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5846 results for: Keyword - King of the Istowlawleys
We found 2634 matches on Performance Title, 2610 matches on Performance Comments, 1593 matches on Event Comments, 23 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2226
05 December 1750 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [[No General Advertiser for this day. Information from the Winston MS 7.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

Dance: [As17500926

2227
10 December 1750 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years [see 24 Jan. 1747]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not; Or, The Kind Imposter

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

Dance: As17500926

2228
22 December 1750 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Being the last time of the company's Performing till the Christmas Holidays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distress'd Mother

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

Dance: A Tambourin-Jardin; Grand Scots Ballet, as17500926

2229
03 January 1751 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love; Or, The World Well Lost

Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

Dance: TTambourin-Jardin; Grand Scots Ballet, as17500926

2230
12 January 1751 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distress'd Mother

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

Dance: As17500926

2231
04 February 1751 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distress'd Mother

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Performance Comment: As17510103, but Peggy-Miss Haughton; otherwise the full cast of 17 Nov. 1750. otherwise the full cast of 17 Nov. 1750.
Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

2232
16 February 1751 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

Dance: As17500926

2233
11 April 1751 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Sparks. Tickets deliver'd out for The Fair Penitent 28 March will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: As17501105, but Axalla-Gibson; Selima-_; song To Thee O! Gentle Sleep-_.

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

2234
04 May 1751 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Froment, Gardner, Page (Housekeeper) and Mad Cointrie. Tickets deliver'd by Goodall, Rawlins, Goodwin, and the Widow Dupre will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

Dance: I: La Paisane, as17510426 III: Scotch Dance-Froment, Mlle Heutte; End of Play: Louvre and Minuet-Froment, Mlle Heutte

2235
14 May 1751 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Driscol, Banks, Barnard, Miss Davis, and Trott (Lobby Doorkeeper). Tickets deliver'd by Mlle Huette, Mrs Hanmeuze, Mrs Griffith will be taken. Tomorrow the Fair Penitent and on Friday Romeo and Juliet, being the last time of the Company's performing this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

Dance: As17510511

2236
25 October 1751 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

Dance: GGrand Dutch Dance, as17511021

2237
16 December 1751 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [See 15 March 1750.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved; Or, A Plot Discovered

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

Dance: GGrand Comic Ballet-Grandchamps, Mad Camargo

2238
03 February 1752 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant; Or, The Beggar's Bush

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

Dance: GGrand Comic Ballet, as17511216

2239
22 December 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This day at noon will be published at 6d. A Letter to Mr Henry Woodward, Comedian, occasioned by his letter to the Inspector. by Simon Partridge, the facetious Cobbler of Pall Mall, and son to the late Mr Partridge, famous for his dispute with Isaac Bickerstaff. "Barbarian to attack, a chymist, Critick, Journalist, and Quack" (Anon). Printed for H. Jeffrey in Pope's Head Alley, Cornhill. [Another mock defense of Hill, casting opprobrium on him in the manner of the eightenth-century bully boys of the bathroom. A second edition of Sampson Edwards' Letter to Woodward appeared this day. See Comment, 9 Dec.] Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Winstone

Dance: TThe Italian Gardeners, as17521221; Le Matelot Basque, as17521005

2240
06 January 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tragical History Of King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Buckingham Actor: Sparks

Afterpiece Title: [The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: [(BBy Desire )Grand Scots Ballet, as17521216

2241
08 October 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

Dance: Grandchamps, Madem Camargo

2242
20 October 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: With a Country Dance Actor: the characters of the opera.

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

Dance: Cooke, Miss Hilliard

2243
15 November 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

2244
08 December 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: the vocal parts Actor: Lowe, Howard, Legg, Baker, Roberts, Mrs Lampe, Miss Young, Mrs Chambers

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

2245
15 May 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Roger, Shawford, Reinhold, & Gerard, he run away (Cross). Mons Gerard left England. His tickets not admitted (Winston MS 8). Last time of performing the Mainpiece this Season. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Burton

Dance: III: The Pierrot's Dance, as17540504; V: A Hornpipe-Walker

Song: Dialogue call'd% Damon and Chloe-Master Reinhold, Miss Thomas

2246
16 May 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Burton

Dance: III: The Pierrot's Dance, as17540504; V: A Hornpipe-Harrison

Song: IV: Miss Thomas

2247
18 May 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Burton

Song: II, IV: Singing-Miss Thomas

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragedy of King Richard II Author(s): Lewis Theobald

Dance: III: Hornpipe to tune of Ali Croaker-Walker

2248
20 May 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: In Act III a Hornpipe Actor: Matthews, others
Role: To conclude with a Country Dance Actor: the characters of the opera.

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Burton

Dance: II: The Pierrot's Dance, as17540504

2249
30 May 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Horton. Last time of the Company's performing

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Burton

Dance: IV: Country Amusements-; Devisse, Mlle Auretti

2250
09 November 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces by His Majesty's command. [John Pringle wrote to Blayney Townley on 14 Nov.: Great are the disputes at present between the rival theatres, vieing with each other in different characters which afford unusual entertainment to all frequenting the stage. His Majesty on Saturday night paid his first visit to Covent Garden in perference to the opera at Drury Lane, when Lady Townley by Pegg Woffington gave him great pleasure, with the addition of unusual huzzas in a part of the Miller of Mansfield." -Historical MS Commission, 10th Report, Appendix, Part IV (London 1887), p. 257.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Bambridge

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson