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4635 results for: Keyword - His Royal Highness the Duke
We found 2115 matches on Event Comments, 1466 matches on Performance Comments, 1017 matches on Performance Title, 402 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1651
29 April 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Song: Between the acts: Mrs Storer from the Theatre Royal in Dublin

Dance: Salomon, Sga Padouana, Salomon's Son

1652
05 February 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Cast
Role: the Sing@Song Dancing Spirits Actor: Mrs Lampe, Miss Younge
Role: Serjeant's at Arms Actor: the rest of the Comedians
Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
Related Work: The Rehearsal; or, Bayes in Petticoats Author(s): Katherine Clive

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

1653
10 February 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

1654
19 November 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Tragedy called the Revenge is deferr'd on account of the Indisposition of a Principal Performer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: a Country Dance Actor: the characters of the opera.

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

1655
21 November 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

1656
22 November 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

1657
22 November 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Song: Particularly by Desire Women and Wine-Miss Karver who sang some years ago at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane; since at Mr Foote's Theatre in the Haymarket

1658
25 November 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

1659
29 November 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: a Country Dance Actor: the characters of the opera.

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

1660
30 November 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Quin

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

1661
30 November 1748 @ New Wells, Shepherd's Market

Event Comment: By Particular desire at the New Wells, Shepherd's Market, Mayfair. A Concert, etc. Prices: 1s. 6d., 1s., 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko; Or, The Royal Slave

Related Works
Related Work: The Royal Slave Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

1662
01 December 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

1663
07 January 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

1664
16 March 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace; or, Merlin's Cave

Performance Comment: But with an additional scene in which Don Jumpedo [in the character of Harlequin, will jump down his own throat-. [See17490311] .See17490311] .
Cast
Role: will jump down his own throat Actor: .

1665
18 March 1749 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Last time of the Company's acting till the Easter Holidays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: will jump down his own throat Actor: .

1666
10 May 1749 @ New Wells, Shepherd's Market

Event Comment: YYeates's Company of Comedians. At the New Wells, Shepherd's Market, May Fair. An Historical Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dorastus And Fawnia; Or, The Royal Shepherd And Shepherdess

Song: I: Mrs Dodson; End Droll: Green

Dance: II: Adams

1667
03 November 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko; Or, The Royal Slave

Related Works
Related Work: The Royal Slave Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: Merlin

Cast
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Lowe
Related Works
Related Work: Merlin; or, The Devil of Stone-Henge Author(s): Lewis Theobald

1668
10 May 1750 @ New Wells, Shepherd's Market

Event Comment: At the New Wells, Shepherd's Market. Boxes 3s. Pit 2s. First Gallery 6d. Upper Gallery 3d. (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane The Great

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Fortune Teller

Entertainment: EEquilibres on the Slack Rope-Atkins, of Theatre-Royal, Covent Garden

1669
22 April 1751 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko; Or, The Royal Slave

Related Works
Related Work: The Royal Slave Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

Dance: As17510117

1670
18 September 1753 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Phillips's Great Theatrical Booth, facing the Great Til'd Booth, Bowling Green, To begin at Twelve noon during the time of the Fair. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Upper seats 6d. [For security Phillips has erected no Gallery. Presumably the Patent Theatres were demanding more rigid enforcement of the Licensing Act as indicated in the notice from the Daily Advertiser 18 Sept.: Whereas the Fair called Lady Fair...in the Borough of Southwark...any person or persons..who person..(who ) shall act and exhibit any Droll or Shew (after 20 Sept.) shall be prosecuted and punished according to Law.'

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Slave; Or, A Wife For Ye All

Related Works
Related Work: The Royal Slave Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: The Witch of Endor

1671
20 September 1753 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Slave

Related Works
Related Work: The Royal Slave Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: The Witch of Endor

1672
22 September 1753 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Slave

Related Works
Related Work: The Royal Slave Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: The Witch of Endor

1673
24 September 1753 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Slave

Related Works
Related Work: The Royal Slave Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: The Witch of Endor

1674
03 September 1756 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At the Great Room, George Inn Yard. Mrs Charke and King's Company of Comedians. A new Droll. Pit 1s. 6d. First Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. 12 noon to ten p.m. during the time of the Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ngland Triumphant; Or, The British General

Afterpiece Title: The Merry Beggars; with the Comical Humours of his Royal Consort Queen Tatter

Entertainment: Variety of Singing, Dancing, Rope Dancing, Tumbling-eminent performers lately arrived from Italy

Related Works
Related Work: The Dancing Master Author(s): William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle
Related Work: The French Dancing Master Author(s): William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle

1675
20 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Shuter. Mainpiece: Not acted in 10 years. Receipts: #194 10s. in cash, plus #147 18s. from tickets (Boxes 378; Pit 356). Charges #64 5s. Advanced to Mrs Ward #30. [Shuter called for imaginative participation of his audience in his Medley Skit (see Larpent MS 171): @"Suppose my dress alter'd with each exhibition....@If I speak like a Dutchman, or Brogue it like Paddy,@Or mimic Monsieur, or lisp like a Lady"@ Parts for The English Sailors in America (by G. A. Steevens) are listed in Larpent MS 172: Indian King , English Captain , Irishman , Sailor Ned and Sailor Ben , a Black Messenger , Guards , White Savage Lady , Black Woman , Image .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant; Or, The Beggar's Bush

Dance: TThe Dutch Skipper-Poitier

Entertainment: E+Extravaganza. Shuter will entertain the audience in an Oratorical, Poetical, Operatical Method (never befoer attempted) with a Comic Extravaganza call'd A Day of Taste; or, London Raree Show-Shuter being a Ranelagh Breakfast, a Coffee House Conversation, An Auction at Noon, and the Choice Spirits at Night; conclude with: The Cries of London-. *uó‘cg To which will (By Desire) be added (for this Night only) Mr Shuter's Droll that was perform'd at Bartholomew Fair, call'd The English Sailors in America. Mackfinnen (the Irish Volunteer)-Shuter; Princess-Miss Dawson, her first Time of speaking on the stage

Performance Comment: Shuter will entertain the audience in an Oratorical, Poetical, Operatical Method (never befoer attempted) with a Comic Extravaganza call'd A Day of Taste; or, London Raree Show-Shuter being a Ranelagh Breakfast, a Coffee House Conversation, An Auction at Noon, and the Choice Spirits at Night; conclude with: The Cries of London-. *uó‘cg To which will (By Desire) be added (for this Night only) Mr Shuter's Droll that was perform'd at Bartholomew Fair, call'd The English Sailors in America. Mackfinnen (the Irish Volunteer)-Shuter; Princess-Miss Dawson, her first Time of speaking on the stage.
Cast
Role: London Raree Show Actor: Shuter being a Ranelagh Breakfast, a Coffee House Conversation, An Auction at Noon, and the Choice Spirits at Night
Role: The Cries of London Actor: . uó‘cg To which will
Role: Princess Actor: Miss Dawson, her first Time of speaking on the stage.