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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.

476
01 January 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. [Goodfellow doubled in the roles of Campeius and the Surveyor.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: V: Mechel, Mlle Mechel

477
21 January 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For the Author (Winstone MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Vii

478
06 April 1747 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear (Daily Post). The Whole concluding with an Epilogue of Thanks wrote by Mr Paget, and spoken by him and the two children (Daily Post). Benefit Paget. Stage and Front Boxes 3s. Pit and First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies or The Life an Death of Tom Thumb the Great

Performance Comment: Tom Thumb-Paget's/other/son first time on any stage.
Cast
Role: Tom Thumb Actor: Paget'sotherson first time on any stage.
Related Works
Related Work: The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): Henry Fielding

Dance: As17461126, but Hornpipe-Williams

479
16 August 1750 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry And Emma

Song: The whole collection of favorite songs- from the opera; by particular desire Rise Glory Rise from the opera Rosamond-

480
25 January 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mrs Henry is identified in European Magazine, Feb. 1788, p. 106.] Receipts: #218 15s. (210.2; 8.13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Performance Comment: As17871107, but Beatrice-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Mrs Henry]).Mrs Henry]).

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Dance: As17871107

481
27 July 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Next Door Neighbours

Afterpiece Title: A Quarter of an Hour before Dinner

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Williamson

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Williamson
Role: Man of the House Actor: Burton
Related Works
Related Work: The Flitch of Bacon Author(s): Henry Bate

482
03 December 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account Book, but not on the playbill). Receipts: #158 13s. 6d. (144/8/6; 1 4/5/0; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The World In A Village

Cast
Role: the Ballad Actor: singing Pedlar-Blanchard
Role: Sir Henry Check Actor: Powel

Afterpiece Title: THE FLITCH OF BACON

Cast
Role: Sir Henry Freeman Actor: Incledon
Role: A Sailor's life's a life of woe Actor: Mrs Harlowe, in place of The Greenwich Pensioner.
Related Works
Related Work: The Flitch of Bacon Author(s): Henry Bate

Dance: As17931015

483
24 April 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for King. 1st piece: In one act; not acted these 20 years [not acted since 12 Nov. 1772]. 2nd piece [1st time; D 3, author unknown. Larpent MS 1250; not published]. Morning Chronicle, 10 Apr.: Tickets to be had of King at his house, Store-street, Bedford-square. Receipts: #437 14s. (241.3.0; 57.7.6; odd and after-money: tickets: 137.0.6) (charge:#231 7s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Will And No Will Or Wits Last Stake

Afterpiece Title: Trials of the Heart

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Kemble, Barrymore, King, Mrs Siddons, Mrs Jordan, Mrs Walcot. [Larpent MS lists the parts: Norman, Belfield, Wentworth, Eliza, Louisa, Margaret.]Larpent MS lists the parts: Norman, Belfield, Wentworth, Eliza, Louisa, Margaret.]

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

Cast
Role: Baron Ruthenwolf Actor: Barrymore
Role: Henry Actor: Middleton
Role: Andrew Actor: Wathen
Related Works
Related Work: The Wedding Day Author(s): Henry Fielding

Song: End 2nd piece: The Country Club-Bannister Jun.; In 3rd piece: In the dead of the Night-Mrs Jordan

Performance Comment: ; In 3rd piece: In the dead of the Night-Mrs Jordan.
Cast
Role: In the dead of the Night Actor: Mrs Jordan.

