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Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Chapter Of Accidents

Performance Comment: Lord Glenmore-Bensley; Governor Harcourt-King (1st appearance in that character); Woodville-Palmer; Capt. Harcourt-Barrymore; Grey-Aickin; Vane-R. Palmer; Jacob-Bannister Jun.; Cecilia-Miss Farren; Miss Mortimer-Mrs Powell; Warner-Mrs Booth; Bridget-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Mrs Bateman]).Mrs Bateman]).
Cast
Role: Governor Harcourt Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Country Girl

Performance Comment: Moody-King; Harcourt-Palmer; Sparkish (with a song)-Dodd; Belville-Whitfield; Footman-Webb; Countryman-Jones; Alithea-Mrs Ward; Miss Peggy-Mrs Jordan; Lucy-Mrs Edwards.
Cast
Role: Moody Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's As You Like It

Performance Comment: Duke-Aickin; Frederick-Packer; Amiens (with songs)-Dignum; Jaques-Palmer; Le Beau-R. Palmer; Oliver-Whitfield; Jaques de Boys-Benson; Orlando-Barrymore; Adam-Moody; Touchstone-King; Corin-Waldron; Sylvius-Bland; William-Burton; Rosalind (with the Cuckoo song)-Mrs Jordan; Celia-Mrs Kemble; Phebe-Miss Collins; Audrey-Mrs Edwards.
Cast
Role: Touchstone Actor: King
Related Works
Related Work: The Tragedy of King Henry IV of France Author(s): Charles Beckingham

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Song: V: a song-Mrs Bland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At king's She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Performance Comment: Don Manuel-Waldron; Don Phillip-Bensley; Octavio-Barrymore; Trappanti-King; Soto-Baddeley; Host-Burton; Alguazile-Maddocks; Don Lewis-Caulfield; Corrigidore-Fawcett; Hyppolita-Mrs Jordan; Rosara-Miss Heard; Flora-Miss Collins; Viletta-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Trappanti Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: Ozmyn and Daraxa

Dance: In afterpiece: Miss Menage, the Miss D'Egvilles

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Confederacy

Performance Comment: Gripe-Moody; Money@trap-Waldron [Public Advertiser: Parsons]; Dick-Palmer; Brass-King; Clip-Benson; Jessamin-Burton; Clarissa-Miss Farren; Araminta-Mrs Ward; Corinna-Mrs Jordan; Flippanta-Miss Pope; Mrs Amlet-Mrs Hopkins; Mrs Clogget-Miss Tidswell.
Cast
Role: Brass Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: Ozmyn and Daraxa

Dance: As17930307

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's All In The Wrong

Performance Comment: Sir John Restless-King; Beverley-Kemble; Sir William Belmont-Maddocks; Belmont-Barrymore; Blandford-Packer; Robert-Waldron; Brush-Benson; Footman-Webb; Servants-Alfred, Lyons; Lady Restless-Mrs Jordan (1st appearance in that character); Belinda-Miss Farren; Clarissa-Miss Collins; Tattle-Miss Heard; Tippit-Mrs Edwards; Marmalet-Miss Tidswell.
Cast
Role: Sir John Restless Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of King Richard The Iii

Performance Comment: Richard (for that night only)-Kemble; King Henry-Bensley; Prince of Wales-Master DeCamp; Duke of York-Miss Menage; Duke of Buckingham-Benson; Earl of Richmond-Barrymore; Duke of Norfolk-Usher; Ratcliffe-Evatt; Tressel-Bland; Sir William Catesby-Davies; Lord Stanley-Aickin; Sir R. Brackenbury-Palmer Jun.; Sir James Blount-Lyons; Sir James Tyrrel-Abbott; Lord Mayor-Burton; Elizabeth-Mrs Whitfield; Lady Anne-Mrs Kemble; Duchess of York-Mrs Powell.
Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Bensley
Role: Duke of Buckingham Actor: Benson

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of King Richard The Iii

Performance Comment: Richard-Kemble; King Henry-Bensley; Prince of Wales-Master DeCamp; Duke of York-Miss Menage; Duke of Buckingham-Benson; Earl of Richmond-Barrymore; Duke of Norfolk-Usher; Sir R. Ratcliff-Dignum; Tressel-Bland; Sir William Catesby-Caulfield; Lord Stanley-Aickin; Sir. R. Brackenbury-Palmer Jun.; Sir James Blout-Lyons; Sir James Tyrrel-Jones; Lord Mayor-Wewitzer; Elizabeth-Mrs Hopkins; Lady Anne-Mrs Goodall; Duchess of York-Mrs Booth.
Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Bensley
Role: Duke of Buckingham Actor: Benson

