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17031 results for: Keyword - Prince William Henry
We found 13916 matches on Author, 2723 matches on Performance Comments, 1772 matches on Performance Title, 1613 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1501
07 April 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For Prince of Wales. This was to be Palmer's Benefit but bought by ye Masters for #90. Mr Wright (an old Serv[an]t) Dy'd (Cross). Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Berry

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Related Works
Related Work: The Mock Doctor; or, The Dumb Lady Cur'd Author(s): Henry Fielding

Dance: III: A Comic Dance, as17530402 V: A Hornpipe-Mathews, a Child of five years old his scholar

1502
25 October 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces by Command of the Prince of Wales. Afterpiece: With the Scene of the drawing at the Guildhallv

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Related Works
Related Work: Romeo and Juliet Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Related Works
Related Work: The Lottery Author(s): Henry Fielding
Related Work: The Shepherd's Lottery Author(s): William Boyce

Dance: MMinuet-Cooke, Miss Hilliard, Grandchamps, Mlle Camargo

1503
17 December 1755 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces By Command of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Related Works
Related Work: The Merry Wives of Windsor Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Dance: Guerin, Granier, Mlle Capdeville

1504
09 January 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: PPrince of Wales, Edward, Augusta, and 2 more princes. Mr Garrick (By Command) did Osmyn (Cross). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Related Works
Related Work: The Mourning Bride Author(s): William Congreve

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: [But unspecified.

1505
04 February 1756 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces By Command of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Related Works
Related Work: Love in a Wood; or, St. James's Park Author(s): William Wycherley
Related Work: Love Betray'd; or, The Agreable Disapointment Author(s): William Burnaby
Related Work: The British Enchanters: or, No Magick like Love Author(s): William Corbett

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Dance: As17551114

1506
08 December 1756 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Widow Jona and her Five Children. Tickets to be had at Arthur's Chocolate House, St James's St.; Prince of Orange's Coffee House, Haymarket; Forrest's Coffee House, Charing Cross; the Rainbow Coffee House in Cornhill; and Places for Boxes to be taken of Mrs Jona in Little Warwick St., Charing Cross, and of Mr Crudge at the stage Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Related Works
Related Work: The Double Dealer Author(s): William Congreve

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: As17561023

1507
01 March 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces by Command of his Roayl Highness the Prince of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Related Works
Related Work: King Lear Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: As17570128

1508
17 December 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Both Pieces By Command of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. This day is publish'd The Male Coquette, or 1757, a Farce in 2 acts, As it is performing at Drury Lane. Printed for Paul Vaillant, faning Southampton St. in the Strand. Price 1s. (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Related Works
Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

1509
25 February 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For ye Author. Prince of Wales & 5 of ye Fam. Mrs Cibber taken ill in the Play, but made shift to finish-Mrs Yates did ye Part on Monday-(Well). Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Agis

Related Works
Related Work: Agis Author(s): William Boyce

1510
28 February 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Agis

Related Works
Related Work: Agis Author(s): William Boyce

1511
03 February 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Related Works
Related Work: Coriolanus Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Related Works
Related Work: The Taming of the Shrew Author(s): William Shakespeare

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17581111; The Threshers, as17581016

1512
19 April 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By command of the Prince of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Related Works
Related Work: Cymbeline Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

1513
05 January 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Related Works
Related Work: King Lear Author(s): William Shakespeare

1514
19 March 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Semele

Performance Comment: Jupiter-; Cadmus- (King of Thebes); Athamas- (Prince of Boeotia, in love with Semele); Somnus-; Apollo-; Cupid-; Juno-; Iris-; Semele- (Daughter of Cadmus); Ino-; Chorus of Priests and Augurs-; Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs-; Chorus of Nymphs and Swains-; Attendants- (Larpent MS 43).

