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5772 results for: Keyword - Mr Moliere
We found 4378 matches on Event Comments, 1139 matches on Performance Comments, 528 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

851
20 March 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Clive. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Mainpiece: Taken from Moliere by the late Mr Betterton. Six Rows of the Pit will be railed into the Front Boxes. [Tickets at Mrs Clive's House in Cecil-street, in the Strand.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: III: Tambourine-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; V: Ballet-Muilment, Mrs Walter

Song: IV: Ballad of Mary Scot-Mrs Clive

852
10 August 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Walker, a Brother. For the Entertainment of the Grand Master and the Worthy Brothers and Sisters of the Honourable Community of Modern Free-Masons. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay. Afterpiece: Taken from Moliere, and Intermixed with Songs. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song: Concluding with theModern Free@Masons Song-in the Character of Robin Hooda Brother

Dance: HHornpipe, Drunken Peasant-Phillips

853
17 November 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Comedy from Moliere and Cibber. Hopkins Diary: This comedy [Hypocrite] is the Non Juror altered, and two new characters introduced,--went off very well,--some few hisses,--but the play will do.--The alterations are by Mr Bickerstaffe. [Full account of the mainpiece, but without critical observation, appeared in the Lloyd's Evening Post, Nov. 18-21.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

854
29 April 1797 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Holman. 1st piece [1st time; C 5, by Benjamin Hoadly, based partly on L'Ecole des Femmes, by Moliere. Larpent MS 1160; not published. Prologue by John Taylor; Epilogue by Edward Jerningham (European Magazine, May 1797, p. 342)]: Mr Holman having been favored by the Family of Doctor Hoadly, Author of the Suspicious Husband, with a Manuscript Comedy in Five Acts, the production of that celebrated Writer, he most respectfully informs the Public that it will be presented under the Title of The Tatlers. True Briton, 1 May: The Play was given to Holman by Dr Hoadly Ashe, Hoadly's nephew. Ibid, 10 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Holman, No. 14, John-street, Adelphi. Account-Book: Paid Insurance and Duty on #10,000 for one year from 16th Inst. at the Royal Exchange Fire Office #136 17s; ditto on #10,000 for one year from Lady Day at the Phoenix Fire Office #112 10s. Receipts: #290 11s. 6d. (143.16.0; 10.11.6; tickets: 136.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tatlers

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Afterpiece Title: Netley Abbey

855
19 October 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Taken from the French of Moliere. With an additional Scene of a Consultation of Physicians from Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mother-in-law; Or, The Doctor's The Disease

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Dance: As17341017

856
11 April 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Griffin. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Taken from Plautus, Moliere. Afterpiece: Taken from the French of Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: III: Muilment, Mrs Walter; V: Polonese-Haughton, Mrs Walter

857
14 June 1669 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This play is on the L. C. list at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", pp. 12-14. The play seems to be a translation by Shadwell of Moliere's Tartuffe. Elkanah Settle, in the Preface to his Ibrahim (licensed 4 May 1676) attacks Shadwell and refers to Shadwell's translation of Tartuffe into The Hypocrite, which, according to Settle, was acted six days

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

858
31 July 1706 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Sir William Davenant; but Originally by the famous French Dramatick Poet Monsieur Moliere. [Genest, II, 352, surmises that the company probably acted Acts I, II, and V of The Playhouse to be Let.] Afterpiece: A Burlesque Farce

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Playhouse To Be Let; With Sganarella, The Blacksmith Of Paris

Afterpiece Title: Mock Pompey

Song:

Dance:

859
25 June 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Written originally in French by Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tartuffe

860
13 January 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Written by the Famous Monsieur Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Tartuffe; Ou, L'imposteur

Dance: Moreau, Mrs Moreau, Miss Schoolding, delaGarde's Two Sons

861
14 March 1719 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Perform'd after the Italian Manner. Afterpiece: Written by the famous Monsieur Regnard, the best Writer of Comedy after Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Scaramouch Pedant Scrupuleux; Ou, L'escolier

Afterpiece Title: Les Folies Amoureuses

Song:

Dance:

Entertainment: Tumbling-

862
24 June 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Moliere. Afterpiece: A new Comi-Tragi-Heroick Farce [but see 29 June 1710]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tartuffe; Or, The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Queens; or, The Comical Humours of Alexander the Great

863
19 January 1721 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Comedie de Monsieur de Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Major Ridicule

Afterpiece Title: Le Medicin Malgre Luy

Dance:

864
03 February 1721 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Comedie de Monsieur de Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'avare

Afterpiece Title: L'Arlequin Dame Alison; ou, Le Carillon

Dance:

865
10 February 1721 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Comedie de Monsieur de Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Homme A Bonne Fortune

Afterpiece Title: Medecin Malgre Luy

Dance:

866
14 February 1721 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Comedie de Monsieur Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Les Fourberies D'arlequin; Ou, L'etourdye

Afterpiece Title: Le George Dandin

Dance:

867
27 February 1721 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Comedie de Monsieur de Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

Entertainment: With the Turkish Ceremony , and all its Decorations-

Dance: End Entertainment: Dance-Monsieur Roger, alias Pierot, Mademoiselle deSchallier

868
02 March 1721 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Comedie de Monsieur de Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Cru Colombine & Colombine Cru Arlequin

Afterpiece Title: Le Cocu Imaginaire

Dance:

869
13 March 1721 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Comedie de Mons de Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: De L'ecole Des Femmes

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Esprit Folet

870
22 April 1721 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Comedie Monsieur Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Dame Invisible

Afterpiece Title: De Pourceaugnac

Dance:

871
04 December 1721 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By the Company of French Comedians, just arrived. Mainpiece: Written by Mons Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tartuffe

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Invisible Chez le Roy de Luchine

Dance:

872
11 December 1721 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Monsieur Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon; Ou, Les Deux Sosies

Afterpiece Title: Le Marriage Force

Dance:

873
14 December 1721 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Monsieur Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'ecole Des Maris

Afterpiece Title: George Dandin

874
29 December 1721 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Monsieur Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Misanthrope

Afterpiece Title: Attendez Moy Sous L'Orme

Dance:

875
01 January 1722 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Monsieur de Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'avare

Afterpiece Title: Les Vendanges de Suresne

Dance: