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We found 4546 matches on Event Comments, 1960 matches on Performance Comments, 622 matches on Performance Title, 154 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: The United Company. The date of the first performance is not known; It is one of several plays which may have been acted in or near December, for three were entered in the Term Catalogues at approximately the same time. Of the three, The Mistakes was given first near Christmas 1690; the other two may have come earlier in the month. A song, When Sylvia was kind, the music composed by John Eccles, is in Joyful Cuckoldom, ca. 1695. In the text of the play is a song, Corinna in the bloom of youth, sung by Mrs Botoler

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Mainpiece Title: Alphonso King Of Naples

Event Comment: The United Company. The date of the first performance is not known, but according to the Gentleman's Journal, May 1694, it followed Have at All: the other call'd The married Beau, or the Curious Impertinent, by Mr Crown, already acted many times (p. 134). The manuscript of a song composed by John Eccles and sung by Doggett is in Bodleian, School of Music Collection, c. 95, f 102. One by Henry Purcell, See, where repenting Celia lyes, sung by Mrs Ayliff, is in Thesaurus Musicus, 1695. See also Purcell's Works, Purcell Society, XX (1916), xvii-xviii

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Mainpiece Title: The Married Beau Or The Curious Impertinent

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. The date of the first production is not known, but the play was probably not acted later than September 1695, as it was advertised in the London Gazette, No. 3122, 10-14 Oct. 1695. Preface, Edition of 1696: It was the first I ever made Publick by appearing on the Stage, which (with the Advantage it met with, of admirable Acting) is all the Recommendations I have for exposing it...Ariadne. A song, Restless, in thought disturbed, set by John Eccles and sung by Mrs Hodgson, is in A Collection of Songs, 1696

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Mainpiece Title: She Ventures And He Wins

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. The date of the first performance is not known, but the fact that it was advertised in the Post Boy, 27-29 Feb. 1695@6 and entered in the Term Catalogues, February 1695@6, suggests that it was probably acted not later than January 1695@6. It may have appeared around the turn of the year. One song, While Phillis does drink, set by John Eccles and sung by Coper; and another, So well Corinna likes the joy, the composer not named but sung by Young Laroch, a Boy of seven, are in Deliciae Musicae, The First Book of the Second Volume, 1696. Downes, Roscius Anglicanus, p. 45: A Comedy, wrote by Mr George Greenvil, when he was very Young; Extraordinary Witty, and well Acted; but offending the Ears of some Ladies who set up for Chastity, it made its Exit. A Comparison Between the Two Stages (1702), p. 20: And a good Comedy, tho it had the Misfortune to be ill receiv'd

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Mainpiece Title: The She gallants

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Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo And Armida

Performance Comment: Edition of 1699: Prologue-; Rinaldo-Betterton; Ubaldo-Thurman; Carlo-Scudamore; Armida-Mrs Barry; Urania-Mrs Boman; Phenissa-Mrs Lee; Epilogue-; The Musical Entertainment ...All Compos'd by Mr John Eccles, and Writ by Mr Dennis-.

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Mainpiece Title: Matilda

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. The date of the premiere is not known, but the Epilogue refers to it as a summer production and the play was advertised in the London Gazette, No 3108, 22-26 Aug. 1695; hence, it appeared first not later than August. A song, Stretch'd in a dark and dismall grove, composed by John Eccles and sung by Mrs Hudson, is in Deliciae Musicae, The Third Book, 1696. A Comparison Between the Two Stages (p. 16): Sullen: Imprimis, Here's Pyrrhus King of Epire. Ramble: Whose is that? Sullen: Charles Hopkin's, an Irish Gentleman of good Sense, and an excellent Ovidian. Ramble: What was it's Fate? Sullen: Damn'd

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Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus King Of Epirus

Event Comment: In L. C. 5@152, pp. 202, 220--see Boswell, Restoration Court Stage, p. 105--is a reference to a performance given jointly by both companies. As this was the customary date of the celebration of King William's birthday, this musical work was probably given on this day. The BM copy has a MS date of 29 Nov. 1697; and a dialogue from this work was noticed in the Post Boy, 30 Nov.-2 Dec. 1697. The music was composed by John Eccles

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Mainpiece Title: Europes Revels For The Peace

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. The date of the premiere is not known, but the fact that the play was advertised in the Post Boy, 16-18 April 1700, suggests that the first production came before Easter, March 31. A song, Delia tired Strephon with her flame, with music by John Eccles and sung by Bowman, is in Wit and Mirth, 1706

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Mainpiece Title: The Beau Defeated Or The Lucky Younger Brother

Event Comment: Benefit for Browne. [Miss Eccles, who was from the York theatre, is identified in European Magazine, July 1787, p. 64.] Public Advertiser, 16 July: Tickets to be had of Browne, No. 13, King-street, Covent Garden

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Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Performance Comment: Jaffier-Browne; Priuli-Aickin; Renault-Gardner; Bedamar-R. Palmer; Duke-Usher; Spinosa-Lawrence; Elliot-Swords; Officer-Johnson; Pierre-Bensley; Belvidera-A Young Lady (1st appearance [Miss Eccles]).Miss Eccles]).

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Entertainment: Monologue End: a monody, The Shadows of Shakespeare; or, Shakespeare's Characters doing Homage to Garrick (written by Samuel Jackson? Pratt)-Browne

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Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

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Mainpiece Title: Alonzo

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

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Mainpiece Title: The World In The Moon

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Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

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Mainpiece Title: Sethona

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

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Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: III: The Amusements of Strasburgh-as17711118, but now By the scholars of Sg Daigville

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Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

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Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

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Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17630922; End I Farce: Hornpipe-Miss Baker

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Mainpiece Title: Timoleon Or Liberty Restored

Afterpiece Title: The Author

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: II: A Comic Dance-Daigville, Sga Vidini

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Mainpiece Title: The Heroine Of The Cave

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Music: II: A Solemn Hymn-

Dance: IV: The Sailors Revels, as17730918

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Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton or High Life Above Stairs

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Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: The Pigmy Revels

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Mainpiece Title: Sethona

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen