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Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The source of this performance is the diary of Jeffrey Boys. See G. J. Gray, "The Diary of Jeffrey Boys of Gray's Inn, 1671," Notes and Queries, 27 Dec. 1930, p. 455

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Forcd Marriage Or The Jealous Bridegroom

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This play may well have been performed regularly since 25 May. The Diary of Robert Hooke, 2 June 1676: with Godfrey and Tompion at Play. Met Oliver there. Damned Doggs. Vindica me Deus. People almost pointed. [Several entries in Hooke's Diary concern The Virtuoso. See his entries for 1 June, 3 June, 1 July.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Virtuoso

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first performance is uncertain, but the fact that Luttrell dated his separately printed copies of the Prologue and Epilogue 5 April 1682 (Huntington Library) sets a probability that the play first appeared within a week to ten days preceding that date. The Prologue and Epilogue, separately printed, have been reprinted in Wiley, Rare Prologues and Epilogues, pp. 89-91. A Prologue Intended for Vertue Bertray'd, by Thomas Shadwell, is reprinted in Welbeck Niscellany 3, A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, ed. Francis Needham, 1934. Some details in it suggest the "Dead Time" preceding Easter, when the Court was gone, the Russian ambassador departed, the Moroccan Ambassador shortly to go. The Russian ambassador left on 15 Feb. 1681@2 OS (see Evelyn, Diary), and the Prologue refers to the execution of Colonel Vratz and his accomplices on 10 March 1681@2 (Evelyn, Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Vertue Betrayd Or Anna Bullen

Performance Comment: Edition of 1682: Prologue- Spoken to Anna Bullen by a Person of Quality; King Harry-Smith; Cardinal-Gillow; Northumberland-Wiltshire; Piercy-Betterton; Rochford-Jos. Williams; Anna Bullen-Mrs Barry; Lady Diana Talbot-Mrs Petty; Epilogue-.
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Role: Rochford Actor: Jos. Williams
Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Miss Farren, "but on account of the sudden indisposition of Miss Farren her part in the play was read by Mrs Ward, who gave it with great effect, and having studied Miss Farren's manner, was a very tolerable substitute" (Diary, 2 May).] Afterpiece [1st time; C 3, by John Philip Kemble]: Taken from [The Country Lasses; or] The Custom of the Manor [by Charles Johnson]. Diary, 6 May 1789: This Day is published The Farm House (1s.). And see 6 May. Receipts: #165 3s. (125.12.0; 34.18.6; 4.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Appearances

Afterpiece Title: The Farm House

Event Comment: "The Pantomime has undergone some curtailment. The last scene was omitted, and Milbank [sic] played Harlequin instead of Boyce, which are alterations certainly for the better" (Public Advertiser, 4 Dec.). Receipts: #242 15s. 6d. (229.11.6; 13.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

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Role: Lady Waitfor't Actor: Mrs Webb

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Performance Comment: As17891130, but Harlequin-Milburne; Street@singer-Blanchard; Darley, Mrs Martyr [who probably acted Watchman and Feridon] (Diary, 4 Dec.). Darley, Mrs Martyr [who probably acted Watchman and Feridon] (Diary, 4 Dec.).
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years. Afterpiece [1st time: CO 2, by John O'Keeffe; altered by the author from his The Czar. Larpent MS 881; not published]: In which will be introduced a few Scenes and Songs from The Czar, performed last season [on 8 Mar. 1790]. The Music composed and compiled by Shield. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. [Mrs Harlowe was from Sadler's Wells.] Receipts: #194 11s. 6d. (181.18.6; 12.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Fugitive

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Ryder, Blanchard, Wilson, Marshall, Powel, Rock, Farley, Cross, Johnstone, Miss Williams, Mrs Webb, Mrs Harlowe (1st appearance on this stage). [Larpent MS lists the parts: Baron Allstoff (acted by Wilson) (Diary, 5 Nov.), Gentleman, Theodore, Ralpho, Justice Yacobs, Count, Fritz, Slip, Turnkeys, Ballybough, Mme Yacobs, Julia, Ellen.]Larpent MS lists the parts: Baron Allstoff (acted by Wilson) (Diary, 5 Nov.), Gentleman, Theodore, Ralpho, Justice Yacobs, Count, Fritz, Slip, Turnkeys, Ballybough, Mme Yacobs, Julia, Ellen.]
Event Comment: All the Characters New Dress'd. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. Receipts: #136 18s. Probable attendance: boxes, 235 paid and 5 orders; stage, 4 paid; balcony, 4 paid; pit, 276 paid and 13 orders; slips, 20 paid and 15 orders; first gallery, 250 paid and 3 orders; second gallery, 90 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Event Comment: Receipts: #148 1s. Probable attendacne: boxes, 231 paid and 15 orders; stage, 1 paid; balcony, 5 paid; pit, 265 paid and 7 orders; slips, 35 paid and 5 orders; first gallery, 375 paid and 6 orders; second gallery, 104 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Event Comment: Receipts: #38 5s. Probable attendance: boxes, 48 paid and 13 orders; stage, 1 paid; balcony, 2 paid; pit, 152 paid and 11 orders; slips, 5 paid; first gallery, 73 paid and 5 orders; second gallery, 65 paid and 2 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dissembled Wanton

