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5330 results for: Keyword - Henry the 8th
We found 3489 matches on Author, 1223 matches on Performance Title, 660 matches on Performance Comments, 431 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4476
21 April 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth Part I

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb the Great

Performance Comment: Tom Thumb-Miss Cole; With the Original Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: With the Original Epilogue Actor: .
Related Works
Related Work: The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): Henry Fielding

Dance: As17410415

4477
10 December 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comedy Of Errors

Cast
Role: The Lady Abbess Actor: Mrs Macklin

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwrecked

Song: I: A New Ballad-Beard; III: Noontide Air-Lowe; IV: Mad Tom by Henry Purcel-Beard in character

Dance: II: A Dutch Dance, as17411114; V: The Italian Peasants, as17411207

4478
12 February 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 2 Henry Iv

Dance: 2 TThe Peasants, as17420210; La Provencale-Picq, Mlle Auguste; Chacone, as17411230

4479
20 February 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 2 By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 2 Henry Iv

Dance: 2 As17420213, but Chacone-_; The Peasants, as17420210

Ballet: 2 RRural Assembly. As17420121

Cast
Role: Nymph of the Plain Actor: Sga Barberina

4480
07 May 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 2 Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: As17420505; Chacone, as17411230

4481
11 December 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 1 AAnderson's doubling in the role of Dowglass and Poins on 25 Oct. may well have been a misprint in the bills

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv

Dance: 1 TTambourine-Cook; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; The Happy Lovers, as17421006; La Provencale, as17421105

4482
21 January 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv

Dance: 1 CCharacters of Dancing, as17421025; Les Pasteurs Joyeux, as17430119; Le Rendezvous Gallant, as17421217

4483
10 February 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Song: 1 As17430120

Music: 1 As17430205

4484
12 March 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: 1 Perseus and Andromeda

4485
12 December 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Henry Iv With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Related Works
Related Work: The Lottery Author(s): Henry Fielding

Dance: SScotch Dance, as17431124

4486
27 January 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Second Part Of King Henry The Fourth With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff Justice Shallow Ancient Pistol

Afterpiece Title: Columbine Courtezan

Cast
Role: The Petit Maitre Actor: Blakes

4487
22 May 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: 1 Written by Shakespear. Benefit Church, Baker, Saunder, Dunbar, Bride, Brooks, Peite, and Stephens (Gallery Box-Keeper). Places of Hobson at the stage door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: 1 The Devil to Pay

Song: 1 II: Morland

Dance: 1 IV: Mlle Auguste

4488
08 October 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv With Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: 1 The Lottery

4489
12 January 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 1 Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of several persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: 1 The Royal Chace

4490
14 March 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Clive. Mainpiece: At the Desire of Several Ladies of Quality. Never acted there before. [Amphitheatre on stage as described 11 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ladys Last Stake Or The Wifes Resentment

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Song: II: Wanton Breezes, from the Oratorio Love and Friendship-Miss Edwards; IV: (by particular desire) the Irish Song Ellen a Roon-Mrs Clive; V: The Favourite Duette Let Caesar and Urania Live (compos'd by the late Henry Purcell)-Mrs Clive, Miss Edwards

Dance: III: Cooke, Sga Campioni

4491
26 March 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Henry Iv

Performance Comment: Falstaff-Dance (Hogan, Shakespear in the Theatre, p. 173).

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

4492
17 April 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: 1 Benefit Paget. Tickets given for Comus taken this day, Several Gentlemen desiring to see him as Falstaff. [Originally scheduled for 4 April were Comus and a new Farce The Biter Bit; or, Vintner in the Suds.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: 1 The Miller of Mansfield

4493
18 October 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by Colley Cibber, Poet Laureate. Never acted there before. Characters all New Dress'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

Performance Comment: Dr Wolf (the Nonjuror)-Chapman; Sir John-Johnson; Col Woodvil-Cashell; Heartly-Hale; Charles-Woodward; Lady Woodvil-Mrs Horton; Maria-Mrs Pritchard.
Related Works
Related Work: Tartuffe; or, The French Puritan Author(s): Matthew Medbourne

Song: GGenius of England (composed by the late Henry Purcell)-Beard

Dance: Cooke

4494
03 December 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: 1 The Debauchees

Cast
Role: Father Martin Actor: Paget

Song: 1 Brett

Dance: 1 As17451028

4495
11 January 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: 1 The Royal Chace

Song: 1 As17460108

4496
12 March 1746 @ James Street

Event Comment: Not acted these twenty Years. [A concert etc.] By desire of several Ladies and Gentlemen. Benefit Person under Misfortune

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

4497
09 May 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: 1 The Anatomist

Song: 1 I: Lowe

Dance: 1 III: Mechel, Mlle Mechel

4498
06 December 1746 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 1 Ladies send servants by three o'clock to keep places. [A customary note for subsequent performances this season.] Paid Mrs LaFont for her performance 3 nights in The Rape of Proserpine 15s. Receipts: #189 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

4499
08 December 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv

4500
09 December 1746 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 1 By His Majesty's Command. Present The King and Princess Amelia. Paid Mr Arthur a Bill for glass Lustres &c #7 15s. 2d. Receipts: #177 11s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv