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Mainpiece Title: Speculation

Afterpiece Title: Marian

Related Works
Related Work: Marian Author(s): William Shield

Afterpiece Title: The Soldiers Festival

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Related Work: The Soldier's Festival Author(s): William Shield

Song: End II 1st piece: a Musical Address Mark when beneath the western main (Dramatic Censor, II, 197), Written expressly for the occasion by T. Dutton, A. M., and composed by Mazzinghi-Miss Waters; End III: O Strike the Harp-Incledon, Linton, Miss Waters; accompanied on the Harp-Weippert; End IV: Happy were the Days-Miss Waters; End 1st piece: Sigh no more Ladies-Incledon, Townsend, Linton, Master Slape, Miss Waters

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Afterpiece Title: Paul and Virginia

Related Works
Related Work: Paul and Virginia Author(s): William Reeve

Dance: As18000503

Song: As18000503

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Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Related Works
Related Work: The Merchant of Venice Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Related Works
Related Work: The Deserter Author(s): William Reeve

Ballet: End: The Scotch Ghost. As17991202, but Saundy-_; Donald-_

Entertainment: In which a Trial of Skill, in the exercise of the Austrian and Highland Broadsword-Nine of the First Swordsmen in this Kingdom

Performances

Mainpiece Title: St Davids Day

Afterpiece Title: Liberal Opinions

Afterpiece Title: Paul and Virginia

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Related Work: Paul and Virginia Author(s): William Reeve

Dance: In 3rd piece: As18000501

Song: In 3rd piece: As18000501

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Abroad And At Home

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Related Work: Abroad and at Home Author(s): William Shield

Afterpiece Title: Britains Sons or Success to our Heroes

Performance Comment: New Mariners-Hill, Linton, Townsend; Black Ey'd Susan (for this night only)-Hill; Song-Townsend; Song-Johnstone; Young William was a Seaman true-Incledon; Rule Britannia, as18000430, but Johnstone. Rule Britannia, as18000430, but Johnstone.

Afterpiece Title: The Turnpike Gate

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Related Work: The Turnpike Gate Author(s): William Reeve

Song: In: Together let us range the Fields-Incledon, Mrs Atkins; The Soldier Tir'd (from Artaxerxes)-Mrs Atkins

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Indiscretion

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Related Works
Related Work: The Follies of a Day Author(s): William Shield
Related Work: The Follies of a Day; or, The Marriage of Figaro Author(s): William Shield

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Afterpiece Title: Paul and Virginia

Related Works
Related Work: Paul and Virginia Author(s): William Reeve

Dance: As18000503

Song: As18000503

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Laugh When You Can

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp or Patrick in Prussia

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Related Work: Love in a Camp; or, Patrick in Prussia Author(s): William Shield

Song: End I: The Sailor's Journal-Incledon; In course Evening: Young William was a seaman true-Incledon; All get drunk together-Townsend; United Englishmen-Munden; The Anchor Smiths-Townsend

Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by John Brandon, Dick, Denman, Hall (carpenter), Hay, Williamson will be admitted. [Miss Lascelles is identified in Morning Post, 4 June.] Receipts: #409 16s. (39.2.6; 6.9.0; tickets: 364.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every One Has His Fault

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

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Related Work: The Farmer Author(s): William Shield

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Afterpiece Title: Paul and Virginia

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Related Work: Paul and Virginia Author(s): William Reeve

Dance: As18000503

Song: As18000503

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: The Turnpike Gate

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Related Work: The Turnpike Gate Author(s): William Reeve

Dance: End: New Hornpipe-a Young Lady (1st appearance in public [Miss Rogers]); End I afterpiece: A Scotch Pas Deux-Jackson, Miss Bologna

Song: After 1st dance: The Little Farthing Rushlight-Master Standen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lie Of The Day

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Paul and Virginia

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Related Work: Paul and Virginia Author(s): William Reeve

Song: In Course Evening: The Storm-Incledon

Entertainment: Monologue End II: personal address to the Audience in a Poetical Composition-O'Keeffe (written by Himself for the Occasion); End: Imitations-Rees

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

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Related Work: Love for Love Author(s): William Congreve

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Related Works
Related Work: The Follies of a Day Author(s): William Shield
Related Work: The Follies of a Day; or, The Marriage of Figaro Author(s): William Shield

Song: In course evening: The Soldier tir'd of War's alarms-Miss Stephens; End I afterpiece: Crazy Jane-Mrs Bland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Related Works
Related Work: The Poor Soldier Author(s): William Shield
Related Work: The Shamrock; or, The Anniversary of St. Patrick Author(s): William Shield

Song: In course evening: Sweet Echo-Mrs Mountain; accompanied on the Hautboy-Forster=; The Soldier Tir'd-Mrs Mountain

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Review

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Related Works
Related Work: The Deaf Lover Author(s): William Shield
Related Work: The Device; or, The Deaf Doctor Author(s): William Shield

Afterpiece Title: Obi

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Mrs Greville and Williams. Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years. Tickets delivered for the 17th of December will be admitted. Tickets and places to be had of Williams at Mr Spoke's, Tottenham Court; Mr White, Auctioneer, Queen street, Westminster; Messrs Ellis and Scott, Old Bond-street; Mr Hewitt, New Bond-street; Mr Cowcieroy, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury; and at the Excise Office Coffee-House, Old Bond-street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple Or A Trip To The Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Performance Comment: Whittle-Barrett; Sir Patrick O'Neale-Lloyd; Bates-Booth; Kecksey-Pressley; Nephew-Forrest; Thomas-Swords; Widow Brady (with the Epilogue Song)-Mrs Greville .
Cast
Role: Bates Actor: Booth

Song: End of Act I of afterpiece Horn sweet are the Woodlands by Forrest and Groves. imitations. End of mainpiece, Vocal and Rhetorical, by the Gentleman who performs Beau Clincher

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Afterpiece Title: The Wishes

Performance Comment: Characters by Lee Lewes, Edwin, Booth, Whitfield, Wewitzer, Fearon, Mahon, Stevens, Thompson, Bates; Mrs Wilson, Mrs Webb, Miss Morris, Mrs Whitfield, Miss Platt, Mrs Poussin, Miss Stuart, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Mattocks. [Cast from London Chronicle, 4 Oct., and European Magazine, Oct. 1782, p. 308: Harlequin-Lee Lewes; Pierrot-Edwin; Pantaloon-Booth; Mezzetin-Whitfield; Distress-Wewitzer; Members of the Conversazione-Fearon, Mahon; Taylor-Stevens; Invoice-Thompson; Gardener-Bates; Lord Furious-W. Bates; Mr Wrath-L'Estrange; Martinette-Mrs Wilson; Virtue-Mrs Webb; Manto-Miss Morris; Pleasure-Mrs Whitfield; Lady Pindar-Miss Piatt; Lady Avontree-Mrs Poussin; Miss Yewtree-Mrs Davenett; Colombine-Mrs Mattocks. Miss Stuart is unassigned. Larpent MS 586 has unassigned parts as above, and adds: Parte-per-pale, Portico, Four Somebodies, Chorus, Servants; Jenny, Maid.] New Prologue [spoken by Lee Lewes (European Magazine, Oct. 1782, p. 308)] . Jenny, Maid.] New Prologue [spoken by Lee Lewes (European Magazine, Oct. 1782, p. 308)] .
Cast
Role: Gardener Actor: Bates
Role: Lord Furious Actor: W. Bates

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Performance Comment: Beverly-Garrick; Stukely-Davies; Lewson-Mossop; Jarvis-Berry; Mrs Beverly-Mrs Pritchard; Charlotte-Miss Haughton; Bates-Burton; Dawson-Blakes; Waiter-Ackman; Lucy-Mrs Price.
Cast
Role: Bates Actor: Burton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Performance Comment: Parts by Woodward, Smith, Yates, Clarke, Dyer, Bensley, Hull, Dunstall, Perry, Quick, Fox, Wignell, Bates, Holtom, Mrs Bulkley, Mrs Mattocks, Mrs Green, Miss Ward, Miss Valois, Mrs Yates. With Prologue and Epilogue. Captain Ironsides-Woodward; Belfield Jun-Smith; Sir Benjamin Dove-Yates; Belfield Sen-Clarke; Paterson-Dyer; Philip-Bensley; Old Goodwin-Hull; Jonathan-Dunstall; Francis-Perry; Skiff-Quick; Lady Dove-Mrs Green; Violetta-Mrs Bulkley; Lucy Waters-Mrs Mattocks; Fanny Goodwin-Miss Ward; Kitty-Miss Valois; Sophia-Mrs Yates (playbill matched with Edition of 1770); Playbill also lists Fox, Wignell, Bates, Holtom (presumably as sailors.); With Prologue-Smith; Epilogue-Mrs Yates (playbill and 1770 Edn.). See Bill for 25 Jan. 1770.

