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Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Pritchard--pretty well (Cross). Tickets at Pritchard's Warehouse. The only time this play and farce will be performed this season. Afterpiece: Taken from Sir Charles Sedley. [The Larpent MS 112 indicates additional parts in The Grumbler: Lovemore-$Jefferson; Capt. Bellmount-$Ackman; Sir John Rightou'd-?; +Rigant-$Marr; Shallow-$Vaughan; Victoria-$Mrs Simson; Sersnet-Miss ?; +Footboy-?; The MS contains prompt notes also.] Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Performance Comment: As17540330 but Dogberry-Taswell; Don John-Bransby; Antonio, Verges-_.
Cast
Role: Don John Actor: Bransby
Role: Don John Actor: Davies
Related Works
Related Work: Much Ado about Nothing Author(s): John Philip Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Grumbler

Dance: II: Masquerade Dance-

Event Comment: Receipts: #58 4s. Paid for sundries for Mr Ross, viz.: a hat at #1 1s. and a pair of shoes at 14 shillings for Essex; a pair of black shoes at 14 shillings and a pair of black shammy shoes at 10s. 6d. for Hamlet (Account Book). [See Hamlet in Shammy Shoes, by John Yoklavitch, Shakespear Quarterly, III (1952), pp. 209-18.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Young Bevil-Ross; Myrtle-Smith; Sir John-Gibson; Sealand-Sparks; Cimberton-Arthur; Tom-Dyer; Humphrey-Anderson; Daniel-Collins; Lucinda-Mrs Baker; Phillis-Mrs Vincent; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Stephens; Isabella-Miss Ferguson; Indiana-Mrs Hamilton; with Singing-Lowe.
Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Gibson

Afterpiece Title: Merlin (Harlequin Skeleton)

Dance: JJovial Coopers, as17571107

Event Comment: Benefit for Woodward. Mainpiece: Not acted in 20 years. [See 27 Jan. 1744.] With the Humours of Sir John Falstaff. Pit and Boxes laid together, and the Stage formed into a commodious amphitheatre. Boxes, pit, and Stage 5s. Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock; otherwise, Woodward cannot be responsible for any mistake. Places with tickets to be had of Woodward at his house in the Piazza, cg. This Day Publish'd, The Dramatic Execution of Agis. Price 6d. Receipts: #300 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part Ii

Performance Comment: King Henry-Garrick, 1st time; Prince of Wales-Palmer; John of Lancaster-Usher; Archbishop of York-Havard; Chief Justice-Bransby; Shallow-Yates; Silence-Rooker; Pistol-Blakes; Hostess-Mrs Macklin; Doll Tearsheet-Miss Minors; Falstaff-Woodward, 1st time.
Cast
Role: John of Lancaster Actor: Usher
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Related Work: The Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus Vespasian, Part II Author(s): John Crowne
Related Work: The Destruction of Jerusalem, Part II Author(s): John Crowne
Related Work: Aesop, Part II Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards, Part II Author(s): John Dryden

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

Event Comment: bout this time in the month was printed a 42-page pamphlet, Reasons why David Garrick should not appear on the Stage, in a Letter to John Rich. This is high praise of Garrick: 'I am so blinded either by prejudice of admiration that I can see nobody else" when Garrick plays.] Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Performance Comment: Benedick-Garrick; Leonato-Davies; Balthasar (with a proper song)-Atkins; Beatrice-Miss Pritchard; Don Pedro-Havard; Claudio-Palmer; Dogberry-Yates; Frair-Burton; Don John-Bransby; Verges-Philips; Borachio-Blakes; Hero-Mrs Davies; In Act II a Masquerade Dance-; in which will be introduc'd a Minuet-Noverre, Miss Pritchard; To conclude with a Country Dance-the characters of the play.
Cast
Role: Don John Actor: Bransby
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Related Work: Much Ado about Nothing Author(s): John Philip Kemble

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Event Comment: The Doors to be opened at Five o'clock. To Begin exactly at Six o'clock. [Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s.] Vivant Rex et Regina. [Customary footnote for each succeeding Bill. Only significant variations will be noted further. Criticism: For contemporary comment on performances and plays this season see John Potter's Theatrical Review, or New Companion to the Playhouse. 2 vols. London, 1772, a day by day account of Plays and actors at Drury Lane and Covent Garden theatres for the season 1771-72. He is rather severe in his comments on most of the actors at cg. The four relatively constant expenditures set up for each night this season include music: averaging #7 5s.; wardrobe charges of from 1 to #3; properties 7s. to #1; and renters, paid to Garton, the treasurer, #10. Extras, when they occur, which is almost nightly, for such things as kettle drum, side drum, bagpipes, chorus singers, supernumeraries, together with all repair bills paid advances to actors, &c. are duly recorded. I include only what appear to be significant ones which illustrate the theatre as a show business.] Receipts: #186 4s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Performance Comment: Ogleby-Kniveton; Lovewell-Mattocks; Sterling-Dunstall; Sir John-Bensley; Flower-Morris; Brush-Dyer; Canton-Quick; Traverse-Thompson; Truman-R. Smith; Miss Sterling-Mrs Gardner; Fanny-Mrs Mattocks; Betty-Mrs Lessingham; Chambermaid-Miss Ward; Mrs Heidleberg-Mrs Green.
Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: End of Play: The Dutch Milkmaid-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford. [See17700924.

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years. [See 24 Oct. 1770.] Miss P. Hopkins made her first appearance in Celia-great applause (+Hopkins Diary). [The Young Lady who played Celia indentified by Winston MS 11 as Miss Pricilla Hopkins who became Mrs Brereton, then was married a second time to John Kemble. She had acted Celia 19 April 1773 in As You Like It. The Young Lady who played Tragedy was Miss Sharp, later married to W. Palmer (Winston MS 11).] Paid Mr Neale for a laced Hat #1 15s. Receipts: #155 7s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Lovers

Performance Comment: Sir John Dorilant-Reddish; Modely-Dodd; Bellmour-Palmer, first time for all three in these parts; Steward-Waldron; Servant-Everard; Araminta-Mrs King; Lady Beverly-Mrs Hopkins; Celia-a Young Lady, first time.
Cast
Role: Sir John Dorilant Actor: Reddish

Afterpiece Title: The Theatrical Candidates

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: End: The Merry Peasants, as17751018

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years. No joke ever raised such loud and repeated mirth, in the galleries, as Sir John 's labour in getting the body of Hotspur on his back...At length this upper-gallery merriment was done away [with] by the difficulties which Henderson encountered in getting Smith on his shoulders. So much time was consumed in this pick-a-pack business that the spectators grew tired, or rather, disgusted. It was thought best, for the future, that some of Falstaff 's ragamuffins should bear off the dead body" (Davies, I, 273-75). [For Henderson as Falstaff see hay, 24 July 1777.] Receipts: #207 10s. 6d. (185.6.0; 20.7.0; 1.17.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Performance Comment: Hotspur-Smith; King Henry-Bensley (1st appearance in that character); Worchester-Aickin; Sir Richard Vernon-Farren; Northumberland-Packer; Sir Walter Blunt-Hurst; Prince John-Lamash; Westmorland-Wrighten; Douglas-Chaplin; Poins-R. Palmer; Carriers-Moody, Parsons; Francis-Waldron; Bardolph-Wright; Sheriff-Griffiths; Gadshill-Holcroft; Peto-Nash; Prince of Wales-Palmer; Falstaff (1st time [at this theatre])-Henderson; Hostess-Mrs Bradshaw; Lady Piercy (1st time)-Mrs Cuyler.
Cast
Role: Prince John Actor: Lamash

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

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Related Work: The Country Innocence; or, The Chamber-Maid Turn'd Quaker Author(s): John Leanerd
Related Work: The Young Quaker Author(s): John O'Keeffe

Dance: End II: Comic Dance-the Miss Stageldoirs

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Staunton as King John, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes L'Estrange.] Receipts: #223 13s. (211/18; 11/15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward The Black Prince

Performance Comment: As17841020, 1783 but King John-L'Estrange [of CG] .of CG] .
Cast
Role: 83 but King John Actor: L'Estrange

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Event Comment: [Prologue by John Peter Roberdeau (European Magazine, Aug. 1791, p. 141).] "Of Palmer Sen.'s? acting the chief fault is...a manner by far too juvenile. He has very much the turn of countenance and mode of speech suitable to Falstaff, but his gait has no appearance of debility or infirmity, and is such as any man might use, incumbered by the same dress" (Gazetteer, 21 June)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Half An Hour After Supper

Cast
Role: John Actor: Phillimore

Afterpiece Title: King Henry the Fourth [Part I]

Performance Comment: King Henry-Williamson; Prince of Wales-Palmer Jun. (1st appearance on the stage); Lancaster-Bland; Worcester-Aickin; Northumberland-Chapman; Hotspur-Bensley; Douglas-Evatt; Sir Richard Vernon-Davies; Westmoreland-Usher; Sir Walter Blunt-Iliff; Sir John Falstaff-Palmer; Poins-R. Palmer; Gadshill-Ledger; Peto-Farley; Bardolph-Rock; Carriers-Wewitzer, Burton; Francis-Barrett; Lady Percy-Mrs Cuyler; Hostess-Mrs Webb; New Occasional Prologue-Palmer.
Cast
Role: Sir John Falstaff Actor: Palmer

Dance: End II: Triple Hornpipe, as17910617

Event Comment: Powell: [In afterpiece] Sir John Buck Cooke, Phillimore Ill; Classic Benson, Packer Ill. Beggar's Opera rehearsed at 10; New Ballet at 10 and at 12. Receipts: #148 3s. 6d. (103.5.0; 40.6.6; 4.12.0)

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Mainpiece Title: The Cherokee

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Performance Comment: See17950102, but Sir John Buck-Cooke; Classic-Benson.
Cast
Role: Sir John Buck Actor: Cooke
Event Comment: Benefit for R. Palmer. 2nd piece [1st time; SAT 1, by John Peter Roberdeau. Larpent MS 1080; not published]. "This piece found the audience in so ill a humour that it was soon put an end to by a general condemnation of it" (European Magazine, June 1795, p. 414). [3rd piece: Prologue by the elder George Colman.] Morning Chronicle, 20 May: Tickets to be had of R. Palmer, No. 28, Eaton-street, Pimlico. Receipts: #334 17s. 6d. (111.17.0; 44.10.0; 23.19.0; tickets: 154.11.6) (charge: #212 1s. 7d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Saint Andrew's Festival; or, The Game at Goff

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Performance Comment: As17950209, but added to Sir John Trotley: the original Prologue-King.
Cast
Role: Sir John Trotley Actor: King
Event Comment: Benefit for Holman. Afterpiece : Not acted these 8 years [not acted since 16 sar. 1786]. Oracle, 16 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Holman, No. 14, John-street, Adelphi. Receipts: #318 19s. (205.3.6; 5.11.0; tickets: 108.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, First Part

Performance Comment: As17951214, but Westmorland-_; Sheriff-_; Peto-_; Gadshill-_; Prince John of Lancaster-_; Messenger-_; Hotspur's Servant-_; Travellers-_.
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Related Work: Henry the Sixth: The First Part, With The Murder of Humphrey Duke of Glocester Author(s): John Crowne

Afterpiece Title: St

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Related Work: The Fair of St. Germain Author(s): John Ozell
Related Work: The Island of St. Marguerite Author(s): John St. John
Related Work: The Shamrock; or, The Anniversary of St. Patrick Author(s): John O'Keeffe
Related Work: Britain's Brave Tars!!; or, All for St. Paul's Author(s): John O'Keeffe
Related Work: Mary Queen of Scots Author(s): John St. John
Related Work: St. Andrew's Festival; or, The Game at Golf Author(s): John Peter Roberdeau

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Dryden's Ode of Alexander's Feast-Holman

Song: After the monologue: My Mother had a Maid called Barbara, as17960314The Minstrel's Song, Where is that tow'ring spirit fled? as17960314Tho' Hurricanes rattle (composed by Shield)-Incledon, Bowden; Ye Gentlemen of England, as17960314

Event Comment: Mainpiece [altered by John Philip Kemble]. Receipts: #427 19s. (360.8.6; 66.5.6; 1.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: Sir John Loverule-Dignum; Butler-Sedgwick; Cook-Hollingsworth; Jobson-Bannister Jun.; Doctor-Maddocks; Lady Loverule-Miss Heard; Lucy-Miss Chatterley; Lettice-Miss Tidswell; Nell-Mrs Jordan.
Cast
Role: Sir John Loverule Actor: Dignum
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Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): John Mottley
Event Comment: [Mainpiece: With alterations by John Philip Kemble.] Receipts: #115 14s. (81.0.6; 32.9.6; 2.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Performance Comment: Don Pedro-Whitfield; Leonato-Aickin; Antonio-Packer; Don John-Campbell; Claudio-Barrymore; Benedick-Kemble; Borachio-Phillimore; Conrade-Caulfield; Friar-Maddocks; Balthazar-Dignum; Dogberry-Suett; Verges-Dowton; Sexton-Hollingsworth; Oatcake-Wewitzer; Seacoal-Denman; Hero-Miss Mellon; Beatrice-Miss Farren; Margaret-Miss Tidswell; Ursula-Miss Heard.
Cast
Role: Don John Actor: Campbell
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Related Work: Much Ado about Nothing Author(s): John Philip Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Dance: In II: Masquerade-; Dance-Gentili, Mrs Wild

Song: In Masquerade: Stevens's Glee, Sigh no more Ladies-Dignum, Sedgwick Cooke, Master Welsh, Mrs Bland, Miss DeCamp

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; MF 1, by John O'Keeffe. Larpent MS 1188; not published]: The Overture and Music by Attwood. European Magazine, Jan. 1798, p. 42: Written with allusion to Their Majesties' attendance at St. Paul's [on this day, at a thanksgiving service held in honor of the recent naval victories of Howe, St. Vincent and Duncan]. Receipts: #289 17s. (286.11; 3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: As17971102, but Peter-_; Friar John-_; Apothecary-_.
Cast
Role: Romeo Actor: Johnston
Role: Friar John Actor: Thompson

Afterpiece Title: Britain's Brave Tars

Performance Comment: !; or, All for St. Paul's. Principal Characters-Incledon, Munden, Johnstone, Knight, Townsend, Claremont, Simmons, Wilde, Abbot, Curties, Miss Wheatley, Mrs Watts, Mrs Davenport. [Larpent MS lists the parts: Nutmeg, Capt. Ogle, Lieutenant Tafferel, Junk, Weatherbang, Pat Plunket, Dick, Waiters, Painter, Lady Piony, Miss Nancy.]Larpent MS lists the parts: Nutmeg, Capt. Ogle, Lieutenant Tafferel, Junk, Weatherbang, Pat Plunket, Dick, Waiters, Painter, Lady Piony, Miss Nancy.]
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Related Work: Britain's Brave Tars!!; or, All for St. Paul's Author(s): John O'Keeffe

Song: As17971102

Event Comment: By Authority of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Lacy, formerly of the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane. Tickets to be had of Fosbrook, at the Box Office of the Drury Lane Theatre, and Rice, at the Box Office of the Theatre-Royal, Haymarket, where Places for the Boxes may be taken. [Address by John Taylor (Monthly Mirror, Dec. 1798, p. 370). On this night the following appeared both at dl and at the hay: Hollingsworth, Caulfield, Bannister Jun., Suett, Miss Pope, Mrs Bland.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Performance Comment: Oakly-Lacy; Major Oakly-Wilmot Wells; Charles-Macready; Mrs Oakly-Mrs Abington; And, with Permission of the Proprietors of the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane: Russet-Hollingsworth; Sir Harry Beagle-R. Palmer; Lord Trinket-Russell; Captain O'Cutter-Caulfield; Paris-Wewitzer; William-Ryder; John-Surmont; Tom-Webb; Lady Freelove-Mrs Sparks; Harriet-Miss Heard; Toilet-Mrs Cuyler.
Cast
Role: John Actor: Surmont

Afterpiece Title: Between II and III of the above,Sylvester Daggerwood

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: In II 3rd piece: A Mock Minuet-R. Palmer, Miss Pope

Song: End I 1st piece: Little Taffline-Mrs Bland

Entertainment: MonologuePrevious 1st piece: Occasional Address-Lacy

Event Comment: Benefit for Munden. 2nd Piece [1st time in London; MF 2, by Thomas John Dibdin, 1st acted at Manchester, 15 Mar. 1793. Text (Huddersfield: J. Brook [1795] gives cast for Manchester]: The Music (with a new Waltz Overture, and an accompaniment for the Tamborine & Triangle) composed by Reeve. 3rd piece [1st time; M. INT 1]. Morning Chronicle, 4 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Munden, No. 16, Clement's-inn. Receipts: #630 12s. 6d. (237.13.0; 2.10.0; tickets: 390.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wild Oats

Performance Comment: Rover-Lewis; Harry-Holman; Sir George Thunder-Davenport; Ephraim Smooth-Munden; John Dory-Fawcett; Sim-Knight; Banks-Murray; Midge-Clarke; Gammon-Thompson; Jane-Mrs Martyr; Amelia-Miss Chapman; Lady Amaranth-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: John Dory Actor: Fawcett
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Related Work: Wild Oats; or, The Strolling Gentleman Author(s): John O'Keeffe

