ABSTRACT
Towards the end of May 1798, there was a rash of sensational drama on the London stage. Kotzebue’s The Stranger reappeared for one night, 25 May, at Drury Lane’s Theatre Royal, followed by Isabella; Or, The Fatal Marriage, and then Monk Lewis’s extravagance, The Castle Spectre. At Covent Garden, meanwhile, the Theatre Royal had The Orphan; Or, The Unhappy Marriage. On 31 May the Morning Chronicle reported a performance of The Robbers, at a private theatre, ‘to an audience of about 200 persons of fashion’.
