Lesbia (play)

The actor-manager Richard Mansfield staged the play at the Lyceum Theatre in London, where it debuted on 17 September 1888 with Beatrice Cameron as Lesbia.

The play opened on Broadway at the Madison Square Theatre on 8 October 1890, again as a curtain raiser before Dr. Jekyll and Mr.

[4] The reviewer for The New York Times suggested Davey adapted material from Le Moineau de Lesbie, an 1848 play by the French writer Armand Barthet [fr].

The Saturday Review described the Lyceum premier as an exercise in "literary self-indulgence" that focused too much on making classical allusions, leaving the cast to struggle with difficult dialogue.

[7] The New York Times review of the Madison Square opening described the play as "gracefully written" and mostly well-acted.

Black-and-white portrait of a white woman in a high-necked white dress
Beatrice Cameron played Lesbia on the West End and Broadway.
Lesbia with her sparrow, depicted in a 1907 painting by Edward Poynter