Afterpiece Title: The Prize; or, 2

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: Richard (for that night only)-Bannister Jun.; King Henry-Bensley; Prince of Wales-Master De Camp; Duke of York-Miss Menage; Duke of Buckingham-Benson; Earl of Richmond-Palmer; Duke of Norfolk-Abbot; Ratcliffe-Pindar; Tressel-Bland; Sir William Catesby-Davies; Lord Stanley-Aickin; Sir R. Brackenbury-Palmer Jun.; Sir J. Blount-Lyons; Sir James Tyrrel-Waldron Jun.; Lord Mayor-Burton//Elizabeth-Mrs Harlowe (1st appearance in that character); Lady Anne-Mrs Kemble; Duchess of York-Mrs Hopkins .
Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Bensley
Role: Duke of Buckingham Actor: Benson

Afterpiece Title: COMUS

Event Comment: The United Company. Luttrell, A Brief Relation, II, 593, 15 Oct. 1692: On Thursday last was acted the tragedy of Oedipus king of Thebes at the theater, where Sandford and Powell acting their parts together, the former by mistake of a sharp dagger for one that runs the blade into the handle, stab'd the other 3 inches deep: said the wound is mortal

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. The date of the premiere is not known, but the Epilogue refers to it as a summer production and the play was advertised in the London Gazette, No 3108, 22-26 Aug. 1695; hence, it appeared first not later than August. A song, Stretch'd in a dark and dismall grove, composed by John Eccles and sung by Mrs Hudson, is in Deliciae Musicae, The Third Book, 1696. A Comparison Between the Two Stages (p. 16): Sullen: Imprimis, Here's Pyrrhus King of Epire. Ramble: Whose is that? Sullen: Charles Hopkin's, an Irish Gentleman of good Sense, and an excellent Ovidian. Ramble: What was it's Fate? Sullen: Damn'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus King Of Epirus

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. There may have been a revival of Oedipus in the summer of 1696. In Francis Manning's Poems upon Several Occasions and to Several Persons (1701) there is a poem To Mr Betterton, Acting Oedipus King of Thebes. The first stanza describes the splendor of the installation of the Duke of Gloucester as a Knight of the Garter, an event which occurred at Windsor Castle in July 1696; but there is no certainty that Betterton's performance occurred before that date. It should be noted also that the play was reprinted in 1696

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

Event Comment: Rich's Company. This play was apparently never published, and the performance is known only by an advance announcement: Post Boy, 30 May-1 June 1700: The History of Hengist, the Saxon King of Kent, which before was designed to be Acted this day [1 June 1700], for the benefit of Mr Johnson, is therefore deferr'd till Monday. London Post, 7-10 June 1700: This Week the Morocco Ambassador diverted himself thrice at the Play-house

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The History Of Hengist, The Saxon King Of Kent

Event Comment: Benefit Cibber. Not Acted these Three Years. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: With the Famous Battle of Bosworth Fieldv, between him and the Earl of Richmond, afterwards King Henry the Seventh. Written Originally by Shakespear, who in the true and lively Character of Richard, has shewn his most Masterly Strokes of Nature

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tragical History Of King Richard Iii

Song: As17031102

Music: Sonata for violin and flute-Gasperini, Paisible

Dance: As17040204

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. N.B. For the better Information of those who do not thoroughly understand the Italian Language, a Book with the Argument and Explanations in English, of what is transacted in every Scenes, may be had...at the usual Places in the Opera-House. Price 6d. [The King, Prince, and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Enchanted Island Of Arcadia; Or, The Magician Doctor, With Harlequin King Of The Woods; Flights, Decorations And Transformations Of Harlequin, Cupid, Pantalon, Venus, And Brighella, Jupiter, And The Sacrifice Of Harlequin

Dance: Furies, Nymphs, Shepherds, Statues-; , the latter performing the Labours of Hercules-Statues , after the Manner of the Venetian Gondaliers at Venice: The whole full of Variety

Event Comment: TThe King and Queen present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard The First, King Of England

Event Comment: Benefit Freeman. Mainpiece: Not Acted these Twelve Years. By particular Desire. Afterpiece: With Alterations. And a Description of Tom King's Coffee-house in Covent-Garden. At Common Prices [4s., 2s. 6d., and 1s. 6d. in Daily Advertiser]. 6 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Busiris, King Of Aegypt

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Milliners

Dance:

Event Comment: For Occasional Prompter XXI (on Cibber and King John), see Daily Journal, 11 Feb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Event Comment: Benefit Neale and Desse. Tickets to be had of Neale, a Silk Dyer in David St., Moor's in the Playhouse Passage; and at Mr Desse'd, at Gresham's, Shoemaker, in York St., Covent Garden. London Daily Post and General Advertiser announced Chrononhotonthologos as afterpiece by Rylands has The King and Miller, Receipts: #140

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: By particular desire, a Chacone-Desse; III: Running Footman's Dance, as17420428

Song: IV: Song-Lowe

Event Comment: Benfit for Taswell, Mayle, Gray, Mrs King, and Mrs Pinny. Tickets deliver'd out for the Relapse will be taken. The Play is oblig'd to be chang'd on account of the Indisposition of a pbincipal performer. Receipts: #100

