Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… her, but leave her in danger as she is separated from her party and accosted by prostitutes. She finds David Garrick’s performance as King Lear at the Royal Drury Lane Theatre too impressive to describe, but her enjoyment of an opera is … upstart of seemingly low social status. Even a highly successful appearance as Lady Townly in a private theatrical performance of Colley Cibber’s The Provok’d Husband is turned to her shame by her ill-meaning and unwilling hostess ( The … Cecilia ’, Eighteenth-Century Life (vol. 42, n° 2, 2018), p. 78-93. Darby, Barbara, Frances Burney, Dramatist: Gender, Performance, and the Late Eighteenth-Century Stage (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1997). McCartney, Alicia, …
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