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Goodman's Fields Theatre

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311: 176:. The theatre closed 27 May 1742 and did not re-open. It was pulled down in 1746, and a further theatre built on the site, this briefly showed drama before it was converted to a warehouse and burned down in 1809. 316: 306: 232:
Jane Girdham, 'Thurmond , Sarah (d. 1762)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2013
301: 296: 291: 32: 148: 136: 245: 106:. Giffard operated the theatre until 1732. After he left, the theatre was used for a variety of acrobatic performances. 278:
Hartnoll, Phyllis, ed. The Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 4th edition. London:Oxford UP, 1983. p. 342.
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noted in a letter to a friend, that "there are a dozen dukes of a night at Goodman's Fields sometimes".
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briefly and then, with various political machinations, was able to reopen Goodman's Fields in 1740.
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Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People and Its Places by Walter Thornbury
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premièred here on 26 January 1730. Upon retirement, Odell passed the management on to
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was produced there in 1741 for the first time in over a century. The same year
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Former buildings and structures in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
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Giffard constructed a new theatre down the street designed by
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notes that there may have been an earlier theatre named
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and her husband to the theatre. With the passing of the
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Goodman's Fields
51°30′53″N 0°04′19″W / 51.514812°N 0.071851°W / 51.514812; -0.071851
Alie Street
Whitechapel
London
Thomas Odell
George Farquhar
The Recruiting Officer
Henry Fielding
Henry Giffard
Aldgate
Edward Shepherd
Royal Opera House
Covent Garden
Henry IV, Part I
Thomas Walker
Richard Yates
Henry Woodward
Sarah Thurmond
Licensing Act 1737
Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre
The Winter's Tale
David Garrick
Richard III
farce
The Lying Valet
Gray


Whitechapel from Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People and Its Places by Walter Thornbury (1881)

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