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1893 results for: Keyword - English and Spanish Fleets
We found 1112 matches on Performance Title, 518 matches on Event Comments, 335 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

101
12 November 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c

Performance Comment: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c .

102
05 May 1736 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: French Peasant by Vallois and Mrs Bullock. English Maggot by Haughton and Mrs Bullock

Performance Comment: English Maggot by Haughton and Mrs Bullock .

103
13 May 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Cancelled. Theatre and all the Gardens [closed] on account of the Death of Louisa Anne [sister of His Majesty]--until 23 May. [This was to have been the Benefit night for Mortimer, Tomlinson, and Lings.] Tickets deliver'd by Miss Berkley, Mas. Cape, and for The Committee were to have been taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Performance Comment: English Merchant. As17680503.
Cast
Role: Freeport Actor: Holland,1st time

Afterpiece Title: None

Performance Comment: Catharine and Petruchio. As17680319 but Music Master-Lings.

Dance: [I: Double Hornpipe-Mas. Cape, Miss Taylor.

104
20 October 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 20 years [not acted since 17 Jan. 1750]. With new Dresses and Decorations. Receipts: #193 11s. (169/7/0; 23/14/0; 0/2/6; tickets not come in: 0/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward The Black Prince; Or, The Battle Of Poictiers

Performance Comment: English: Edward-Kemble; Lord Audley-Farren; Earl of Warwick-Barrymore; Earl of Chandos-Williames; Salisbury-Fawcett; Arnold-Brereton. French: King John-Staunton; Dauphin-Phillimore; Duke of Athens-R. Palmer; Charney-Packer; Archbishop of Sens-Chaplin; Cardinal Perigort-Aickin; Ribemont-Palmer; Mariana-Miss E. Kemble .
Cast
Role: Earl of Chandos Actor: Williames

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17831018

105
01 October 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth; Or, The Conquest Of France

Performance Comment: English: King Henry-Kemble; Exeter-Aickin; Westmorland-R. Palmer; Duke of Bedford-Dignum; Duke of Gloucester-Benson; Pistol-Suett; Erpingham-Waldron; Bardolph-Alfred; Williams-Whitfield; Nym-Burton; Gower-Williames; Archbishop of Canterbury-Maddocks; Ely-Jones; Grey-Lamash; Scroop-Wilson; Cambridge-Webb; Bates-Banks; Boy-Master Gregson; Fluellen-Baddeley; Hostess-Mrs Booth; French: King-Packer; Duke of Burgundy-Phillimore; Constable-Fawcett; Montjoy-Haymes; Governor-Hollingsworth; Dauphin-Barrymore; Princess Catharine-Miss Collins; Queen of France-Mrs Ward.
Cast
Role: Westmorland Actor: R. Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

106
21 October 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 1st piece: 15th time [i.e. in continuation of the reckoning for the previous season]. 3rd piece: to conclude with a Representation of the Moraiv, with the Interment of the Body of Captain Cookv by the Natives. With the original Scenery, Music, Dresses and Decorations. Receipts: #238 4s. (235.15; 2.9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Birth Day

Related Works
Related Work: The Birth Day Author(s): August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue

Afterpiece Title: The Naval Pillar

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Performance Comment: English Capt. Cook-Farley; Lieutenant of Marines-Claremont; Mate-Atkins; Boatswain-Hawtin; Midships-Simmons, Mills; Sailors-Lee, Curties, Abbot, Howell, Vials, Wilkins, Goodwin, Coombs, Noble; Lieutenant (with a song)-Townsend; Natives of 0-why-e Otago-Bologna Jun.; King-Bologna; Priest-Whitmore; Islanders-King, Platt, Blurton, Dyke, Wilde, Whitmore Sen., Klanert, L. Bologna; Etoe-Delpini (1st appearance these 2 years); Emai-Mrs Parker; Females-Ms Watts, Ms Gilbert, Ms Norton, Ms Castelle, Ms Iliff, Ms Leserve, Mrs Bologna, Ms Cox, Ms Carne, Miss Bologna, Ms Dibdin, Ms Burnett, Ms Sydney, Ms Masters, Ms Lloyd, Ms Whitmore.
Cast
Role: Islanders Actor: King, Platt, Blurton, Dyke, Wilde, Whitmore Sen., Klanert, L. Bologna

Dance: In 2nd piece: As17991007

Song: In 2nd piece: As17991011

107
02 October 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mrs Pollock's 1st two appearances were on 24 Nov. 1792 and 14 Jan. 1793.] Afterpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Being a Collection of Favorite Scenes from the following celebrated Pantomimes: Harlequin Sorcerer, Mother Shipton, Choice of Harlequin, Lord Mayor's Day, Druids, Fryar Bacon, Harlequin Freemason, Norwood Gipsies, Omai, Magic Cavern, Harlequin Rambler. [Synopsis of Entertainment in Public Advertiser, 3 Oct.] Receipts: #261 11s. (245.5; 16.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: How To Grow Rich

Performance Comment: Pave-Lewis; Smalltrade-Quick; Warford-Pope; Sir ThomasRoundhead-Munden; Sir Charles Dazzle-Farren; Hippy-Blanchard; Latitat-Fawcett; Rosa-Mrs Esten; Miss Dazzle-Miss Chapman; Betty-Miss Stuart; Lady Henrietta-Mrs Pollock (1st appearance in that character, and 3rd on this stage).

