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7562 results for: Keyword - Moll Davis</i>] (whom I never saw act before) <span class=
We found 5005 matches on Event Comments, 1701 matches on Performance Comments, 1664 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

5901
08 March 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: EEgmont, Diary, II, 364: I went to the new play called 'King Charles the First,' acted with approbation at [lif]. The Characters are as the historians represent them, the language good and the sentiments fine, but the players are bad, he who represented General Fairfax and Cromwell excepted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Charles The First An Historical Play charles I

5902
09 March 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 10 March: Last Night the Representation of the Rehearsal of Kings was disappointed by some Persons taking clandestinely Possession of the Hay-Market Playhouse, who were about Eight o'Clock committed to Bridewell for the same. On this Account several hundred Persons were turn'd away. We are assur'd that the Publick may depend on the aforesaid Play's being acted, as writ, Tomorrow

Performances

5903
11 March 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 11 March: We hear the Rehearsal of Kings, intended to have been acted as this Day...is put off, by an unforeseen Accident, 'till Monday next

Performances

5904
17 March 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Afterpiece: A New Farce of one Act. [Author not known. Apparently not published.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Rehearsal Of Kings

Cast
Role: other characters are King Roguomania Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Sir Peevy Pet

5905
19 March 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: As 17 March. [For The Vision of the Golden Rump a piece of importance in connection with the Licensing Act, see Common Sense, 19 and 26 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Charles The First

Afterpiece Title: Hymens Triumph

5906
19 March 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Performance Comment: As it was originally Acted.

5907
21 March 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Not Acted these Thirty Years. Benefit Mrs Roberts. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maids The Mistress

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Dance: I: Pierrots-Vallois, Delagarde; V: Scots Dance-Haughton, Mlle Roland

Song: II: The Early Horn Salutes the Morn-Miss Jones; III: Singing in Italian-Mrs Chambers

5908
25 March 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: For Occasional Prompter XXVIII (on an Act to regulate the stage), see Daily Journal, 25 March

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Trionfo Del Tempo E Della Verita

Music: As17370323

5909
18 April 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: EEgmont, Diary, II, 390: To the Haymarket Playhouse, where a farce was acted called Eurydice First Hiss'd?, an allegory on the loss of the Excise Bill. The whole was a satire on Sir Robert Walpole, and I observed that when any strong passages fell, the Prince, who was there, clapped, especially when in favour of liberty. [The Princess of Wales was also present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Historical Register

Afterpiece Title: Eurydice Hissd

5910
26 April 1737 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Opera. [Text by Paul Rolli.] Daily Advertiser, 26 April: The Signora Marchesini's Songs are distributed after such a judicious Manner by the ingenious Author, so as to rise gradually upon the Audience in each Act

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sabrina

5911
18 May 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: As 17 May. The Usefulness of the Stage (1738) stated (p. 18) that The Dragon of Wantley was acted at hay with little success and that the audience was dismissed on the third night [this night, presumably]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Historical Register

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

5912
24 May 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Taylor, Boxkeeper. Mainpiece: Taken from Plautus and Moliere. [By this day the newspapers had recorded, in a variety of versions, that a Licensing Act was under consideration in Parliament.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Dance: I: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; II: Harlequin-Denoyer's@Prentice; III: Punch's Dance, as17370519; IV: Wooden Shoe Dance-Livier, Villeneuve; V: Russian Sailor-Denoyer's Prentice

5913
28 May 1737 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: TThe Craftsman, 28 May, has an essay the proposed Licensing Act

Performances

5914
08 June 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: For further discussion of the Licensing Act, see Daily Gazetteer, 8 and 9 June

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Justin

5915
10 June 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. [For further comment on the Licensing Act, see Daily Gazetteer, 10 June.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alcina

5916
11 June 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. [For an essay on "Kicking in Plays," see Common Sense, 11 June; Daily Gazetteer, 11 June, has another comment on the Licensing Act, and again on 13 June.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: II: Harlequin-Denoyer's@Prentice; III: Punch's Dance, as17370519; IV: Wooden Shoe Dance-Livier, Villeneuve; V: Turkish Dance-Muilment

5917
15 June 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Oates. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. 6 p.m. Tickets [for Demagny, a Widow in Distress, Leigh, Nosom, and Legard taken at this play. For another comment on the Licensing Act, see Daily Gazetteer, 15 June.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: I: A new Serious Dance-Master and Miss Oates; II: Irish Trot-Master and Miss Oates; V: Peasant Dance-Master and Miss Oates

5918
18 June 1737 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: For discussions of the Licensing Act, see London Journal, 18 June, and Craftsman, 18 June

Performances

5919
25 June 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Written by Mr Dryden. The Pit will be floor'd over, and laid to the Boxes. [For further comment on the Licensing Act, see Daily Gazetteer, 24 June, and Craftsman, 25 June.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

5920
July 1737 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: For continued discussion of the Licensing Act, see Gentleman's Magazine, July 1737; Craftsman, 2, 23, and 30 July; Daily Gazetteer, 6, 7, 9, and 16 July; Fog's, 2 July

Performances

5921
22 July 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woman Captain

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Performance Comment: Possibly acted on this day, but see17370726 .

5922
14 January 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted [there] these Fourteen Years. Written by Mr Wycherley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

5923
06 February 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Not Acted these Forty Years. Written by Shakespear. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Second

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: BBallet, as17380204

5924
13 February 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 15 Feb.: On Monday last Mr Lacy, who set up the Oratory in York Buildings, and was committed to Bridewell some time since, by two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace on the lade Act of Parliament, was brought by Habeas Corpus to the King's Bench, in order to be bail'd, but after several Learned Arguments by his Council, which were answer'd by the Attorney and Solicitor-General, the Court remanded him back again

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Fourth Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace or Merlins Cave

5925
23 February 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Otway. Afterpiece: A new Dramatick Piece of One Act: Being the Sequel to the King and the Miller of Mansfield. [By Robert Dodsley.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: Sir John Cockle at Court

Dance: V: Ballet-Denoyer, Haughton, Miss Thompson