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We found 3541 matches on Performance Comments, 2649 matches on Performance Title, 2161 matches on Author, 1886 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth [part I]

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Murray

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon

Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin and Oberon; or, The Chace to Gretna Author(s): James Wild
Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains King, but he "being suddenly indisposed with the gout, his part was, after an apology, undertaken by Dowton, who performed it with considerable effect" (Morning Herald, 25 Apr.).] Receipts: #283 17s. (213.16.6; 67.1.0; 2.19.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Will

Performance Comment: As17970419, but Sir Solomon Cynic-Dowton in place of King.

Afterpiece Title: Katharine and Petruchio

Ballet: The Scotch Ghost. As17961221

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Cast
Role: King Richard Actor: Holman
Role: King Henry Actor: Murray
Role: Buckingham Actor: Macready

Afterpiece Title: Crotchet Lodge

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, First Part

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Murray
Related Works
Related Work: The Tragedy of King Henry IV of France Author(s): Charles Beckingham

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Afterpiece Title: England's Glory

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth [part I]

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Murray

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnston. [He had 1st acted Hamlet at Edinburgh, 9 July 1794: Egerton's 1st appearance at cg was on 5 June 1797.] 2nd piece [1st time at this theatre; M. PAST 1, author unknown. Larpent MS 1207; not published. 1st acted at Sadler's Wells, 28 May 1787, when the playbill gives the 2nd title as "The Highland Laddie", and adds "The Words of the Airs selected from Allan Ramsay"]. Times, 13 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Johnston, No. 31, King-street, Covent-garden. Receipts: #230 19s. 6d. (110.2.6; 1.14.0; tickets: 119.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: Hamlet-Johnston (1st appearance in that character on this stage); Ghost-Murray; Polonius-Munden; King-Waddy; Horatio-Egerton (2nd appearance on this stage); Laertes-Whitfield; Ostrick-Farley; Rosencraus-Clarke; Grave@diggers-Quick, Rees; Ophelia-Mrs Mountain; Queen-Miss Chapman.
Cast
Role: King Actor: Waddy

Afterpiece Title: Hooly and Fairly; or, The Highland Lad and Lowland Lass

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Performance Comment: As17971002, but Old Towler-Incledon; To Batchelor's Hall-_; Speaking Characters-_.

Dance: 2nd piece to conclude with: Highland Reel-; In 3rd piece: Ballet, as17971013

Song: In V 1st piece: a Dirge, as17970925; In 2nd piece: Highland Laddy-; Hooly and Fairly-; Katharine Ogie- [recte Oggy]; Andrew and his Cutty Gun-; Todlen Hame-; Tulloch Goram-; The Little Farthing Rushlight-Graham

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Aickin
Role: Duke of Buckingham Actor: Barrymore
Role: Sir James Blount Actor: Wentworth
Role: Sir James Tyrrel Actor: Webb

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Aickin
Role: Duke of Buckingham Actor: Barrymore
Role: Sir James Blount Actor: Wentworth
Role: Sir James Tyrrel Actor: Webb

Afterpiece Title: The Captive of Spilburg

Dance: As17981114

Event Comment: [The playbill assigns Claudius to Packer, but "Archer, on the sudden indisposition of Packer, put on the robes of majesty, which seemed to sit sufficiently easy upon him" (Monthly Mirror, Sept. 1799, p. 175.] "The agitation of Hamlet in the course of the Play which he prepares to try the King, and his violent transports on gaining the certainty of his uncle's villainy by the effect of the piece were strongly characterized" (Morning Chronicle, 20 Sept.). Receipts: #330 17s. (245.19; 84.14; 0.4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: Claudius-Archer; Hamlet-Kemble; Polonius-Dowton; Horatio-Holland; Laertes-C. Kemble; Rosencrantz-Clarke; Guildenstern-Trueman; Osrick-Palmer; Priest-Webb; Marcellus-Surmont; Bernardo-Wentworth; Francisco-Evans; Ghost of Hamlet's Father-Barrymore; Grave@diggers-King, Sparks; Players-Maddocks, Ryder; Gertrude-Mrs Powell; Ophelia-Miss Biggs (1st appearance in that character); Actress-Miss Tidswell.
Cast
Role: Grave@diggers Actor: King, Sparks

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Aickin
Role: Duke of Buckingham Actor: Barrymore
Role: Sir James Blount Actor: Wentworth
Role: Sir James Tyrrel Actor: Webb

Afterpiece Title: The Pavilion

Event Comment: Benefit for Delpini and King. Receipts: #322 8s. (89.0.6; 11.0.0; tickets: 222.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Birth Day

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter of Naples

Performance Comment: As18000527, but Henry-H. Johnston; Simpkin (with songs; 1st time)-King.
Cast
Role: Simpkin Actor: King.
Role: King Actor: Bologna

Afterpiece Title: St

Related Works
Related Work: The Students; or, The Humours of St. Andrews Author(s): James Stewart
Related Work: Cape St. Vincent; or, British Valour Triumphant Author(s): James Cobb

Song: End: the following songs illustrative of the Whims and Sports of Bartholomew Fair: Raro Raro-Delpini; The Wind blew fresh and fair-Townsend; By the gaily circling Glass-Linton; a New Song (composed by Walsh, and written in Commemoration of His Majesty's Providential Escape [from assassination; see dl, 15 May])-Incledon

Event Comment: [Mrs King was from the Stamford theatre.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Performance Comment: Vapour-Farley; Gossip-Suett; Souffrance-Caulfield; Sir Matthew Medley-Davenport; Woodley-Trueman; Waiter-Chippendale; Servant-Atkins; Charlotte-Miss Gaudry; Florella-Mrs King (1st appearance on this stage).
Cast
Role: Florella Actor: Mrs King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Related Works
Related Work: The Brothers Author(s): James Shirley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cardinal

Related Works
Related Work: The Cardinal Author(s): James Shirley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Tricks; Or, The School Of Compliments

Related Works
Related Work: Love Tricks; or, The School of Compliments Author(s): James Shirley
Related Work: The School of Compliments Author(s): James Shirley
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: [After looking in at the Nursery] and therefore to the other two playhouses into the pit, to gaze up and down, to look for them, and there did by this means, for nothing, see an act in The Schoole of Compliments at the Duke's house

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School Of Compliments

Related Works
Related Work: Love Tricks; or, The School of Compliments Author(s): James Shirley
Related Work: The School of Compliments Author(s): James Shirley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grateful Servant

Related Works
Related Work: The Grateful Servant Author(s): James Shirley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentleman Of Venice

Related Works
Related Work: The Gentleman of Venice Author(s): James Shirley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Related Works
Related Work: The Gamesters Author(s): James Shirley
Related Work: The Gamester Author(s): James Shirley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Tricks; Or, The School Of Compliments

Related Works
Related Work: Love Tricks; or, The School of Compliments Author(s): James Shirley
Related Work: The School of Compliments Author(s): James Shirley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fortune-hunters; Or, Two Fools Well Met

Related Works
Related Work: The Fortune-Hunters; or, Two Fools Well Met Author(s): James Carlile

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Traytor

Related Works
Related Work: The Traytor Author(s): James Shirley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sham Lawyer; Or, The Lucky Extravagant

Related Works
Related Work: The Sham Lawyer; or, The Lucky Extravagant Author(s): James Drake

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Traytor

Related Works
Related Work: The Traytor Author(s): James Shirley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Related Works
Related Work: The Gamesters Author(s): James Shirley
Related Work: The Gamester Author(s): James Shirley