Event Comment: Receipts: #83 14s. Probable attendance: boxes, 125 paid and 15 orders; stage, 1 paid; balcony, 1 paid; pit, 215 paid and 18 orders; slips, 9 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 158 paid and 12 orders; second gallery, 40 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Event Comment: Receipts: #86 15. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 155 paid and 34 orders; stage, 1 paid; balcony, 1 paid; pit, 197 paid and 28 orders; slips, 3 paid and 8 orders; first gallery, 152 paid and 5 orders; second gallery, 33 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Event Comment: Receipts. #79 16s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 85 paid and 20 orders; stage, 1 paid; balcony, 2 paid; pit, 249 paid and 12 orders; slips, 8 paid and 4 orders; first gallery, 155 paid and 14 orders; second gallery, 54 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Event Comment: Receipts: #147 5s. 6d. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Probable attendance: boxes, 194 paid and 20 orders; stage, 1 paid; balcony, 4 paid; pit, 275 paid and 11 orders; slips, 38 paid and 5 orders; first gallery, 406 paid and 9 orders; second gallery, 165 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne or The Burgo Master Trickd

Event Comment: Receipts: #111 14s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 179 paid and 32 orders; stage, 24 paid; balcony, 2 paid; pit, 238 paid and 33 orders; slips, 14 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 167 paid and 22 orders; second gallery, 54 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Event Comment: [Written by Lewis Theobald. Set to Music by Galliard.] The Entertainment being entirely new Dress'd: With New Scenes, Machines, and other Decorations. Pit and Boxes laid together at 5s. Receipts: #216 12s. Probable attendance: boxes, 269 paid; stage, 1 paid; balcony, 4 paid; pit, 274 paid and 4 orders; slips, 54 paid and 2 orders; first gallery, 456 paid; second gallery, 195 paid. Mist's, 18 Feb.: It is of the Nature of Pantomimes, partly grotesque, and partly vocal, but far exceeds all ever yet shewn, in the Magnificence and Beauty of the Scenes, the Number and Richness of the Habits, as well as the Fable, which is purely poetical, as the Italian Operas ought to be. [See also London Journal, 18 Feb.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cheats Of Scapin

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine With The Birth and Adventures of Harlequin

Event Comment: Receipts: #136 3s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 200 paid and 11 orders; stage, 2 paid; balcony, 1 paid; pit, 280 paid and 5 orders; slips, 31 paid and 4 orders; first gallery, 312 paid and 3 orders; second gallery, 112 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: Receipts: #47 6s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 44 paid and 16 orders; stage, 1 paid; balcony, 2 paid; pit, 124 paid and 18 orders; slips, 2 paid; first gallery, 102 paid and 9 orders; second gallery, 79 paid and 2 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Thomyris Queen Of Scythia

Event Comment: [By John Gay.] Never Acted before. Receipts: #169 12s. Probable attendance: boxes, 247 paid and 3 orders; stage, 8 paid; balcony, 7 paid; pit, 301 paid and 1 order; slips, 56 paid and 5 orders; first gallery, 437 paid and 7 orders; second gallery, 191 paid. For the first night, see Schultz, pp. 1-5

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Event Comment: Receipts: #161 19s. Probable attendance: boxes, 273 paid and 5 orders; stage, 2 paid; balcony, 5 paid; pit, 276 paid and 4 orders; slips, 42 paid and 2 orders; first gallery, 401 paid and 1 order; second gallery, 193 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Event Comment: Receipts: #157 19s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 228 paid and 2 orders; stage, 11 paid; balcony, 4 paid; pit, 274 paid; slips, 53 paid and 2 orders; first gallery, 424 paid and 2 orders; second gallery, 188 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Event Comment: Receipts: #156 8s. Probable attendance: boxes, 237 paid and 7 orders; stage, 8 paid; balcony, 5 paid; pit, 287 paid; slips, 54 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 370 paid and 4 orders; second gallery, 184 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Event Comment: Receipts: #164 8s. Probable attendance: boxes, 300 paid and 2 orders; stage, 15 paid; balcony, 5 paid; pit, 270 paid; slips, 57 paid; first gallery, 436 paid; second gallery, 189 paid and 3 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Event Comment: Receipts; #171 5s. Probable attendance: boxes, 230 paid and 10 orders; stage, 39 paid; balcony, 1 paid; pit, 290 paid; slips, 63 paid; first gallery, 428 paid; second gallery, 181 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 11s.Probable attendance: boxes, 220 paid and 5 orders; stage, 14 paid; balcony, 3 paid; pit, 280 paid; slips, 61 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 427 paid; second gallery, 180 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Event Comment: Receipts: #171 8s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 301 paid and 2 orders; stage 41 paid; balcony, 3 paid; pit, 281 paid and 4 orders; slips, 59 paid and 2 orders; first gallery, 432 paid and 5 orders; second gallery, 185 paid. [For an essay on this play, see Craftsman, 17 Feb.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera