Event Comment: As it was alter'd from Shakespear, by Sir William D'Avenant and Mr Dryden. With all the Songs, Dances, and other Decorations proper to the Play

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As it was alter'd from Shakespear by Sir William D'Avenant and Mr Dryden. With all the Songs, Dances, and other Decorations proper to the Play. At Common Prices

Event Comment: As it was alter'd from Shakespear by Sir William D'Avenant and Mr Dryden. With all the Songs, Dances, and other Decorations proper to the Play

Event Comment: As it was altered from Shakespear by Sir William D'Avenant and Mr Dryden. With all the Songs, Dances, and other Decorations proper to the Play. [The Rural Modes intended, but deferred by the indisposition of a player.

Event Comment: As it was alter'd from Shakespear by Sir William D'Avenant and Mr Dryden. With all the Songs, Dances, and other Decorations proper to the Play

Event Comment: Alter'd from Shakespear by Sir Wm. Davenant and Mr Dryden. With Songs, Machines, and other Decorations proper to the Play

Event Comment: Alter'd from Shakespear by Sir Wm. Davenant and Mr Dryden. With all the Original Songs and Dances, Serious and Comic, Scenes, Machines, Habits, Flyings, Sinkings, and other Decorations proper to the Play

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of the Farce [who plays Manly by Command]. By Command of His Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Dryden. Afterpiece: Taken from Shakespear's Taming of the Shrew

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Never acted there before. With all the decorations proper to the play. By Command of their Royal Highnesses, the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr Page, Housekeeper, at the stage door of the theatre. [This last announcement becomes a customary note on subsequent bills.

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted there before. New Decorations incident to the play (General Advertiser). Advanc'd towards purchasing Mr Smollet's copy of Alceste #100 (Account Book). Handel remov'd to Covent Garden, and entered into some engagements with Rich, the particulars of which are not known, save that in discharge of a debt that he had contracted with him in consequence thereof, he some years after set to music an English opera entitled Alceste, written by Dr Smollet, and for which Rich was at great expense in a set of scenes painted by Servandoni; but it was never performed (Hawkins, General History of Music, V, 324). [For additional information on Alceste, see Deutsch, Handel, pp. 679-81. See also cg 14 Feb. 1749.] Receipts: #155 18s. 6d

Event Comment: Benefit for Lee and Miss Slack. Comedy never performed, Alteration of Wycherley's play into two acts by Lee (Genest, V, 69). Tickets and places to be had of Lee at LaGrange's Medicinal Warehouse, in New St., Covent Garden; of Miss Slack, at Mr Bates', Charles St., Covent Garden; and at Stage door

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. K. & Q. Richard-Mr Garrick (Cross Diary). Neville MS Diary: Garrick played Richard III. In attempting to get into the Pit was forced into the 2 shilling gallery Passage & after being squeezed abominably for an hour got into the street. Should not have received much pleasure if I had got in, as that calf headed son of a whore, George etc. was there

Event Comment: [The Young Gentleman who played Posthumus is identified by Kemble and Winston as Mr Warboys.] Gave Duke of Cumberland's Footmen #2 2s. (Account Book). [Town and Country Magazine (quoting Theatre No XIII) remarked on Warboys acting: "The success he met with will probably deter him from following the profession of the stage...not happy either in person or in physiognamy."] Receipts: #250 6s

Event Comment: Benefit for Percey, Wood and Robinson. Tickets deliver'd by Mr Hodges, and for Thursday the 25th will be taken. The Play for the Theatrical Fund is oblig'd to be deferr'd till Thursday next the 25th Inst. Paid extra Flute & Hautboy 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #189 12s. 6d. Charges: #84. Profits to beneficiaries: #105 12s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With new Scenery, Dresses and Decorations. [This was the version, altered probably by Joseph George Holman, in which he appeared in Dublin on 29 July 1794, on which occasion the playbill reads, "Dressed in the Habits of the Times, and with other Alterations, adopted in its Representations 19 [recte 11] Nights last Winter, at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden." It further states that the part of Ophelia would be performed "without the Airs, and with a considerable Restoration of the Text." No record of what these alterations consisted of has come to light. In III.iv Hamlet's father was represented by a life-sized portrait that hung over the chimney, and the Queen wore a large miniature of Claudius on her arm as a bracelet (London Chronicle, 10 Oct.). The words of the Dirge are printed in European Magazine, Nov. 1793, p. 393; they are stanza X of Shakespeare's Passionate Pilgrim. Miss Poole had appeared as a singer at king's and at Vauxhall in 1787 and at the cg oratories in 1791.] Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years [and in place of The Prisoner at Large, advertised on playbill of 8 Oct.]. Receipts: #332 4s. (330.3; 2.1)

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Celotti. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. At 7 p.m