Entertainment: Monologue End: Foote's Prologue to The Author-King; in which is introduced the well-known Fable of The Man the Boy and the Ass-King

484
05 June 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #639 17s. (596.9; 35.17; 0.17; received by Peake at the Door: 5.13; sent up by Thompson: 1.1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pizarro

Cast
Role: unassigned Actor: _Russell, _Wathen

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

Cast
Role: Baron Ruthenwolf Actor: Barrymore
Role: Henry Actor: Middleton
Role: Andrew Actor: Wathen
Related Works
Related Work: The Wedding Day Author(s): Henry Fielding

Song: As17990529

485
27 January 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: "Barrymore was more imperfect in his part than on the first night of representation [see 25 Jan.]. When he attempted to announce the Play for repetition a violent opposition arose, which lasted upwards of a quarter of an hour, before he was permitted to speak: (Dramatic Censor, I, 182). Receipts: #370 13s. 6d. (246.10.0; 121.13.6; 2.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adelaide

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Aickin
Related Works
Related Work: Adelaide Author(s): Henry James Pye

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Cast
Role: The Horde Actor: _Fisher.
Role: Pages Actor: Master Chatterley, Master Heather
Role: The Horde Actor: Danby, Danby Jun., Cook, Evans, Fisher, Maddocks, Wentworth, Bardoleau, Willoughby, Elliot, Aylmer, Clarke, Mead, Dibble, Gallot, Caulfield Jun., Tett, Sawyer.

486
29 January 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adelaide

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Aickin
Related Works
Related Work: Adelaide Author(s): Henry James Pye

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Cast
Role: The Horde Actor: _Fisher.
Role: Pages Actor: Master Chatterley, Master Heather
Role: The Horde Actor: Danby, Danby Jun., Cook, Evans, Fisher, Maddocks, Wentworth, Bardoleau, Willoughby, Elliot, Aylmer, Clarke, Mead, Dibble, Gallot, Caulfield Jun., Tett, Sawyer.

487
31 January 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 117. The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, and there sat in the pit among the company of fine ladys, &c.; and the house was exceeding full, to see Argalus and Parthenia, the first time that it hath been acted: and indeed it is good, though wronged by my over great expectations, as all things else are

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Argalus And Parthenia

Related Works
Related Work: Argalus and Parthenia Author(s): Henry Glapthorne

488
05 February 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert (Dramatic Records, p. 117), where are listed The Loyall Subject, Mad Louer, The Wildgoose Chase following this play but preceding April 1661. Pepys, Diary: I went by coach to the play-house at the Theatre, our coach in King Street breaking, and so took another. Here we saw Argalus and Parthenia, which I lately saw, but though pleasant for the dancing and singing, I do not find good for any wit or design therein

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Argalus And Parthenia

Related Works
Related Work: Argalus and Parthenia Author(s): Henry Glapthorne

489
28 October 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary To the Theatre, and there saw Argalus and Parthenia, where a woman acted Parthenia, and came afterwards on the stage in men's clothes, and had the best legs that ever I saw, and I was very well pleased with it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Argalus And Parthenia

Related Works
Related Work: Argalus and Parthenia Author(s): Henry Glapthorne

490
23 May 1662 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: My wife and I slunk away to the Opera, where we saw Wit in a Constable, the first time that it is acted; but so silly a play I never saw I think in my life

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit In A Constable

Related Works
Related Work: Wit in a Constable Author(s): Henry Glapthorne

491
October 1663 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This play is assigned to this period because it was licensed on 16 Oct. 1663 and advertised in The Intelligencer, 23 Nov. 1663. There is no specific evidence that it was acted in the autumn of 1663. See 20 and 21 March 1666@7 for a later production

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Marriage Night

Performance Comment: The edition of 1664 has no actors' names, no prologue, no epilogue.
Related Works
Related Work: The Marriage Night Author(s): Henry Cary, Viscount Falkland

492
21 March 1667 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: I alone out and to the Duke of York's play-house, where unexpectedly I come to see only the young men and women of the house act; they having liberty to act for their own profit on Wednesdays and Fridays this Lent; and the play they did yesterday, being Wednesday, was so well-taken, that they thought fit to venture it publickly to-day; a play of my Lord Falkland's called The Wedding Night, a kind of tragedy, and some things very good in it, but the whole together, I thought, not so. I confess I was well enough pleased with my seeing it: and the people did do better, without the great actors, than I did expect, but yet far short of what they do when they are there, which I was glad to find the difference of

