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Event Comment: Luttrell, A Brief Relation, II, 437: This being the queen s birth day, a new ode was sung before her upon the occasion: the nobility and gentry, with the lord mayor and aldermen of this citty, attended to compliment thereon. Gentleman's Journal, May 1692: The 30th of April, being Her Majesties Birth-day, was observ'd with all the usual Solemnity. I design'd to have sent you an Attempt of mine in Verse, on that noble Subject: But having happily obtain'd a Copy of those writ by Sir Charles Sidley, it would have been an unpardonable Crime, to have joyn'd my weak Essay to a Piece by so great a Master. [The Ode, Love's Goddess Sure, the music by Henry Purcell, is in Purcell's Works, Purcell Society, XXIV (1926), i.

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Performance Comment: An Anniversary Ode sung before Her Majesty...the Words by Sir Charles Sidley: Set by Mr Henry Purcell-.
Event Comment: By Elkanah Settle. Luttrell, A Brief Relation, 29 Oct. 1692: This day the usuall show of lord mayors, where the king and queen dined, most of the nobility, &c., but the prince and princesse were not invited: the feast was at charge of lord mayor and court of alderman: the lord mayor subscribed 300#, each she rife, 150#, and the aldermen 50# apeice: the kings regiment of foot guards was all in new cloths, and the horse guards too: the militia of Middlesex were as a guard in the Strand, and the artillery, with silver and steell headpeices, lined tne streets where the mayor came

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Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is known by one of the rare playbills extant from this period. It is in HMC, Verney MSS., 7th Report, p. 509, and reproduced opposite page 240 in Lawrence, Elizabethan Playhouse, 2d Series: Never Acted but once. At the Theatre Royal, in Drury-Lane, this present Wensday being the Nineth day of November, will be presented, A New Play called, Henry the Second King of England. No money to be return'd after the curtain is drawn. By their Majesties Servants. Vivant Rex & Regina. Lady Margaret Russell to Katherine Russell, 10 Nov. 1692: You will be surprised that Lady Cavendish has been hindered by a little sore throat from going yesterday to a new play of King Henry and Rosamond, which is much commended (HMC, 12th Report, Appendix, Part V, Rutland MSS., p. 124)

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Mainpiece Title: Henry The Second

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is known from a playbill: At tne Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane this present Wensday, being the last day of November, will be presented, a Play called, The Indian Emperour, Or, The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. No money to be return'd after the Curtain is drawn. By their Majesties Servants. Vivant Rex and Regina. [See HMC, 7th Report, Verney Papers, p. 509; and Lawrence, Elizabethan Playhouse, 2d Series, opposite page 241.

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Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperour; Or, The Conquest Of Mexico By The Spaniards

Event Comment: The United Company. Writing on 3 Jan. 1692@3, Anthony Wood states: A new comedie composed by Mr Tate, poet laureat, was acted before their majesties, M. 2 Jan. (Andrew Clark, The Life and Times of Anthony Wood [Oxford, 1894], III, 413). Since no new play by Tate is known to have been acted at this time, and since A Duke and No Duke was reprinted in 1693 (Term Catalogues, May 1693), and acted several times (Gentleman's Journal, January 1692@2, issued in March):A Duke and no Duke being often acted now, and scarce, is reprinted, with the addition of a curious Preface, by our Laureat, concerning Farce. [Possibly Wood was mistaken in thinking that A Duke and no Duke was a new play. It seems the one most likely to fit the circumstances of this period.

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Mainpiece Title: A Duke And No Duke

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is announced in a playbill: At the Queen's Theatre, in Dorset-Garden, this present Wensday being the Nineth of May, will be presented, A Play called, All for Love, Or the World well-lost. No money to be return'd after the Curtain is drawn. By their Majesties Servants. Vivant Rex Q Regina (reproduced opposite page 241 in Lawrence, Elizabethan Playhouse, Second Series)

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Mainpiece Title: All For Love; Or, The World Well-lost

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is known from a playbill: At the Queens Theatre, in Dorset-Garden, this present Tuesday being the 12th of June, will be presented, A Play called, Theodosius, Or, The Force of Love. No money to be return'd after the Curtain is drawn. By their Majesties servants. Vivant Rex & Regina (reproduced opposite page 241, Lawrence, Elizabethan Playhouse, 2d Series)

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Mainpiece Title: Theodosius; Or, The Force Of Love

