Toggle Sphinx Query
SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "His Royal Highness the Duke of York"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "His Royal Highness the Duke of York")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

Result Options

Download:
JSON XML CSV

Search Filters

Event

Date Range
Start
End

Performance

?
Filter by Performance Type










Cast

?
+
+

Keyword

?
New Search
4868 results for: Keyword - His Royal Highness the Duke of York
We found 2263 matches on Event Comments, 1567 matches on Performance Comments, 1035 matches on Performance Title, 402 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3501
24 February 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: As17991015, but Duke-Powell.
Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Powell.

Afterpiece Title: Of Age To-morrow

Song: As17991001

3502
17 April 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: As17991125, but Duke of Gloster (1st time)-Raymond.
Cast
Role: Duke of Gloster Actor: Raymond.

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

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

3503
23 May 1800 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Ledger, Thompson, Klanert, Claremont, Simmons, Wilde, Miss Mills, Miss Sims, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Masters, Lee, Goostree, Street, Mrs Mills, Mrs Sydney, Abbot, Mrs Egan will be admitted. 3rd piece: Representation of the Battle, as 9 Nov. 1799. Receipts: #424 9s. 6d. (40.13.6; 5.3.0; tickets: 378.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Performance Comment: Alberto-Murray; Count Valentia-Betterton; Marquis Almanza-Whitfield; Duke Mercia-Davenport; Seville-Whitmore; Granada-Atkins; Marchioness Merida-Mrs Maddocks; Amanthis-Miss Murray.
Cast
Role: Duke Mercia Actor: Davenport
Role: Amanthis Actor: Miss Murray.

Afterpiece Title: The Dramatist

Related Works
Related Work: The Female Dramatist Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: The Mouth of the Nile

Dance: In 1st piece: Hornpipe-Cuerton; End 2nd piece: The Minuet de la Cour, a Favorite Scotch Pas Deux-Klanert, Mrs Watts

3504
11 February 1662 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: I saw a Comedy acted before the Dutchesse of York at the Cock-pit: The king was not at it

Performances

3505
11 October 1666 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Rugge's Diurnal, BM Add. Mss. 10117, folio 179: Acted at Whitehall atcourt a play witt wt'out mony before King and nobility. Pepys, Diary, 15 Oct.: But she [Lady Carteret] cries out of the vices of the Court, and how they are going to set up plays already; and how, the next day after the late great fast, the Duchesse of York did give the King and Queene a play. Nay, she told me that they nave heretofore had plays at court the very nights before the fast for the death of the late King [i.e., on the night preceding 30 Jan.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

3506
01 April 1671 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: An order of the Lord Chamberlain (5@12, p. 202) dated 1 April 1671, states that the theatres are to be closed because of the death of the Duchess of York on 31 March 1671. See Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 322. It is uncertain how long the theatres were closed, but probably the closure extended for six weeks

Performances

3507
03 September 1675 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: G. Lady Chaworth to Lord Roos, 7 Sept. 1675: The Dutchesse of York? lykes Bartholomew Faire so well she hath bin att [it] againe incognito on Friday (HMC, 12th Report, Part V, Rutland Papers, II, 27)

Performances

3508
27 January 1680 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: It is not certain that this performance was given by the King's Company, but because it first produced the play, it has been assigned to Drury Lane. Pepys, Diary: Tuesday January the 27th...comeing home at night (after I had carryed my Cozen Winn Houblon home from a Play (shee would if she could). [Mornamont MS II, folio 1192, Cambridge University Library.] See also Arthur Bryant, Samuel Pepys: Years of Peril (New York, 1935), p. 314

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Would If She Could

3509
11 November 1689 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: London Gazette, No 2500, 24-28 Oct. 1699: Whereas the Consort of Musick, lately in Bow-street, being remov'd to York Buildings, intended to have begun this present Munday, but upon an urgent occasion, are forc'd to defer it till the Monday after the King's Birth-day, being the 11th of November, and so continue every Munday for the future. [See also 17 Oct. 1689.

Performances

3510
14 November 1689 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: London Gazette, No 2504, 7-11 Nov. 1689: The Consorts of Musick that, for some extraordinary occasions have been discontinued, shall be performed in York-buildings upon Thursday next, being the 14th instant, and every Thursday after

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

3511
16 January 1690 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@151, p. 369. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 352. The MS music composed for a revival of this play, apparently at this time, by G. Finger and Daniel Purcell, is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or, The Death Of Alexander The Great

Performance Comment: A copy of the 1690 quarto (New York Public Library) has the following MS cast which may well pertain to this season: Alexander-Mountfort; Lysimachus-Williams; Hephestion-Bowman; Cassander-Powell; Statira-Mrs Bracegirdle; Roxana-Mrs Barry.

