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277 Appendix E Professional Productions and new Versions of Euripides’ Medea The Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/) has fuller cast lists and more information on sources in some cases. These entries are as complete as current information allowed. * Discussed or mentioned in chapters 1, 2, or 5 of this book ** Black Medeas *** Drag or cross-dressed Medeas **** Mad or abused Medeas ( ) Important visiting production *1798 Medea and Jason, a pantomime, first performed on June 12, 1798, at Boston’s Haymarket Theatre. *1800 Medea and Jason, Mount Vernon Gardens, new york, September 17, 1800, starring a Mr. and Mrs. Barrett. *1801 Medea and Jason, new york (Seilhamer (1891) 1968, 3: 358; odell 2: 97; Weekly Museum , May 16, 1801). *1805 Medea and Jason, performed again “in Benefit” on June 21, 1805, new york’s Bedlow Street Theatre (odell 2: 97 and 236). *(1828 Mme Pasta on tour in Johann Simon Mayr’s 1813 opera Medea in Corinto [Yankee and Boston Literary Gazette, August 6, 1828, 255; August 27, 1828, 275; and 2.3, September 1829, 146–56; Philadelphia Album and Ladies Literary Portfolio, September 24, 1831, 310].) *Early 1840s Performance or reading of Harriette Fanning Read, Medea in Three Dramatic Poems (Read 1848, actually published in 1847) in Washington, D.C. (book reviews: Union Magazine of Literature and Art 2.3 [March 1848]: 143; Spirit of the Times, April 14, 1849, 85; november 18, 1848, 468; november 25, 1848, 480; Christian Register, Boston, December 25, 1847, 207; Literary World, January 22, 1848, 614; Merchant’s Magazine and 278 Appendix E Commercial Review 18.3 [March 1848]: 348; Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany 44.2 [March 1848]: 311; and the notice in Albion, october 23, 1847, 516). 1850s Fifth Avenue Theatre, new york. 1850s? Undated new york performance of Robert Brough’s 1856 contemporary burlesque of Legouvé, The Best of Mothers, with a Brute of a Husband (Burkhard 1961, 33 n. 6, reports from archives at yale). *1857 Wallack’s Lyceum, new york, E. Legouvé’s Medea, translated and adapted by and starring Matilda Heron (Heron 1857) as Medea and Edward A. Southern as Jason. The play premiered in St. Louis in 1856 (Missouri Republican, September 15, 1856). A revival starting September 21, 1857, included two female (rather than the expected male) children, Misses o. and A. Grattan (odell 6: 535; Brown 1: 491, 494). Heron performed Medea at least another seven times in new york, September 21, 1858–July 1, 1876 (odell 7: 159; Brown 2: 37), including Boston Theatre, May 14, 1857 (American Antiquarian Society, Ephemera Theat 0067); niblo’s Garden, 1859 (Brown 1: 188; odell 7: 249) and 1863 (Brown 1: 96); Academy of Music, June 29, 1858 (Brown 2: 34), and December 18, 1859 (odell 7: 159; Brown 2: 37); Bowery Theatre in 1865–66 (odell 8: 44; Brown 2: 217); Booth’s, June 1876 (Brown 3: 119); also at Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, in January 1860; the Worcester, Massachusetts Theatre in March 29, 1860 (American Antiquarian Society, Ephemera Worc Theat 0195); and a premiere in St. Louis in 1856 (Missouri Republican , September 15, 1856; Ballou’s Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, June 13, 1857, 181; Spirit of the Times, october 18, 1856, 432; New York Times, February 17, 1857; New York Herald, February 17, 1857; Albion, February 21, 1857, 92; odell 6: 535; Winter 1913, 71). 1857 Medea and My Deary, burlesque of Heron’s Medea, Chatham Theatre, new york, starring G.L. Fox as Medea and Miss Hathaway as Jason, March 2, 1857 (odell 6: 559). 1858–59 Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, adaptation by oliver C. Wyman, directed by Peter Richings, starring J.M. Davenport as Medea and H.A. Perry as Jason; Davenport again played Medea at this venue in october 1859. 1858–59 Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, Legouvé version in December 1858 and october 1859 (The Philadelphia Theatre Index [1855–2000], Free Library of Philadelphia). 1859 new Metropolitan Theatre (formerly Tripler Hall), o.C. Wyman’s version of Legouvé’s Medea starring a British Miss J.M. Davenport on May 7 or 9, 1858 (odell 7: 118; Brown 1: 445; New York Herald, May 7, 1858; New York Leader, May 14, 1859, 5; Albion, May 14, 1859, 235). (1860 Italian Cortesi Company, niblo’s Garden, new york; Mlle. Cortesi performed Pacini’s Medea in new york on September 27, 1860 [Brown 1: 189; odell 7: 322].) 1860 old Bowery Theatre, new york, a version of Medea starring...

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