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Performance Comment: Atall-Lewis; Careless-Farren; Clerimont-Macready; Finder-Wewitzer; Sir Harry Atall-Thompson; Doctor Bolus-Booth; Mr Wilful-Fearon; Supple-Stevens; Sir Solomon Sadlife-Quick; Lady Dainty-Mrs Mattocks; Clarinda-Mrs Bates; Wishwell-Mrs Brown; Sylvia-Mrs Lewis; Sittup-Miss Stuart; Lady Sadlife-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: Clarinda Actor: Mrs Bates

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Related Works
Related Work: Love in a Camp; or, Patrick in Prussia Author(s): William Shield
Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by John O'KeefFe, altered from his The She Gallant; or, Square-Toes Outwitted, 1st acted at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, 14 Jan. 1767, and in London at the HAY, 13 Oct. 1779. Incidental music by Michael Arne and William Shield. Text 1st published by T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1800. Prologue by George Colman, the elder (Colman, Prose, m, 231)]. Receipts: #228 10s. 6d. (226/14/6; 1/16/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Positive Man

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Quick, Edwin, Lee Lewes, Whitfield, Booth, Egan, Fearon, Darley, J. Bates, Bates, Jones; Mrs Webb, Mrs Lessingham, Mrs Wilson, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Kennedy. [Cast from European Magazine, Mar. 1782, p. 211: Sir Toby Tacet-Quick; Rupee-Edwin; Grog-Lee Lewes; Capt. Bellcamp-Whitfield; Lake-Booth; Maurice-Egan; Stern-Fearon; Dolphin [in later seasons, Quid]-Darley; Sailors-J. Bates, Jones; Bowsprit-Bates; Cable-Mrs Kennedy; Lady Tacet-Mrs Webb; Florimel-Mrs Lessingham; Nancy-Mrs Wilson; Cornelia-Mrs Martyr.] With a new Prologue spoken by Edwin. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.] hathi. With a new Prologue spoken by Edwin. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.] hathi.
Cast
Role: Sailors Actor: J. Bates, Jones
Role: Bowsprit Actor: Bates
Related Works
Related Work: Tu Quoque; or, The City Gallant Author(s): Sir William Davenant

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband Or A Journey To London

Performance Comment: Lord Townly-Powell; Manly-Clarke; Richard-Dibdin; Moody-Dunstall; Basset-Dyer; Sir Francis-Yates; Poundage-Bates; Servant-Holtom; Constable-Wignell; James-R. Smith; Lady Grace-Mrs Dyer; Lady Wronghead-Mrs Pitt; Mrs Motherly-Mrs Ferguson; Myrtilla-Miss Pearce; Trusty-Miss Mills; Miss Jenny-Mrs Mattocks, 1st time; Lady Townly-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Poundage Actor: Bates

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

Dance: II: New Comic Dance, as17671106; End: The Merry Sailors, as17671009

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Afterpiece Title: The Meeting of the Company

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Performance Comment: Whittle-Parsons; Kecksey-Dodd; Sir Patrick-Moody; Bates-Baddeley; Newphew-Cautherly; Thomas-Weston; Widow (With an Epilogue Song)-Mrs Greville.
Cast
Role: Bates Actor: Baddeley

Dance: I: The Irish Fair-Atkins, Mrs Sutton

Event Comment: Benefit for [W.] Bates and Mahon. Afterpiece: With an exact Representation of the Irish Giant [who had recently been exhibited in London: Charles Byrne, 1761-83], and a Leap through a Cask on Fire. Receipts: #132 5s. Receipts: #132 5s. (none listed; tickets: 132/5) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performance Comment: Jupiter (in the character of Harlequin)-[W.] Bates; Chasseur Royal (with The Early Horn)-Brett; Mercury-Darley; Doctor-Thompson; Punch-Jackson; Hercules-Dumay; Apollo-Byrne; Scaramouch-Ratchford; Mars-Cranfield; Anatomist-Jones; Pierrot-Stevens; Highland Lad and Lassie (with a new Character Duet)-Mahon and Miss Satchell; Old Woman-Mr Wewitzer; Columbine-Miss Matthews .

Song: End of Act iv of mainpiece Tally Ho!, as17830516