Afterpiece Title: Sunshine after Rain

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Incledon, Munden, Fawcett, Knight, Johnstone, Mrs Davenport, Mrs Atkins. Cast from Songs (J. Barker, 1799): Captain Mortimer-Incledon; Squeez'em-Munden; Doctor Scarecrow-Fawcett; Clump-Knight; Terence-Johnstone; Goody Benson-Mrs Davenport; Clarissa-Mrs Atkins.
Cast
Role: Terence Actor: Johnstone

Afterpiece Title: The Jolly Crew; or, Tars at Anchor

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Incledon, Johnstone, Munden, Fawcett, Townsend, Linton, Street; In which: Thursday in the Morn-Incledon; Kicking up a Row-Johnstone; Four and Twenty Fidlers-Munden; The Tight [or, Snug] Little Island (written by T. Dibdin)-Townsend; Boxing the Compass-Fawcett; Catches, Glees-Incledon, Johnstone, Townsend.

Song: In Course Evening: a new Comic Song (never sung in London), A Bundle of Proverbs; or, Odds and Ends, in the Character of Ephraim Smooth-Munden; A new Comic Song (never performed), A Touch at Old Times; or, No Days better than our Own-Munden; The Barber's Petition, with a song in character, Wigs, including His Own Wig, the Lover's Wig, Doctor's Wig, Coachman's Wig, Councellor's Wig,-Fawcett

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Related Work: Obi; or, Three-Finger'd Jack Author(s): John Fawcett

Entertainment: Monologue The Barber's Petition-Fawcett

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Prince Hoare. Prologue by Richard Cumberland; Epilogue by John Taylor (see text)]. Receipts: #220 16s. 6d. (163.9.0; 56.6.6; 1.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Indiscretion

Performance Comment: Characters by King, Bannister Jun., Barrymore, Talbot, Palmer, Holland, Wewitzer, Wathen, Webb, Evans, Miss Pope, Mrs Jordan, Miss Biggs, Mrs Walcot, Miss Heard, Mrs Coates. Cast from text (J. Barker, 1800), and Larpent MS 1293: Sir Marmaduke Maxim-King; Burly-Bannister Jun.; Clermont-Barrymore; Algernon-Talbot; Frederic-Palmer; Gaylove-Holland; Lounge-Wewitzer; Thomas-Wathen; Francis-Webb; John-Evans; Victoria-Miss Pope; Julia-Mrs Jordan; Fanny-Miss Biggs; Mrs Goodly-Mrs Walcot; Laura-Miss Heard; Betty-Mrs Coates; Prologue-Talbot; Epilogue-Miss Biggs.
Cast
Role: John Actor: Evans

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

Song: [not listed on playbill.]In: I rise with the morn-Mrs Jordan; IV: a Glee-Dignum, Trueman, Danby (Dramatic Censor, II, 169, 171)

Event Comment: 1st piece [1st time; C 3, by Thomas John Dibdin. In 1801 expanded by the author to 5 acts, and entitled The School for Prejudice. Author of Prologue unknown.]. Receipts: #205 17s. 6d. (202.10.0; 3.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Liberal Opinions

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Lewis, Munden, Fawcett, H. Johnston, Murray, Farley, Emery, Simmons, Rees, Wilde, Atkins, Abbot, Curties, Miss Chapman, Mrs Davenport, Mrs Mills, Miss Mills, Mrs Whitmore, Miss Murray. Cast from text of The School for Prejudice (T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1801): Frank Liberal-Lewis; Old Liberal-Munden; Ephraim-Fawcett; Mildmay-H. Johnston; Counsellor Friendly-Murray; Squire Chace-Farley; John Grouse-Emery; Parchment-Simmons; Bailiff-Rees; Take-Wilde; Touch-Atkins; Tap-Abbot; Servant-Curties; Mrs Howard-Miss Chapman; Miss Liberal-Mrs Davenport; Fanny Liberal-Mrs Mills; Jenny-Miss Mills; Rachel-Mrs Whitmore; Marian-Miss Murray; Prologue-Mansel.
Cast
Role: Mildmay Actor: H. Johnston
Role: John Grouse Actor: Emery

Afterpiece Title: Paul and Virginia

Cast
Role: Virginia Actor: Mrs H. Johnston

Afterpiece Title: The Horse and the Widow

Cast
Role: Neville Actor: H. Johnston
Role: Murtoch Delaney Actor: Johnstone

Dance: As18000501

Song: As18000501

Event Comment: The Lord Mayor's Show. London Intelligencer, 31 Oct.: London, Octob. 29. This day the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of the City of London (Sir John Lawrence) was sworn into the said Office...After which...he return'd into the City, where the Solemnity of the day was perform'd with great Magnificence and in exceldent Order. Evelyn, Diary: Was the most magnificent triumph by Water & Land of the Ld: Major

