''Love's Contrivance'' is a 1703
comedy play
Comedy is a genre of dramatic performance having a light or humorous tone that depicts amusing incidents and in which the characters ultimately triumph over adversity. For ancient Greeks and Romans, a comedy was a stage-play with a happy endi ...
by the English writer
Susanna Centlivre
Susanna Centlivre (c. 1669 (baptised) – 1 December 1723), born Susanna Freeman, and also known professionally as Susanna Carroll, was an English poet, actress, and "the most successful female playwright of the eighteenth century". Centlivre's ...
. The cast featured
Robert Wilks
Robert Wilks (''c.'' 1665 – 27 September 1732) was a British actor and theatrical manager who was one of the leading managers of Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in its heyday of the 1710s. He was, with Colley Cibber and Thomas Doggett, one of the ...
as Bellmie,
Anne Oldfield
Anne Oldfield (168323 October 1730) was an England, English actress and one of the highest paid actresses of her time.
Early life and discovery
She was born in London in 1683. Her father was a soldier, James Oldfield. Her mother was either Ann ...
as Belliza,
William Bullock as Selfwill,
Benjamin Johnson as Sir Toby Doubtful and
Jane Rogers as Lucinda.
It was staged at
Drury Lane Theatre
The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, commonly known as Drury Lane, is a West End theatre and Grade I listed building in Covent Garden, London, England. The building faces Catherine Street (earlier named Bridges or Brydges Street) and backs onto Dru ...
and ran for five nights, which was considered a moderate success eclipsing Centlivre play's previous play ''
The Stolen Heiress''.
[Heard p.68]
References
External Links
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Bibliography
* Burling, William J. ''A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737''. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1992.
* Heard, Elisabeth J. ''Experimentation on the English Stage, 1695-1708: The Career of George Farquhar''. Routledge, 2015.
1703 plays
Plays by Susanna Centlivre
West End plays
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