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: The date of the premiere is not known, but the fact that the opera was advertized in the Post Man, 14-16 Jan. 1696@7, suggests that it was first acted not later than December 1696. As the title page indicates, the work had been intended for presentation before the Court, but the death of Queen Mary prevented its appearance at Court. A Comparison Between the Two Stages (1702), p. 19: Sullen: But to go on, Cynthia and Endymion. Ramble: What a Pox is that? I never heard on't. Sullen: I believe not; 'tis one of Durfey's Toys. Ramble: Durfey's? what again? 'twas just now we parted with him. Sullen: Ay but Sir, you must know this is an Opera--and as he tells us in the Title-page, design'd t be perform'd at court before the late Queen--there's for you; Durfey in his Altitudes--but notwithstanding the vain and conceited Title-page, 'tis good for nothing within: He's the very Antipodes to all the Poets, Antient and Modern: Other Poets treat the Deities civilly, but Mr Durfey makes the Gods Bullies, and Jilts of the chastest Goddesses. Ramble: So, I suppose that was mawl'd, notwithstanding the Honour which he says the Queen intended it. Sullen: 'Twas well for Durfey her late Majesty never saw it; Gad if she had, People wou'd ha' said, it had first been the cause of her Illness, and then of her Death; for 'tis a mortifying Piece o' my Word; Yes, yes,--it was Damn'd

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Mainpiece Title: Cinthia And Endimion; Or, The Loves Of The Deities

Event Comment: Post Boy, 2-4 Feb. 1696@7: On Monday the King visited the Princess of Denmark and invited her to Whitehall on Saturday next, it being her Royal Highnesses Birth Day, and his Majesty has been pleased to give the Right Honourable the Lord Chamberlaine Orders to have the Play called Love for Love, written by Mr Congreve, Acted there the better to Celebrate the Day. Post Boy, 6-9 Feb. 1696@7: Last Saturday being the Anniversary of her Royal Highness the Princess Ann of Denmark's birth...at night the King was pleased to Entertain her with a fine Comedy, call'd Love for Love, Written by Mr Congreve, Acted by his Majesty's servants at Whitehall, where the Court appeared very gay and splendid, suitable to the occasion. [Somewhat similar references appear also in Luttrell, A Brief Relation, IV, 180, and The Flying Post, 6-9 Feb. 1696@7.

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Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Event Comment: Rich's Company. This performance is known by a playbill in the Folger Shakespeare Library: At the New Theatre, in Little Lincolns-Inn Fields, this present Wensday the 27th of October, will be presented, A Comedy call'd, The Committee, or The Faithful Irishman. No Persons to Stand on the Stage. Nor any Money to be after Return'd [sic] the Curtain is Drawn up. By his Majesties Servants. Vivat Rex. [The playbill is reproduced, opposite page 230, in William VanLennep, Some Early English Playbills, Harvard Library Bulletin, VIII (1954).

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Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. This performance is known from a playbill in the Folger Shakespeare Library: Not Acted these 16 Years. At the New Theatre, in Little Lincolns-Inn Fields, Tomorrow being Thursday the 28th of October, will be Reviv'd, A Play call'd Troilus and Cressida; or, Truth Found too late. No Person to stand on the Stage. Nor any Money to be after Return'd [sic] the Curtain is Drawn up. By His Majesties Servants. Vivat Rex

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Mainpiece Title: Troilus And Cressida; Or, Truth Found Too Late

Event Comment: Post Boy, 14-17 May 1698: On Friday night last there was fine Dancing at Kensington, where his Majesty was present, as also His Excellency the French Ambassador: The Frenchman [l'Abbe], who is lately come over and Dances now at the Play-house, was sent for to dance there, and performed his part very dexterously

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Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

Event Comment: London Post, 4-6 Dec. 1699: At the Request of several Persons of Quality, on Thursday next, being the 7th Inst. at the Theatre in Dorset Garden, the Famous Kentishmen, Wm. and Rich. Joy, design to show to the Town before they leave it, the same Tryals of Strength both of them, that Wm. had the Honour of showing before His Majesty, and their Royal Highnesses, with several other Persons of Quality; for which, he receiv'd a considerable Gratuity....Beginning exactly at 2, and Ending at 4. The Boxes 4s. the Pit 2s. 6d. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gall. 1s

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Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

Event Comment: London Post, No. 30, 1-3 Jan. 1700: This day at the Theatre-Royal in Dorset-garden, the Famous Kentish-man Mr Joy, designs to show the same Tryals of Strength, he had the honour of showing before his Majesty, the Prince and Princess of Denmark, and several Persons of Quality, viz. The lifting a weight of 2240 l. Holding an extraordinary large Cart-Horse; and afterwards breaking a Rope that will bear 3500 weight. There will likewise be shewn the Sister, carrying 5 Bushels of Wheat, or any other grain; She being but 15 Years of Age. They will also show on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, beginning at 3 of the Clock, and ending at 4 in the Afternoon. Boxes 3s. Pit 2s. 1st Gallery 1s. Upper gallery 6d

