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Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Performance Comment: Alberto-Murray; Count Valentia-Betterton; Marquis Almanza-Whitfield; Duke Mercia-Davenport; Seville-Whitmore; Granada-Atkins; Marchioness Merida-Mrs Maddocks; Amanthis-Miss Murray.
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Role: Duke Mercia Actor: Davenport

Afterpiece Title: The Dramatist

Afterpiece Title: The Mouth of the Nile

Dance: In 1st piece: Hornpipe-Cuerton; End 2nd piece: The Minuet de la Cour, a Favorite Scotch Pas Deux-Klanert, Mrs Watts

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Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Dance: As17391010

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Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Dance: As17391010

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Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Dance: As17391010

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Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Dance: I: Grand Ballet-Mlle Roland the Elder, Villeneuve, Desse, Richardson, Delagarde, Mrs Rogers, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Ozanne, Mrs Villeneuve; V: Tambourine Dance called La Badinage de Provence-Poitier, Mlle Roland

Ballet: III: The Reprizal; or, Titt for Tatt. Miller-Poitier; His Wife-Mlle Roland the Elder; Coquette-Miss Oates

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Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Dance: As17391015

Ballet: The Reprizal. As17391015

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Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Dance: As17391015

Ballet: The Reprizal. As17391015

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Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Dance: As17391015

Ballet: The Reprizal. As17391015

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Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Dance: As17391015

Ballet: The Reprizal. As17391015

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Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer or Harlequin Doctor Faustus

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Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Dance: I: Faithful Lovers-Desse, Miss Oates; II: Richardson, Miss Rogers; III: Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; IV: Je ne scay quoi-Villeneuve, Richardson, Miss Oates; V: Kilkenny-Glover, the Younger Mlle Roland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Dance: II: French Peasants-Poitier, Mlle Roland the Elder; III: Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; IV: Le Badinage de Provence-Poitier, Mlle Roland the Elder

Song: I: The Parting Lovers-Laguerre, Salway, Mrs Lampe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Dance: As17391226; Also IV: Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates

Song: V: Parting Lovers-Laguerre, Salway, Mrs Lampe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Ballet: GGrand Dance in Momus. As17400110

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rum Duke And The Queer Duke

Cast
Role: Rum Duke Actor: Mullart
Role: Queer Duke Actor: Rosco

Afterpiece Title: The Millers Holiday or Love in a Furz Bush

Dance: St.Luce, others

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: IV: Drunken Peasant (Peasant-$Miles; Clown-$Bennet)-; V: The Villagers, as17560315

Song: II: School of Anacreon-a Gentleman who never appeared on any stage; V: A Cantata-the same Gentleman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: New Dance call'd Les% Savoyards-Jolly, Dumay, Cointe

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This play is on the L. C. list 5@139, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346. Gervase Jaquis to the Earl of Huntington, 7 May: Upon monday last the Duchesse of Newcastl's play was Acted in the theater in Lincolns Inne field the King and the Grandees of the Court being present and soe was her grace and the Duke her husband (Hastings MS., Ha 7657, Huntington Library)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lovers

Related Works
Related Work: The Humorous Lovers Author(s): William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 216. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 348. Nell Gwyn also attended this performance; see VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 406. There is no indication as to whether this is the premiere; the play was not licensed for publication until 27 Nov. 1676. Preface to Settle's Ibrahim (licensed 4 May 1676): Having a Play, call'd the Triumphant Widow, given him [Thomas Shadwell] to bring into the Duke's Playhouse, he spitefully foists in a Scene of his own into the Play, and makes a silly Heroick Poet in it, speak the very words he had heard me say, and made reflexions on some of the very Lines he had so senselessly prated on before in his Notes [to The Empress of Morocco]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumphant Widow Or The Medley Of Humours

Related Works
Related Work: The Triumphant Widow; or, The Medley of Humours Author(s): William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle
Event Comment: Acted there but once. By Authority. Tickets deliver'd out by Miss Barton which could not get in on Thursday last, will be admitted this Night. [An Epistle from Mr Theophilus Cibber, to David Garrick, Esq. London: 1755, dated Nov. 20, 1755: When Th. Cibber returned from Guilford last July, he found a discharge from Covent Garden (p.5) He got a license from the Duke of Grafton to open Little Haymarket (p. 6). He began and acted ten nights in three weeks, with some success, but when Drury Lane opened, Th. Cibber was ordered to stop (p. 7). He then petitioned the Duke of Grafton to have The Haymarket for two or three times weekly for the rest of the season. He hoped that the Little Haymarket might be a nursery for young performers, as well as for new pieces (p. 24). See dl 24 Nov.

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Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: PPierrots Dance-Settree, Walker, Sga Fiorentina; Hornpipe-a small jolly Tar, seven years old; La Dance de Village-Settree, Sga Fiorentina

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Sir W. Pen, my wife and I to the Theatre, and there saw The Country Captain, the first time it hath been acted this twenty-five years, a play of my Lord Newcastle's, but so silly a play as in all my life I never saw, and the first that ever I was weary of in my life. Herbert (Dramatic Records, p. 118) lists Love's Mistress for this date for Vere St., but the item is out of the normal order of the entries. To move it to 26 Oct. 1662 would place it on a Sunday. The play had been given previously (2 March 1661, 11 March 1661, 25 March 1661) by both the Duke's Company and King's Company. Possibly Herbert entered it on the wrong day. On Herbert's list, following Love's Mistress, are two plays, The Contented Collinell [Brenoralt] and Love at First Sight, each listed without a date. The former, under the title Brenoralt, had been acted at Vere St. on 23 July 1661; the second was soon to be acted there on 29 Nov. 1661

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Captain

Related Works
Related Work: The Country Captain Author(s): William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dancing Master

Performance Comment: . [The Variety?, b William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle?] .
Related Works
Related Work: The Dancing Master Author(s): William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle
Related Work: The French Dancing Master Author(s): William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The French Dancing Master

Performance Comment: [The Variety? by William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle.] Dancing Master-Lacy?. See16620521.
Related Works
Related Work: The French Dancing Master Author(s): William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle
Related Work: The Dancing Master Author(s): William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@139, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346. The play, licensed on 27 Nov. 1667, was not printed until 1667. There is no certainty that this is the premiere, but it may well have been, as Pepys saw it on 30 March and on 11 April suggested that it had recently had its first showing: [The Duchess of Newcastle] was the other day at her own play, The Humourous Lovers; the most ridiculous thing that ever was wrote, but yet she and her Lord mightily pleased with it; and she, at the end, made her respects to the players from her box, and did give them thanks

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humourous Lovers

Related Works
Related Work: The Humourous Lovers Author(s): William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: With my wife's knowledge and leave did by coach go see the silly play of my Lady Newcastle's, called The Humourous Lovers; the most silly thing tiat ever come upon a stage. I was sick to see it, but yet would would not but have seen it, that I might the better understand her. Here I spied Knipp and Betty Hall?, of the King's house, and sent Knipp oranges

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humourous Lovers

Related Works
Related Work: The Humourous Lovers Author(s): William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle