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23463 results for: Keyword - Mrs P. Green
We found 23469 matches on Performance Comments, 5835 matches on Event Comments, 4313 matches on Performance Title, 21 matches on Roles/Actors, and 17 matches on Author.

23076
20 June 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: And so she [Mrs Pepys] and I alone to the King's house, and there I saw this new play my wife saw yesterday, and do not like it, it being very smutty, and nothing so good as The Maiden Queen, or The Indian Emperour, of his making, that I was troubled at it; and my wife tells me wholly (which he confesses a little in the epilogue) taken out of the Illustre Bassa

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Mainpiece Title: An Evening's Love

23077
19 October 1668 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: My wife and I to the Duke of York's playhouse; and there saw, the first time acted, The Queene of Arragon, an old Blackfriars' play, but an admirable one, so good that I am astonished at it, and wonder where it hath lain asleep all this while, that I have never heard of it before. Here met W. Batelier and Mrs Hunt, Deb's aunt; and saw her home--a very witty woman, and one that knows this play, and understands a play mighty well

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Mainpiece Title: The Queen Of Arragon

23078
07 January 1669 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: [Mrs Pepys] and I to the King's playhouse, and there saw The Island Princesse, the first time I ever saw it; and it is a pretty good play, many good things being in it, and a good scene of a town on fire. We sat in an upper box, and the jade Nell come and sat in the next box; a bold merry slut, who lay laughing there upon people; and with a comrade of hers of the Duke's house, that come in to see the play

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Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

23079
15 February 1669 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Evelyn does not name the theatre or company, but previous offerings of Horace were given by the King's Company. Evelyn, Diary: I saw Mrs Philips's Horace acted againe

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Mainpiece Title: Horace

23080
04 March 1671 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Lady Mary Bertie to Katherine Noel, 4 March 1670@1: I was with my Lady Rochester and my Lady Bettey Howard and Mrs Lee at a play (HMC, 12th Report, Part V, Vol. II, page 23)

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23081
23 September 1673 @ Hatton Garden

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: We [Mrs Blagge and Evelyn] went to see Paradise, a roome in Hatton Garden furnished with the representations of all sorts of animals, handsomely painted on boards or cloth, & so cut out & made to stand & move, fly, crawll, roare & make their severall cries, as was not unpretty: though in it selfe a meere bauble, whilst the man who shew'd, made us Laugh heartily at his formal poetrie

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Paradise

23082
July 1674 @ Oxford University

Event Comment: John Dryden wrote a Prologue to the University of Oxford and an Epilogue to the University of Oxford in 1674. The Prologue was apparently spoken by Hart, the Epilogue by Mrs Marshall. See also Sybil Rosenfeld, Some Notes on the Players in Oxford, 1661-1713, Review of English Studies, XIX (1943), 368

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23083
02 December 1674 @ Mr Slingsby's residence

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: [I] heard Signor Francisco on the Harpsichord, esteem'd on[e] of the most excellent masters in Europe on that Instrument: then came Nicholao Matteis? with his Violin & struck all mute, but Mrs Knight, who sung incomparably, & doubtlesse has the greatest reach of any English Woman; she had lately ben roming in Italy: & was much improv'd in that quality: Then was other Musique, & this Consort was at Mr Slingsbys Master of the Mint, my worthy friend, & great a lover of musique. [For a contemporary account of Matteis, see Roger North on Music, ed. John Wilson (London, 1959), pp. 307-11.

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

23084
19 January 1675 @ Mr Slingsby's residence

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: I carried Mrs Blagg, & other Ladys to heare the famous Nicholaos Violin at Mr Slingsbys. [See also 2 Dec. 1674.

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

23085
26 February 1680 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: Luttrell (A Brief Relation, I, 34-35): The 26th, Mrs Ellen Gwyn being at the dukes playhouse, was affronted by a person who came into the pitt and called her whore; whom Mr Herbert, the earl of Pembrokes brother, vindicating, there were many swords drawn, and a great hubbub in the house

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23086
October 1681 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mithridates, King Of Pontus

Performance Comment: For a previous cast, see February 1677@8. A Prologue spoken at Mithridates King of Pontus, the First Play Acted at the Theatre Royal this Year, 1681. Written by John Dryden. Epilogue written by Dryden and spoken by Goodman and Mrs Cox.

23087
December 1684 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. This play may have been revived during this month or earlier. A song, Come Jug my honey let's to bed, the music by Thomas Farmer, sung by Reading and Mrs Norris, was printed in Choice New Songs never before Printed [by Thomas D'Urfey, 1684]. Luttrell purchased a copy of this collection on 8 Jan. 1684@5 (Bindley Collection, William Andrews Clark@Jr@Library)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cheats Of Scapin

23088
07 November 1690 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The United Company. The date of this performance is not certainly known. On 7 Nov. 1690 an order was issued to pay Mrs Barry #25 for Circe, acted by command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Circe

23089
19 January 1692 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Thomas Shadwell to Earl of Dorset, 19 Jan. 1691@2 (summary): Asks that he will order The Innocent Impostors to be the next new play to be acted. He would have had it acted in Roman Habits and then, with a mantle to have covered her hips, [if] Mrs Barry would have acted the part; but Thomas Davenant has with a great slight turned him off, and says he will trouble himself no more about the Play. Asks Dorset to favour the author and him. Complains of priority being given to Durfey's play and a play by Dryden (HMC, 4th Report, Appendix [1874], pp. 280-81)

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23090
30 April 1693 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: This celebration of the Queen's Birthday presumably was given on 30 April, her birthday. The music in the Royal Society of Music gives the singers as Mrs Ayliff, The Boy, Turner, Snow, Edwards, Howell, Bowman, Damascene, Bouchier, Williams, Woodeson, Roberts. See Purcell's Works, Purcell Society, XXIV (1926), ii

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

23091
May 1693 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. This play was probably revived in May or June 1693. Two songs for it-one sung by Mrs Ayliff, the composer not named; another, the music by Ackroyde, but no singer named-are in Gentleman's Journal, June 1693 (advertised in London Gazette, 13 July 1693). These songs presumably were a part of a revived version not long preceding their publication

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

23092
10 June 1693 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: In L. C. 5@151 is an order, dated this day, to pay Mrs Barry for the acting of Caius Marius. The day of the performance is not indicated

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23093
December 1693 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. This play was apparently revived late in 1693, for a song, There's not a swain on the plain, not printed in the play, the words by N. Henley, sung by Mrs Hudson, is printed in the Gentleman's Journal, January-February 1694 (announced in the London Gazette, 8 March 1693@4). It is also in Joyful Cuckoldom, ca. 1695. See also Purcell's Works, Purcell Society, XXI (1917), xii

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

23094
16 April 1694 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: In L. C. 151@p. 352, is an order, dated 16 April 1694, to pay Mrs Barry #25 for The Old Batchelor. The date of the performance is not specified

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23095
28 June 1694 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: Luttrell, A Brief Relation, III, 336, 30 June 1694: A quarrel hapned at the play house on Thursday night between the duke of Richmond and one Mrs Leonard, whereupon they challenged each other

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23096
May 1695 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: See Cibber, Apology, I, 201-2, for his account of the mistake Betterton's Company made in not retaining Williams and Mrs Mountfort-Verbruggen, and of the problems of Rich's Company. In this passage Cibber implies that Hamlet, Othello, and Julius Caesar were acted at Drury Lane soon after the division of the companies

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23097
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)

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Mainpiece Title: Love In A Tub

23098
27 February 1697 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. James Brydges, Diary: About 2. I came home to dinner, where I found Lady Hussy, & Cozzen Betty, & Mrs Howard, about 5. After dinner I went to Lord Pembroke's who being abroad, I went to Lord Arundell of Treryce, who not being at home, I went to Ld. Allinton's, but he not being within, I went to Mr Pitts, who being abroad, I went to ye Dean of Peterborough's but he being at church I went to ye playhouse in Lincolns inn fields, where I met Dr Davenant & Ld. Rumny (Huntington MS St 26)

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Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

23099
01 June 1698 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Post Boy, No 479, 28-31 May 1698: At the Request of several Persons of Quality, Mrs Cressea's Entertainment of Vocal and Instrumental Musick will be performed in York Buildings, on Wednesday next, the first of June

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

23100
05 January 1699 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Elizabeth Barry to the Right Hon. Lady Lisburne, 5 Jan. 1698@9: As for the little affairs of our house I never knew a worse Winter only we have had pretty good success in the Opera of Rinaldo and Armida where the poet made me command the Sea the earth and Air but had I really that Authority I cou'd with joy forsake it all to wait on your Ladyship....Eliz: Barry. Lon: jan: ye 5th this monent Alexander is bespoke to entertain ye Bride I mentioned [the daughter of Lord Litchfield married to Lord Baltimore's son] & all their guest to-morrow (See M. A. Shaaber, A Letter from Mrs Barry, The Library Chronicle, The University of Pennsylvania, XVI [1950], 46)

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