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Her Majesty's Theatre

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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Date: 19960101
Author:PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND

Her Majesty's Theatre, London, in the Haymarket. The first theatre on this site was called the Queen's, after Queen Anne. Designed by Sir John Vanbrugh , it opened in 1705 under the management of William Congreve , one of the first plays to be given there being Vanbrugh's The Confederacy . The house proved unsuitable for drama and became London's first opera-house. On the death of Queen Anne in 1714 the theatre changed its name to the King's, in honour of George I. After a fire in 1789 a new theatre devoted entirely to opera and ballet opened in 1791. On the accession of Queen ...

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