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Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

Event Comment: Benefit Widow and 7 Children of Mr Charles Powel, late Servant to his Majesty and his late Highness the Duke of Gloucester. At the desire of several Persons of Quality. At 8 p.m

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music, Composed by the late Famous Mr Henry Purcell for the York-shire Feast-

Event Comment: Not acted these 25 years. As it was several times presented at court by persons of Quality, for the Entertainment of his late Majesty King Charles the 2d. The Company will continue Acting three times a week, during the term of Bartholomew Fair. [No further performances at Drury Lane during the summer are known.

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Mainpiece Title: The Empress Of Morocco

Music: With the original Mask set to new Musick-

Event Comment: For the entertainment of His Excellency Hodgha Bawhoon, Envoy to Her Majesty from the great King of Persia

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Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Music: Sonatas-Gasperini; A New Entertainment-the whole Band; in which some extraordinary Parts upon the Flute Violin and Hautboy-Paisible, Banister, Latour

Song: Leveridge

Dance: DuRuel, Mrs Campion; with a new dance-the Devonshire Girl in imitation of Mlle Subligne

Event Comment: Benefit Underhill. As it was Acted before her Majesty at St. James's. [See 28 Feb.

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Mainpiece Title: Sir Solomon Single

Event Comment: As it was perform'd several times at court, by Persons of Great Quality, before his late Majesty King Charles II. With all the Scenes Which were originally Presented in it when acted at the Theatre, particularly the Fleet of Shipsv and the Hell Scenev, in which the Masquerade was perform'd

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Mainpiece Title: The Empress Of Morocco

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and instrumental Music-; viz. A full Piece of the late Mr Henry Purcell-Dean, Holmes, Feiston; A new Set of Airs for the Arch Lute and Violin Composed on purpose by Tho. Dean-; That celebrated Sonata for a Violin and Flute made by the famous Signor Gasperini, and played by him and Paisable often before her Majesty, and at the Theatre,-two young Gentlemen that never Play'd in Publick; who also perform some new Italian Sonatas of the most Eminent Masters in Europe, Double/stopped Solos of the Famous Archangelo Corelli-two young Gentlemen; Singing to the Lute-Dean; Several Pieces for Trumpets Flutes and Haut/boys-; Also Select Airs out of the Operas of Camilla and Thomyris, with their Symphonies-the best Performers

Performance Comment: A full Piece of the late Mr Henry Purcell-Dean, Holmes, Feiston; A new Set of Airs for the Arch Lute and Violin Composed on purpose by Tho. Dean-; That celebrated Sonata for a Violin and Flute made by the famous Signor Gasperini, and played by him and Paisable often before her Majesty, and at the Theatre,-two young Gentlemen that never Play'd in Publick; who also perform some new Italian Sonatas of the most Eminent Masters in Europe, Double/stopped Solos of the Famous Archangelo Corelli-two young Gentlemen; Singing to the Lute-Dean; Several Pieces for Trumpets Flutes and Haut/boys-; Also Select Airs out of the Operas of Camilla and Thomyris, with their Symphonies-the best Performers.
Event Comment: Benefit Bowen. For the Entertainment of his Excellency Andreas Artemonides Mativeoff, Ambassador from his Imperial Majesty the Czar of Muscovy

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Mainpiece Title: Bury Fair

Event Comment: Benefit Evans. For the Entertainment of Don Venturo Zary, the Emperour of Morocco's/Minister; and Elhadge Guzman, the Royal Messenger, (from the said Emperour Muley Ismael, to her Majesty) with their Attendants in their several Habits

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Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth: With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Event Comment: Benefit Teno and Rainton. That Celebrated Comedy... As it was perform'd before her Majesty on her Birth Day at St. James's

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Mainpiece Title: The Jew Of Venice; Or, The Female Lawyer

Song: Between the Acts: With several Songs and Dialogues-Teno, Rainton, a Gentlewoman from London, who never perform'd there before; particularly that Celebrated Dialogue of Tell Me Why My Charming Fair by the late famous Mr Henry Purcell-; Mad Dialogue by him-; Also several Opera Songs with Instruments-

Event Comment: By Command. Receipts: #154 18s. 6d. Weekly Pocket, 12 March: His Majesty honour'd that House [lif] with his Presence the first Time since they open'd

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Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

Song: The New Boy, Girl

Dance: duPre, delaGarde, Miss Russell, Miss Schoolding