Backstage in the Novel: Frances Burney and the Theater Arts

Appendix: An Index to Frances Burney’s Theatralia, 1768–1804

223 An Index to Frances Burney’s Theatralia, 1768–1804 This appendix lists the plays, operas, musical performances, and other productions that Frances Burney attended, read, performed in, or referred to in writing between 1768 and 1804, the period covering the correspondence, novels, and plays discussed in this book. Each section of the appendix was produced by collating and crossreferencing Burney’s letters and journals with her novels and with her biography of her father, published in 1832. In the first four sections of the appendix, each entry lists the author’s name and the title of the work, followed by parentheses containing the abbreviation for the work’s genre and the year in which it was first published or performed. Where possible , I have also given the original venue of the performance and, for operas, the name of the librettist. Below each entry, in square brackets, is the year in which Burney refers to a work and, when reported, the names of the principal performers. At the end of each entry is the source for Burney’s reference.The sources by Burney are given in the following sequence: novels (listed in order of date of publication); the biography of Charles Burney; and the letters and journals. Novels are cited by volume, book, and chapter number, except for Evelina, which is cited by volume and chapter only. Where Shakespeare’s plays are concerned, it is worth bearing in mind that Burney often refers to one of the many adaptations commonly staged in the second half of the eighteenth century. When Burney mentions a specific adaptation, its author is listed together with the year in which it was adapted. The final section of the appendix lists the actors, musicians, and playwrights mentioned in Burney’s writings during the same period. It was compiled by colIt was compiled by collating her letters and journals with the Memoirs of Doctor Burney. For authors or performers Burney mentions very frequently (e.g., David Garrick or Richard B. Sheridan), I have selected only the most significant references. The bio-bibliographical information in the appendix is derived from Burney’s primary texts as listed in the bibliography and from cross-referencing and collating, among other sources, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (available online at http://www.oxforddnb.com) and the Catalogue of the John Larpent Plays (processed Appendix 224 by Professor Donald MacMillan and Brooke Dykman Dockter and available online at http://www.oac.cdlib.org). A comparable attempt to catalog the theatrical and opera references in Burney’s work is in the appendix to Tara Ghoshal Wallace’s edition of Burney’s A Busy Day (1984). Since its publication, however, additional scholarly editions of Burney’s letters and journals have been published. In addition to benefiting from this new material, which has helped expand the list by more than one hundred items, this appendix has been supplemented by historical and biographical information not included in Wallace’s appendix. Furthermore, Wallace’s edition did not draw on Burney’s novels, which are crucial not only to identifying her dramatic models, but also to recovering the metatextual web in which the novels are embedded and to reconstructing the “pervasive theatricality” in Burney’s texts that I examine in this volume. abbreviations for genres of works [C] Comedy [T] Tragedy [TC] Tragicomedy [D] Drama [O] Opera (comic and dramatic) [V] Various (farce, musical farce, prelude, pantomime, afterpiece) plays, operas, and other performances attended by frances burney Andrews, Miles Peter Dissipation; or, Seduction ([C] 1781, Drury Lane) [1787] DL, 3:285 Anfossi, Pasquale La marchesa giardiniera ([O] 1774, also known as La finta giardiniera, dramma giocoso; libretto by Giuseppe Petrosellini?) [1775; with Giovanna Sestini as prima buffa; Giovanni Lovattini as primo buffo] EJL, 2:67 Il trionfo della costanza ([V] 1782, King’s Theatre; libretto by Carlo Francesco Badini) [1782] DL, 2:148 Arne, Thomas Artaxerxes ([O] 1762, opera based on Metastasio’s Artaserse; libretto by Thomas Arne) [1773] EJL, 1:244 The Masque of Alfred ([O] 1740, first performed at Clivedon House, Maidenhead; libretto by James Thomson and David Mallet) [1773] EJL, 1:312 Appendix 225 Bertoni, Ferdinando Giuseppe Cimene ([O] 1783, King’s Theatre; libretto by Benedetto Pasqualigo) [1783] DL, 2:170–71 Orfeo e Euridice ([O] 1776; libretto by Ranieri de’ Calzabigi) [1778; with Gasparo Pacchierotti] EJL, 3:184 Bickerstaffe, Isaac The Padlock ([O] 1768, Drury Lane) [1780] DL, 1:328 Bottarelli, Giovanni...