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The School For Guardians
''The School for Guardians'' is a 1767 comedy play by the Irish writer Arthur Murphy. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London on 10 January 1767.Nicoll p.290 The original cast included John Walker as Sir Theodore Brumpton, Henry Woodward as Young Brumpton, William Smith as Bellford, Edward Shuter as Oldcastle, John Dunstall as Lovibond, Mary Wilford as Harriet and Ann Elliot as Mary Ann. In 1777 Thomas Hull adapted it into a comic opera ''Love finds the Way'' with music composed for the production by Thomas Arne Thomas Augustine Arne (; 12 March 17105 March 1778) was an English composer. He is best known for his patriotic song " Rule, Britannia!" and the song " A-Hunting We Will Go", the latter composed for a 1777 production of '' The Beggar's Opera'', w .... References Bibliography * Emery, John Pike. ''Arthur Murphy: An Eminent English Dramatist of the Eighteenth Century''. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1946. * Nicoll, Allardyce. ''A History of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Murphy (writer)
Arthur Murphy (27 December 1727 – 18 June 1805), also known by the pseudonym Charles Ranger, was an Irish writer and barrister. He established himself in London as a leading playwright. Biography Murphy was born at Cloonyquin, County Roscommon, Ireland, the son of Richard Murphy and Jane French. He studied at the Jesuit-run College of Saint-Omer, France, and was a gifted student of the Latin and Greek classics. He worked as an actor in the theatre, became a barrister, a journalist and finally a (not very original) playwright. He edited '' Gray's Inn Journal'' between 1752 and 1754. As Henry Thrale's oldest and dearest friend, he introduced Samuel Johnson to the Thrales in January 1765. No. 16 Hammersmith Terrace was built for him in 1775.'London Portfolio: 16 Hammersmith Terrace', in ''Country Life'', Vol. 193, Issue 5, February 4, 1999), p. 59 He was appointed Commissioner of Bankruptcy in 1803. But his own debts caught up with him and he was forced to sell the house and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Elliot
Ann Elliot (16 November 1743 – 30 May 1769) was a British courtesan and actress. She appeared in comedies in London and Dublin. She had relationships with her mentor Arthur Murphy, with Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol and with Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland. Life Elliot was born in Tonbridge in 1743 to Mary and Richard Elliot. Her father was the sexton of the local church. Elliot became a servant in London, then a high-class courtesan under the name of "Miss Hooper". She became the protégée and mistress of barrister and writer Arthur Murphy. Murphy wrote plays, including ''The Citizen'', a farce, first produced at Drury Lane in 1761, with Elliot in the role of Maria. David Garrick was disparaging about her acting, but he did offer her a contract. However, Garrick did not say that he would pay her, so she went to Spranger Barry's Crow Street Theatre in Dublin for a season. She then returned to work in London, appearing in comedies at Covent Garden for three year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West End Plays
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Irish Comedy Plays
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1767 Plays
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Thomas Arne
Thomas Augustine Arne (; 12 March 17105 March 1778) was an English composer. He is best known for his patriotic song " Rule, Britannia!" and the song " A-Hunting We Will Go", the latter composed for a 1777 production of '' The Beggar's Opera'', which has since become popular as a folk song and a nursery rhyme. Arne was a leading British theatre composer of the 18th century, working at the West End's Drury Lane and Covent Garden. He wrote many operatic entertainments for the London theatres and pleasure gardens, as well as concertos, sinfonias, and sonatas. Early life Arne was born on 12 March 1710 in Covent Garden and baptised as a Roman Catholic. He came from a long line of Catholic recusants. Arne's father and grandfather were both upholsterers and both held office in the Worshipful Company of Upholders of the City of London. His grandfather fell on hard times and died in the debtors' prison of Marshalsea. His father earned enough money to rent 31 King Street, a large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comic Opera
