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Event Comment: Last night the Prince of Wales, Prince Edward, Prince Henry, Prince Frederick, and Princess Augusta were at Covent Garden to see The Merry Wives of Windsor and The What D'ye Call It (Public Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: As17551101

Event Comment: [W+Winston MS 8 lists the mainpiece as All for Love. But Love for Love appears in the Public Advertiser and in Rich's Register.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returnd from Paris

Dance: As17551101

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: As17551106, but Shore-Ross (Playbill); Havard (Public Advertiser); Catesby-Mozeen; Alicia-Miss Haughton.

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Cast
Role: Peter Actor: Ackman

Dance: IV: New Dance-

Song: Anniversary Ode in Commemoration of Shakespeare, as17560401

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: [The Mock Orators] The Public Advertiser list Mock Orators as the afterpiece, but gives cast for Mock Doctor: Doctor-Yates; Leander-Jefferson; Charlotte-Miss Minors; Jasper-Clough; Dorcas-Mrs Macklin.
Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales (Public Advertiser). Prince of Wales & 6 ye Family (Cross). Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Dance: TThe Press Gang, as17561013

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With proper Dances and Decorations (Public Advertiser). Miss Bricklayer sung Indiff. (Cross). Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of the Chinese Mandarin (Public Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Dance: As17561216

Event Comment: This Night (tho' not so mentioned) was for Dr Hawksworth, who alter'd the play (he is just made a Dr of Law) (Cross). Last time of performing till the Holidays (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: Both pieces By Command of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales (Public Advertiser). [Present] Prince of Wales & 7 More (Cross). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Event Comment: MMr Vernon play'd his Wife's part & was well receiv'd (Cross). [The Public Advertiser, however, carried her name in the play notice.] Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eliza

Afterpiece Title: Lilliput

Event Comment: MMr Austin did Aboan (Cross). Third time of his appearing on this stage (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Event Comment: Afterpiece alter'd from Beaumont & Fletcher (Cross) being a sequel to Catherine and Petruchio; or, The Taming of the Shrew (Public Advertiser). Benefit for Pritchard. Tickets of Pritchard in Great Queen St.; Lincoln's Inn Fields; and at Pritchard's Warehouse in Tavistock St. [The Larpent MS 133 lists the characters: Sophocles, Tranio, Maria, Bianca, Jaques, Petruchio, Petronius, Pedro, Citizens, Countrymen, Doctor, Apothecary, 1st Watch, 2nd Watch.] Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Creusa

Afterpiece Title: The Tamer Tamd

Song: Beard

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By particular Desire. Walker, Miss Barton, Miss Rousillet, Mrs Preston Tickets (Cross). Tickets delivered for the Double Dealer will be taken (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Creusa

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Cast
Role: Lovell Actor: Ackman

Afterpiece Title: Toy Shop The Author

Performance Comment: [As17570509, for Toyshop, but the The Public Advertiser lists the The Author, for which see17570413] .
Cast
Role: First Gentleman Actor: Ackman
Event Comment: [The Account Book lists Orpheus and Eurydice as afterpiece, but The Public Advertiser lists Lethe.] Receipts: #51 18s. 6d. (Account Book.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: JJovial Coopers, as17571107

Event Comment: By Command. Receipts: #194 19s. 6d. Present His Majesty. Gave Yeomen of the Guards 10s. 6d. (Account Book). Public Advertiser: We hear His Majesty will be at Covent Garden this night to see the Comedy of She Wou'd and She Wou'd not, with the Duke and No Duke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: Guerin, Mlle Capdeville

Event Comment: Benefit for a Widow in Distress, with Four Children (Public Advertiser). Benefit for Mrs Calvert. Receipts: #57 7s. Income from tickets #112 13s. (boxes 113; pit 318; gallery 361). Charges #84 (Account Book). [The Account Book shows a profit again of #31 9s. 6d.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressd Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: JJovial Coopers, as17571107

Event Comment: CColly Cibber dy'd (Cross). Afterpiece: By Desire. On Monday Next will be publish'd as 1s. Isabella, or the Fatal Marriage. A Play alter'd from Southern, as it is now performing at Drury Lane (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: II: The Market, as17571126

Event Comment: Receipts: #50 2s. 6d. (Account Book). [The Public Advertiser contains the customary notice for the annual feast of the Shakespeare Society, to be at the Shakespeare's Head Tavern on 15 Feb. Signed E.B. Secretary.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: As17571217

Ballet: TThe Judgment of Paris. As17571217

Event Comment: 'TTis reported that her Royal Highness the Princess Carolina is dangerously indisposed (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Ballet: II: The Prussian Camp. As17571223

Event Comment: Last Night the Princess Carolina dy'd & this Morning about 8 we receiv'd an order from the Chamberlain not to play 'till farther orders,--we obey'd & order ye Bills posted for this Night, to be pull'd down (Cross). [The Fatal Marriage and The Male Coquette had been scheduled.] Yesterday about 11 o'clock died at her Apartments in St James's Palace, Princess Caroline Elizabeth, 3rd daughter of our most Gracious Sovereign. Her Royal Highness was in her 45th year of her age, being born on the 10th of June 1713, and has been in a bad state of health for several years past. Her burial, it is said, is by her own Desire to be very private (Public Advertiser)

Performances

Event Comment: To be Lett. Elegantly Furnish'd, the House of the Late Colley Cibber, Esq: in Berkley Square, the Corner of Bruton Street (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #106 3s. Gave Porters of the several Inns, #3 14s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Event Comment: dvertised in Public Advertiser, 19 Jan., but not 23 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Event Comment: A pasticcio, with libretto by G. A. Migliavacca; music by F. G. Bertoni, Handel, Davide Perez (Deutsch, Handel, p. 793). A New Opera, with new Decorations and Dances. It will be performed Tuesday and Zenobia on Saturdays (Public Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Solimano

Dance: Signora Forti, Signora Bonomi, Grimaldi, Signora Lescot

Event Comment: A New Opera. Ths Musick newly composed by Sig Cocchi. New Clothes, Decorations, and Dances. [On Monday 13 March Sga Frasi published in the Public Advertiser thanks for those who supported her benefit (6 March) and apologized for deficiencies in the performances. Some of the principals were engaged in the run of the new tragedy [The Prophetess? Mariamne?] whose run she could not anticipate.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Issipile