Performances

Mainpiece Title: London's Triumphs Celebrated The 29th Of October, 1664

Performance Comment: In Honour To the pruely Deserver of Honour Sir John Lawrence Knight, Lord Major of the Honourable City of London: and Performed at the Costs and Charges of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers.
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Related Work: London's Triumphs: Celebrated the 29th of October, 1664. Author(s): John Tatham
Event Comment: The King's Company. The date of the premiere is not known, but John Harold Wilson, Six Restoration Play-Dates, Notes and Queries, June 1962, p. 221, has argued, primarily on references in the Epilogue, that the play was probably produced before the opening of the new Theatre Royal in Drury Lane and following two unsuccessful plays: The Mall and The Amorous Old Woman. The Prologue is in New Songs and Poems a la Mode, 1677. Preface to the edition of 1675: This play was left in Mr Dryden's hands many years since. The Author of it was unknown to him, and return'd not to claim it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistaken Husband

Performance Comment: The author is not known, but the Preface suggests that one scene was written by John Dryden. Edition of 1675: The Prologue-; The Epilogue-.
Event Comment: The United Company. The date of the first performance is not known, but it followed The Gordian Knot Unty'd, which is mentioned in the Prologue. Edward III was advertised in the London Gazette, No. 2629, 19-22 Jan. 1690@1, and entered in the Term Catalogues, February 1690@1. The authorship is uncertain. The title page bears no author's name, but the Dedication is signed by Will. Mountfort. In addition, on 10 Oct. 1691 Mountfort received a grant of #10 when Edward III was played before the Queen (L. C. 5@150, p. 306, in Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 357). On tne other hand, the Gentleman's Journal, October 1692, stated that it was written by the author of Henry the Second, which has been attributed to John Bancroft. See Nicoll, Restoration Drama, pp. 388-89, for a summation of the evidence on this problem. Alfred Harbage, Elizabethan-Restoration Palimpsest, Modern Language Review, XXXV (1940), 319, thinks that this is a revision of Robert Davenport's The Politic Queen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Edward The Third; With The Fall Of Mortimer, Earl Of March

Performance Comment: [The author is not certain, but possibly the play was written by John Bancroft and William Mountfort.] Edition of 1691: Prologue-Mr Powell; Epilogue-Mrs Bracegirdle; King Edward the Third-Powell; Mortimer Earl of March-Williams; Lord Mountacute-Mountfort; Sir Tho. Delamore-Kynaston; Sir Robert Holland-Hodgson; Tarleton, Bishop of Hereford-Lee; Serjeant Eitherside-Nokes; Turrington-Bridges; Nevill-Freeman; Sly-Bright; Secret-Trafuse; Earl of Leicester-Bowman; Earl of Exeter-Sandford; Isabella-Mrs Barry; Maria-Mrs Bracegirdle.
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Related Work: King Edward the Third: With the Fall of Mortimer, Earl of March Author(s): John Bancroft
Event Comment: The Ode is in D'Urfey, Wit and Mirth, I, 70-71. Gentleman's Journal, January 1691-2, pp. 4-5: On that day [22 Nov.] or the next when it falls on a Sunday, as it did last time, most of the Lovers of Music, whereof many are persons of the first Rank, meet at Stationers-Hall in London, not thro' a Principle of Superstition, but to propagate the advancement of that divine Science. A splendid Entertainment is provided, and before it is always a performance of Music by the best Voices and Hands in Town; the Words, which are always in the Patronesses praise, are set by some of the greatest Masters in Town. This year Dr John Blow, that famous Musician, composed tne Music, and Mr Durfey, whose skill in things of that nature is well enough known, made the Words....Whilst the Company is at Table, the Hautboys and Trumpets play successively. Mr Showers hath taught the latter of late years to sound with all the softness imaginable, they plaid us some flat Tunes, made by Mr Finger, with a general applause, it being a thing formerly though impossible upon the Instrument design'd for a sharp Key

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Performance Comment: An Ode for the Anniversary Feast of St Cecilia. The Words by ThomasD'Urfey. The Music by Dr John Blow.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Cast
Role: Don John Actor: Wilks
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Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Cast
Role: Don John Actor: Wilks
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Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher