Gothic Drama in the Romantic Age, 1760-1830

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Il Teatro Gotico 1768-1830. Testi e Autori:

CRONOLOGIA

1756-1800

1801 -

Fonti bibliografiche prevalentemente utilizzate:
- Bertrand Evans, Gothic Drama from Walpole to Shelley;
- Paul Ranger, Terror and Pity Reign in Every Breast;
- Allardyce Nicoll, A History of English Drama, vol. III and IV: Early Nineteenth-Century Drama-
Altre cronologie specifiche disponibili in rete:
1760-1830: a Literary-Historical TIMELINE : Literary figures, movements, and historical events from Literature Resource Center

A GOTHIC chronology from "The Gothic" by David Punter and Glennis Byron (2004)

Chronological List of Plays by British Women Playwrights, 1770-1823, in 'British Women Playwrights around 1800' by David Mann and Susan Garland

LEGENDA DELLE SIGLE E DELLE ICONE:
DL = Drury Lane; CG = Covent Garden; H = Haymarket ; RCT = Royal Circus Theatre; TRH = Theatre Royal Haymarket ; RC = Royal Coburg

= si segnalano materiali supplementari sull'opera

= clicca per ottenere informazioni compatte sull'autore

/DD = full-text disponibile in formato pdf su CDRom consultabile in biblioteca o a disposizione per il document delivery

= full-text disponibile online

clicca sui nomi dei teatri qui sotto per visualizzare la scheda informativa dal 'Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre' Ed. Phyllis Hartnoll and Peter Found, Oxford University Press, 1996

info > Drury Lane
info > Covent Garden
info > Haymarket

vedi anche The London Stage Project 1800-1900 by Joseph Donohue

HYPERCHRONOLOGY


YEAR	AUTHOR AND TITLE	FIRST PERFORMANCE	FIRST PUBLICATION
1756	John Home Douglas	Edinburgh 14/12/1756; CG 14/3/1757	1757
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1765	Hall Hartson The Countess of Salisbury	Dublin 2/5/1765	1767
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1768	Horace Walpole The Mysterious Mother	Glasgow 2/2001 new!	1768 (“Strawberry Hill Press”), 1781, 1791
	drawing from Walpole Library
	essay written by Paul Baines from Litencyc.com
1771	Dorotea Celisia (Mallet) Almida	DL 12/1/1771	1771
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1772	Arthur Murphy The Grecian Daughter	DL 26/2/1772	1772
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1774	Paul Hiffernan The Heroine of the Cave	DL 19/3/1774	1775
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1777	Hannah More Percy	CG 10/12/1777	1778
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1779	Robert Jephson The Law of Lombardy	DL 8/2/1779	1779
1779	Hannah More The Fatal Falsehood	CG 6/5/1779	1779
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1779	Hannah Cowley Albina, Countess of Raimond	H 31/7/1779
	abstract
1781	Robert Jephson The Count of Narbonne	CG 17/11/1781	1781
1783	Richard Cumberland The Mysterious Husband	CG 28/1/1783	1783
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1784	William Hayley Lord Russell	H 18/8/1784	1784
1784	Richard Cumberland The Carmelite	DL 2/12/1784	1784
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1787	Robert Jephson Julia or, The Italian Lover	DL 14/4/1787	1787
1787	Andrew M'Donald Vimonda	H 5/9/1787	1788
	full-text
1788	Bertie Greatheed The Regent	DL 29/3/1788	1788
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1789	James Cobb The Haunted Tower	DL 24/11/1789	1790
1791	Francis North The Kentish Barons	H 25/7/1791	1791
1792 (comp.)	Elizabeth Inchbald The Massacre	Unacted	1833 in James Boaden, Memoirs of Mrs Inchbald
	abstract
	full-text
1793	Anon. The Castle of Otranto	Newcastle, 11/1793
1793	Mrs. Burke The Ward of the Castle	CG 24/10/1793
	abstract
1794	James Boaden Fontainville Forest	CG 25/3/1794	1794
	abstract
1794	Henry Siddons The Sicilian Romance	CG 28/5/1794	1794
1795	Miles Peter Andrews The Mysteries of the Castle	CG 31/1/1795	1795
1795	James Boaden The Secret Tribunal	CG 3/6/1795	1795
1796	George Colman the Younger The Iron Chest	DL 12/3/1796	1796
1796	Sophia Lee Almeyda	DL 20/4/1796	1796
	full-text
	abstract
1797	James Boaden The Italian Monk	H 15/8/1797	1797
1797	Matthew G. Lewis *The Castle Spectre*	DL 14/12/1797	1796
	full-text
1797	Charles Farley Raymond and Agnes (cfr./see Ranger)	CG 16/3/1797
1797	John C. Cross Julia of Louvain, or Monkish Cruelty	RCT 15/5/1797	1809
1798	George Colman the Younger Blue-Beard	DL 16/1/1798	1798
	full-text
1798	Harriet Lee The Mysterious Marriage or, the Heirship of Roselva	Unacted	1798
	abstract
	full-text
1798	James Boaden Aurelio and Miranda	DL 29/12/1798	1798
1798	Samuel Birch Albert and Adelaide (cfr./see Ranger); The Black Forest (cfr./see Evans)	CG 11/12/1798
1799	George Colman the Younger Feudal Times	DL 19/1/1799	1799
1799	Thomas Sedgwick Whalley The Castle of Montval	DL 23/4/1799	1799
1799	Henry Heartwell The Castle of Sorrento	H 17/7/1799	1799
1800	Lady Sophia Burell Theodora or, The Spanish Daughter	Unacted	1800
1800	Joanna Baillie vedi anche SWPR De Monfort	DL 29/4/1800	1798
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1801	William Sotheby Julian and Agnes	DL 25/4/1801	1801
1801	Matthew G. Lewis Adelmorn, the Outlaw	DL 4/5/1801	1801
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1801	John C. Cross Rinaldo Rinaldini or, The Secret Avengers	RCT 6/4/1801	1809
1802	Matthew G. Lewis Alfonso, King of Castile	CG 15/1/1802	1801
1802	Thomas Holcroft A Tale of Mystery	CG 13/11/1802	1802
	Read (pdf) or download (zip)Act I
	postcard
1803	Matthew G. Lewis The Harper’s Daughter	CG 4/5/1803	1813
1803	Henry Siddons A Tale of Terror	CG 12/5/1803	1803
1803	James Boaden The Maid of Bristol	H 24/8/1803	1803
1804	William Dimond The Hunter of the Alps	H 3/7/1804	1804
1805	Robert William Elliston The Venetian Outlaw	DL 26/4/1805	1805
1805	Matthew G. Lewis Rugantino or, the Bravo of Venice	CG 18/10/1805	1805
