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11769 results for: Keyword - John Dennis
We found 9825 matches on Author, 1709 matches on Performance Comments, 1143 matches on Event Comments, 327 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

526
21 October 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece. Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Related Works
Related Work: The Provok'd Wife Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Related Works
Related Work: The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Doctor Faustus Author(s): John Rich

527
24 October 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these Ten Yeats. Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Afterpiece: A Masque in Two Interludes. Receipts: #76 10s. Probable attendance: boxes, 74 paid and 17 by orders; balcony, 1 paid; pit, 218 paid and 20 by orders; slips, 11 paid and 14 by orders; first gallery, 161 paid and 7 by orders; second gallery, 101 paid. The Prince and Princess of Wales present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Related Works
Related Work: The Mistake Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: Like Master Like Man Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: The Wrangling Lovers Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: Lovers' Quarrels Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: Pan and Syrinx

Related Works
Related Work: Pan and Syrinx Author(s): John Galliard

Dance: Dancing proper to the Masque-Nivelon, Salle, DuPre, Lally, Pelling, Newhouse, Lanyon, DuPre Jr, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Ogden

528
28 October 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #65 19s. Probable attendance: boxes, 45 paid and 38 orders; balcony, 1 paid; pit, 217 paid and 33 orders; slips, 21 paid and 16 orders; first gallery, 145 paid and 15 orders; second gallery, 82 paid and 2 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Related Works
Related Work: The Mistake Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: Like Master Like Man Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: The Wrangling Lovers Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: Lovers' Quarrels Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: Pan and Syrinx

Related Works
Related Work: Pan and Syrinx Author(s): John Galliard

Dance: As17261024

529
12 November 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #73 3s. Probable attendance: boxes, 46 paid and 34 orders; balcony, 1 paid; pit 220 paid and 26 orders; slips, 17 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 203 paid and 9 orders; second gallery, 97 paid and 2 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Related Works
Related Work: The False Friend Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgo-Master Trick'd

Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd Author(s): John Rich
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, Harlequin Mercury Author(s): John Thurmond
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne Author(s): John Hughes
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, Harlequin's Metamorphosis Author(s): John Thurmond

530
05 December 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #38 15s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 32 paid and 9 orders; pit, 83 paid and 18 orders; slips, 7 paid and 11 orders; first gallery, 112 paid and 9 orders; second gallery, 120 paid and 4 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Related Works
Related Work: The Confederacy Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Related Works
Related Work: The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Doctor Faustus Author(s): John Rich

531
30 December 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By John Thurmond, Dancing Master.] The Scenes, Machines, Cloaths, &c. entirely New. The Scenes painted by Messieurs Tillemans, Eberlin, Devoto, and Dominic

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Related Works
Related Work: Rule a Wife and Have a Wife Author(s): John Fletcher

Afterpiece Title: The Miser; or, Wagner and Abericock

Related Works
Related Work: The Miser; or, Wagner and Abericock Author(s): John Thurmond

532
07 January 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #147 5s. 6d. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Probable attendance: boxes, 194 paid and 20 orders; stage, 1 paid; balcony, 4 paid; pit, 275 paid and 11 orders; slips, 38 paid and 5 orders; first gallery, 406 paid and 9 orders; second gallery, 165 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Related Works
Related Work: The Confederacy Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgo-Master Trick'd

Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd Author(s): John Rich
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, Harlequin Mercury Author(s): John Thurmond
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne Author(s): John Hughes
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, Harlequin's Metamorphosis Author(s): John Thurmond

533
11 January 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #73 3s. Probable attendance: boxes, 62 paid and 5 orders; stage, 2 paid; pit, 174 paid and 45 orders; slips, 6 paid and 5 orders; first gallery, 216 paid and 33 orders; second gallery, 140 paid and 13 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Related Works
Related Work: The False Friend Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Related Works
Related Work: The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Doctor Faustus Author(s): John Rich

534
13 January 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #37 5s. Probable attendance: boxes, 21 paid and 5 orders; pit, 101 paid and 28 orders; slips, 20 paid and 10 orders; first gallery, 91 paid and 61 orders; second gallery, 95 paid and 6 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Related Works
Related Work: The Mistake Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: Like Master Like Man Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: The Wrangling Lovers Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: Lovers' Quarrels Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: Jupiter and Europa

Related Works
Related Work: Jupiter and Europa; or, The Intrigues of Harlequin Author(s): John Rich

535
09 February 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #21 2s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 22 paid and 13 orders; stage, 3 paid; pit, 53 paid and 21 orders; slips, 9 paid and 8 orders; first gallery, 79 paid and 11 orders; second Gallery, 40 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Related Works
Related Work: The Mistake Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: Like Master Like Man Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: The Wrangling Lovers Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: Lovers' Quarrels Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Dance: SScottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Poitier; Fingalian Dance-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; Shepherd and Shepherdess-Salle, Mlle Salle; French Peasant-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre

536
27 February 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As 25 Feb. Afterpiece: [By John Thurmond.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Second Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Triumph

Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin's Triumph Author(s): John Thurmond

537
21 March 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #122 6s. Probable attendance: boxes and pit, 277 paid and 24 orders; slips, 19 paid and 2 orders; first gallery, 319 paid and 6 orders; second gallery, 134 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country House

Related Works
Related Work: The Country House Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

538
05 October 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse; Or, Virtue In Danger

Performance Comment: Foppington-Cibber; Loveless-Wilks; Worthy-Mills; Young Fashion-Cibber Jr; Sir Tunbelly-Shepard; Lory-Ray; Coupler-Johnson; Shoemaker-Miller; Surgeon-Norris; Berinthia-Mrs Oldfield; Amanda-Mrs Porter; Hoyden-Mrs Mills.
Cast
Role: Coupler Actor: Johnson
Related Works
Related Work: The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Dance: Lally, Boval, Rainton, Mrs Booth, Mrs Mills, Mrs Walter; particularly Myrtillo-

