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Theatre and Novel in Georgian England (1714-1830): PRODUCTION

Theatre and Novel in Georgian England (1714-1830): PRODUCTION. David Worrall (Nottingham Trent University) Visiting Research Fellow, HRC, ANU, Canberra david.worrall@ntu.ac.uk.

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Theatre and Novel in Georgian England (1714-1830): PRODUCTION

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  1. Theatre and Novel in Georgian England (1714-1830): PRODUCTION David Worrall (Nottingham Trent University) Visiting Research Fellow, HRC, ANU, Canberra david.worrall@ntu.ac.uk

  2. 1. ASSEMBLAGE THEORY AND PRODUCTION2. LAW: CHARLES MACKLIN AND QUIET AUDITORIUMS3. LEGISLATION: THEATRE BUILDING/REOPENING

  3. (a) The cultural meaning of drama changes with every change in the performance location.(b) On two axes: (1) spatial (2) temporal.Worrall, Harlequin Empire (2007)

  4. Prologue. Spoken by Mr. [Thomas] King.... There stands the culprit; ‘till repriev’d by you. (going.)Enter Miss [Elizabeth] Younge.Miss Younge. Pray give me leave—I’ve something now to say.Mr. King. Is’t at the School for Wives, you’re taught the way?The School for Husbands teaches to obey. (Exit)Miss Younge. It is a shame, good Sirs, that brother King,To joke and laughter shou’d turn every thing....Ladies, prepare, arm well your brows and eyes,For these your thunder, these your light’ning flies.Should storms be rising from the Pit—look down,And still the waves thus, fair ones, with a frown;Or should the Galleries for war declare;Look up—your eyes will carry twice as far.Hugh Kelly, The School for Wives. A Comedy ... Drury-Lane (1774) 1774 x 4 eds., 1775, 1792, 1793; German adaptation (J.C. Bock), 1776.

  5. Drury Lane 1770-71‘61 different Plays / 37 different Farces /190 Nights in all’*[That is, 98 titles that season ]*Prompter’s notes, Folger Ms. W.a. 204 (8)

  6. LONDON AUDIENCE SIZE, 1813-14484,691* Drury Lane400,000? Covent Garden+King’s Haymarket Theatre; Little Haymarket Theatre; Sadler’s Wells; Olympick Theatre, Wych Street; Astley’s Amphitheatre etc. =London Theatre Total Annual Sales = 1 million?London Pop. 1801 Census: 1,096,784*Folger Ms. W.a. 12 (Treasurer’s figures)

  7. Royal Academy Exhibition Admissions* Peak numbers: 79,000 in 1814 80,000 in 1817 *Hoock (2003)

  8. Drury Lane Theatrical Fund* London May 18th 1774 Green Room Theatre Royal Drury LaneDavid Garrick Esq. The Father Founder and Protector of this Laudable Institution...Viz.£2350 New South Sea Annuities—Cost £1996. Annual Produce. £70.10s.0dA House in Drury Lane--Cost £607.10s. Annual Rent. £50.0.0.Cash___________________________£315.1.9.Total: £2918.11.9.*Proceedings 1781-89, Garrick Club

  9. ‘... married subscribers to the Fund shall be considered as separate parties, and as such allowed to claim under the foregoing Articles.’The Fund, For the Relief of ... Comedians of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane (1813)

  10. ‘Article XII. If any contributor, whose wife also is a contributor, should, from sickness, or any other cause, appear to the committee a proper claimant, he shall be admitted as such, without consideration of the wife, and the same vice versâ.’ [marginal gloss] ‘Husband and wife claim independently of each other’ Theatrical Fund ... Theatre Royal, in Covent-Garden, December 22, 1765, And Confirmed by Act of Parliament, 1776 (1811)

  11. LAW: CHARLES MACKLIN AND QUIET AUDITORIUMS

  12. Case, Mr. Macklin late of Covent-Garden Theatre, against Mess. Clarke, Aldys, Lee, James, and Miles. (Edinburgh 1775)‘... the loss of his bread’ p 6‘... an action at Common Law’ p 7

  13. Nov 1773: anti-Macklin incidents at Covent GardenJune 1774: Macklin case heard by Lord MansfieldMay 1775: Mansfield finds in favour of MacklinJune 1775: USA Independence: Battle of Bunker HillJune 1776: Garrick retiresFeb 1782: USA Independence: hostilities cease Oct 1782: Drury Lane appearances of Sarah Siddons

  14. LEGISLATION: THEATRE BUILDING / REOPENING USA:An Act to Repeal so much of an act of General Assembly of this Commonwealth as Prohibits Dramatic Entertainments within the City of Philadelphia and the Neighbourhood [passed 2nd March 1789] , ditto Charleston SC, 1791; Newport RI, 1793 etc.BRITAIN (excluding Ireland): Theatrical Representations Act 1788 (28 Geo. III c. 30.) James Winston, Theatric Tourist (1805) + Daniel Havell watercolours with Winston’s ms. notes, Harvard Theatre Collection TS 1335.211

  15. SOME BRITISH THEATRES c. 1802Andover, Ashton Under Lyme, Attleborough, Beverley, Birmingham, Bolton, Boston, Bowness, Bridgenorth, Bristol, Broadstairs, Canterbury, Cardiff, Carmarthen, Castle Town (Isle of Man), Chelmsford, Chepstow, Chester, Chichester, Cirencester, Cockermouth, Coleshill, Coventry, Croydon, Daventry, Deal, Doncaster, Douglas (Isle of Man), Evesham, Exeter, Glasgow, Gosport, Grantham, Guildford, Halifax, Harrogate, Hereford, Hexham, Honiton, Hull, Huntingdon, Keswick, Laxfield, Leominster, Lincoln, Litchfield, Louth, Lowestoft, Ludlow, Macclesfield, Manchester, Market Drayton, Maryport, Masham, Middleton, Newberry, Newcastle, Newmarket, Norwich, Oxford, Penzance, Peterborough, Plymouth, Plymouth Dock, Portsmouth, Powderham, Preston, Richmond (Surrey), Richmond (Yorkshire), Salisbury, Scarborough, Shrewsbury, Stamford, Stockton-On-Tees, Stourbridge, Taunton, Totnes, Truro, Ulverston, Wakefield, Weymouth, Whitby, Wigton, Windsor, Wisbech, Wolverhampton, York.

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