1806	William Dimond Adrian and Orrila or, a Mother’s Vengeance	CG 15/11/1806	1806
1806	Thomas J. Lynch Alberto and Lauretta or, the Orphan of the Alps	H 15/12/1806
1806	George Manners Edgar or, Northern Feuds	CG 9/5/1806	1806
1807	John Tobin The Curfew	DL 19/2/1807	1807
1807	Matthew G. Lewis The Wood Demon or, the Clock Has Struck	DL 1/4/1807
1807	Matthew G. Lewis Adelgitha or, the Fruits of a Single Error	DL 30/4/1807	1806
1807	William Godwin Faulkner	DL 16/12/1807	1807
1807	James Kenney Ella Rosenberg	DL 19/11/1807	1807
1808	Lumley St. George Skeffington The Mysterious Bride	DL 1/6/1808
1808	Thomas John Dibdin The Forest of Hermanstadt or, A Princess and no Princess	CG 7/10/1808
1808	Matthew G. Lewis Venoni or, the Novice of St. Mark’s	DL 1/12/1808	1809
1809	Matthew G. Lewis Raymond and Agnes	Norwich, 22/11/1809
1809	William Dimond The Foundling of the Forest	TRH 10/7/1809	1809
1810	Frederic Reynolds The Free Knights	CG 8/2/1810	1810
1811	Edmund St. John Eyre The Lady of the Lake	Edinburgh 15/1/1811	1811
1811	Matthew G. Lewis Timour the Tartar	CG 29/4/1811	1811
1811	Matthew G. Lewis One O’Clock or, the Knight and the Wood Demon	Lyceum, 1/8/1811	1811
1812	John Lake The House of Morville	Lyceum 27/2/1812	1812
1812	Edmund St. John Eyre Look at Home (The Italian Husband)	H 15/8/1812	1812
1812	Jane M. Scott Asgard, the Demon Hunt or, Le Diable à la Chasse	Sans Pareil, 17/11/1812
1813	S. T. Coleridge Remorse	DL 23/1/1813	1813
1813	Isaac Pocock The Miller and His Men	CG 21/10/1813	1813
1814	John Kerr The Wandering Boys or, the Castle of Olival	CG 24/2/1814
1814	Samuel James Arnold The Woodman’s Hut	DL 12/4/1814	1814
1816	Charles R. Maturin Bertram or, The Castle of St. Aldobrand	DL 9/5/1816	1816
	read (pdf) or download (zip) Act II Scene I
1816	George Gordon Byron Manfred	CG 1834	06/06/1817
	full-text
1816	William Dimond The Broken Sword	CG 7/10/1816	1816
1816	Jane M. Scott The Old Oak Chest or, the Smuggler’s Son and the Robber’s Daughter	Sans Pareil 5/2/1816
	abstract
1817	Charles R. Maturin Manuel	DL 8/3/1817	1817
1817	William Dimond The Conquest of Taranto	CG 15/4/1817	1817
1817	Edward Fitzball Edwin, Heir of Cressingham (cfr./see Evans)	Norwich, 4/1817
1817	Richard Lalor Sheil The Apostate	CG 3/5/1817	1817
1817	George Soane The Falls of Clyde	DL 8/10/1817
1818	William Dimond The Bride of Abydos	DL 5/2/1818	1818
1819	Anon. The Bravo’s Son (cfr./see Evans)	Bath, 3/1819
1819	Charles R. Maturin Fredolpho	CG 12/5/1819	1819
1819	Thomas J. Dibdin Montrose or, Second Sight	Surrey 5/7/1819
1819	Thomas J. Dibdin The Bride of Lammermoor	Surrey, 5/7/1819
1819	Richard Lalor Sheil Evadne or, the Statue	CG 10/2/1819	1819
1819	P. B. Shelley The Cenci	Unacted	1819 and 1821
	abstract
	full-text
1820	Richard Lalor Sheil The Phantom or, Montoni	CG 3/5/1820
1820	James Robinson Planché The Vampyre or, the Bride of the Isles	Lyceum / English Opera House 9/8/1820	1820
	full-text
1821	C. E. Walker Geraldi Duval, The Bandit of Bohemia	DL 8/9/1821
1821	John Kerr Therese or, The Orphan of Geneva	New Royal West London Theatre, ? 1821
1822	John William Calcraft The Bride of Lammermoor	Edinburgo 1/5/1822	1823
1823	Benjamin West Melmoth the Wanderer (cfr./see Evans)	Royal Coburg, 7/1823
1823	Richard Brinsley Peake Presumption or, the Fate of Frankenstein	Lyceum / English Opera House 28/7/1823	“Dick’s Standard Plays”, 1865?
	hypertext edition from Romantic Circles
1823	Henry M. Milner Frankenstein or, the Demon of Switzerland	Royal Coburg 18/8/1823
1823	William T. Moncrieff The Cataract of the Ganges or, the Rajah’s Daughter	DL 27 ottobre 1823	1823
1823	Mary Russell Mitford Julian	CG 15 marzo 1823	1823
1826	Henry M. Milner Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogene or, the Spectre Bride	RC 19/6/1826
1827	Edward Fitzball The Flying Dutchman or, the Phantom Ship	Adelphi 1/1/1827 The Adelphi Theatre Calendar 1806-1900
1828	Edward Fitzball The Earthquake or, the Spectre of the Nile	Adelphi, 15/12/1828 The Adelphi Theatre Calendar 1806-1900
1829	C. Pelham Thompson The Shade or, Blood for Blood	Surrey Theatre 22/8/1829
1829	A. V. Campbell The Demon of the Desert or, the Murderer’s Sacrifice	Sadler’s Wells Th. 29/6/1829
1831	John Baldwin Buckstone The Ice Witch or, The Frozen Hand	DL 4 aprile 1831
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september 2003
last rev. january 2005