539
10 November 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #70 0s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 65 paid and 17 orders; pit, 179 paid and 19 orders; slips, 16 paid; first gallery, 181 paid and 3 orders; second gallery, 93 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Related Works
Related Work: The False Friend Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

540
18 November 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #64 11s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 34 paid and 15 orders; Pit, 216 paid and 13 orders; slips, 8 paid and 1 orders; first gallery, 179 paid and 8 orders; second gallery, 58 paid and 2 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Related Works
Related Work: The Provok'd Wife Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

541
27 November 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #125 5s. Probable attendance: boxes, 227 paid and 2 orders; pit, 274 paid and 5 orders; slips, 25 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 262 paid and 6 orders; second gallery, 126 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Related Works
Related Work: The Mistake Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: Like Master Like Man Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: The Wrangling Lovers Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: Lovers' Quarrels Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

542
01 December 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #54. Probable attendance: boxes, 44 paid and 7 orders; pit, 148 paid and 15 orders; slips, 15 paid and 4 orders; first gallery, 116 paid and 10 orders; second gallery, 81 paid and 1 order

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Related Works
Related Work: The Confederacy Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

543
11 January 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #38 7s. Probable attendance: boxes, 19 paid and 9 orders; pit, 105 paid and 18 orders; slips, 2 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 115 paid and 28 orders; second gallery, 57 paid and 8 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Related Works
Related Work: The Mistake Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: Like Master Like Man Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: The Wrangling Lovers Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: Lovers' Quarrels Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

544
13 January 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #38 14s. Probable attendance: boxes, 14 paid and 4 orders; pit, 110 paid and 8 orders; slips, 5 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 120 paid and 9 orders; second gallery, 81 paid and 1 order

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Related Works
Related Work: The Provok'd Wife Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

545
29 January 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By John Gay.] Never Acted before. Receipts: #169 12s. Probable attendance: boxes, 247 paid and 3 orders; stage, 8 paid; balcony, 7 paid; pit, 301 paid and 1 order; slips, 56 paid and 5 orders; first gallery, 437 paid and 7 orders; second gallery, 191 paid. For the first night, see Schultz, pp. 1-5

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

546
21 February 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #170 9s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 236 paid; stage, 44 paid; balcony, 2 paid; Pit, 290 Paid and 3 orders; slips, 47 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 419 paid and 1 order; second gallery, 189 paid. For a comment on the play by Thomas Edwards, see V. M. Gilbert, Unrecorded Comments on John Gay, Henry Travers, and Others, Notes and Queries, August 1953, pp. 337-38

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

547
25 March 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Nivelon. Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: money #29 2s.; tickets #18 19s. Probable attendance: boxes, 33 by money and 29 by tickets; stage, 4 by money; pit, 65 by money and 78 by tickets; slips, 3 by money; firstgallery, 44 by money; second gallery, 82 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Related Works
Related Work: The Confederacy Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Dance: End II: Scots Dance-Mrs Bullock; III: Scating Dance-Nivelon, Miss Fenton; V: Flag Dance in the Characters of +Scaramouche s-Nivelon, Salle, Poitier

Song: End I: Mrs Chambers; IV: No Kissing At All-Leveridge, Salway

548
30 April 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Dupre and Mrs Pelling. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: money #41 3s.; tickets #97 1s. Probable attendance: boxes, 30 by money and 193 by tickets; stage, 9 by money; pit, 73 by money and 220 by tickets; slips, 6 by money; first gallery, 116 by money and 158 by tickets; second gallery, 98 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Related Works
Related Work: The Mistake Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: Like Master Like Man Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: The Wrangling Lovers Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: Lovers' Quarrels Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Related Works
Related Work: Hob's Wedding Author(s): John Leigh
Related Work: Hob's Opera Author(s): John Hippisley
Related Work: Sequel to the Opera of Flora; or, Hob's Wedding Author(s): John Hippisley

Dance: End I: Miss Latour; III: A new Grand Serious Dance by Dupre-Dupre, others; IV: Flag Dance-Nivelon; V: Peasant-LaLoge; End Farce: A new Grand Comic Dance-Dupre, others

Song: II: The Merry Month of May-Miss Warren; End Farce: The Merry Cobler's Tragical End-Leveridge

549
06 May 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Glover. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: money #20 1s. 6d.; tickets #63 10s. Probable attendance: boxes, 27 by money and 162 by tickets; stage, 8 by money; pit, 24 by money and 156 by tickets; slips, 34 by money; first gallery, 44 by money and 71 by tickets

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Related Works
Related Work: The Confederacy Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Related Works
Related Work: The Country House Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Music: German Flute-French Girl, Boy; Kettle Drums-Poitier

Related Works
Related Work: The Charity Boy Author(s): John Cartwright Cross

Dance: BBall Dance-Glover, Mrs Legare; Grand Dance of Moors-Glover; Kettle Drums-Poitier; A new Grand Dance-Glover, Poitier, Pelling, Newhouse, Dupre, Lanyon, Mrs Legare, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Ogden, Miss Latour

550
15 October 1728 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these Twenty Years. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Afterpiece: [By John Mottley.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Metamorphosis; Or, The Old Lover Outwitted

Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, Harlequin's Metamorphosis Author(s): John Thurmond

Afterpiece Title: The Craftsman; or, The Weekly Journalist

Related Works
Related Work: The Craftsman; or, The Weekly Journalist Author(s): John Mottley

Dance: Cleveland, Turner, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Turner