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Event Comment: By the Great Mogul's Company of Comedians. Mainpiece: Written by the Author of George Barnwell. Afterpiece: A new Dramatick Satire: With freshest Advices Foreign and Domestick. Written by the Author of Pasquin [Henry Fielding]. These Characters will all be seen cheap; 1n the Boxes at 5s.; in the Pit at 3s.; in the Gallery at 2s. Note, None will be admitted after the House is full; for which Reason, the sooner you come, or secure your Places, the better. All Persons are desir'd to cry at the Tragedy, and laugh at the Comedy, being quite contrary to the present general Practice. Mr Hen gives Notice, that if any Joke is both Hiss'd and Clapp'd, such Division will be consider'd an Encore, and the said Joke be put up again. Daily Advertiser, 22 March: Last Night the two new Performances at the Hay-Market...were receiv'd with the greatest Applause ever shown at the Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: The Historical Register

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 17 March: This is to inform the Publick, that the new Tragi-Comedy, intitled The Free-Thinker; or, The Fox uncas'd, which was last Summer rehearsed and was to have been play'd at [lif], but by Mr Rich's letting that House to Mr Giffard, for that Season, was prevented, will be acted on the 14th of April next [at yb], by Mr Hallam's Company of Comedians. The Play is writ much in the same Stile and Manner of George Barnwell....The Author hopes that the Generous and Judicious will encourage the Performance, tho' the Company of Players are not dropt down from the Clouds, nor does the Play libel the Government. [No further announcement of the performance has been noted before 28 April.

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Wedding

Performance Comment: By a Company of Comedians from the Theatres.

Afterpiece Title: A Hint to the Theatres

Event Comment: Acted but Once these Twenty Years. [As lif acted on Tuesdays and Fridays, possibly these plays were given earlier on 22 June.] By a Company of Comedians, acting under Letters-Patent. Mainpiece: Written by Thomas Shadwell, Esq; Poet-Laureat

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Mainpiece Title: The Woman Captain

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: TThe Ladies' Lamentation, as17370414 A Dialogue set by Henry Purcell-the Masters Hamilton

Dance: JJe ne scai quoi-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates

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Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler of Preston

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Lalauze, Nivelon; Comic Dance-Richardson, Miss Cantrel; Scots Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 17 Aug.: Yesterday Morning died at his House at Strand on the Green after three Days Illness, Mr Joseph Miller, a celebrated Comedian

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Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 4 Oct.: The French Company of Comedians newly arriv'd from Paris, it's said, consists of seventy Persons. It seems to be a little unnatural that French Strollers should have a Superior Privilege to those of our own Country

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Event Comment: For attacks upon the company of French comedians, see Daily Post, 7 Oct., and London Evening Post, 7 Oct

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Event Comment: See Daily Post, 12 Oct., for an attack on the French comedians as well as one on the luxury of opera

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Event Comment: See London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 7 Nov., for The Case of the French Comedians, a statement signed by Moylin Francisque and J. B. LeSage

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Event Comment: N.B. Whereas it has been industriously reported that the French Comedians are to perform in One of the Theatres belonging to Mr Rich, this is to certify to the Publick, that nothing of that kind Was ever intended, or wou'd have been permitted by him, unless the same had been with the general Consent of the Town

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: CComic Dance-Richardson, Miss Cantrel; Serious Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Scots Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

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Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: IV: Moors Dance-Muilment, Mrs Walter

Music: V: Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Master Ferg

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Performance Comment: See17390514, but Foppington (new dressed)-Cibber, being the first time of his appearance on that stage; Berinthia-Mrs Horton; Loveless-Hallam; Worthy-Bridgwater; Young Fashion-Walker; Sir Tunbelly-Marten; Amanda-Mrs Stevens; Hoyden-Mrs Vincent; Coupler-Arthur; Bull-Littleton; Shoemaker-Clark; Nurse-Mrs Martin; Seringe and Lory-Chapman.

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: See17390518, but Doctor-Cibber; Also an Epilogue by Jo. Haines, Comedian of facetious Memory) by particular Desire,-the young Captain in his Regimentals, Riding on an Ass.

