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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.

1701
16 April 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Heron's Executors. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Daily Advertiser, 9 April: We hear, the late Mrs Heron, on Account of her long and expensive Illness, having contracted some Debts more than she apprehended her Effects would discharge, in order to do Justice to her Creditors, in almost her last Moments made her Entreaty, that the Profits arising from a Benefit Play . . . might be distributed amongst them. . .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: I: Pierrots by Delamagne and Villeneuve. III: Black and White Joak by Phillips and Miss Mann. V: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter

Performance Comment: III: Black and White Joak by Phillips and Miss Mann. V: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter .

1702
27 April 1736 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Temple Beau

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Music: I: Solo on the German Flute by Bellicourt. IV: Solo on the Violin by Eversman

Dance: II: Peasant Dance by Vallois and Mrs Bullock. V: English Maggot by Le Sac and Woodward

Performance Comment: V: English Maggot by Le Sac and Woodward .

Song: III: Song by Mrs Chambers

1703
28 April 1736 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Woodward and Mrs Haughton. Tickets for Dove and Bowcher also taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: II: Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Mrs Woodward. III: Pierrots by Vallois and Delagarde. IV: Scot's Dance by Mrs Woodward. V: English Maggot by Haughton and Mrs Bullock

Performance Comment: III: Pierrots by Vallois and Delagarde. IV: Scot's Dance by Mrs Woodward. V: English Maggot by Haughton and Mrs Bullock .

1704
04 May 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Shepard. For the Entertainment of the Grand Master, and the rest of the Brethren of the . . . Masons

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Performance Comment: Rover-W. Mills; Belvil-Mills; Blunt-Cibber; Hellena-Miss Holliday; Angelica-Mrs Butler; but see17351106. With a Prologue to be spoken by Cibber, and an Epilogue by Mrs Clive . but see17351106. With a Prologue to be spoken by Cibber, and an Epilogue by Mrs Clive .

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: Mason's Dance by Delamayne. II: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. IV: Black and White Joak by Phillips and Miss Mann. After Epilogue: The Rover by Essex, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann, &c

Performance Comment: II: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. IV: Black and White Joak by Phillips and Miss Mann. After Epilogue: The Rover by Essex, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann, &c .

Song: I: The Enter'd Prentice's Song: Come let us Prepare. III: On, on, my dear Brethren. V: Sing then my Muse

1705
21 May 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Robinson, Supervisor and Sub-Treasurer. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. [Tickets for Gillibrand, Fullwood, and Leigh taken.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: As17351121, but Simple, Nym, Rugby, Robin, and Pistol omitted .

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: I: Damon and Phillida, as17360430 II: By Denoyer's Prentice. III: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. IV: Amorous Clowns, as17360514. V: Grand Ballet by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c

Performance Comment: III: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. IV: Amorous Clowns, as17360514. V: Grand Ballet by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c .

1706
22 May 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Winch. Tickets for Thumoth and Kearny taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Taste

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: II: Dutchman and his Frow by Phillips and Miss Brett. IV: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Miss Brett

Performance Comment: IV: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Miss Brett .

Entertainment: A new Entertainment after the manner of Spring-Garden, Vauxhall: With a New Scene, representing the Place, with a Grand Overture, and select Pieces of Musick, compos'd by Mr Handell, intermix'd with Dances, particularly The Russian Sailor by Denoyer's Apprentice. A Concerto on the French Horn by Mr Winch. The Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c. Concluding with Mr Handel's Water Musick

Performance Comment: A Concerto on the French Horn by Mr Winch. The Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c. Concluding with Mr Handel's Water Musick .

1707
27 May 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Scot's Dance by Mr and Mrs Davenport. II: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. III: By Denoyer's Apprentice. IV: Minuet by Villeneuve and Mrs Anderson

Performance Comment: II: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. III: By Denoyer's Apprentice. IV: Minuet by Villeneuve and Mrs Anderson .

1708
28 May 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Allen, Gallery Officekeeper, and Bradshaw, Boxkeeper. Mainpiece: Written by Ben. Johnson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Music: Select Pieces, particularly the March in Zara

Dance: I: Scot's Dance by Mr and Mrs Davenport. II: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. III: By Denoyer's Prentice. IV: Minuet by Villeneuve and Mrs Anderson

Performance Comment: II: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. III: By Denoyer's Prentice. IV: Minuet by Villeneuve and Mrs Anderson .

