1663 Establishments - Populated Places Established in 1663, States and Territories Established in 1663, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Populated places established in 1663, States and territories established in 1663, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, New France, Prix de Rome, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Universite Laval, Penza, Province of Carolina, Kungur, Seminaire de Quebec, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Lensk, Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Governor General of New France, Spassk, Penza Oblast, Birsk, Koxinga Ancestral Shrine, Uyvar Eyalet. Excerpt: The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane is a West End theatre in Covent Garden, in the City of Westminster, a borough of London. The building faces Catherine Street (earlier named Bridges or Brydges Street) and backs onto Drury Lane. The building standing today is the most recent in a line of four theatres at the same location dating back to 1663, making it the oldest London theatre. For its first two centuries, Drury Lane could "reasonably have claimed to be London's leading theatre," and thus one of the most important in the English-speaking world. For most of that time, it was one of a small handful of patent theatres, granted monopoly rights to the production of "legitimate" (meaning spoken plays, rather than opera, dance, concerts, or plays with music) drama in London. The first theatre on the location was built at the behest of Thomas Killigrew in the early years of the English Restoration. Actors appearing at this "Theatre Royal in Bridges Street" included Nell Gwyn and Charles Hart. It was destroyed by fire in 1672. Killigrew built a larger theatre in the same spot, designed by Sir Christopher Wren; renamed the "Theatre Royal in Drury Lane," it opened in 1674. This building lasted nearly 120 years, under leadership including Colley Cibber, David Garrick, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan. The great Ulster Shakespearian actor Charles Macklin performed in this building. In 1791, under Sheridan's ...