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Event Comment: By Permission. By Particular Desire of the Antient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons. Benefit for L'Estrange, and Fearon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Performance Comment: Trappolin-Palmer (first time in that character); Lavinio-L'Estrange; Mago-Fearon; Brunetto-R. Palmer; Alberto-Chaplin; Barberino-Griffith; Officer-Stevens; Puritan-Parsons; Duchess-Miss Platt; Prudentia-Miss Essex; Flammetta-Mrs Gardner.
Cast
Role: Duchess Actor: Miss Platt

Entertainment: End Opera: The Cries of London-Shuter

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: My wife and I to the Duke of York's house, to see The Duchesse of Malfy, a sorry play, and sat with little pleasure, for fear of my wife's seeing me look about

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duchess Of Malfi

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. It is not certain that this play was revived at this time, but Tom Essence, which was probably acted toward the end of August or in early September (it was licensed 4 Nov. 1676) contains a scene in "Malfey's Chamber," suggesting that a revival of The Duchess of Malfi had occurred not long before the production of Tom Essence. On the other hand, it should be noted that the cast in the edition of 1678 contains names which point to a much earlier production; for example, Cademan probably acted little after his injury in the summer of 1673 and Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 35) states that Cogan and Price died ca. 1673-74

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duchess Of Malfy

Performance Comment: [An edition of 1678 has a cast partially pertaining to this time (see also 31 Jan. 1672): Ferdinand-$Harris; Cardinal-$Young; Antonio-$Smith; Delio-$Midburn; Bosola-$Betterton; Castruchio-$Richards; Sylvio-$Cademan probably not acting now]; Pescara-$Norris; Malateste-$Price (not living in 1676); Roderigo-$Cogun (not living in 1676); Grisolan-$Percival; Dutchess of Malfey-$Mrs Betterton; Cariola-$Mrs Norris; Old Lady-$Mrs Osborn; Julia-$Mrs Shadwell.
Cast
Role: Ferdinand Actor: Harris
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: Benefit Widow and 7 Children of Mr Charles Powel, late Servant to his Majesty and his late Highness the Duke of Gloucester. At the desire of several Persons of Quality. At 8 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music, Composed by the late Famous Mr Henry Purcell for the York-shire Feast-

Event Comment: Benefit for Henderson. Mainpiece: Written by Congreve; and now carefully revised and corrected, by expunging the exceptionable passages. [The playbill assigns Lord Touchwood to Clarke, but on the Kemble playbill his name is deleted; the substitute name has been cut by the binder.] Afterpiece: Contracted into 3 acts. With a Grand Dance, and a Reinforcement of Bayes's Troops [for which, and for a list of the other parts, see DL, 13 Dec. 1777. In the Dancing Banti is announced as making his 5th appearance (see 25 Feb., 5 Mar.)]. Public Advertiser, 2 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Henderson, Buckingham-street, York Buildings. Receipts: #238 9s. 6d. (144/9/6; tickets: 94/0/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Rehearsal

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

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17811219

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Ward. Morning Herald, 3 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Ward, No. 6, York-street, Covent-garden. Receipts: #479 15s. 6d. (106.9.0; 48.1.0; 5.15.0; tickets: 319.10.6) (charge: #158 6s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Cast
Role: Blandish Actor: Whitfield
Role: Mrs Blandish Actor: Mrs Ward.
Related Works
Related Work: The Heiress Author(s): William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

Cast
Role: Faulkland Actor: Kemble

Dance: End: a Dance-

Event Comment: The United Company. Writing on 3 Jan. 1692@3, Anthony Wood states: A new comedie composed by Mr Tate, poet laureat, was acted before their majesties, M. 2 Jan. (Andrew Clark, The Life and Times of Anthony Wood [Oxford, 1894], III, 413). Since no new play by Tate is known to have been acted at this time, and since A Duke and No Duke was reprinted in 1693 (Term Catalogues, May 1693), and acted several times (Gentleman's Journal, January 1692@2, issued in March):A Duke and no Duke being often acted now, and scarce, is reprinted, with the addition of a curious Preface, by our Laureat, concerning Farce. [Possibly Wood was mistaken in thinking that A Duke and no Duke was a new play. It seems the one most likely to fit the circumstances of this period.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Duke And No Duke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rum Duke And The Queer Duke; Or, A Medley Of Mirth And Sorrow

Performance Comment: Rum Duke-Mullart; Queer Duke-Rosco; other parts-Jones, Stoppelaer, Dove, Mrs Mullart, Mrs Forrester, Mrs Britton, others from the Haymarket.
Cast
Role: Rum Duke Actor: Mullart
Role: Queer Duke Actor: Rosco

Afterpiece Title: Punch's Oratory; or, The Pleasures of the Town: Containing several diverting Passages,

Performance Comment: ..a very elegant and learned Dispute between Punch and another great Orator: Punch's Family Lectures; or, Joan's Chimes on her Tongue to some Tune. Punch-Reynolds; Joan-Mrs Egleton; from lif; Orator-Jones; Opera-Stoppelaer; Goddess of Nonsense-Mrs Mullart; Mrs Novel-Mrs Nokes.

Dance: St.Luce

Event Comment: Receipts: #132 0s. 6d. Paid Kemp #9 12s.; Meares #1 10s.; Mr Day (turner) #12 1s.; Pattinson (tallow chandler) three bills to 11 Feb., #54 8s. 8d. Was at Covent Garden Gallery with Sir Harriott to see the Jovial Crew and Duke and No Duke. I met Legyt, Piggot, Bettenson there & got home by 10 (Hailey, Brietzcke Diary, Vol. 197, p. 72)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Cast
Role: Randal Actor: Dunstall

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Perry

Dance: Dances incident to the Opera. Likewise, a Comic Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville [probably The Plowman]

Event Comment: Did I tell you that the Archbishop tried to hinder the Minor from being played at Drury Lane? For once the Duke of Devonshire was firm, and would only let him correct some passages, & even of those the Duke has restored some. One that the Prelate effaced was 'You snub-nosed son of a bitch.' Foote says he will take out a license to preach Sam Cant against Tom Cant. (Walpole to Montagu, 24 Nov.). [See also Duke of Devonshire's statement to Garrick concerning the alteration of some lines, Private Correspondence, ed. Boaden, I, 120. See Gentlemen's Magazine, p. 502: Extracts from Christian and Critical remarks on a droll or interlude, call'd the Minor, said to be acted by authority; and Mr Foote's answer. Ten columns of alternate attack and justification.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Cast
Role: Sir Geo Wealthy Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: I: The Colliers, as17601024; II: The Mad Doctor, as17601014

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted in 10 years. With Proper Decorations. [See 28 May 1742.] Paid Tallow Chandler #19 6s. 5d.; Paid Mr Beard on order of Lacy #10 10s.; Paid to Supers for practice of Rehearsal 4s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #100 (Cross); #105 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke; or, The Power of Magick

Performance Comment: Trappolin-Woodward; Duke Lavinio-Palmer; Prince Brunetto-King; Alberto-Usher; Mago-Winstone; First Woman-Miss Pitt; Second Woman-Mrs Yates; Puritan-Shuter; Isabella-Mrs Bennet; Prudentia-Miss Murgetroyd; Flametta-Miss Cole; Eo-Master Ward; Meo-Master Wills; Areo-Master Barnet; the Infernals . the Infernals .
Cast
Role: Duke Lavinio Actor: Palmer

Dance: Sailor's Hornpipe-Mathews; Comic Dance-Mathews, Mrs Addison

Event Comment: [T+The Anatomist, as 10 Sept., instead of A Duke and no Duke, according to the General Advertiser.] Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: Strictland Actor: Berry
Role: Mrs Strictland Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Yates

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Event Comment: Benebit for Marten, Stoppelaer, and Desse

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Cast
Role: Brumpton Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and No Duke

Performance Comment: See17560429 but only Duke-Cushing; Trappolin-Shuter.

Dance: III: Hornpipe-LeCointe; V: A new Pantomime Dance between Harlequin and Pierrot Harlequin-Mr Jolly, Pierrot Dumay

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 Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: Guerin, Mlle Capdeville

Event Comment: Receipts: #122 15s. 6d. Paid Meares (tailor) #4 1s. 4d.; Kemp for 6 nights #9 12s.; Monck for 6 days #1 10s.; Sarjant for his salary to Xmas '59, #5; Music in Beggar's Opera 2 nights

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Player Actor: Anderson
Role: Fairbank Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Performance Comment: As17600104, but Duke-Perry.
Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Perry.

Dance: As17600108, but Comic Dance [probably The Plowman]-Poitier, Mlle Capdeville

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Vernon, who humbly hopes her friends will excuse the change of the farce, as it proceeds from an unforeseen Accident, the indisposition of Mr Mattocks. [She had scheduled Thomas and Sally.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Player Actor: Anderson.

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Performance Comment: As17610921, but Duke-Perry.
Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Perry.

Dance: II: The Taylors, as17620107

Song: I: (By Particular Desire) a Hunting Song in Apollo and Daphne-Mrs Vernon in the character of Diana

Event Comment: NNeville MS Diary: Went to ye Pit to see ye Beggar's Opera-oblig'd to stand till ye play was over-Read some parts of ye Opera which I borrowed at Davies's, before it began and between the acts. Barry is a good Macheath, but most persons who have seen him when young observe that he has not ye activity and fire he then had. He sings tolerably as does Mrs Dancer; but both are greatest in ye acting part. Mrs D. is ye best Polly I ever saw, having that sensibility which your mere singing Pollys generally want. Mrs Mahon did Lucy with great ease and propriety, and has a good deal of expression in her countenance. Thomson has a force and mellowness of voice very suitable to ye character of Lockit. I do not think Weston excels in Filch. Shuter raised vast applause by adding, after Trapes has said "done under the Surgeon's hand'--"Oh dreadful and in such weather too!" Bannister in Mat added--"Die hard"--and Palmer in Budge--"Die game--" and at ye end of ye Opera the H. Peasant by $Miss Froment">Mrs Gardner's pretending to get drunk in Mrs Slam is new. We had at ye end of Act 2 the Fing., of Act 3 a New Hornpipe, and at ye end of ye Opera the H. Peasant by $Miss Froment, with Duke and No Duke-of which I am tired

