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2550 results for: Keyword - Diary of Joseph Farington
We found 1393 matches on Event Comments, 961 matches on Author, 216 matches on Performance Comments, 25 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1826
31 August 1680 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

Performance Comment: The Diary of Robert Hooke: At Barthemy fair saw fellow walk on Stilts 12 foot high.

1827
23 September 1680 @ John Evelyn's home

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: Came to my house some German strangers, & Signor Pietro Reggio a famous Musitian, who had ben long in Sweden in Queene Christina s Court: he sung admirably to a Guittar & has a perfect good tenor & base: & had set to Italian composure, many of Abraham Cowleys Pieces which shew'd extremely well

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

1828
06 July 1682 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: BM Egerton 1628, Diary of Edward Southwell: Saw the Morocco Ambassador at the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Omment

1829
24 January 1684 @ On the River Thames

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: [On the frozen Thames] There was likewise Bullbaiting, Horse & Coach races, Pupet-plays & interludes...so as it seem'd to be a bacchanalia, Triumph or Carnoval on the Water

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1830
25 July 1684 @ Lord Falkland's residence

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: I din'd at my Lord Falklands, Tressurer of the Navy, where after dinner we had rare Musique, there being amongst others Signor Pietro Reggio and Signor Jo. Battist bothe famous, the one for his Voice, & the other his playing on the Harpichord, few if any in Europe exceeding him

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

1831
29 October 1684 @ The City, London

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: I carried my Lord Clarendon through the Citty amidst all the Squibbs & barbarous bacchanalia of the Lord-Majors shew

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Londons Royal Triumph For The Citys Loyal Magistrate In An Exact Description Of Several Scenes And Pageants Adorned With Many Magnificent Representations

1832
27 January 1685 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 68: The King & Queene. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350. See also Evelyn's Diary for some private concerts at this time

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Disappointment

1833
10 October 1685 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Samuel Pepys to Robert Southwell, 10 Oct. 1685: To night wee have had a mighty Musique--Entertainment at court for the welcoming home the King and Queen. Wherein the fraequent Returnes of the Words, Arms, Beauty, Triumph, Love, Progeny Peace, Dominion, Glory, &c. had apparently cost our Poet-Prophet more paine to finde Rhimes then Reasons (R. G. Howard, Letters and the Second Diary of Samuel Pepys [London, 1932], p. 171. [The entertainment for this occasion seems not to have survived.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

1834
06 May 1686 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 125: The King & Queene & a Box for ye Maydes of honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351. General Patrick Gordon, 6 May 1686: I saw the Scots Batallion exercized in the Hide Park before the King and Queen, and saw the comedy, Rehearsal, acted (Passages from the Diary of General Patrick Gordon of Auckleuchbies [Aberdeen, 1859], p. 133)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

1835
29 October 1686 @ The City, London

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: was a Triumphant shew of the Lord Major, both by land & water with much solemnity, when yet his power was so deminish'd, by the losse of their former charter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Londons Yearly Jubilee Performed On Friday October Xxix

1836
14 December 1686 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. Lord Ashburnham's Diary: I waited on my Mother home and afterwards I went into the play (the Maiden Queen) There was a great deale of company, I came home before 8 at night, I am now not charm'd with Playes &c. (Ashburnham MS 932, East Sussex County Record Office, County Hall, Lewes, Sussex; I owe this entry and the subsequent ones from this MS to the kindness of Professor George Hilton Jones, Kansas State University). This is an unusual example of the revival of a play at the public theatre the day before its presentation at court

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love Or The Maiden Queen

1837
22 December 1686 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company, Lord Ashburnham's Diary: I went to visit Ld Sussex, and Mr Campion, neither of them at home, I went into the Play (the Wanton Wife) [Ashburnham MS 932; see 14 Dec. 1686]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow Or The Wanton Wife

1838
03 January 1687 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. Lord Ashburnham's Diary: I went to the Play (the Rehearsal) where there was a great deal of company (Ashburnham MS 932; see 14 Dec. 1686). The play was reprinted in 1687. Cibber, Apology (ed. Lowe, I, 167): People were so fond of seeing her [Mrs Mountfort] a Man, that when the Part of Bays in the Rehearsal had for some time lain dormant, she was desired to take it up, which I have seen her act with all the true coxcombly Spirit and Humour that the Sufficiency of the Character required

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

1839
05 January 1687 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: I was to heare the Musique of the Italians in the new chapel, now first of all opened at White-hall publiquely for the Popish Service

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

1840
06 January 1687 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. Lord Ashburnham's Diary: I went to the Play (a King and no King) and came home in good time a very rayny night (Ashburnham MS 932; see 14 Dec. 1686)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A King And No King

1841
10 January 1687 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. Lord Ashburnham's Diary: I came home at 8 of ye Clock after having look'd in at the Play, the Spanish Curate (Ashburnham MS 932; see 14 Dec. 1686)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Curate

1842
11 January 1687 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. Lord Ashburnham's Diary: I went to the play (Sr Courtly Nice) there was a great deal of company (Ashburnham MS 932; see 14 Dec. 1686)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice Or It Cannot Be

1843
28 January 1687 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. Lord Ashburnham's Diary: In the afternoon came Sr John Katchpole to see me, afterwards I went to the Play (The Maids Tragedy) [Ashburnham MS 932; see 14 Dec. 1686]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maids Tragedy

1844
30 January 1687 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: I heard the famous Cifeccio (Eunuch) [Giovanni Francesco Grossi, called Siface] sing, in the new popish chapell this afternoone, which was indeede very rare, & with greate skill: he came over from Rome, esteemed one of the best Voices in Italy, much crowding, little devotion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

1845
01 February 1687 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. Lord Ashburnham's Diary: I went to the Play, (The Committee) [Ashburnham MS 932; see 14 Dec. 1686]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

1846
19 April 1687 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: For additional comment upon the Italian singer called Ciface, see Evelyn, Diary, 19 April 1687

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1847
13 September 1692 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: Luttrell, A Brief Relation, II, 565, 15 Sept. 1692: Last Tuesday the lord mayor sent his officersito cry downe the faire, the actors of the drolls having presumed to act the earthquake in Jamaica with scenes, and to make a droll of it. Evelyn, Diary, 15 Sept. 1692: This, of Jamaica, being prophanely & Ludicrously represented in a peppet play or some such lewd pass-time in the Faire at Southwarke, caused the Queene to put-downe & abolish that idle & vicious mock-shew

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1848
11 January 1694 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary, 11 Jan. 1693@4: Sup'd at Mr Ed Sheldons where was Mr Dryden the Poet, who now intending to Write no more Plays (intent upon the Translation of Virgil) read to us his Prologue & Epilogue to his last Valedictory Play, now shortly to be Acted

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1849
22 January 1697 @ Drury Lane Theatre and Dorset Garden Theatre and Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: From 16 Jan. 1696@7 to 18 May 1702 James Brydges, afterwards first Duke of Chandos, kept a diary in which he recorded, among other events, his attendance at the theatre. Unfortunately, his first entry dealing with the playhouses, like many other similar entries, does not name the play he saw; on 22 Jan. 1696@7 he wrote: my Uncle Warwick Lake? carried me to ye Playhouse. [For an account of his theatrical entries, see Lucyle Hook, James Brydges Drops in at the Theatre, Huntington Library Bulletin, VIII (1945), 306-11.

Performances

1850
04 February 1697 @ Drury Lane Theatre and Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: James Brydges, Diary: I went to ye playhouse in Covent Garden, & after that to ye playhouse in Lincolns inn fields (Huntington MS St 26)

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