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Entertainment: Afterpiece: [To conclude with Three Entire New Scenes, representing the Town and Harbour of Toulon; with a View of the Manoeuvring of the British, Spanish, and French Fleets, after the Surrender of the Town and Fortifications to the English] on the Twenty-ninth of August [1793]. In which, When in War on the Ocean-Davies; an Entire New Song [composed by Shield,-Incledon; The Music- [Selected by Shaw from Pepusch, Dr Arne, Arnold, Fisher, [Michael] Arne, Vincent, Dibdin, Reeve, Shield; The Dances-Byrn, Holland[; The Scenery-Hodgins, Walmsley, Phillips

Performance Comment: In which, When in War on the Ocean-Davies; an Entire New Song [composed by Shield,-Incledon; The Music- [Selected by Shaw from Pepusch, Dr Arne, Arnold, Fisher, [Michael] Arne, Vincent, Dibdin, Reeve, Shield; The Dances-Byrn, Holland[; The Scenery-Hodgins, Walmsley, Phillips.
Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Byrn, Holland

108
11 August 1701 @ Richmond Wells

Event Comment: At the Request of several Persons of Quality. In the Great Room at the Wells. At 8 p.m. Tickets 5s. Note, The Tide of Flood begins at One of Clock in the Afternoon, and flows till Five, and Ebbs till Twelve, for the Convenience of returning

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Singing in English Latin Italian Spanish and French-Mr Abel; accompanied by Instrumental Musick-; of the best Masters, and after that Singing alone to the Harpsical-Mr Abel

109
28 April 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Dance: End I: Saraband-Master Lally, Miss Brett; II: English Clown-Weaver; III: Gondolier and Curtesane-Master Lally, Miss Brett; IV: Spanish Entry-Lally, others; V: Harlequins-Master Lally, Miss Brett

110
23 January 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Stoppelaer

Dance: LLe Watteau-Miss Robinson; English Maggot-Haughton, Mrs Walter; Spanish Entry-Lally, Essex, Haughton, Lally Jr, Tench; Grand Dance of Moors-Essex, Lally, Haughton, Lally Jr, Tench, Mrs Walter, Mrs D'Lorme, Miss Mears, Miss Man

111
05 March 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timanthes

Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Smith, Bensley, Clarke, Wroughton, Gardner, Davis, R. Smith, Mrs Bulkley, Mrs Yates. Prologue and Epilogue in Act III a Procession. The Vocal parts-Reinhold, Mrs Baker, Mrs DuBellamy, Baker, Fox. Timanthes-Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Lady

Cast
Role: Spanish Lady Actor: Mrs Mattocks.
Role: the principal Parts Actor: _Mattocks, _Lewes, _Fox, R. _Smith, The Young Lady who performed in Man and _Wife.
Role: The principal parts Actor: Mattocks, Lewes, Fox, R. Smith, The Young Lady who perform'd in Man and Wife

Entertainment: As17700224

112
26 May 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Ansell and Green (Box-keepers). Tickets sold at Doors will not be admitted. Charges #82 17s. Deficit to each #29 5s. 9d., covered by income from tickets: Ansell #117 12s. (Box 355; Pit 173; Gallery 29); Green #132 12s. (Box 436; Pit 128; Gallery 44); Deficiencies and half value paid up by Wild, Potter, Mrs Lampe & Mrs Jones, Mrs Paddick and Sharratt (Account Book). Receipts: #24 5s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Lady

Cast
Role: Spanish Lady Actor: Mrs Mattocks.
Role: the principal Parts Actor: _Mattocks, _Lewes, _Fox, R. _Smith, The Young Lady who performed in Man and _Wife.
Role: The principal parts Actor: Mattocks, Lewes, Fox, R. Smith, The Young Lady who perform'd in Man and Wife

Dance: IV: The Whim, as17691123

113
02 May 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Lady

Cast
Role: The Spanish Lady Actor: Mrs Mattocks.