Dance: Master Oates, Phillips from dl, Miss Oates, Master Ferg

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Duke. Egmont, Diary, III, 83: I went with my wife to the play entitled 'Sir Walter Raleigh,' revived by the comedians on occasion of the now differences with Spain. They choose one to represent Count Gundemar, who in all things is like Mr Giraldini, the Spanish minister at our Court lately recalled, and whenever any severe things were said which bore a resemblance to our ministry's transactions, or our backwardness to resent the insults of Spain, the audience clapped all over the house

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Mainpiece Title: Sir Walter Raleigh

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: V: Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 19 Feb. Yesterday died of an Astmatick Disorder, at his Chambers in Clement's Inn, Mr Benjamin Griffin, a celebrated Comedian, belonging to Drury-Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg; In II: Pierots-Lalauze, Pelling; III: La Matelote-Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: Le Gout de Anglois-Master Matthews, Miss Wright

Ballet: A Voyage to the Land of Cytherea. As17400115

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Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Parting Lovers

Dance: I: Peasants-the French Boy and Girl; II: Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; III: Swiss Dance-French Boy and Girl; IV: Grecian Sailors-Glover; V: Hippisley's Drunken Man-

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Mainpiece Title: Ritons Strike Home Or The English Sailors Triumphs

Performance Comment: Punch's Celebrated Company of Comedians, formerly Mrs Charke's.
Event Comment: By Authority. By the Hurlothrumbo Company of Comedians. Mainpiece: An Operatical Comedy of Three Acts. Written by Lord Flame [Samuel Johnson of Chesire]. Afterpiece: a Farce of Two Acts. [Presumably by Johnson also.] Box 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d. 7 p.m

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Mainpiece Title: A Fool Made Wise

Afterpiece Title: Sir John Falstaff in Masquerade

Event Comment: At Fawkes and Pinchbeck's Great Theatrical Booth on the Bowling Green, with the Large Blue Flag on the Top. By the Great Mogul's Company of Comedians from hay, gratis. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. First Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. 10 a.m. Afterpiece: Pinchbeck's curious Machinev. [Advertised also 8, 9, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21 Sept.

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Mainpiece Title: The Baronet Bit Or The Noble Englishman Rewarded With The Comical Humours Of Sir Mannerly Shallow And His Man Booby

Afterpiece Title: The Siege of Cartagena

Event Comment: Benefit Widow Harper. See Daily Advertiser, 30 April: The case of the Widow of the late John Harper, Comedian: Mr Harper, having been seiz'd about four years since with a Paralitic Disorder, which not only rendered him incapable of acting, but depriv'd him of the use of his limbs, and in some degree affected his senses so as to make him an object of great compassion; during which long and dreadful Indisposition of near four years all possible means were tried (tho' in vain) to recover him, which impair'd and hurt his Circumstances, so greatly, as not to permit him to leave a sufficent Support for his widow, who is in years and unprovided for. Mr Harper dying in January last, according to a custom in the theatre his widow is entitled to a Benefit, and the Comedy of The Miser is to be acted to-morrow night for her Benefit, at Drury Lane; but as she is incapable of making a proper interest for it, without applying to the Compassion and Generosity of the Publick, she hopes to be excused in giving them the Trouble of this her case. Tickets deliver'd out by Roger will be taken.See Garrick's Additional Benefit for her on 11 May.] Receipts: #50

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Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Song: I: The Noontide Air-Beard; V: Ellen@a@Roon (by Particular Desire)-Mrs Clive

Dance: II: Running Footman's Dance, as17420428 IV: a Dutch Dance-Phillips

Event Comment: Benefit a Family in Distress. [Concert formula.] Great Theatrical Booth, Bowling Green. Boxes and Stage 3s. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s. By the Company of Comedians from the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, & who perform gratis. To begin positively at Six and conclude about Nine. By Permission

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Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Music: Solo on German Flute-Mr Thumoth

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Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

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Event Comment: We hear his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has fitted up a Theatre near Cliefden, for a Company of French Comedians, who play there three times a week (Daily Advertiser)

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Event Comment: DDaniel's, Malone's, and James's Great Theatrical Booth, joining to the Swan in Tottenham Court. By a Company of Comedians. Noon to 10 p.m. [A letter in Daily Advertiser, 12 August describes a performance on Monday 8 August; further notices appear in Daily Advertiser, 11 and 12 Aug.; it is possible this production was shown every day from 4 Aug. to 16 Aug., the time of the fair.

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Mainpiece Title: Glorious Queen Of Hungary Or The British Troops Triumphant With The Comical Humours Of paddy The Irishman tom Thimble The Taylor And tim Buzzle The Cobler

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Hussar

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Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: III: Italian Masquerade, as17431126