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We found 364 matches on Performance Comments, 78 matches on Author, 66 matches on Performance Title, 53 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: On this day and on Friday the 20th the Duke's players gave The Impertinents; or, The Sullen Lovers or Sir Salomon. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 29) lists these as the two plays presented by the Duke's Company, but no contemporary statement indicates for certain which play was given on each day. The Journal of Sir Richard Bulstrode: Yesterday [19] at five of ye clocke, the Court were entertained with a comedy acted by the Duke's player (The Bulstrode Papers, 1879, I, 139). Saturday 28 May 1670: The absence of the court which continues at Dover till Wensday next makes us very barren of news. There is the greatest gallantry and mirth imaginable. The Dukes players have beene there all the time past came up yesterday and the kings goe downe this day (Aston Papers, Vol. XVI, Add. Mss. 36916, folio 182)

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Event Comment: Betterton's Company. The date of the first performance is not certain, but the evidence points to this day as a strong Possibility. Downes, Roscius Anglicanus (p. 44) states that it was given thirteen days consecutively, and John Coke (see 16 March 1696@7) states that it was acted "till Saturday" (16 March 1696@7). If the tragedy was acted on Wednesdays but not Fridays, as was often the practice in Lent, and if the farce alluded to for Saturday, 16 March 1696@7, comprised the entire program, this day was probably the premiere. The following sequence of performances is based on these premises. Downes, Roscius Anglicanus, p. 44: The Mourning Bride...had such Success, that it continu'd Acting Uninterrupted 13 Days together. Gildon, English Dramatick Poets, p. 23: This Play had the greatest Success, not only of all Mr Congreve's, but indeed of all the Plays that ever I can remember on the English Stage, excepting some of the incomparable Otway's. Aston, A Brief Supplement (in Cibber, Apology, II, 302): His [Betterton's] Favourite, Mrs Barry, claims the next in Estimation. They were both never better pleas'd, than in Playing together.--Mrs Barry outshin'd Mrs Bracegirdle in the Character of Zara in the Mourning Bride, altho' Mr Congreve design'd Almeria for that Favour

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Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

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Mainpiece Title: The Whole Spanish Fryar

Performance Comment: Tony Aston, Tony Aston's/family.

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Mainpiece Title: Medley

Performance Comment: Tony Aston.

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Mainpiece Title: Medley

Performance Comment: Tony Aston.

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Mainpiece Title: Medley

Performance Comment: Tony Aston.

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Mainpiece Title: Medley

Performance Comment: Tony Aston.

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Mainpiece Title: Phiz Oratory

Performance Comment: Tony Aston.

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Mainpiece Title: Phiz Oratory

Performance Comment: Tony Aston.
Event Comment: At Aston-Paget Booth, at the Horns-Inn in Pye-Corner. An entire New, Comick, Satyrical and Instructive Droll Opera. Noon to 10 p.m. N.B. Those that don't Laugh, Pay Nothing

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Mainpiece Title: The Patriot Merchant (the Lover Of His Country); Or, The Cheats Of The Times

Entertainment: 1.1. A Mock Song in Praise of Tea and Bread and Butter-; 2. The Servants' Revel-; 3. Ursula the Cook Maid's Rapture-; 4. Newgate and Tyburn-

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Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Wife

Performance Comment: Parts by Ryan, Quin, Neal, Chapman, Aston, Salway, Morgan, Hall, Mrs Younger, Mrs Buchanan, Miss Binks, Miss Norsa, Mrs Stevens, Mrs Younger, Mrs Lacy, Mrs Forrester .

Dance: By Maker and Mlle Salle

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Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Afterpiece Title: See If You Like It; or, 'Tis All a Mistake

Performance Comment: Parts by Stoppelaer, Chapman, Aston, Mullart, Ridout, James, Miss Norsa, Miss Binks .

Dance: Tambourine by Glover and Miss Rogers. Scot's Dance, as17340920

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Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: A School for Women

Performance Comment: Parts by Hippisley, Mullart, Hale, Neale, Aston, James, Miss Norsa, Mrs Martin .

Dance: La Coquette Francoise by Lally, S. Lally, Mlle Salle. Scot's Dance, as17350315

Song: By Leveridge and Mrs Wright

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Mainpiece Title: Alzira; Or, The Americans

Performance Comment: Parts by Giffard, Johnson, Wright, Havard, Aston, Mrs Giffard; but edition of 1736 lists: Don Carlos-Wright; Don Alvarez-Giffard; Zamor-Johnson; Ezmont-Havard; Alzira-Mrs Giffard. Prologue spoken by Giffard. Epilogue spoken by Mrs Giffard .

Dance: By Vallois and Mrs Bullock

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Mainpiece Title: Oratory

Performance Comment: Tony Aston.

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Mainpiece Title: Oratory

Performance Comment: Tony Aston.
Event Comment: At the Temple Punch House, Tony Aston, the oldest approv'd Actor in the three Kingdoms, being deni'd his bread in both Theatres, this Day exhibits his learned comic demonstrative Oratory on the Face, with English, Irish, Scotch, and Negroe Songs, in proper habits, Prologue and Epilogue, and all his own Pasquin Invention. 6 p.m. 1s. He is under Misfortunes, and desires the Company of the Ingenious and Humorous. [Repeated 29, 31 Dec.; and with some changes in wording on 2, 5, 9, 25 Jan., 6, 15 Feb. 1744.

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Event Comment: At the Temple Punch House, by Inner Temple Gate Tony Aston exhibits a dialogue between Abigail and Vellum, Dorinda and Scrub, Hob and Mary...Prologue, Epilogue, and Pasquin.--Theatrical Clippings, Folger Library

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Event Comment: TTony Aston's program as 23 Feb., but add Jerry Blackacre and Widow. At the Trumpet in Sheer Lane, Temple Bar. [Repeated 2, 7, 12, 19, 26, 29 March.

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Event Comment: TTony Aston's program as 26 Feb., but Widow Motteux as Widow as in scene from Plain Dealer. Benefit Widow Motteaux

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