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3620 results for: Author - James Messink
Results not only include performances of plays known to be by 'James Messink', but also performances of associated titles, including adaptations.

676
22 September 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant; Or, The Sick Lady's Cure

Related Works
Related Work: The Picture; or, Cuckold in Conceit Author(s): James Miller

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine; With the Birth and Adventures of Harlequin

677
20 October 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Doctor Faustus

678
22 November 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi

Dance: II: French Peasants-Lalauze, Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Ballet-Muilment; V: Grand Ballet-Denoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf

679
04 December 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Cheats of Harlequin

Related Works
Related Work: The Medley; or, Harlequin At-All Author(s): James Messink

Ballet: GGrand Dance in Momus. Fawns-Richardson, Dupre, Desse, Delagarde; Country Lasses-Mrs Rogers, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs Ozanne; and Sailor's Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates

680
06 December 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

681
05 January 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Dance: II: L'Allamande-Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Scots Dance-Master Matthews, Miss Wright

682
12 February 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice: With The Metamorphoses of Harlequin

683
08 April 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

684
29 April 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers; With Harlequin Skeleton

Ballet: concluding with Aconcluding with A Voyage to the Island of Cytherea. Adonis-Desnoyer; Venus-Mlle Chateauneuf; Pilgrims-Liviez, Cooke, Mrs Walter, Mrs Thompson; Cupid-Muilment

685
04 August 1740 @ Tottenham Court

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jupiter And Juno

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Happy; or, Jack Spaniard Bit

Entertainment: GGrand Scaramouch Dance-Phillips, others, as he performed it at the Opera House in Paris, upwards of Forty Nights successively, with universal Applause; Scotch Dialogue-Parry, Mrs Phillips; A new Song-Parry in Praise of Admiral Vernon; Sailor Dance-Phillips; A Grand Dance call'd Vertumnus-Phillips

686
04 August 1740 @ Tottenham Court

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All Alive And Merry; Or, The Happy Miller Just Arriv'd: Being The Humourous Magical Mill That Grinds Old Men And Women Young Again

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi

687
23 August 1740 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orpheus And The Death Of Eurydice: With The Metamorphosis Of Harlequin

688
23 August 1740 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ephalus: With The Death Of Procris

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Dance: DDrunken Peasant-Phillips; Hornpipe-Phillips; The Parting Lovers-Phillips

Song: TThe Maid's Wish-Mrs Phillips; A song by Lampe-Parry in Praise of Admiral Vernon upon his taking Chagre Castle

689
10 October 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice; With The Metamorphoses of Harlequin

690
22 October 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift; Or, The Fool In Fashion

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Doctor Faustus

691
27 October 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite; Or, The Earl Of Essex

Related Works
Related Work: The Fall of the Earl of Essex Author(s): James Ralph

Afterpiece Title: The Rural Sports; With The Stratagems of Harlequin

692
06 November 1740 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Chymical Counterfeits; or, Harlequin Worm Doctor

693
17 November 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Dance: III: Comic Ballet-Muilment, Essex, Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: Grand Ballet-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

Related Works
Related Work: The Fall of the Earl of Essex Author(s): James Ralph

694
28 February 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Cheats of Harlequin

Related Works
Related Work: The Medley; or, Harlequin At-All Author(s): James Messink

Dance: Desnoyer, Signora Barberini

695
03 March 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Student; or, The Fall of Pantomime: With the Restoration of the Drama

696
06 April 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: (by Cby Command)The Jealous Farmer Outwitted; Harlequin a Statue

Dance: Mechel, Mlle Mechel, Desnoyer, Signora Barberini

697
20 April 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Barber

Dance: I: Concerto-Mlle Mechel; II: Minuet, French Rigadoon-Mechel the Father, who never appeared in any theatre in England, Mlle Mechel the Daughter; Minuet-Mechel the Son, Miss Polly Woffington, the first time of her appearing on the stage; IV: The Metamorphoses of the Windmills-Mechel, Mlle Mechel, Miss Woffington, Master Ferg, a little French Boy; lately come from France. End Afterpiece: A Wooden Shoe dance called Les Sabotiers de Piemont-Mechel Sr, Mechel Jr., Mlle Mechel, little French Boy

698
04 August 1741 @ Tottenham Court

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Generous Free Mason; Or, The Constant Lady

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Dance: GGrand Dance-Fausan, Signora Fausan

699
04 August 1741 @ Tottenham Court

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or, The Death Of Alexander The Great; Intermixed With A Comic Called A Wife Well Manag'd; Or, A Cure For Cuckoldom

Afterpiece Title: The Adventures of Harlequin in Spain

700
22 August 1741 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Thamas Kouli Kan, The Persian Hero; Or, The Distress'd Princess: With The Descent Of Harlequin From The Sun, And His Adventures On Earth

Entertainment: Singing, Dancing-Chettle, Mrs Dunstall; And the surprizing Performances of the famous little Prussian Posture Boy, lately arrived from Berlin