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7107 results for: Keyword - Moll Davis</i>] (whom I never saw act be<span class=
We found 4703 matches on Event Comments, 1656 matches on Performance Comments, 1492 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4976
24 February 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By John Dennis. Premiere.] Preface: [The last scene was omitted] on the account of Length....The Play indeed receiv'd all the Grace and Ornament of Action in most of the principal Parts, and in all the Womens. But that of Sakia by Mrs Barry was acted so admirably and inimitably, as that no Stage in Europe can boast of any thing that comes near to her Performance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Liberty Asserted

4977
21 March 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Underhill. As it was Acted before her Majesty at St. James's. [See 28 Feb.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Solomon Single

4978
04 April 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

4979
22 April 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Not Acted these Four Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Greenwich Park

Dance: duRuel, Mrs duRuel, Cherrier, Devonshire Girl

Song: Three Entertainments ofSinging in Italian one of which is entirely new, the Musick that accompanies her compos'd by Signior Giacomo Greber-Signiora Francisca Margareta del'Epine

4980
31 May 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Knight. Not Acted there these Six Years. Written by the late Sir George Etheridge

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge

Dance: duRuel, Cherrier, others

Song: And at the Desire of some Persons of Quality, several Entertainments of Singing in Italian- the Famous Segniora Francisca Margareta del'Epine being the best Songs she has Sung in England, the Musick that accompanies her compos'd by Signior Giacomo Greber; also an English Song of the late Mr Henry Purcell's-Segniora Francisca Margareta del'Epine

4981
09 June 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. Not Acted these Six Years. This being the first Performance of an Opera this Year. All the Scenes and Flyings as they were formerly presented. [Genest II, 300, lists this performance for 10 June.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Psyche; Or, Love's Mistress

Performance Comment: The chief characters (Pan, Vulcan, Pluto, and Apollo)-Leveridge.
Cast
Role: The chief characters Actor: Leveridge.

Music: All the Vocal and Instrumental Music compos'd by the Famous Mr Matthew Lock-

Dance: New dances- proper to the occasion; particularly Arbour Dance in Imitation of the Original-duRuel, Cherrier, Laforest

4982
19 June 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Rogers. Not Acted these Three Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Music: With the Original Music-Leveridge

Dance: As17040613

4983
21 June 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Hall and Swiny. Not Acted these Five Years. [Mrs del'Epine sings] at the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fond Husband; Or, The Plotting Sisters

Dance: duRuel, Mrs duRuel; Cyclops Dance (from Psyche), in which Monsieur Cherrier perform'd the Part of Vulcan with great Applause-

Song: Singing In Italian and English-Mrs del'Epine; particularly Henry Purcell's O lead me to some peaceful Gloom-

4984
23 June 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Norris. Not Acted there these Three Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Marriage-hater Match'd

Song: As17031102

Dance: duRuel, Cherrier

4985
07 July 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these Four Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan; Or, The Unhappy Marriage

Song:

Dance: To be expressed in the Great Bills

4986
26 July 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: With a Dome Scenev taken out of an Opera call'd, The Virgin Prophetess. [The company intends to act on Wednesday and Friday until Bartholonew Fair], the Weather being chang'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Song:

Dance:

4987
27 July 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece made into a farce of three acts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid In The Mill

Song: A dialogue from The Mad Lover-Boman, Dogget in women's clothes; another dialogue-Cook, Godwin, the latter for his first appearance on the stage; Hark ye Madam from Love's a Jest-

Dance: New Scenev between a Drunken Beau and a Chimney/Sweeper-; several dances-Laithfield, Mrs Evans, Firbank, Firbank's scholar

4988
02 August 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: As it was perform'd several times at court, by Persons of Great Quality, before his late Majesty King Charles II. With all the Scenes Which were originally Presented in it when acted at the Theatre, particularly the Fleet of Shipsv and the Hell Scenev, in which the Masquerade was perform'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Empress Of Morocco

Song:

Dance:

4989
17 August 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: a short Tragedy. Not Acted these Six Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unfortunate Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Transformation

Afterpiece Title: The Wit of a Woman

Dance: Italian Scaramouch-Layfield; a new Morris Dance-two men, two women

4990
18 August 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted there these Five Years. Written by the late Great Poet, Mr Dryden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Martin Marall

Dance: As17031007

4991
23 August 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these Six Years. It being the last time of Acting this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Titus Andronicus; Or, The Rape Of Lavinia

Song:

Dance:

4992
14 October 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted there these Nine Years. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mithridates, King Of Pontus

Dance: The famous duRuel, Mrs duRuel

4993
08 November 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these 20 Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Northern Lass; Or, The Nest Of Fools

Song:

Dance:

4994
13 November 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [Authorship uncertain. According to the dedicatory essay in 1705 edition it was left unfinished by Mountfort?," but the Diverting Post, 28 Oct., states that it was written by Mrs Mary Pix. This is probably the premiere. It was acted four times before 18 Nov., but on which evenings is unknown.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zelmane; Or, The Corinthian Queen

4995
18 November 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted there these five Years. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Music: Italian sonatas on the violin-

Dance: duRuel, Mrs duRuel, Mrs Mosse

4996
25 November 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted [there] these five Years. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth; Part I With The Humours Of sir John Falstaffe

Dance: Cherrier

4997
27 November 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Note, That the Theatre in Dorset-Garden being now repair'd from the Damage done by the late great Winds, the same will be ready by the latter end of this Week to Act in, or for Entertainments of Musick and Danceing

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Music: Several Italian sonatas on the violin-Gasperini

Dance: Spanish Dance, Punchanello-Cherrier; Other Dances-Mrs Lucas, Mrs Bicknell

4998
01 December 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. And on Wednesday next a Play will be Acted at the Theatre in Dorset-Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Dance: Cherrier, Mrs duRuel, Laferry, Mrs Bicknell

4999
04 December 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit the Author [Nicholas Rowe]. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [Announced as the last new farce, it had been originally scheduled for the week of 6-11 Nov. (Diverting Post, 4 Nov.), but postponed. It probably was acted before 25 Nov., for the Diverting Post of that date published the Prologue.] Thomas Davies: Did not the tragic Rowe write The Biter, a comedy; and was he not the only person of the audience that laughed during the acting of it [Dramatic Miscellanies, I, 94]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Biter

5000
20 February 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: With several Alterations. Preface: The second day it was, for the most part, faintly and negligently Acted, and consequently was not seen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gibraltar

Song:

Dance: To be expressed in the Bills