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6697 results for: Keyword - Mr Dryden
We found 4342 matches on Event Comments, 1199 matches on Author, 1193 matches on Performance Comments, 563 matches on Performance Title, and 28 matches on Roles/Actors.

2101
11 April 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Husband. With all the Original Musick, Scenes, Machines, Habits and Dances proper to the Play. N.B. That Night (only) the Front of the Gallery will be adorn'd with the Original Pictures of several of our most celebrated Poetsv, particularly those who have been most excellent in the Dramatick Way, as Shakespear, Ben. Johnson, Fletcher, Dryden, &c. together with that of our English Orpheus, the late Mr Henry Purcell. Receipts: money #52 9s.; tickets #43 16s. See also The Censor, No. 73 (9 April) and No. 75 (13 April)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

2102
19 September 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by Dryden. Places for boxes to be taken of Mr Page at the stage door of the theatre. 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian King Of Portugal

2103
17 January 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. The Musick for the Afterpiece compos'd by Mr Arne. With a New Overture founded on some favourite Irish tunes. Nothing Under Full Prices will be taken during the Performance.--General Advertiser. [See Poem by S. G. To Mrs Sybilla, on her Acting the Goddess of Dullness and persuading her to attempt Melantha in Dryden's Marriage Alamode in Gentlemen's Magazine, Feb. 1745, p. 98. Authorship of afterpiece unknown; possible a revision of Theobald's The Happy Captive. See 16 April 1741 hay.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Temple of Dulness With Humours of Sg Capochio and Sga Dorinna

2104
10 March 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: Shylock (By particular Desire)-Ryan; Antonio-Cashell; Bassanio-Hale; Gratiano-Cibber; Lorenzo-Beard (with the usual songs in the character, likewise the song of Diana from Dryden's Secular Masque, set to music by Mr Boyce); Lancelot-Chapman; Solarino-Ridout; Morochius-Carr; Leonardo-Anderson; Gobbo-Arthur; Balthazar-Hayman; Salanio-Gibson; Duke-Marten; Tubal-Stoppelaer; Jessica-Mrs Vincent; Nerissa-Miss Hippisley; Portia-Mrs Pritchard; 1st time. 1st time.

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance: DDrunken Tyrolese-Sodi; Peasant-Cooke

2105
28 April 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Neale. Main Piece by Dryden, not acted for 9 years. Tickets to be had at Mr Moore's in the Playhouse passage, and at Neale's (Silk Dyer) in David Street near Grosvenor Square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon Or The Two Sosias

Related Works
Related Work: Amphitryon; or, The Two Sosias Author(s): John Dryden

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: Muilment, Mechel, Mlle Mechel

2106
09 September 1751 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Mr Phillips's Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark. A concert, etc. An Extraordinary Band of Musick. Pit 1s, 6d., Gallery 1s., Upper Gallery 6d. To begin each day at 12 o'clock noon. Mainpiece: An excellent Droll. [Possibly made from Dryden's Spanish Fryar.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: No Fool Like The Old One Or The Lucky Discovery

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue with Escape into Quart Bottle

Song: Phillips, Master Phillips, Miss Featherstone

Dance: Phillips, Master Phillips, Miss Featherstone

2107
31 March 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Ross. Mr Ross did Romeo & spoke an Elogium upon Shakespear in ye form of ye Monument in the Abby (Cross). Last time of performing the mainpiece this season. Nothing under full prices. After the play an Elogium wrote by Dryden, concluding with Milton's Epitaph to the Memory of Shakespeare, spoken by Ross representing the Shade of Shakespeare as figured on his monument in Westminster Abbey. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

2108
22 March 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. Mainpiece: Written by Dryden not acted these 15 years.[See 23 April 1750.] Charges #68 2s. Profit to Bensley #37 19s. 6d., plus #38 5s. from tickets (Box 153). Paid Mr Hopkins for the hire of Horses in the Fair #6 16s. Paid Read (scalemaker) #3 13s.; Dobosch (furrier) #4 17s. Paid Dall on acct of his salary #42. Receipts: #106 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian King Of Portugal

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: End: The Old Ground Young, as17731208

2109
13 December 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With Additions [by John Philip Kemble] from Dryden. The Music by Purcell and Dr Arne, with the new Airs and Chorusses by the late Mr Linley Jun. Receipts: #120 9s. 6d. (82.18.6; 29.0.0; 8.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Tempest Or The Enchanted Island

Related Works
Related Work: The Tempest Author(s): John Dryden

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Song: Vocal Parts-Kelly, Dignum, Danby [Public Advertiser: Caulfield], Cooke, Mrs Bland, Miss DeCamp, Mrs Edwards, Mrs Shaw

Opera: V: Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite. Neptune-Caulfield; Amphitrite-Mrs Edwards

2110
30 April 1675 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sophonisba Or Hannibals Overthrow

Performance Comment: Edition of 1676 (imperfect edition): Hannibal-Moon; Maherbal-Wats; Bomilcar-Haris; Scipio-Kingiston; Lelius-Wintersel; Massinissa-Harte; Massina-Clarke; Sophonisba-Mrs Cosh; Rosalinda-Mrs Damport. Edition of 1681: The Prologue to the University of Oxford, Written by J. Dryden, Esquire. Hannibal-Mohun; Maherbal-Burt; Bomilcar-Wintershul; Scipio-Kynaston; Lelius-Lydall; Varro-Watson; Massinisa-Hart; Trebellius-Powell; Massina-Clark; Menander-Griffin; Sophonisba-Mrs Cox; Rosalinda-Mrs Boutell; Aglave-Mrs Nep; Cumana-Mrs Cory. Epilogue Spoken to Sophonisba at its Playing at Oxford. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 15): Hannibal-Mohun; Maherbal-Burt; Bomilcar-Wintersel; Scipio-Kynaston; Lelius-Lydall; Massinissa-Hart; Massina-Clark; Sophonisba-Mrs Cox; Rosalinda-Mrs Boutel.
Cast
Role: Rosalinda Actor: Mrs Damport. Edition of 1681: The Prologue to the University of Oxford, Written by J. Dryden, Esquire. Hannibal-Mohun

2111
16 February 1687 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: John Dryden to Sir George Etherege, 16 Feb. 1686@7: The Coffee-house stands certainly where it did, & angry men meet in the square sometimes, as Abercomy, & Goodman lately did, where they say Alexander the Great was wounded in the arme (The Letters of John Dryden, ed. Ward, p. 27). See 27 Oct. 1686

Performances

2112
13 August 1691 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Walsh to Dryden: Is Cleomenes finisht pray or have you begun ye other design you told mee of abt ye priesthood (The Letters of John Dryden, ed. Ward, p. 44)

Performances

2113
03 September 1697 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: John Dryden to his sons, 3 Sept. 1697: After my return to Town, I intend to alter a play of Sir Robert Howards, written long since, & lately put by him into my hands: tis calld The Conquest of China by the Tartars. It will cost me six weeks study, with the probable benefit of an hunderd pounds. In the meane time I am writeing a Song for St Cecilia's feast, who you know is the Patroness of Musique. This is troublesome, & no way beneficiall: but I coud not deny the Stewards of the feast, who came in a body to me, to desire that kindness (Letters of John Dryden, p. 93)

Performances

2114
December 1697 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: John Dryden to Jacob Tonson: I have broken off my Studies from The Conquest of China (Letters of John Dryden, p. 97)

Performances

2115
14 December 1699 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Lady Morley attended this performance: Lady Morley and three in the Box at Marryage hater. 16s. See Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 378. John Dryden to Mrs Steward, 14 Dec. 1699: Both the Iphigenias have been played with bad Success; & being both acted, one against the other, in the same week, clashed together, like two rotten ships, which cou'd not endure the shock; & sunk to rights (The Letters of John Dryden, p. 131)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Marriage Hater Matched