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: II: The Fingalian Dance-; III: New Hornpipe-; End Opera: The Italian Peasants-Miss Froment

Event Comment: The United Company. Newdigate newsletters, 28 Nov. 1682: This day was Acted a new play called the Duke of Guise by Mr Dryden it was formerly forbidd as reflecting upon the D of Monmouth but by ye supplication of ye Author its now allowed to be acted (Wilson, Theatre Notes from the Newdigate Newsletters, p. 81). The Prologue and Epilogue, separately printed, bear Luttrell's date of acquisition (Huntington Library) as 4 Dec. 1682, but above this date Luttrell has written: "30 Nov." The Prologue and Epilogue are reprinted in Wiley, Rare Prologues and Epilogues, pp. 149-52. Dedication, Edition of 1683: In the Representation itself, it was persecuted with so notorious Malice by one side, that it secur'd us the Partiality of the other. In a report from the Abbe Rouchi, in London, 14 Dec. 1682, it is stated that the Duke of Guise was acted three times (Campana de Cavelli, Les Derniers Stuarts [Paris and London, 1871], I, 398). One song, Tell me Thyrsis all your anguish, with music by Captain Pack, is in the edition of 1683 and also in Choice Ayres and Songs, The Fourth Book, 1683

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duke Of Guise

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duke Of Guise; Or, The Massacre Of Paris

Performance Comment: Admiral-Mills; King-Walker; Duke-Ryan; Cardinal-Quin; Marguerite-Mrs Horton.
Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Ryan

Song: Turner, Mrs Bowman; The Genius-Turner

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Frederick, Duke Of Brunswick Lunenberg

Performance Comment: Principal Parts-Walker, Rayn, Quin Milward, Chapman, Mrs Buchanan, Mrs Berriman; but edition of 1729 lists: Frederick-Walker; Duke of Wirtemberg-Ryan; Anspach-Milward; Anhalt-Berryman; Count Waldec-Quin; Baden-Pitts; Ridolpho-Chapman; Anna-Mrs Buchanan; Adelaid-Mrs Berryman; Sophia-Mrs Morgan; Prologue-; Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: Duke of Wirtemberg Actor: Ryan
Event Comment: Benefit Glover. Tickets to be had at Glover's in Chandoisstreet, CG

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Dance: Pierrots by Delagarde and Dukes. Grecian Sailors (from orestes) by Glover, Le Sac, S. Lally, Delagarde, Dukes. Ball Dance and Minuet by Glover and Miss Rogers. Grand Ballet of The Faithful Shepherd (from Pastor Fido) by Glover, Le Sac, Dukes, Delagarde, Dupre, Miss Rogers, Mrs Ogden, Mrs Delorme, Miss Baston, Mrs Villepierre. Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers

Performance Comment: Grecian Sailors (from orestes) by Glover, Le Sac, S. Lally, Delagarde, Dukes. Ball Dance and Minuet by Glover and Miss Rogers. Grand Ballet of The Faithful Shepherd (from Pastor Fido) by Glover, Le Sac, Dukes, Delagarde, Dupre, Miss Rogers, Mrs Ogden, Mrs Delorme, Miss Baston, Mrs Villepierre. Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers .
Event Comment: At Hippisley's and Chapman's Great Theatrical Booth in the George-Inn Yard. Afterpiece: A new Comic Interlude. While the Booth is filling the Company will be entertained by the surprising little Posture-Boy, a Scholar of Mr Ferguson's, lately arrived from Paris. Books of the Droll will be sold in the Booth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Of A Duke; Or, The Conjuror's Bastard; With The Comical Humours Of Captain Tipple

Performance Comment: Conjuror's Bastard-Chapman; Duke Lavinio-Winstone; Mago-Cross; Prince Brunetto-Ware; Barberino-Bembridge; Alberto-Richards; Captain-Spackman; Clout-Gray; Flout-Clough; Isabella-Mrs Cross; Prudentia-Miss Ferguson; Flametta-Miss Dodson; 1st Widow-Mrs Taylor; 2d Widow-Mrs Powel; Miss Sol@Fa-Mrs Booth; Drunken Captain-Hippisley.
Cast
Role: Duke Lavinio Actor: Winstone

Afterpiece Title: The Matrimonial Squabble; or, A Cure for Jealousy

Ballet: TThe Infernals (Grand Ballet). 1st Fury-Bencraft; Attendants-Clough, Richards, Gray, Wright, Bembridge, Spackman

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: Then with Mr Shepley to the Theatre and saw Rollo ill acted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rollo Duke Of Normandy

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