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We found 10005 matches on Roles/Actors, 2634 matches on Performance Title, 2610 matches on Performance Comments, 1593 matches on Event Comments, and 25 matches on Author.
Event Comment: Benefit Husband. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Tickets given out for The Rover taken at this play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus King Of Thebes

Performance Comment: Oedipus-Powell; Adrastus-Booth; Creon-Keene; Haemon-Mills; Tiresias-Boman; Phorbas-Husband; AEgeon-Cory; Ghost-Elrington; Citizens-Leigh, Norris, Bullock, Pack; Jocasta-Mrs Knight; Euridice-Mrs Bradshaw.
Cast
Role: Phorbas Actor: Husband
Event Comment: Benefit Husband. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian King Of Portugal

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian King Of Portugal

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Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear And His Three Daughters

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the best Masters

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Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear

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Mainpiece Title: Mithridates King Of Pontus

Performance Comment: Mithridates-Mills; Zaphires-Wilks; Pharnaces-Powell; Archilaus-Bowman; Aquilius-Booth; Semandra-Mrs Oldfield; Monimia-Miss Sherborn.
Cast
Role: Semandra Actor: Mrs Oldfield

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wake

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mithridates King Of Pontus

Cast
Role: Semandra Actor: Mrs Oldfield

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wake

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mithridates King Of Pontus

Cast
Role: Semandra Actor: Mrs Oldfield

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Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear

Event Comment: Benefit Morphy. Tickets 5s. N.B. Several of the best Masters of the Opera doing Mr Morphy the favour to perform in his Consort, it will begin exactly at five, and end in time for Persons of Quality to go there

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: The best Masters; in which several Entertainments on the Silver string'd Harp on which he has had the Honour to play before the present Emperor and the King of Portugal-Mr Morphy

Event Comment: Benefit Husband and Elrington. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Not Acted these Five Years [but see 9 April 1709]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian King Of Portugal

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus King Of Thebes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus King Of Thebes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus King Of Thebes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tragical History Of King Richard The Third

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear And His Three Daughters

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tragical History Of King Richard The Third

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The History Of King Lear And His Three Daughters

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The History Of King Lear And His Three Daughters

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear And His Three Daughters

Event Comment: With all new Cloaths, Scenes, and Decorations proper to the Play. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First gallery 2s. Receipts: #139 7s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

Music: Frost Music out of King Arthur by the late Mr Henry Purcel-Leveridge, Pack, Cook, Jones, Reading, Mrs Cross, Mrs Cook

Dance: Dancing-Dupree, delaGarde, Moreau, Bovill, Sandham, Miss Russel, Miss Schoolding

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command. [Prince and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tragical History Of King Richard The Third