2116
12 March 1700 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Lady Marow to Arthur Kay, 12 March 1699@1700: The Way of the World, Congreve's new play doth not answer expectation, there being no plot in it but many witty things to ridicule the Chocolate House, and the fantastical part of the world (HMC, 15th Report, Appendix, Dartmouth MSS., Part I, p. 145). John Dryden to Mrs Steward, 12 March: Congreves New Play has had but moderate success; though it deserves much better (Letters of John Dryden, p. 134)

Performances

2117
02 February 1769 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Attic Evenings Entertainment

Performance Comment: Readings from Milton-; Caractacus-; Gray's Elegy-Sheridan; Two Pieces of prose composition of interest to both sexes. Dryden's Ode on the Power of Music-; pieces of vocal and instrumental music-; the vocal parts-Guistinelli, Mrs Jewel [formerly Miss Edwards].formerly Miss Edwards].
Cast
Role: Dryden's Ode on the Power of Music Actor:

2118
26 October 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5]: Altered from Beaumont and Fletcher, by Dryden [by Thomas King. The original alteration, 1700, was by Sir John Vanbrugh, not by Dryden. The present alteration has been attributed to John Philip Kemble, but in his copy of the play, now in the Huntington Library (K-D 95), he has written "by Thomas King"]. Public Advertiser, 22 Nov. 1787: This Day is published, as now revived with material Additions, The Pilgrim (1s.). Receipts: #85 9s. 6d. (72.5.0; 13.4.6; 0.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Dance: End I: a New Dance-Hamoir, Ferrere, the Miss Stageldoirs; End III: The Capricious Lovers, as17870920; End IV: another New Dance-Hamoir, Ferrere, the Miss Stageldoirs

2119
26 March 1794 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection Of Sacred Music From The Works Of Handel

Performance Comment: Principal Vocal Performers, Leader, Organ as17940307ART I. Overture (BERENICE). Come ever smiling (JUDAS MACCABAEUS). Tears such as tender (DEBORAH). For unto us a child (THE MESSIAH). Grateful hearts (NABAL). Sweep the strings; Music spread thy Voice (SOLOMON). Every day will I ([CHANDOS] ANTHEMS). For joys so vast; Happy they (JEPHTHA). From the censer (SOLOMO). PART II. Fourth Organ Concerto. Together let us range ([SOLOMON] by Boyce). The trumpet's loud; The double beat (DRYDEN'S ODE). He was eyes [SIROE]. He led tbrm thro' (ISRAEL IN EGYPT). Ye sons of Israel [JOSHUA]. Weep, Israel, weep; Go, baffled coward (SAMSON). For the Lord (THE MESSIAH). PART III. Fifth Grand Concerto. O liberty (JUDAS MACCABAEUS). Let the bright; Awake the trumpets (SAMSON). O beauteous Queen (ESTHER). Mad Bess by Mme Mara (Purcell). How willing (SAMSON). But bright Cecilia; As from; The dead shall live (DRYDEN'S ODE). To conclude with God save Great George our King and Rule Britannia .

Music: End of Part II concerto on the organ by J. Ashley

2120
01 April 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth First Part

Afterpiece Title: St

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Dryden's Ode of Alexander's Feast-Holman

Performance Comment: End: Dryden's Ode of Alexander's Feast-Holman.
Cast
Role: Dryden's Ode of Alexander's Feast Actor: Holman.

Song: After the monologue: My Mother had a Maid called Barbara, as17960314The Minstrel's Song, Where is that tow'ring spirit fled? as17960314Tho' Hurricanes rattle (composed by Shield)-Incledon, Bowden; Ye Gentlemen of England, as17960314

2121
02 June 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Dance: II: The Haymakers-Giorgi's Scholars; End Opera: Hornpipe-Master Burn

Entertainment: End Opera: Bannister's Imitations-Bannister

2122
16 May 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: Cook, Anne Auretti, Mathews, Mrs Addison

2123
27 May 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Matilda

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

2124
24 October 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

2125
10 June 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: I: The Grand Garland Dance as17760410 but-Slingsby, Sga Crespi, Mrs Sutton