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11561 results for: Keyword - Mr James Love
We found 4697 matches on Event Comments, 3312 matches on Performance Title, 3052 matches on Performance Comments, 2196 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

626
13 February 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit James, Eyre, and Mrs Ratcliff

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Dance: James, Mrs Ratcliff

627
11 March 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: After dinner I went to the theatre, and there saw Love's Mistress done by them, which I do not like it some things so well as their acting in Salsbury Court. [Although Pepys saw this play on 2 March 1660@1 at Salisbury Court, done by the Duke's Company, here he appears to indicate a rival performance of it by the King's Company in Vere St.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Mistress

628
06 April 1661 @ Salisbury Court

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: Then by water, Creed and I, to Salisbury Court and there saw Love's Quarrell acted the first time, but I do not like the design or words

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Quarrel

629
23 October 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary So back to the Opera, and there I saw again Love and Honour, and a very good play it is

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Honour

630
25 October 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: My wife and I to the Opera, and there saw again Love and Honour, a play so good that it has been acted but three times and I have seen them all, and all in this week; which is too much, and more than I will do again a good while

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Honour

631
01 November 1661 @ Middle Temple

Event Comment: See Calendar of the Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood, p. 169, for a fee of #20 paid to Sir William Davenant's@company, the receipt being signed by Richard Baddeley; and for #1 5s. for baize to cover the stage and scenes. The play may well have been Love and Honour

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Honour

632
11 November 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Evelyn, Diary: I was so idle as to go see a play, cald Love and honor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Honour

633
March 1664 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: This play, which was licensed on 22 April 1664, was a revision of Flecknoe's Love's Dominion, 1654. There is no indication, other than the date of licensing, which points to a specific time when it was acted. The Duke's Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Kingdom

634
27 April 1664 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Evelyn, Diary: Saw a facecious Comedy Cald Love in a Tub

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Tub

635
March 1665 @ Merchant Taylors School

Event Comment: H. B. Wilson, The History of the Merchant-Taylors' School (London, 1814), 1, 344n: 15 March 1664@5. There was this day presented to the court, the bill of charges in erecting the Stage and Seates and other necessaries in the hall, when the Schollers of the companies schoole, at St Laurence Pounctneys, London, acted the play called Love's Pilgrimage, amounting unto seventeen Poundes, Tenn-shillings, and nine-pence

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Pilgrimage

636
15 May 1665 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, all alone, and saw Love's Maistresse. Some pretty things and good variety in it, but no or little fancy in it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Mistress Or The Queens Mask

637
15 August 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, and there saw Love's Mistresse revived, the thing pretty good, but full of variety of divertisement

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Mistress Or The Queens Masque

638
17 August 1668 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Duke of York's house, and there saw Cupid's Revenge, under the new name of Love Despised, that hath something very good in it, though I like not the whole body of it. This day the first time acted here

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Despised

639
09 December 1695 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: It is not known in which theatre this revival occurred. It was witnessed by van Constantijn Huygens, Monday 19 Dec. 1695 N.S. [translation]: In the afternoon I was at the comedy with my wife and Mrs Creitsmar. They played an old show called: The Love in the Tubb (Publications of the Dutch Historical Society, New Series, XXV [Utrecht, 1877], 560)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Tub

640
29 December 1696 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Lady Morley attended this performance. Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 377: Lady Morley and ffower in the Box at Loves last Shift #1

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

641
20 November 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Performance Comment: See17181006, but First Interlude given end Act II of Love Makes a Man-; Second Interlude end III-.
Cast
Role: First Interlude given end Act II of Love Makes Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Dance: As17181024

642
22 November 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Orphan announced, but by special Command Love Makes a Man was played. His Majesty present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

643
15 December 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross). [Cross suggests The Tutor as afterpiece, but Public Advertiser and playbill list Love a-la-Mode.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Related Works
Related Work: The Universal Passion Author(s): James Miller