1709
04 June 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Hallam

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Music: End Afterpiece: Handel's Water Musick, with Preamble on Kettle Drum by Benj. Baker

Dance: II: Peasant Dance by Tench and Miss Rogers. IV: Harlequin, Punch, and Colombine by Nivelon, Lalauze, and Mlle De L'Isle. End Afterpiece: Glover's Sailors Dance

Performance Comment: IV: Harlequin, Punch, and Colombine by Nivelon, Lalauze, and Mlle De L'Isle. End Afterpiece: Glover's Sailors Dance .

Song: I: Mock Italian Song by Roberts. III: Dialogue by Leveridge and Mrs Wright. V: Praise of old English Beer by Leveridge, &c

Performance Comment: III: Dialogue by Leveridge and Mrs Wright. V: Praise of old English Beer by Leveridge, &c .

1710
02 April 1737 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Performance Comment: Scapin-Hippisley; Shift-Lalauze (, being the first time of his acting in English).

Song: A new Song-Beard

Dance: SSerious Dance, concluding with a Minuet-Misses Scott; Highlander and his Mistress-Lalauze, Mrs Laguerre; Punch in Love with Dame Ragonde, as17370319 Grecian Sailor-Glover

1711
25 May 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The hay advertised for 30 May and later two plays which never got staged: Macheath turn'd Pyrate; or, Polly in India. An Opera. Very much taken, if not improv'd from the famous Sequel of the late celebrated Mr Gay. With a New Prologue, proper to the Occasion. And after the Run of that, the Town will be entertain'd with a new Farce of two Acts, call'd The King and Titi; or, The Medlars. Taken from the History of Prince Titi, Originally written in French, and lately translated into English

Performances

1712
10 November 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 10 Nov.: Two of the French Strollers having desir'd Leave of the Town to act three Nights at one of the Patent Theatres, the Master of that House is desir'd to consider, whether if he lends it to those Foreigners, he can ever hope to have it fill'd with an English Audience, who probably will chastise the Abuse of Power in an ungrateful Patentee, as they did the Want of it in a French Harlequin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mithridates, King Of Pontus

Cast
Role: Semandra Actor: Mrs Horton.

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Psyche Actor: Mlle Roland
Role: Doctor's Wife Actor: Mrs Kilby. With Scenes representing the exact Views of The Hermitage and Merlin's Cave, as taken from the Royal Gardens at Richmond.

1713
08 May 1739 @ Chelsea

Event Comment: In Chelsea. The First play in French, the second in English

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'enfant Prodigue

Afterpiece Title: Squire Lubberly

1714
08 March 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Alter'd from Beaumont and Fletcher, by Sir John Vanbrugh and Mr Dryden. Afterpiece: An English Opera, written by the late Mr Addison, and new set to Musick by Mr Arne, reserving two or three Favourite Songs, out of his former Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Cast
Role: Mad Englishman Actor: Winstone

Afterpiece Title: Rosamond

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg; II: L'Allamande-Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: Punches-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

1715
16 April 1741 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: A New English Opera. [By Lewis Theobald.] Set to Musick by Mr Galliard. Boxes 8s. Pit 5s. Gallery 3s. We are oblig'd to being exactly at Six, some of the Performers being afterwards wanted at the other Theatres

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Happy Captive; With An Interlude In Two Comic Scenes, Between signor Capoccio, A Director From The canary Islands, And signora Dorinna, A Virtuosa

1716
17 April 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Roland and Mrs Vincent. Mainpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh. Afterpiece: A New Farce, interspersed With Songs. [Author not known. Apparently not published.] Receipts: money #28 10s.; seals #85 5s. (Account Book); #120 Rylands MS.: The Whim Damn'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Performance Comment: Sir John-Bridgwater; Constant-Hale; Heartfree-Ryan; Lady Fanciful-Mrs Bellamy; Lady Brute-Mrs Horton; Belinda-Mrs Vincent; Mademoiselle-Mlle Roland, the first time of her speaking on the English stage.
Cast
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Mlle Roland, the first time of her speaking on the English stage.

Afterpiece Title: The Whim; or, The Merry Cheat

Song: Leveridge, Salway

Dance: Glover, Mlle Roland, Mechel

1717
22 August 1741 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: TTurbutt (from the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane) and Yates (from the Theatre in Goodman's-Fields). At Turbutt's and Yate's Great Theatrical Booth, Opposite the King's Head and Greyhound Inn, West Smithfield. [The Fair runs from 22 through 26 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Thamas Kouli Kan, The Persian Hero; Or, The Distress'd Princess: With The Descent Of Harlequin From The Sun, And His Adventures On Earth

Performance Comment: Kouli Kan-Crofts; Albufazar-Marten; Firebrass-Harrington; Fribble-Julian; Vizier Mirza-Marr; Solyman-Taylor; Sydrophal-Master Nanfan; Zaida-Miss Bennet; Karanza-Mrs Dunstall; Harlequin-Yates; Jocula-Turbutt; Corporal Bounce-Dunstall; Mons Gasconnade-Blakes; Forge-Vaughan; Bog-Adams; Taffy-Lowder; Chant-Mackenzie; Snip-Arthur; Mrs Snip-Mrs Yates; A Drunken Epilogue in the Character of an English Sailor-Yates.

