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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.

651
05 November 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Never Acted here before, being desir'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

652
09 December 1730 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By Mrs Aubin.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Masqueraders; Or, The Humourous Cuckold

653
11 December 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [by Charles Johnson.] With New Habits. [See Preface for an account of the noisy reception of the play, and Lord Hervey and his Friends, p. 61, for Hervey's amusing account of the first night.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medea

654
13 January 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By John Tracy.] Receipts: #86 17s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Periander

655
20 January 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [by Theophilus Cibber. The Dedication speaks of "Tumult" on the first night, and Grub St. Journal, 21 Jan., has a satiric comment upon the events of the night.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lover

656
03 February 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Never Acted before. Written by the Author of The Fall of Saguntum [Phillip Frowde]. Receipts: #61 18s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Philotas

657
17 February 1731 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [Author unknown. Apparently not printed.] With New Habits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Empress; Or, The Conquest Of Peru

658
22 February 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By David Mallet.] With New Scenes and New Habits. [For a brief puff of the play, see Daily Journal, 20 Feb.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eurydice

659
27 February 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By George Jeffreys.] Receipts: #44 18s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

660
15 March 1731 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By Alexander Gordon.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lupone; Or, The Inquisitor

661
03 April 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Never Acted before [By Lewis Theobald.] Receipts: #133 0s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orestes

Song: Vocal Parts-Leveridge, Laguerre, Rochetti, Salway, Mrs Wright, Mrs Carter, Mrs Cantrel

Dance: Salle, Nivelon, DuPre, Poitier, Glover, Newhouse, Pelling, DuPre Jr, Salle, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Ogden, Miss LaTour

662
30 April 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By John Hoadley. Apparently not published. For a discussion of this play, see Daily Journal, 30 April,] Receipts: #82 11s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Contrast; A Tragi-comical Rehearsal Of Two Modern Plays: Match Upon Match; Or, No Match At All, And The Tragedy Of Epaminodas

663
22 June 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By George Lillo. Puffs of the play appeared in London Evening Post, 15 June, Daily Post, 16 and 21 June.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The True History Of George Barnwell

664
10 December 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By Aaron Hill.] With new Habits, Scenes, and other Decorations, proper to the Play. Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s. [See Pope, Correspondence, III, 253-54.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Athelwold

665
03 February 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By Pettiplace Bellers.] Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s. [For the author's complaints concerning the production, see Preface to 1732 edition.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Injur'd Innocence

666
14 February 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By Henry Fielding.]5s., 3s., 2s., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Modern Husband

667
21 February 1732 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [Author unknown. Apparently not published.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Husband; Or, Modern Gallantry

668
02 March 1732 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. By Mr Johnson, Author of Hurlothrumbo. A Dramatic Every Thing. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Blazing Comet: The Mad Lovers; Or, The Beauties Of The Poets

669
25 March 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By John Kelly.] Receipts: #34 18s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Married Philosopher

670
01 June 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [Both plays by Henry Fielding. For a discussion of recent plays, see The Comedian, No. 3, June 1731.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Debauchees

Afterpiece Title: The Covent Garden Tragedy

Dance:

671
25 November 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By William Duncombe.] 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s. Prompter, 18 Feb.: Accordingly, the Reception it met with, answer'd what the Author might have expected, if parental Fondness had not over-rated it in his Esteem.... The ill Success then this Play met with, gave me as much Satisfaction, as I had already conceived Indignation against the Poet, for having been so servile, as to stoop to translate a Frenchman's Plagiarism

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Junius Brutus

672
13 January 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By George Lillo.] Prompter, 18 Feb.: And, indeed, the Pulpit seems the properest Theatre for such Representations, and the Clergy, the properest Actors in the Religious Drama. This then, of itself, sufficiently justified the Town in its Reception of this Piece

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Christian Hero

673
22 February 1735 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By Elizabeth Cooper.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Widows; Or, The Fair Libertine

Dance: The Faithful Shepherd (composed by Glover) by Glover, Le Sac, Duke, Dupre, Delagarde, Mrs Ogden, Miss Rogers, Miss Baston, Mlle de l'Orme, Mlle Villepierre

674
25 April 1735 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By William Popple.] Grub St. Journal, 26 Feb. 1736: It was play'd the first night to about a 30l. house; three parts of which were the Author's friends, who came on purpose, right or wrong, to applaud it: notwithstanding which, little or no applause was given

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Deceit

675
11 October 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted there before. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restored