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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Nicholas Rowe"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Nicholas Rowe")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04
936 results for: Keyword - Nicholas Rowe
We found 835 matches on Author, 88 matches on Event Comments, 53 matches on Performance Comments, 2 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1
04 December 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit the Author [Nicholas Rowe]. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [Announced as the last new farce, it had been originally scheduled for the week of 6-11 Nov. (Diverting Post, 4 Nov.), but postponed. It probably was acted before 25 Nov., for the Diverting Post of that date published the Prologue.] Thomas Davies: Did not the tragic Rowe write The Biter, a comedy; and was he not the only person of the audience that laughed during the acting of it [Dramatic Miscellanies, I, 94]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Biter

Related Works
Related Work: The Biter Author(s): Nicholas Rowe

2
December 1700 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By Nicholas Rowe. Date of premiere unknown.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ambitious Stepmother

Related Works
Related Work: The Ambitious Step-mother Author(s): Nicholas Rowe

3
May 1703 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By Nicholas Rowe. Date of premiere unknown. For an anecdote concerning an early performance, see Chetwood, pp. 253-54.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Related Works
Related Work: The Fair Penitent Author(s): Nicholas Rowe

4
23 November 1705 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Never acted before. [By Nicholas Rowe.] Downes (p.48): The Play being all new Cloath'd, and Excellently well perform'd had a Successful run

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ulysses

Related Works
Related Work: Ulysses Author(s): Nicholas Rowe

5
25 November 1707 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: [By Nicholas Rowe.] Never Acted before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Related Works
Related Work: The Royal Convert Author(s): Nicholas Rowe

6
02 February 1714 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Nicholas Rowe.] Never Acted before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragedy of Jane Shore Author(s): Nicholas Rowe

7
20 April 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Nicholas Rowe.] Never Acted before. The Medley, 22 April: Whereas Nicodemus Somebody, Esq; alias The Merry Mr Pack, belonging to the Play-house in Lincolns-Inn-Fields, was on Wednesday Night last very noisy and troublesome in the first Gallery of Theatre-Royal in Drury-lane, he's desir'd hereby, when out of his own House, to behave himself with a little more Manners and Discretion, and not distinguish himself again by his ill-natur'd Gestures and frequent Hissings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Gray

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragedy of Lady Jane Grey Author(s): Nicholas Rowe

Music: In: a cantata, The Meditation by Pepusch-Mrs del'Epine, Mrs Barbier

8
14 June 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written Mr Rowe, late Poet Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Related Works
Related Work: The Fair Penitent Author(s): Nicholas Rowe

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: Miss Lindar; particularly a Harlequin-

9
14 November 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of Several Ladies of Quality. Written by the late Mr Rowe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragedy of Jane Shore Author(s): Nicholas Rowe

10
25 January 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by the late $N. Rowe, Esq.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ambitious Stepmother

Related Works
Related Work: The Ambitious Step-mother Author(s): Nicholas Rowe

11
16 December 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By the New Company of Comedians. Written by the late Mr Rowe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Related Works
Related Work: The Fair Penitent Author(s): Nicholas Rowe

Song: Original Song-Mrs Hill

Dance: Two Children, Scholars to Mrs Roussau

12
17 December 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the late Mr Rowe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Related Works
Related Work: The Fair Penitent Author(s): Nicholas Rowe

Song: As17231216

Dance: As17231216

13
03 January 1724 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the late Mr Rowe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Related Works
Related Work: The Fair Penitent Author(s): Nicholas Rowe

Song: Original Song-Mrs Hill

Dance:

14
13 January 1724 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these 10 Years. Written by the late Mr Rowe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Related Works
Related Work: The Royal Convert Author(s): Nicholas Rowe

Dance: A Night Scene between a Harlequin and Countryman-

15
16 January 1724 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of his Excellency Hag Abdelcader Perez, Ambassador from the Emperor of Morocco. Written by the late Mr Rowe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Related Works
Related Work: The Royal Convert Author(s): Nicholas Rowe

Song: Mrs Hill

Dance: As17240113

16
12 November 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by Mr Rowe, Esq; late Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Related Works
Related Work: The Fair Penitent Author(s): Nicholas Rowe

17
13 November 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Mr Rowe, Esq; late Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Related Works
Related Work: The Fair Penitent Author(s): Nicholas Rowe

18
11 December 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by N. Rowe, Esq. late Poet Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Related Works
Related Work: The Fair Penitent Author(s): Nicholas Rowe

Song: As17251208

19
19 January 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by N. Rowe, Esq; late Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Related Works
Related Work: The Fair Penitent Author(s): Nicholas Rowe

20
08 September 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Qualiy&ty. Written by N. Rowe, Esq. late Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Related Works
Related Work: The Fair Penitent Author(s): Nicholas Rowe

21
17 April 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Buchanan. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Rowe. Receipts: money#44 1s. 6d.; tickets #137 19s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Related Works
Related Work: The Fair Penitent Author(s): Nicholas Rowe

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: Comic Dance, as17330416 IV: Scottish Dance, as17330329 Hippisley's Medley; or, Drunken Man (By Desire)-

22
29 October 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late N. Rowe, Poet Laureat. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragedy of Jane Shore Author(s): Nicholas Rowe

Afterpiece Title: The Opera of Operas; or, Tom Thumb the Great

Dance: V: Les Amants Constants, as17331025 In Afterpiece: Mock Minuet, as17331027

23
17 January 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late N. Rowe, Esq. Afterpiece: Written by the late Barton Booth, Esq; Set to Musick by Mr Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragedy of Jane Shore Author(s): Nicholas Rowe

Afterpiece Title: Dido and Aneas

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trick'd

Dance: As17340112

24
30 March 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Cibber. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late N. Rowe, Esq; Poet Laureat. Afterpiece: Taken from the French by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Related Works
Related Work: The Fair Penitent Author(s): Nicholas Rowe

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Music: A Comic Medley Overture composed by Charke

Dance: I: A new Maggot by Le Brun. In II: Polonese, as17340325 V: Pierrots by Poitier and Nivelon. End I of Afterpiece: English Maggot by Lally and Mrs Walter. End Afterpiece: Grand Dance in Momus, as17340316

Song: III: Was ever Nymph like Rosamond by Miss Arne. IV: Bella Sorge L'Esperanza (from Ariadne) by Miss Arne

25
19 April 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late N. Rowe, Esq; Poet Laureat. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Related Works
Related Work: The Fair Penitent Author(s): Nicholas Rowe

Afterpiece Title: Cupid and Psyche