Entertainment: Singing, Dancing-Chettle, Mrs Dunstall; And the surprizing Performances of the famous little Prussian Posture Boy, lately arrived from Berlin

1718
30 January 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: TThe London Magazine (Feb. 1742) reprinted an article from the Universal Spectator of this date on an Indian's observations on the manners of the English, which included a general account of a night at the theatre, in which the scene shifting and the music seemed most impressive to the writer

Performances

1719
13 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. Rylands MS.: Young Gentleman-Hill. Being the last time of the Fausan's performing in England. [The Fausans had created twelve new Dances for the English during this tour.] Receipts: #120

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Song: I: a Ballad-Lowe; III: Song-Mrs Arne; IV: Bright Author of my Present Flame-Lowe

Dance: II: Les Egyptiens, as17420224

Ballet: V: a Grand Comic Ballet The Peasant. Peasants-The Fausans; Shepherds-LaCroix, Desse, Constantini; Shepherdesses-Mrs Walter, Mrs Thompson, Miss Story

1720
23 October 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Dance: Mr Cook; being the 1st time of his performance since his arrival from the Opera at Paris. Also Les Demoiselles Anne and Janneton Auretti; Two French Girls, being the 1st time of their appearing on the English Stage

Performance Comment: Also Les Demoiselles Anne and Janneton Auretti; Two French Girls, being the 1st time of their appearing on the English Stage.

1721
01 November 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Dance: Signor Grimaldi, detto Gamba di Ferro, Mlle Auguste. (Being the 1st time of his appearing on the English stage.

Performance Comment: (Being the 1st time of his appearing on the English stage.)

1722
24 March 1743 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: An English Opera. Benefit Mrs Lampe. 6 p.m. Prices 5s., 4s., 3s. Note. By Desire of several Ladies of Quality going to the Assembly, the Opera will be over by Nine o'Clock. Tickets at Mr Lampe's at the Golden Unicorn in Hanover St., Long-Acre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amelia

Related Works
Related Work: Amelia Author(s): Richard Cumberland

1723
23 August 1743 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: FFawkes and Pinchbeck's Great Theatrical Booth, facing the Hospital Gate, West Smithfield. Taken from Shakespear. [Possibly a puppet show.] The occasion is the Retaking the English Standard belonging to Sir Robert Rich's Regiment of Horse by George Darraugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ephesian Duke; Or, Blunder Upon Blunder, Yet All's Right At Last

Performance Comment: The Parts-the best Actors; the Songs-the best Singers; the Dances-the best Dancers, to and from the Theatres-Royal.
Cast
Role: the Dances Actor: the best Dancers, to and from the Theatres-Royal.
Role: to and from the Theatres Actor: Royal.

Afterpiece Title: The Battle of Dettingen

Dance: WWooden@Shoe Dance-LaPierre, never performed by any but himself; Le Paisans Leger-LaPierre, Mlle Mariette

Song: Blogg, Miss Atherton; The Whole to conclude with a Song made upon that Occasion, set to Musick, and-Mr Blogg

1724
26 December 1743 @ Inner Temple

Event Comment: At the Temple Punch House, Tony Aston, the oldest approv'd Actor in the three Kingdoms, being deni'd his bread in both Theatres, this Day exhibits his learned comic demonstrative Oratory on the Face, with English, Irish, Scotch, and Negroe Songs, in proper habits, Prologue and Epilogue, and all his own Pasquin Invention. 6 p.m. 1s. He is under Misfortunes, and desires the Company of the Ingenious and Humorous. [Repeated 29, 31 Dec.; and with some changes in wording on 2, 5, 9, 25 Jan., 6, 15 Feb. 1744.

Performances

1725
21 March 1744 @ Crown and Anchor Tavern

Event Comment: A new English Pastoral Serenata. Set to Musick by William DeFesch. 6 p.m. 5s. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Tickets at the Author's Lodgings, at Mrs Misaubain's, on the Pav'd Stones, in St. Martin's Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Friendship