Comic opera, sometimes known as light opera, is a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature, usually with a happy ending and often including spoken dialogue. Forms of comic opera first developed in late 17th-century Italy. By the 1730s, a new operatic genre, ''opera buffa'', emerged as an alternative to ''opera seria''. It quickly made its way to France, where it became ''opéra comique'', and eventually, in the following century, Operetta#Operetta in French, French operetta, with Jacques Offenbach as its most accomplished practitioner. The influence of Italian and French forms spread to other parts of Europe. Many countries developed their own genres of comic opera, incorporating the Italian and French models along with their own musical traditions. Examples include German ''singspiel'', Operetta#Austria–Hungary, Viennese operetta, Spanish ''zarzuela'', Russian comic opera, English ballad opera, ballad and Savoy opera, North American operetta and musical comedy. Italian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hull (actor)
Thomas Hull (1728–1808) was an English actor and dramatist. Early life Born in 1728 in Strand, London, where his father practised as an apothecary, he was educated at Charterhouse School, with a view to a career in the church. He made an unsuccessful attempt to follow his father's profession. Stage career According to ''Biographia Dramatica'', Hull first appeared at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin; and then moved on to Bath, Somerset, where he managed the theatre for John Palmer (actor), John Palmer. His first recorded appearance was, however, at Covent Garden Theatre, 5 October 1759, as Elder Wou'dbe in George Farquhar's ''Twin Rivals''. At Covent Garden Hull stayed without a break, apparently, till the end of his career, a period of forty-eight years. He was the original Harpagus in John Hoole's ''Cyrus'' (3 December 1768), Edwin in William Mason (poet), William Mason's ''Elfrida'' (21 November 1772), Pizarro in Arthur Murphy (writer), Arthur Murphy's ''Alzuma'' (23 Febru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Bulkley
Mary Bulkley, née Wilford (1747/8 – 1792), known professionally as Mrs Bulkley, Miss Bulkley, and later Mrs Barresford, was an English eighteenth-century dancer and comedy stage actress. She performed at various theatres, especially Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Theatre, the Theatre Royal, Dublin, the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, the Theatre Royal Haymarket and Shrewsbury Theatre. She performed in all or most of the Shakespearean comedies, and in several tragedies, besides many contemporary comedy plays. She played the part of Hamlet at least twice. She was considered a beauty when young, and her talent was praised. She married George Bulkley and later Captain Ebenezer Barresford, and openly took several lovers. Her early career was successful, but later she was hissed on stage due to her Extramarital affairs, extra-marital affairs, and she died in poverty. Background Mary Bulkley was born as Mary Wilford. Her father was Edward Wilford (d. 1789), an official and treasurer at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
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John Dunstall (actor)
John Dunstall ('' fl''. 1644–1675; died 1693) was an English engraver and teacher. Life He lived in Blackfriars, London, where he published drawing books on natural history and other educational subjects. (According to some accounts he lived in the Strand.) He engraved portraits for frontispieces of books, including portraits of Charles I, Charles II, William III, Queen Mary II, Rev. John Carter (Minister of Bramford, 1644), James Ussher (1656), and Rev. Samuel Clarke (1675). He also engraved views of Basing House, Clarendon House, London's Custom House, and St Marie Ouers in Southwark (Southwark Cathedral). His works are etched and sometimes finished with the burin in the style of Wenceslaus Hollar. A few of his works are drawings, including a view of the Bethlehem Hospital. The British Museum The British Museum is a Museum, public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight mill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Shuter
Edward Shuter (c. 1728–1776) was an English actor. Life Shuter was born in London to poor parents. He made his first appearance on the London stage in 1745 in Colley Cibber, Cibber's ''Schoolboy''. He made a great reputation in old men's parts. He was the original Justice Woodcock in ''Love in a Village'' (1762), Hardcastle in ''She Stoops to Conquer'' (1773), and Sir Anthony Absolute in ''The Rivals'' (1775). He was buried in St. Paul's, Covent Garden. Portraits His portrait as Scapin is in the Mathews collection in the Garrick Club; another portrait by Zoffany was engraved by Finlayson. References Attribution: * *; Endnotes: **Genest's ''Account of the English Stage'' **Doran's ''Annals of the Stage'', ed. Lowe ** Davies's ''Dramatick Miscellanies'' ** Clark Russell's ''Representative Actors'' ** Dibdin's ''History of the Stage'' ** Boaden's ''Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons'', and ''Life of Mrs. Jordan'' ** O'Keeffe's ''Recollections'' ** ''Garrick Correspondence'' ** ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