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Marriage Night

Performance Comment: See16670320 young actors of the company.
Related Works
Related Work: The Marriage Night Author(s): Henry Cary, Viscount Falkland

493
03 August 1672 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. There is no certainty that this date represents the premiere. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 2. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, pp. 33-34): Loves Jealousy, and The Morning Ramble. Written by Mr Nevil Pain. Both were very well Acted, but after their first run, were laid aside, to make Room for others; the Company having then plenty of new Poets. Two songs, Ah Corydon in vain you boast and Some happy soul come down and tell, both set by Robert Smith, are in Choice Songs and Ayres, The First Book, 1673

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Jealousie

Performance Comment: Edition of 1673: Don Antonio-Smith; Don Gerardo-Medburn; Don Francisco-Young; Don Sebastian-Crosby; Jasper-Sandford; Pedro-Burford; Servant-Norris; Captain of the Watch-Nath. Leigh; Caelia-Mrs Shadwel; Eugenia-Mrs Betterton; Flora-Mrs Osborn; Nurse-Nokes; Witch-Mrs Norris; Prologue-Smith; Epilogue-Harris.
Cast
Role: Captain of the Watch Actor: Nath. Leigh
Related Works
Related Work: The Fatal Jealousie Author(s): Henry Nevil Payne

494
27 January 1685 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 68: The King & Queene. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350. See also Evelyn's Diary for some private concerts at this time

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Disappointment

Related Works
Related Work: The Disappointment; or, The Mother in Fashion Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Disappointment Author(s): Henry Carey

495
01 November 1690 @ Inner Temple

Event Comment: The United Company. The company received the customary fee of #20 for this performance. See A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, III, 286. This play was also reprinted in 1691

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Related Works
Related Work: Amphitryon; or, The Two Sosias Author(s): Henry Purcell

496
December 1691 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. The Gentleman's Journal, January 1691@2, page 5, implies that King Arthur was revived in December 1691: And the last Opera called King Arthur, which hath been plaid several times the last Month. [Since the Gentleman's Journal was often published in the month following the date of an issue, it is possible that this revival occurred in January 1691@2, for there was a certain performance on 7 Jan. 1691@2.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Related Works
Related Work: King Arthur; or, The British Worthy Author(s): Henry Purcell

497
07 January 1692 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@151, p. 369: ye Q a Box & a Box for ye Maids Honr K Arthur. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 352. Luttrell, A Brief Relation, II, 331: The queen and queen dowager went this evening to the play of Mr Dryden s opera. [See also the reference to this play under January 1691@2 above.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Related Works
Related Work: King Arthur; or, The British Worthy Author(s): Henry Purcell

498
13 June 1692 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. Newdigate newsletters, 11 June 1692: And on Monday [the Princess Anne] comes to see the new opera (Wilson, More Theatre Notes from the Newdigate Newsletters, p. 59)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fairy Queen

Related Works
Related Work: The Fairy Queen Author(s): Henry Purcell

499
16 February 1693 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@151, p. 369: ye Q a Box & a Box for ye Maids Honr Fairy Queen. [See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 352. This play was reprinted in 1693: With Alterations, Additions, and several new Songs. See Purcell's Works, Purcell Society, XII (1903), i.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fairy Queen

Related Works
Related Work: The Fairy Queen Author(s): Henry Purcell

500
07 February 1698 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Lady Morley attended this performance. Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 377: Lady Morley and two in the Box at King Arthur 18s. [In The Female Wits--see September 1696--in Act I is a reference to the enlivening of King Arthur created by the Pudding and Dumbling Song.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur Or The British Worthy

Related Works
Related Work: King Arthur; or, The British Worthy Author(s): Henry Purcell
Related Work: Bonduca Author(s): George Colman, the elder