ''The Heir at Law''. After several dismal failures in tragic parts, some of them in support of Mrs Siddons, he discovered accidentally that his forte was comedy, especially in the personation of old men and country boys, in which he displayed a fund of drollery and broad humour. An introduction to Charles Kemble led to his appearance at the Haymarket on 10 June 1805 as Sheepface in the ''Village Lawyer'', and his association with this theatre continued with few interruptions until 1830. '' Paul Pry'', the most famous of all his impersonations, was first presented on 13 September 1825 and soon became, thanks to his creative genius, a real personage. Liston remained on the stage until 1837; during his last years his mind failed, and he died on 22 March 1846. He had married in 1807 Miss Tyrer (d. 1854), a singer and actress. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre Royal, Covent Garden
The Royal Opera House (ROH) is an opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London. The large building is often referred to as simply Covent Garden, after a previous use of the site. It is the home of The Royal Opera, The Royal Ballet, and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. The first theatre on the site, the Theatre Royal (1732), served primarily as a playhouse for the first hundred years of its history. In 1734, the first ballet was presented. A year later, the first season of operas, by George Frideric Handel, began. Many of his operas and oratorios were specifically written for Covent Garden and had their premieres there. The current building is the third theatre on the site, following disastrous fires in 1808 and 1856 to previous buildings. The façade, foyer, and auditorium date from 1858, but almost every other element of the present complex dates from an extensive reconstruction in the 1990s. The main auditorium seats 2,256 people, makin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Blanchard (comedian)
William Blanchard (1769–1835) was an English comedian. Early life Blanchard was born in York on 2 January 1769, and for a few years was educated at a private school in that city. Losing both his father, John Blanchard, and his mother, whose maiden name was Clapham, while he was still a child, he was left to the care of his uncle, William Blanchard, long well known as the proprietor of the '' York Chronicle'', by whom he was reared with a tenderness seldom displayed even by a parent. In 1782 he was placed in his uncle's office. Early theatrical career He took such delight in Shakespeare that in 1785 he resolved to become an actor. He joined Mr. Welsh's company of travelling comedians at Buxton. His first appearance was as Allan-a-Dale in M'Nally's' Robin Hood.' For four years he played under the name of Bentley, but from 1789 in his own name. He took the parts of Achmet, Douglas, and even Romeo. Asperne, of the ''European Magazine'', wrote of him at that period: 'I knew Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Abbot (actor)
William Abbot or Abbott (12 June 1790 – 1 June 1843) was an English actor, and a theatrical manager, both in England and the United States. Life Abbot was born in Chelsea, London, Chelsea just outside London, and made his first appearance on the stage at Bath, Somerset, Bath in 1806, and his first London appearance in 1808, at the Haymarket Theatre, in a benefit performance. There he appeared as Frederick in an 1809 production of ''Lovers' Vows''. At the Covent Garden Theatre in 1813, in light comedy and melodrama, he made his first definite success. He was Pylades to William Charles Macready's Orestes in Ambrose Philips's ''Distressed Mother'' when Macready made his first appearance there, in 1816. He created the parts of Appius Claudius in Sheridan Knowles's ''Virginius (play), Virginius'' (1820) and of Modus in his ''The Hunchback (play), The Hunchback'' (1832). In 1827 Abbot organized the company, including Harriet Smithson, which acted William Shakespeare, Shakespeare i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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