1779 | Theater, Film
Theater, Film
Theater: Iphigenia in Tauris by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 4/6 at Weimar; The Fatal Falsehood by Hannah More 6/5 at London's Covent Garden Theatre; Albina, Countess Raimond by Hannah Cowley 7/31 at London's Haymarket Theater; The Critic, or a Tragedy Rehearsal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan 10/3 at London's Royal Theatre in Drury Lane, a revision of the 1671 burlesque by the late duke of Buckingham: "Nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible" (II, i.) Sheridan caricatures fellow playwright Richard Cumberland as Sir Fretful Plagiary; actress Dorothea Jordan appears at Dublin's Crow Street Theater in Henry Fielding's farce The Virgin Unmasked.
Actor-playwright-theater manager David Garrick dies at London January 20 at age 61.