3512
03 February 1690 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: According to a notice in the London Gazette, No 2529, 3-6 Feb. 1689@90, there was a concert at York Buildings on Monday 3 Feb. 1689@90

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

3513
24 February 1690 @ Exeter Change, The Strand

Event Comment: London Gazette, No 2533, 17-20 Feb. 1689@90: The Musick-Meeting that was lately held in Villers-street in York-Buildings, is removed to Exeter Change in the Strand; the Entrance is at the West-door of the said Exchange; and will begin at the Hours as formerly, every Monday

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

3514
10 March 1690 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: London Gazette, No. 2538, 6-10 March 1689@90: The Consort of Musick is again removed into Viller's Street, in York-Buildings, where it will be continued every Monday-night, at the usual Hour

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

3515
27 March 1690 @ Merchant Taylors Hall

Event Comment: London Gazette, No 2542, 20-24 March 1689@90: The Annual Yorkshire Feast will be held the 27th instant at Merchant-Taylor's-Hall in Threadneedle-street; with a very splendid Entertainment of all sorts of Vocal and Instrumental Musick. D'Urfey (Wit and Mirth, I, 114-16): An Ode on the Assembly of the Nobility and Gentry of the City and County of York, at the Anniversary-Feast, March the 27th 1690. Set to Musick by Mr Henry Purcell, One of the finest Compositions he ever made, and cost 100l. the performing

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

3516
29 September 1690 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: London Gazette, No. 259, 22-25 Sept. 1690: The Consort of Vocal and Instrumental Musick, lately performed in Villers-street in York-Buildings, will begin again in the same place on Monday next, (being Michaelmas-day) at 7 of the Clock; and will be conducted there every Monday night all this ensuing Winter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

3517
06 November 1691 @ York Street, Covent Garden

Event Comment: London Gazette, No 2710, 29 Oct.-2 Nov. 1691: The Consort of Musick in York-street, Covent-Garden, will be perform'd on Friday next, being the 6th of November

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

3518
09 November 1691 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: London Gazette, No 2711, 2-5 Nov. 1691: The Consort of Musick in York-Buildings, will be performed on Wednesday next being the 9th instant

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

3519
01 November 1692 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: London Gazette, No 2813, 24-27 Oct. 1692: The Consort of Musick in York-Buildings, will begin on Tuesday the 1st of November, at 8 of the Clock precisely, and so to continue every Tuesday

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

3520
13 May 1693 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: London Gazette, No. 2869, 8-11 May 1693: On Saturday next, being the 13th of this Instant, at 8 of the Clock in the Evening, will be sung a new French Pastoral, in the Musick-Meeting in York-Buildings, where the Words printed will be distributed; It being to be sung but this one time

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

3521
17 June 1693 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: London Gazette, No 2878, 8-12 June 1693: Next Saturday being the 17th of June will be perform'd in Villers-street in York-Building, for that time only, Mr Franks Consort, which will consist of English Dialogues and Songs (the Words by Mr Motteux) with Instrumental Musick proper to them, beginning exactly at 7 at Night. The Gentleman's Journal, May 1693 (issued in June 1693): We have had lately a Consort of Music, which as it hath pleased the most nice and judicious Lovers of that Art; would doubtless have had your Approbation; I only speak of the Notes which were by Mr Franck; As for the words I [Motteux] made them in haste (p. 148)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

3522
02 November 1693 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: London Gazette, No 2919, 30 Oct.-2 Nov. 1693. Whereas last Monday proving to be the Lord Mayors Day Signior Tosi could not play his Consort of Musick, but will do it this present Thursday the 2d instant, and the Thursday following; and afterwards on every Monday, in York-Buildings, during the Winter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

3523
27 November 1693 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: London Gazette, No 2925, 20-23 Nov. 1693: In York-Buildings on Monday next being the 27th Instant, will begin Mr Fingers Consort of Musick, and so continue every Monday night, beginning exactly at 8 of the Clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

3524
15 January 1694 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: London Gazette, No 2939, 8-11 Jan. 1693@4: In York Buildings, on Monday next, will be performed the last St Cecilia's Song, beginning at the usual Hour. [See 22 Nov. 1693.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

3525
05 February 1694 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: London Gazette, No. 2945, 29 Jan.-1 Feb. 1693@4: At the Consort in York-Buildings, on Monday next the 5th instant, will be performed Mr Finger s St Cecilias Song, intermixt with variety of other new Musick, at the ordinary Rates. [See 22 Nov. 1693.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert