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Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Afterpiece Title: The Kentish Barons

Related Works
Related Work: The Kentish Barons Author(s): Francis North

Afterpiece Title: Taste and Feeling

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Kentish Barons

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Related Work: The Kentish Barons Author(s): Francis North

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Afterpiece Title: The Kentish Barons

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Related Work: The Kentish Barons Author(s): Francis North

Afterpiece Title: Half an Hour after Supper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Afterpiece Title: The Kentish Barons

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Related Work: The Kentish Barons Author(s): Francis North

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

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Related Work: Orpheus and Eurydice Author(s): Francis Gentleman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

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Related Work: The Maid of the Oaks Author(s): Francis Barthélémon

Dance: In I afterpiece: a Dance-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: THE MAID OF THE OAKS

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Related Work: The Maid of the Oaks Author(s): Francis Barthélémon

Dance: End of mainpiece The Drunken Swiss, as17931015; In Act I of afterpiece a Dance by Holland and Mlle St. Amand

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every One Has His Fault

Afterpiece Title: Arrived at Portsmouth

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

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Related Work: The Maid of the Oaks Author(s): Francis Barthélémon

Dance: In 2nd piece: a New Dance-Holland, Platt, Mrs Watts

Song: In 2nd piece: As in 3rd piece, 12 Apr., but The Sea Storm-_; Old Towler-_; New Song-_

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Mainpiece Title: Philaster

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Related Work: Philaster Author(s): Francis Beaumont

Afterpiece Title: Cymon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lovers Vows

Afterpiece Title: The Tobacconist

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Related Work: The Tobacconist Author(s): Francis Gentleman

Afterpiece Title: The Mouth of the Nile

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Five Thousand A Year

Afterpiece Title: The Old Cloathsman

Afterpiece Title: The Tobacconist

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Related Work: The Tobacconist Author(s): Francis Gentleman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tobacconist

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Related Work: The Tobacconist Author(s): Francis Gentleman

Afterpiece Title: The Point of Honour

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Afterpiece Title: Britains Happiness

Music: Singing in Italian and English-Mrs Tofts

Dance: As17040222

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: La Guinquette

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: La Guinquette

Dance: A new Italian Night Scene-Sorin, Baxter; La Caprice, as17160411

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Northern Lass

Afterpiece Title: La Guinquette

Dance: As17160420

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: La Guinquette

Afterpiece Title: Dido and Aeneas

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherd

Dance: TThe Faggot Binders, as17640301 Dance, as17640301

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherd

Dance: TThe Faggot Binders, as17640301 Dance, as17640301

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherd

Dance: I: New Dance call'd The Sheep Shearers-Grimaldi, Miss Baker; II: The Faggot Binders, as17640224; End Opera: A Dance, as17640224

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherd

Dance: The Sheep Shearers, as17640308 The Faggot Binders, as17640308 Dance, as17640308

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherd

Dance: I: The Sheep Shearers, as17640308 but _Grimaldi, Lauchery; II: The +Shepherdesses, as17640113; End Opera: A Dance, as17640301 but _Grimaldi, Tassoni

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@142, p. 81: At the Virtuoso. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 348. Nell Gwyn also attended this performance; see VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407. The Diary of Robert Hooke, 25 May 1676: Mr Abraham Hill gave J. Hoskins, Aubery and I an account of Vertuoso play. A song, How retched is the slave to love, the music by Francis Forcer, is in Choice Ayres and Songs, The Second Book, 1679. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 37): The Libertine and Virtuoso: Both Wrote by Mr Shadwell; they were both very well Acted, and got the company great Reputation

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Virtuoso

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 408. It is not known when the premiere occurred, but this is the earliest known performance. The Prologue, missing in the 1677 edition, is in the 1693 edition. A song, Make haste, my shepherd, come away, with music by Francis Forcer, is in Choice Ayres and Songs, Second Book, 1679

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Abdelazer Or The Moors Revenge

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Performance Comment: Parts by Woodward, Smith, Yates, Clarke, Dyer, Bensley, Hull, Dunstall, Perry, Quick, Fox, Wignell, Bates, Holtom, Mrs Bulkley, Mrs Mattocks, Mrs Green, Miss Ward, Miss Valois, Mrs Yates. With Prologue and Epilogue. Captain Ironsides-Woodward; Belfield Jun-Smith; Sir Benjamin Dove-Yates; Belfield Sen-Clarke; Paterson-Dyer; Philip-Bensley; Old Goodwin-Hull; Jonathan-Dunstall; Francis-Perry; Skiff-Quick; Lady Dove-Mrs Green; Violetta-Mrs Bulkley; Lucy Waters-Mrs Mattocks; Fanny Goodwin-Miss Ward; Kitty-Miss Valois; Sophia-Mrs Yates (playbill matched with Edition of 1770); Playbill also lists Fox, Wignell, Bates, Holtom (presumably as sailors.); With Prologue-Smith; Epilogue-Mrs Yates (playbill and 1770 Edn.). See Bill for 25 Jan. 1770.
Cast
Role: Francis Actor: Perry

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances