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2855 results for: Keyword - Giffard</i> great Service-I have had great Success in all,
We found 1625 matches on Event Comments, 989 matches on Performance Comments, 338 matches on Performance Title, 19 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

151
26 December 1677 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is known from a document in The Theatrical Inquisitor and Monthly Mirror, July 1816, p. 26, and in Fitzgerald, A New History, I, 145. This document lists the receipts and attendance: The King's box, #1 10s., possibly six persons; Mr Hayles' boxes, #2 16s., possibly 14 persons; Mr Mohun's boxes, #3 16s., possibly 19 persons; Mr Yate's boxes, #1 15s. 6d., possibly 9 persons; James' boxes, #2 4s., possibly 11 persons. Mr Kent's pit, 112 persons; and Mr Britan's pit, 79 persons; a total of 191 persons paying #23 17s. 6d. Mr Bracy's gallery, 100 persons; Mr Johnson's gallery, 44 persons; a total of 144 persons, paying #10 16s. Upper Gallery, 119 persons, paying #5 19s. Mrs Kempton (upper gallery?), 5s. The house rent is listed as #5 14s. The attendance appears to total at least 513 persons. Compare these data with those for 12 Dec. 1677

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens Or Alexander The Great

152
March 1681 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This play was acted at Oxford on 19 March 1680@1 before Charles II (see True Protestant Mercury, 19-23 March 1680@1; Wilson, Theatre Notes from the Newdigate Newsletters, p. 80; and Smith's Protestant Intelligence, 24-28 March 1681). The play may have been given first in London; if not, it probably was not acted there until after Easter, 3 April 1681. The company also performed The Plain Dealer in Oxford on 21 March 1680@1 (Smith's Protestant Intelligence, 24-28 March 1681)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane The Great

153
12 November 1683 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Constantine The Great

154
19 December 1685 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. An order (L. C. 5@147, p. 52, in Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 356), dated 19 Dec. 1685, calls for a payment of #20 for the King and Queen at Alexander, but the order does not indicate whether the performance occurred on this date

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens Or The Death Of Alexander The Great

Performance Comment: . Possibly Goodman acted Alexander after the death of Hart on 18 Aug. 1683; or Mountfort may have succeeded to the role.

155
27 October 1686 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens Or Alexander The Great

156
29 October 1689 @ The City, London

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Londons Great Jubilee

Performance Comment: Restor'd and Perform'd On Tuesday, October the 29th 1689. For the Entertainment of the Right Honourable Sir ThomasPilkington Kt. Lord Mayor of the City of London. Containing a Description of the several Pageants and Speeches together with a Song for the Entertainment of Their Majesties, who with their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Denmark, the whole Court, and both Houses of Parliament, Honour His Lordship this Year with their Presence. All set forth at the Proper Cost and Charges of the Right Worshipful Company of Skinners. [By Matthew Taubman.]

157
16 January 1690 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens Or The Death Of Alexander The Great

158
06 January 1699 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens Or The Death Of Alexander The Great

159
November 1701 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antiochus The Great

160
25 April 1702 @ Chelsea College

Event Comment: To all the Nobility and Gentry: In Honour of the Queen s Coronation. At 5 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Mr Abell's new Consort of English Musick-; [composed on the Royal Subject [the Queen's Coronation]: With other Songs in several Languages-; accompanied-the greatest Masters [of Instrumental Musick

161
24 September 1702 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cimbiline King Of Brittain The Great Protector Of His Country

162
07 October 1702 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline King Of Brittain The Great Protector Of His Country

163
16 October 1702 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Entertainment: With several Extraordinary Entertainments that are particularly bespoke by some Gentry, which will be express'd at large in the great Bills

164
May 1703 @ May Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

Dance: That Variety of Rope/danceing and Tumbling-; as far exceeds all that has ever yet been publickly seen; where the Lady Mary, who has given such great Satisfaction to the highest Nobility of the Kingdom, will outdo whatever she has perform'd before

165
01 June 1703 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Lee. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [In Daily Courant, 29 May, the admission had been advertised as boxes 6s., pit 4s., gallery 2s. 6d., but on 31 May Daily Courant stated that "all seal'd Tickets that have been dispos'd of by Mrs Lee" at these rates "shall be accounted for" at 5s., 3s., 2s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens Or The Death Of Alexander The Great

Song: Singing In Italian the Famous-Signiora Maria Margarita Gallia , lately arriv'd from Italy, who has never yet Sung in England; the Musick which accompanies her Singing is compos'd by Signior Joseph Saggion-

Dance: The Wedding Dance, compos'd by Monsieur L'Abbe,-Monsieur L'Abbe, Mrs Elford

166
05 July 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

Related Works
Related Work: The History of Timon of Athens, the Man-Hater Author(s): Thomas Shadwell

Entertainment: A variety, which will be express'd in the Great Bills-

167
10 November 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; particularly some new Sonatas for the Violin lately brought from Rome, Compos'd by the Great Arcangelo Corelli-Gasperini, others

Song: Several of the best Stage Songs-Leveridge, Mrs Campion

Dance: Mrs Campion, Devonshire Girl, DuRuel

168
04 February 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maids Tragedy

Music: A Masque set to Musick by the late Mr Henry Purcell,-Mr Leveridge, others; And a piece of Instrumental Musick composed by the great Arcangelo Corelli for a Flute and Violin-Signior Gasperini, Mr Paisible

Dance: DuRuel, Mrs Mayers

169
06 April 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Hall and Swiny.At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

Music: Vocal and instrumental Music, to be expressed in the Great Bills-

Dance: As17040204

170
20 April 1704 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Benefit Seigniora Maria Margarita Gallia. At 8 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music , composed by that great Italian Master Seignior Gioseppe Saggion-; With several Sonatas with Flutes and Hautboys-; and likewise a Sonata with two Flutes-Mr Paisible, Mr Bannister; And several Songs in Italian with Flutes and Hautboys,-Seigniora Maria Margarita Gallia, who never Sung in any publick Consort in England but once; The whole being entirely new composed and accompanied-Seignior Gioseppe Saggion; And likewise several Songs in English, composed by the late Famous Mr Henry Purcell-

171
01 June 1704 @ Chelsea College

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: several Entertainments on the Hautboys Flutes and Hunting/Horns , to great Admiration-The best Masters, together with the seven young Hautboys lately come over from Germany

172
21 June 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Hall and Swiny. Not Acted these Five Years. [Mrs del'Epine sings] at the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fond Husband Or The Plotting Sisters

Dance: duRuel, Mrs duRuel; Cyclops Dance (from Psyche), in which Monsieur Cherrier perform'd the Part of Vulcan with great Applause-

Song: Singing In Italian and English-Mrs del'Epine; particularly Henry Purcell's O lead me to some peaceful Gloom-

173
07 July 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Or The Unhappy Marriage

Song:

Dance: To be expressed in the Great Bills

174
14 September 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks Or The Yeoman Of Kent

Song:

Dance: To be expressed in the Great Bills

175
30 October 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Song:

Dance: To be expressed in the Great Bills