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Event Comment: [By John Mottley.] A new Tragedy. Receipts: #11 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antiochus

Event Comment: [Music by Ariosti, Bononcini, Handel. Text by P. A. Rolli.] Admission as 19 Nov. 1720. De Fabrice to Flemming, 21 April (in Deutsch, Handel, p. 126): The Princess of Wales was safely delivered of a son last Saturday. The news was taken to the King by Lord Herbert during...Mutius Scevola, where there was a particularly large audience on account of its being the first performance. The audience celebrated the event with loud applause and huzzas. Each act of this opera is by a different composer, -the first by a certain Pipo, the second by Bononcini, and the third by Hendell, who easily triumphed over the others

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Mainpiece Title: Mutius Scaevola

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Mainpiece Title: Les Disgraves D'arlequin

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Limondier

Performance Comment: In which a new Arlequin will perform that Part, who has had the Honour of representing in several Foreigh Courts with Applause: The late Arlequin, Monsieur Francisque, bein gone.
Event Comment: [Text by P. A. Rolli.] A new Opera. Admission as 19 Nov. 1720

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Mainpiece Title: Cyrus; Or, Odio Ed Amore

Event Comment: At Lee's Great Booth in the Queen's Arms Tavern Yard, next the Marshalsea Gate. Mainpiece: an excellent New Entertainment

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Mainpiece Title: The Noble Englishman; Or, The History Of Aarius King Of Persia, And The Destruction Of Babylon; With The Pleasant Humours Of Capt Fearful And His Man Nine@pence

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Event Comment: Not Acted these Fifteen Years. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. All the Characters being new dress'd. Benefit John Rich. Receipts: money #79 11s. 6d.; tickets #21 7s

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Mainpiece Title: Injur'd Love; Or, The Ladies Satisfaction

Song: Singing in Italian and English-Mrs Bower, who never appear'd on the Stage before

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As it was alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham. Afterpiece: A new Dramatick Entertainment of Dancing in Grotesque Characters

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: The Escapes of Harlequin

Event Comment: [Text by P. A. Rolli. Music by Bononcini.] A new Opera. Admission as 9 Dec. 1721

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Crispus

Event Comment: [By William Phillips.] Never Acted before. The Characters all new Dress'd. Receipts: #57 10s. 6d

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Mainpiece Title: Hibernia Freed

Event Comment: [By Ambrose Phillips.] Never Acted before. With new Habits. [See also Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 24 Feb., and Freeholder's Journal, 21 Feb.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Briton

Event Comment: [Text by Rolli. Music by Bononcini.] A new Opera. Admission as 9 Dec. 1721

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Griselda

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By Henry Carey.] A new Farce on one Act. Benefit Quin. Receipts: money #67 12s.; tickets #73 19s

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Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: Hanging and Marriage; or, The Dead Man's Wedding

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. With a new Additional Scene of the Madness of Cobham. Receipts: money #18 11s. 6d.; tickets #44 18s

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Mainpiece Title: Sir Walter Raleigh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: Parts-Persons who never appeared but once on the Stage before; With the new Prologue, Epilogue-.

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Event Comment: At Walker's Booth. All the Habits entirely new

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Revenge; Or, The Princely Shepherd: With The History Of Valentine And Orson; With The Sad And Dismal humours Of Peter Pitiful

Dance: Hornpipe-Tom Jones

Event Comment: Written by the Author of the Busie-Body [Susanna Centlivre]. A New Comedy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Artifice

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Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolitus

Performance Comment: As17230118 With a new Prologue.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolitus

Performance Comment: As17230118 With a new Prologue.
Event Comment: [By Elijah Fenton.] With all new Habits. Receipts: #124 14s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Event Comment: Admission as 7 Nov. 1722. London Journal, 2 March: The new Opera Tickets are very high, and like to continue so as long as Mrs Cotzoni is so much admired. They are traded in at the other End of the Town, as much as Lottery Tickets are in Exchange-Alley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Event Comment: With an Addition of Four new Songs. Admission as 7 Nov. 1722

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Event Comment: Admission as 7 Nov. 1722. The Royal Academy of Musick, to prevent the Crowd and Disorders at the Practices of the New Opera, have resolved that no Persons shall be admitted to such Practices, but by Tickets to be deliver'd at their Office the same Evening, at one Guinea each Ticket

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Event Comment: Benefit a Person who has been a great Sufferer in Trade, and is new under Confinement for Debt. Written by Shakespear

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Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A new Night Scene

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Mainpiece Title: The School Boy

Afterpiece Title: Hob; or, The Country Wake

Afterpiece Title: The Tricks of Harlequin; or, The Doctor Defeated

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. With an intire new Sett of Scenes representing Ancient Rome, Painted by Monsieur Devoto

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar; With The Death Of Brutus And Cassius