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2923 results for: Keyword - Durancy and Wife
We found 2291 matches on Performance Title, 401 matches on Performance Comments, 395 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

76
11 February 1747 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: Country Wife-Mrs Cibber; Horner-Ryan; Harcourt-Havard; Sparkish-Chapman; Sir Jasper-Hippisley; Dorilant-Cashell; Quack-Marten; Lady Fidget-Mrs Bland; Alithia-Mrs Vincent; Mrs Squeamish-Mrs Rowley; Lucy-Mrs Havard; Pinchwife-Quin.
Cast
Role: Country Wife Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Lady Fidget Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Pinchwife Actor: Quin.

Dance: As17461231

77
28 November 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: Horner-Palmer; Pinchwife-Bridges; Sir Jasper Fidget-Yates; Sparkish-Woodward; Country Wife-Mrs Clive; Harcourt-Havard; Dorilant-Blakes; Quack-Winstone; Harry-Simson; Alithea-Mrs Willoughby; Lady Fidget-Mrs Mills; Lucy-Mrs Bennet; Mrs Dainty Fidget-Miss Pitt; Mrs Squeamish-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Pinchwife Actor: Bridges
Role: Country Wife Actor: Mrs Clive

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Music: III: Piece of Music By Desire-the Child

Dance: II: L'Entree de Flore, as17481027; IV: Savoyards, as17480920; V: Vertumnus and Pomona, as17481112

78
07 December 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: Pinchwife-Bridges; Horner-Palmer; Harcourt-Havard; Dorilant-Blakes; Sparkish-Woodward; Sir Jasper-Yates; Alithea-Mrs Willoughby;Lady Fidget-Mrs Mills; Lucy-Mrs Bennet; Country Wife-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Pinchwife Actor: Bridges
Role: Country Wife Actor: Mrs Clive.

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Cast
Role: Rural Dance Actor: _Grandchamps.
Role: To conclude with a Rural Dance Actor: Grandchamps, Matthews, Miss Baker, Pelling, Macneale, Harrison, Master Shawford, Miss Cole, Mrs L'Font, Mlle Mariet, Mrs Pit.

Dance: III: Comic Dance-Matthews, Mrs Addison

79
20 March 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: Pinchwife-Bridgwater; Horner-Ryan; Harcourt-Ridout; Dorilant-Usher; Quack-Marten; Alithea-Mrs Ridout; Lucy-Miss Pitt; Sparkish-Dyer; Sir Jasper Fidget-Macklin; Lady Fidget-Mrs Macklin; Country Wife-Mrs Vincent.
Cast
Role: Pinchwife Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Country Wife Actor: Mrs Vincent.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Dance: IIl Pastore, as17521219

80
04 May 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: Pinchwife-Burton; Horner-Palmer; Harcourt-Havard; Sparkish-Woodward; Sir Jasper Fidget-Yates; Lady Fidget-Mrs Mills; Mrs Squeamish-Mrs Simson; Country Wife-Mrs Clive; Dorilant-Blakes; Mrs D. Fidget-Mrs Toogood; Alithea-Miss Minors; Lucy-Mrs Bennet; the Quack-Winstone.
Cast
Role: Pinchwife Actor: Burton
Role: Country Wife Actor: Mrs Clive

Afterpiece Title: Bayes in Petticoats

Song: II: Beard

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Morris, the Little Swiss; End of Farce: Scots Dance- (see17530501)

81
07 November 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tomorrow, by particular desire of several persons of Quality, Romeo and Juliet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: Pinchwife-Bridgwater; Horner-Ryan; Harcourt-Ridout; Sparkish-Dyer; Dorilant-Usher; Quack-Dunstall; Dainty Fidget-Mrs Barrington; Lucy-Miss Helm; Sir Jasper Fidget-Collins; Lady Fidget-Mrs Pitt; Alithea-Mrs Elmy; Country Wife-Mrs Vincent.
Cast
Role: Pinchwife Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Country Wife Actor: Mrs Vincent.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Dance: Grandchamps, Mlle Camargo

82
31 March 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Tickets deliver'd for Rule a Wife and Have a Wife will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

Dance: As17610307

83
03 February 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: CCymon deferred on account of Mrs Arne's hoarseness. Neville MS Diary: Saw the Provok'd Wife, Young Brute inimitably played by Garrick...The heat was very great. The tendency of the Provok'd Wife is very immoral, as it presents an intention to commit adultery in too agreeable a light. Receipts: #247 17s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

84
13 April 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Ward. Afterpiece: Never acted there before. Mainpiece: Not acted this season. Mrs Ward having been defrauded of a number of Tickets for the above play, those sold at the door will not be admitted. [Afterpiece is John Lee's alteration of Wycherley's play into two acts. See dl 26 April 1765.] @Receipts #74 2s. 6d.@House charges #63@Candles #1 5s.@Extra: Kettle drum 5s.@Side Drum 2s.@Wardrobe #1 9s.@Total #66 1s.@Balance due Mrs Ward #8 1s. 6d.@Tickets 115 129 179 #66@Money #74 2s. 6d.@Total value of House #140 2s. 6d. (Account Book). [Mrs Ward seems to have profited only to the extent of #74 1s. 6d.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love; Or, The World Well Lost

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: Pinchwife-Clarke; Sparkish-Dyer; Dorilant-Davis; Harcourt-Casey; Alithea-Mrs DuBellamy; Country Wife-Miss Ward.
Cast
Role: Pinchwife Actor: Clarke
Role: Country Wife Actor: Miss Ward.

Dance: End: The Highland Reel, as17680307

85
04 May 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Davis and Perry. Charges #66 5s. 6d. Balance due the actors #9 4s. Davis in addition received #97 3s. from tickets (Box 81; Pit 390; Gallery 184) and Perry receiv'd #93 16s. from tickets (Box 50; Pit 302; Gallery 360). Receipts: #57 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: As17680413 but Pinchwife-Hull, 1st time; Country Wife-Miss Ogilvie, 1st time.
Cast
Role: Pinchwife Actor: Hull, 1st time
Role: Country Wife Actor: Miss Ogilvie, 1st time.

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17671009

86
15 August 1768 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: Pinchwife-Gardner; Dorilant-Davis; Harcourt-Casey; Sparkish-Loveman; Alithea-Mrs Graham; Country Wife-Miss Ogilvie.
Cast
Role: Pinchwife Actor: Gardner
Role: Country Wife Actor: Miss Ogilvie.

Dance: As17680530

87
25 October 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: Pinchwife-Hull; Sparkish-Dyer; Dorilant-Davis; Harcourt-Perry; Alithea-Mrs DuBellamy; Country Wife-Miss Ward.
Cast
Role: Pinchwife Actor: Hull
Role: Country Wife Actor: Miss Ward.

Dance: I: A Comic Dance, as17681007; II: The Tartars, as17681004

88
01 November 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Performance Comment: Cyrus-Wroughton; Cambyses-Smith; Astyages-Clarke; Harpagus-Hull; Mithranes-Bensley; Mirza-Davis; Officer-R. Smith; Aspasia-Mrs Mattocks; Mandane-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Mandane Actor: Mrs Yates.

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: Pinchwife-Hull; Sparkish-Dyer; Dorilant-Davis; Harcourt-Perry; Alithea-Mrs DuBellamy; Country Wife-Miss Ward.
Cast
Role: Pinchwife Actor: Hull
Role: Country Wife Actor: Miss Ward.

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17691018

89
16 December 1776 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: In 2 acts, taken from Wycherley [by John Lee (Public Advertiser, 14 Dec.)]. Paid Pattinson, Tallow Chandler, #41 19s. Receipts: #167 18s. (166.9.6; 1.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caractacus

Cast
Role: Druids and Bards Actor: Aickin, Hull, L'Estrange, Fearon, others

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: Pinchwife-Lee; The Country Wife (1st time)-Mrs Wilson. see17761221 .
Cast
Role: Pinchwife Actor: Lee
Role: The Country Wife Actor: Mrs Wilson. see17761221 .

90
24 April 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, announced on playbill of 23 Apr.] Receipts: #108 4s. 6d. (80.8.0; 23.17.6; 3.19.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

91
23 December 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Performance Comment: As17791208, but Ferdinand-Robson.
Cast
Role: Ferdinand Actor: Robson.

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: Pinchwife-Hull; Sparkish-Lee Lewes; Harcourt-Robson; Dorilant-Whitfield; Alithea-Miss Ambrose; The Country Wife-Mrs Wilson.
Cast
Role: Pinchwife Actor: Hull
Role: The Country Wife Actor: Mrs Wilson.

Dance: End: The Dockyard, as17791204

92
16 November 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Cast
Role: , usually Ferdinand] Actor: Mattocks

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: Pinchwife-Wilson; Sparkish-Lee Lewes; Harcourt-Davies; Dorilant-Whitfield; Alithea-Mrs Whitfield; The Country Wife-Mrs Wilson .
Cast
Role: Pinchwife Actor: Wilson
Role: The Country Wife Actor: Mrs Wilson

93
07 February 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: Jaques-Aickin; Orlando-Lewis; Amiens (with songs)-Johnstone; Adam-Hull; Oliver-Davies; Duke Frederick-Fearon; Duke Senior-Gardner; Le Beau-Palmer; Sylvius-Helme; William-Wewitzer; Corin-Thompson; Charles-Darley; Touchstone-Quick; Audrey-Mrs Brown; Caelia-Mrs Inchbald; Phoebe-Miss Stuart; Rosalind (with the Cuckoo Song)-Mrs Wells (1st appearance in that character) .
Cast
Role: Orlando Actor: Lewis

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: Pinchwife-Hull; Sparkish-Palmer; Harcourt-Davies; Dorilant-Cubitt; Alithea-Mrs Bates; The Country Wife-Mrs Brown .
Cast
Role: Pinchwife Actor: Hull
Role: The Country Wife Actor: Mrs Brown

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece The Piping Pedlar, as17851112

94
06 October 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: Pinchwife-Hull; Sparkish-Brown; Harcourt-Davies; Dorilant-Cubitt; Alithea-Mrs Bates; The Country Wife-Mrs Brown.
Cast
Role: Pinchwife Actor: Hull
Role: The Country Wife Actor: Mrs Brown.

Dance: End: Leap Year; or, A New Way of Wooing-Byrn, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Goodwin

95
05 December 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: After dinner I went to the new Theatre and there I saw The Merry Wives of Windsor acted, the humours of the country gentleman and the French doctor very well done, but the rest but very poorly, and Sir J. Falstaffe as bad as any

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

96
25 September 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Much against my nature and will, yet such is the power of the Devil over me I could not refuse it, to the Theatre, and saw The Merry Wives of Windsor, ill done

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

97
15 August 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary [After going to lif] went to the King's, and there saw The Merry Wives of Windsor: which did not please me at all, in no part of it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

98
13 February 1680 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@145, p. 120: The Wanton Wife. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350. For difficulties in dating this performance, see 11 Feb. 1679@80

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

99
11 January 1683 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@145, p. 120: at ye Wanton Wife with ye Q. & a box for ye Maides of honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

100
04 March 1686 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. Newdigate newsletters, 4 March 1685@6: This day a new play called The Devil of a Wife was Acted with great Applause at that formerly called the Ds Playhouse (Wilson, Theatre Notes from the Newdigate Newsletters, p. 82). See also 6 March 1685@6

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Of A Wife; Or, A Comical Transformation

Performance Comment: Edition of 1686: Sir Richard Lovemore-Gryffin; Rowland-Bowman; Longmore-Peryn; Butler-Saunders; Cook-Percyval; Footman-Low; The Ladies Father-Norris; Noddy-Powel; Jobson-Jevon; Doctor-Freeman; Lady Lovemore-Mrs Cook; Jane-Mrs Price; Lettice-Mrs Twyford; Nell-Mrs Percyval; Prologue-Mr Jevon; Epilogue-Mr Jevon, Mrs Percyval.
Cast
Role: Rowland Actor: Bowman