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Running Footman's Dance-Phillips; III: Hornpipe-Phillips

Song: IV: Song-Beard

Event Comment: GGeneral Advertiser, 28 Sept.: We hear that Mr Lacy, Master of his Majesty's company of Comedians at D.L. has applied for leave to raise 200 men in defence of his Majesty's person and government, in which the whole company of players are willing to engage. [See 7 Oct.] On Saturday Night the Audience at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane were agreeably surpris'd by the Gentlemen belonging to that House performing the Anthem of God Save our Noble King. The Universal Applause it met with being encored with repeated Huzzas suffciently denoted in how just an abhorrence they hold the arbitrary schemes of our invidious enemies and detest the despotic attempts of Papal Power. [See also Daily Advertiser, 30 Sept. The newspapers at this time run a three phrase slogan in bold face type vertically in the margins: No Pretender. No Popery. No Slavery, accompanied by two more phrases staring boldly from the bottom margin: No Wooden Shoes! No Arbitrary Power!]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Song: I: Lowe; IV: Colin and Phebe-Lowe, Mrs Arne; God Save our Noble King by Arne-Mrs Cibber, Beard, Reinhold (Deutsch, Handel, p. 623)

Dance: II: Grand Serious Dance-; V: Grand Comic Dance, as17450926

Event Comment: Benefit for King. No Building on Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Performance Comment: As17621102, but Gibby-King, 1st time; Lopez-Parsons.
Cast
Role: Gibby Actor: King, 1st time

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Performance Comment: As17621001, but Buck-King; 1st time, who will By Particular Desire for the last time, present the public with A Picture of a Playhouse; or Bucks Have At ye all-.
Cast
Role: Buck Actor: King

Dance: HHornpipe-Miss Baker

Song: Vernon, Miss Young

Entertainment: A Lecture on Life, or all is a lottery-King, for that night only

Event Comment: Benefit for Hopkins (prompter) and Mrs Hopkins. Charges #64 17s. [Profit to the Hopkins family #30 19s. plus Tickets.] Tickets delivered by Philips will be taken. Paid B. Johnson's Head bill #1 2s. 3d.; Paid Mr J. Johnston, by order #21; Rec'd Mr Pope's rent 1 year at #30 minus King's Tax of #3 8s.: Total #26 12s. receiv'd. Paid Mr Pope's bill #13 9s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Before 4 dined behind St Clements, and went to ye First Gallery to see the Distressed Mother....We had the Capricious Lovers, Lisetta by Mrs Clive, who took off the ridiculous sing-song at ye Opera House charmingly (Neville MS Diary). Receipts: #95 16s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressed Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

Dance: IV: The Irish Lilt, as17670430 End: Linco's Travels, by Particular Desire-King as17670406

Event Comment: Benefit for Grimaldi (ballet master) and Moody. House charges #64 17s. [Profits to Moody and Grimaldi #5 9s. plus tickets.] Farce not acted in 3 years. [See 12 April 1764.] At 9 got to Drury Lane, could not get in at ye left side of ye Pit or first Gallery. After waiting till the play was over at the other door of ye Pit, got in and saw the Vintage, by Mrs King and Sg Grimaldi (whose benefit and Mr Moody's it was). He dances much better than the fellow who usually dances that dance. My intention in going was to see the F, of the Register Office, not acted these 3 years. [All characters done well] such characters are ye effects of our ill-cemented union (Neville MS Diary). Receipts: #70 6s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Cast
Role: Count Basset Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Performance Comment: Capt. Le Brush-King; Gulwell-Packer; Harwood-Aickin; Irishman (with the original song)-Moody; Frenchman-Baddeley; Scotchman-Love; Frankly-J. Palmer; Maria-Miss Mills; Margery-Mrs Love; Williams-Ackman; Lord Brilliant-Fawcett; Trickit-Fox.
Cast
Role: Le Brush Actor: King

Dance: II: The Lilliputian Camp composed by Grimaldi, as17670227; III: Hearts of Oak, as17670212; End: The Vintage, as17661011, but-Grimaldi, Mrs King

Event Comment: Benefit for King. Mainpiece: Not acted for 8 years. [See 17 May 1760.] Afterpiece: By Desire. Part of Pit laid into Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: Shylock-King; Antonio (that night only)-Barry; Bassanio-Holland; Old Gobbo-Parsons; Gratiano-Palmer; Lorenzo-Vernon; Launcelot-Wingfield; Portia-Mrs Dancer; Nerissa-Mrs Jeffries; Jessica-Mrs Baddeley.
Cast
Role: Shylock Actor: King

Dance: III: The Wake, as17680220

Entertainment: End: By Desire, the Favourite Interlude of Linco's Travels, with his remarks on London-King