Creusa, Queen of Athens explained

Creusa, Queen of Athens
Date Of Premiere:	20 April 1754
Original Language:	English
Place:	Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London
Genre:	Tragedy

Creusa, Queen of Athens is a 1754 tragedy by the British writer William Whitehead.^[1] It is based on the story of Creusa of Athens.

The original Drury Lane cast included David Garrick as Aletes, Maria Macklin as Ilyssus, Hannah Pritchard as Creusa, Henry Mossop as Phorbas and Edward Berry as Xuthus.

Bibliography

• Baines, Paul & Ferarro, Julian & Rogers, Pat. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing, 1660-1789. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
• Watson, George. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800. Cambridge University Press, 1971.

Notes and References

1. Watson p.861