Monologue: True Blue. As 21 April, but Principal Parts-Mrs Baker, Mrs _Mattocks (playbill)

114
13 April 1706 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: duRuel, Mrs duRuel, Cherrier, Mrs Santlow, Mrs Moss

Song: Singing in Italian and English-Signiora del'Epine; particularly an English Cantata , written and compos'd after the Italian manner-

115
02 May 1715 @ Stationer's Hall

Event Comment: Benefit Wells and Kenny. At the Request of several Persons of Quality. At 6 p.m. Tickets 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; the Vocal consisting of English and Italian Songs-a Celebrated Italian Lady; Instrumental Part-the best English and Foreign Masters

116
21 February 1724 @ Blue Posts Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medley

Song: A new song in Praise of the Antient Britons-; Single Songs in English and Italian-Mrs Redding; three English Dialogues-her Mrs Redding, Aston

117
30 April 1725 @ Stationer's Hall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; Singing in Italian and English-Mrs Hill, Mrs Gething; particularly an English Duetto-

118
15 March 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Ryan. Mainpiece: At the desire of Several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece by Desire. Tickets of Ryan in Great Queen St., Lincoln's Inn Fields. N.B. Finding the Play the provok'd Wife advertised to be perform'd on Saturday at Drury Lane, I was advised to change my Play to the above. I hope those ladies and Gentlemen who have been kind enough to take tickets, will not be displeased with this alteration. Tickets deliver'd for the Provok'd Wife will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: II: La Provencale, as17420212; IV: Chacone, as17411230; V: Les Maquignons-Delemain[see17420309; End Farce: The Peasants, as17420210

Song: III: Of English Brown Beer-Leveridge, Roberts, Salway, Bennet; V: When English Roast Beef-Leveridge

119
08 January 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Cast
Role: Viletta Actor: Mrs Bland

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Song: Beard; particularly a New English Ballad call'd The English Hero's Welcome Home-Leveridge, Reinhold, Roberts, Thompson, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Wright, Miss Faulkener; The Music-Lampe

Related Works
Related Work: The Genoese Pirate; or, Black-Beard Author(s): James Sanderson
Related Work: The Stranger Author(s): August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue

120
04 May 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Dupre and Roberts on a one-half value of tickets and minimum charge basis. Receipts: #12 6s. 6d. leaving a deficit for the minimum charge of #14 11s. 6d. Tickets: Dupre #45 13s. (Boxes 36; Pit 191; Gallery 80); Roberts #78 19s. (Boxes 50; Pit 359; Gallery 126). Half value of total #62 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Song: II: Liberty Alone-(from the Oratorio of Judas Maccabaeus sung by Roberts); IV: Come Smiling Liberty-Roberts

Dance: III: Peasant Dance-Matthews, Miss Vandersluys; V: The English Boy, English Girl

121
06 May 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Marten and White. Receipts: #15 8s., plus #157 16s. from tickets, but the distribution unspecified. Charges #60. James White, however, paid over his half of the deficiency (#22 6s.) immediately (Account Books, Egerton 2268). Tickets sold at the door will not be admitted. (General Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance: PPeasant Dance, as17470504; English Boy, English Girl

122
12 May 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Benefit on one-half value of tickets basis to nine ticket holders. The General Advertiser notice lists beneficiaries as Harrington (Prompter); Stede, Carr, Mrs Bland, Mrs Rowley.] Tickets deliver'd by Mrs Daniel, Mrs Dumont, &c will be taken. /For Box Pit Gallery Value Half-Value/Harrington 7 29 22 #8 6s. #4 3s./Stede 7 52 59 #15 9s. #7 14s. 6d./Carr 6 53 46 #14 1s. #7 0s. 6d./Mrs Rowley 27 77 44 #22 14s. #11 7s./Mrs Dumont 36 31 32 #16 17s. #8 8s. 6d./Mrs Bland 9 56 91 #19 15s. #9 17s. 6d./Mrs Dupre 5 33 42 #10 8s. #5 4s./Mrs Daniel .. 45 109 #17 13s. #8 16s. 6d./Mrs Hitchcock 34 58 31 #20 6s. ........./Totals 131 434 476 #145 9s. #62 11s. 6d./ [Mrs Hitchcock seems to have received the full value of her tickets.] This Day is Publish'd A Treatis on the Passions so far as they regard the stage, with a critical inquiry into the Theatrical Merit of Mr G k, Mr Q n, and Mr B y, the first considered in the part of Lear, the last two oppos'd in Othello. By S. Foote, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Performance Comment: As17461017, but Day-Arthur; Obadiah-Morgan; Mrs Day-Mrs Bland; Arabella-Mrs Rowley; Mrs Chat-Mrs Daniel.
Cast
Role: Mrs Day Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Teague Actor: Morris, from Dublin, 1st appearance on English stage

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance: The English Boy, English Girl

123
20 December 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Curate

124
March 1673 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The King's Company. The date of the premiere is not known, but this play belongs to a group which have been considered as "Lenten plays," ones in which the young actors of a company comprise a large portion of the cast. On this basis, as Easter fell on 30 March 1673, this play has been assigned to March 1673. See Philip B. Gray Jr, Lenten Casts and the Nursery: Evidence for the Dating of Certain Restoration Plays, PMLA, LIII (1938), 781-94; for this play particularly, pp. 791-92. A song, Down with this love, set for this play by Alphonso Marsh, is in Choice Ayres and Songs, 1676

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Rogue

125
02 February 1676 @ Inner Temple

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Curate