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

644
29 May 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Being positively the last time for the afterpiece this season. [In June was published A Scotsman's Remarks on the Farce Love-a-la-Mode (Gentleman's Magazine, p. 339), scene by scene.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Dance: I: The last new Comic Dance-Sg and Sga Giorgi; II: The Cow Keepers, as17600313 but Mrs _Vernon, Mrs Preston

Song: III: By Desire, The Sailor's Song-Champnes, and a Dance in character by the Sailor

645
02 December 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. N.B. Love in a Village will not be acted after this evening, for a considerable time, on account of a new Musical Comedy which will be performed some Day this week. [See 6 Dec., The Summer's Tale.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: II: Rural Love, as17651115

646
17 January 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [W+Winston MS 10 notes that O. Smith suggests Miss Spencer. Winston suggests Mrs Greville. The Town and Country Magazine (From Theatre No XIII): "Mrs Gladeau...has appeared as Rosetta in Love in a Village." Comments that she does not know much about music but "has a pleasing voice and an agreeable figure and will probably be a valuable acquisition to the stage. Received with applause."] Receipts: #217 16s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: II: Dutch Dance, as17691111

647
18 November 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by Thomas Hull, altered from The School for Guardians by Arthur Murphy. Not in Larpent MS; synopsis of plot in Public Advertiser 19 Nov.]: With New Dresses, &c. The Music chiefly compiled; the rest composed by Dr Arne, Sacchini and Fisher. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 18 Nov. 1777: This Day is published the Airs in Love Finds the Way (6d.). [Miss Courtenay is identified in the Airs.] Receipts: #233 8s. 6d. (232.5.0; 1.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Finds The Way

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: End II: The Minuet de la Cour, as17771111; End: The Enchantress, as17771104

648
07 April 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kennedy. Tickets delivered for Love Finds the Way will be taken. Public Advertiser, 20 Mar.: Tickets to be had at the late Dr Arne's, No. 5, Bow-street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rose And Colin

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Village

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

649
21 March 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Mainpiece [1st time; c 5 (?), author unknown; perhaps an alteration of Love at a Venture, by Susannah Centlivre. MS not in Larpent; not published. Authors and speakers of Prologue and Epilogue unknown]. Afterpiece: As it was originally performed at this theatre [on 15 Oct. 1770]. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. The above entertainments have been a long time in rehearsal, and care has been taken in getting them well up, and to have the principal parts supported by veterans

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love At A Venture Or The Rake Reclaimd

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by performers engaged from different Theatres: Morris, Barrett, Money, Whitely, Jameson, Sheene, Lewis, Jackson, Middleton, Stanley, Dancer; Miss Fitzherbert, Mrs Sauley, Mrs Waite, Miss Anderson, Miss Brice. Cast not listed. A new Prologue and Epilogue .

Afterpiece Title: The Tobacconist

Performance Comment: Abel Drugger-A Gentleman [unidentified]; Sir Epicure Mammon-Whitely; Subtle-Jameson; Headlong-Middleton; Knowlife-Johnson; Face-Dancer; Doll Tricsy-Mrs Barnard; Miss Rantipole-Miss Fitzherbert .
Cast
Role: Subtle Actor: Jameson

Monologue: 1782 03 21 End of mainpiece (never performed here) Phelimoguffinocarilocarneymacframe's Description of a Man of War and a Sea Fight, with Explanations, by Mrs Kennedy

650
17 February 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2]: Written by the Author of The Poor Soldier [John O'Keeffe. Text 1st published in his Dramatic Works, Vol. IV (T. Woodfall, 1798)]. With new Scenes, Dresses, &c. The Airs partly compiled, the new Music, Overture, and all the Accompaniments composed by Shield. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Account-Book, 6 Apr.: Paid O'Keeffe in full for Love in a Camp #105. Receipts: #189 2s. 6d. (175/1/6; 14/1/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp or Patrick in Prussia