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

376
04 December 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): John DaltonJohn Milton

Song: As17971030

377
08 December 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Countess Of Salisbury

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): John DaltonJohn Milton

378
18 December 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): John DaltonJohn Milton

379
25 April 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): John DaltonJohn Milton

380
18 June 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): John DaltonJohn Milton

Dance: In I afterpiece: Dancing-Mlle Parisot, Sga Bossi DelCaro

381
15 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: II: Drunken Peasant-Philips; IV: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

Song: I: Sweet Echoby Arne in Comus-Mrs Arne; III: Dove Spiega (an Italian Song by Arne)-Mrs Arne

382
03 April 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): John Mottley

Dance: I: Punches Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; III: Turkish Dance-Muilment; IV: Comic Dance-Poitier

Song: II: Wou'd You Taste the Noontide Air (from Comus)-Beard; IV: (By Desire,) Oh Happy Pair (out of Alexander's Feast)-

383
07 April 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Related Works
Related Work: The Spanish Fryar; or, The Double Discovery Author(s): John Dryden

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Song: TThe Noontide Air (from Comus)-Beard

Music: Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Poitier

Dance: Poitier

384
27 April 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: II: Punches Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; V: Russian Sailors-Denoyer

Song: TThe Noontide Air (from Comus)-Mrs Clive

385
17 March 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): John Mottley

Dance: I: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; In IV: Muilment; V: Ballet-Denoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf

Song: III: Would You Taste the Noon@Tide Air (Comus)-Miss Edwards

386
25 March 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): John Mottley

Dance: III: Muilment; La Matelote, as17400324

Song: I: Would You Taste the Noon@Tide (Comus)-Miss Edwards; II: Nel Pugnar-Beard; V: Beard in the Character of a Captain of an English Man of War upon the taking Porto Bello

387
29 March 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Related Works
Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): John Philip Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Song: I: Song-Beard; as end V 25 March; V: Would You Taste the Noon@Tide (Comus)-Miss Edwards

Dance: In IV: Muilment

388
14 April 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Related Works
Related Work: The Provok'd Wife Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Music: I: Preamble on Kettle Drums-Master Ferg; concluding with Handel'sWater Musick-

Dance: II: La Matelote-Desnoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Muilment; IV: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

Song: V: The Noon Tide Air (Comus)-Beard

389
16 April 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Last Stake

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): John Mottley

Dance: I: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Muilment; V: La Matelote-Desnoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf

Song: II: The Noon@Tide Air (Comus)-Mrs Arne; IV: By particular Desire, a Song by the English Captain(as17400325-Beard

390
19 April 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: I: Muilment; III: Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; V: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg

Song: II: Beard; IV: The Noon Tide Air (Comus)-Miss Edwards; V: English Captain (as17400325-Beard

391
25 April 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part I

Related Works
Related Work: The Conquest of Granada, Part I Author(s): John Dryden
Related Work: The Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus Vespasian, Part I Author(s): John Crowne
Related Work: The Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus Vespasian, Part II Author(s): John Crowne
Related Work: The Destruction of Jerusalem, Part II Author(s): John Crowne
Related Work: Aesop, Part II Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: Henry the Sixth: The First Part, With The Murder of Humphrey Duke of Glocester Author(s): John Crowne
Related Work: The Misery of Civil War Author(s): John Crowne

Afterpiece Title: The Vintner in the Suds

Dance: I: Minuet, Louvre-Desnoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf; II: A new dance-Muilment; III: Russian Sailor-Desnoyer; V: Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

Song: IV: Black@ey'd Susan, disposed into a Cantata, with Recitatives and Airs adapted to the different Expressions in that celebrated Ballad, the Musick New by Mr Arne-Beard, Mrs Arne; V: English Captain (as17400325-Beard; End Afterpiece: The Eccho Song (Comus)-Mrs Arne

392
07 May 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Related Works
Related Work: The Confederacy Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies

Dance: I: Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; II: Muilment; III: Wooden Shoes-Master Ferg; IV: Pierots-Lalauze, Livier; V: Minuet-Rector, Mrs Walter; End Afterpiece: Maggot-Cooke, Mrs Walter

Song: V: Eccho Song (Comus)-Mrs Arne

393
09 May 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Historical Play [king Charles I]

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: II: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Muilment; IV: Pierots-Lalauze, Livier; D: Muilment

Song: I: The Noon Tide Air (Comus)-Miss Edwards

394
22 May 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song: I: The Eccho Song in Comus-Mrs Arne; II: Blow Blow thou Winter Wind-Lowe; V: The Noon@Tide Air-Mrs Clive

Dance: III: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: La Matelote-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

395
28 February 1743 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

Afterpiece Title: scenes from Tscenes from The Old Batchelor

Song: Between the Acts: particularly the Songs in the Masque of Comus-a Gentleman (who never perform'd in public before), Mrs Hooper, Mrs Dunstall

Dance: WWelch Buffoon-two Masters Granier [not in Daily Advertiser]

396
14 March 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved; Or, A Plot Discovered

Related Works
Related Work: Venice Preserv'd Author(s): John Philip Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Song: II: Beard; III: The Noontide Air from Comus-Miss Edward; IV: Lowe

397
20 October 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Gardener's Wedding

Music: Between the acts: Select Pieces of Musick-; Singing-Mrs Hill; III: The Noon Tide Air from Comus-Mrs Hill

398
05 April 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Lover His Own Rival

Song: New Cantata call'dThe Court of Comus set by Worgan-Lowe

Dance: GGrand Scots Ballet, as17521216

399
15 August 1771 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Magnet

Entertainment: Between parts of Entertainment: In love should there meet a fond Pair, (for that night only) Water parted from the Sea, after the manner of the original, also The Soldier Tired of War's Alarms, also The Wanton God who Pierces Hearts from Comus-Miss Catley; Singing-Reinhold, Miss Harper

400
20 August 1771 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Coquet

Entertainment: Medley Cantata-Reinhold; Musical Imitations-Bannister; Singing With Horns and With Hounds, The Soldier Tir'd the favourite song in Comus,-Miss Catley; Sweet Echo-Miss Catley the echo by, a young Gentleman