Music: As17620226

1515
29 January 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties, both pieces. Present their Majesties, the Prince of Wales Duke of Cumberland, Princess of Brunswick, and Lady Louisa. Gave Yeomen of the Guards #2 2s. Paid Miss Valois the balance of her salary last season #27 16s. 8d., and in full for this season to 24 Oct. 1766, #3 16s. 8d. (Account Book). Receipts: #241 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew Or The Merry Beggars

Related Works
Related Work: The Jovial Crew Author(s): William ConcanenWilliam YongeWilliam Bates
Related Work: The Jovial Crew; or, The Merry Beggars Author(s): William Bates

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

1516
29 May 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The last Time of performing this Season. [This was Mrs Hartley's last appearance on the tstage.] Account-Book, 29 May: Paid Foulis for writing Music #101 17s.; 31 May: Received of Their Majesties for this Season #60, of Prince of Wales #30; 16 June: Paid Pattinson, tallow chandler, #332 8s. Paid Cooper, printer, #335 11s. Paid Harris, manager, #500. Paid Enderby, oil merchant, #1,061 17s. Paid Hull, salary as Acting Manager #150. Paid Mrs Hartley in lieu of a Benefit #105; 6 July: Received Stage Forfeits this season #42 3s. 6d. Receipts: #63 8s. (61.14.6; 1.13.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Siege of Gibraltar

Related Works
Related Work: The Siege of Gibraltar Author(s): William Shield

Dance: As17800417

1517
19 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winters Tale

Performance Comment: Leontes (King of Sicily)-Henderson; Polixenes (King of Bithynia)-Aickin (Their 1st appearance in those characters); Camillo-Hull; Old Shepherd-Booth; Clown-Quick; Cleomenes-Fearon; Autolicus (with songs)-Edwin; Florizel (Prince of Bithynia)-Lewis; Perdita (Daughter to Leontes and Hermione; with Come, come, my good shepherds)-Miss Satchell; Paulina-Mrs Hunter; Mopsa-Mrs Martyr; Dorcas-Mrs Morton; Hermione (Queen of Bithynia)-Mrs Yates (Their 1st appearance in any of those characters) .
Related Works
Related Work: The Winters Tale Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Related Works
Related Work: The Village Fete Author(s): William Shield

1518
22 March 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Edward the Black Prince [announced on playbill of 20 Mar.] is obliged to be deferred on Account of the Indisposition of a principal Performer. Receipts: #139 13s. (138/3; 0/10; tickets not come in: 1/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Cast
Role: Lorenzo Actor: Williames
Related Works
Related Work: The Merchant of Venice Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin Junior; or, The Magic Cestus Author(s): William Shield

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece, as17840320End of Act IV, as17840311athi

1519
19 May 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett and Butler. [As mainpiece the playbill announces Edward the Black Prince, but it was not acted. The Account-Book lists the substitute play.] Receipts: #280 7s. (37/9; 4/6; tickets: 238/12) (charge: #115 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Performance Comment: As17840203, but Hamoir in place of Williamson .
Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin Junior; or, The Magic Cestus Author(s): William Shield

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece Hornpipe, as17840517; End of Act hi, as17840311athi

Song: End of mainpiece Gramacbree Molly, as17840503

1520
09 May 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Chapman and Williames. Morning Chronicle, 2 May: Tickets to be had of Chapman, No. 5, Prince's-street, Drury-Lane; of Williames, No. 2, Duke's Court, Bow-street. Receipts: #283 6s. (59/4/0; 16/11/6; 0/18/6; tickets: 206/12/0) (charge: #109 5s. 7d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Performance Comment: As17851111, but Clown (with the original Epilogue Song)-Williames; Maria-Miss Collins .
Cast
Role: Clown Actor: Williames
Related Works
Related Work: Twelfth Night Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Love Betray'd; or, The Agreable Disapointment Author(s): William Burnaby

Afterpiece Title: The Sons of Anacreon

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Song: In Act IV of 1st piece song by Chapman

1521
18 September 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Brandon at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 13 Nov.]. [Macready was from the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. In mainpiece the playbill assigns Miss Ogle to Mrs T. Kennedy, but on the Kemble playbill her name is deleted, and a MS annotation substitutes Mrs Lewis's.] "The dress worn by Lewis, with small buttons innumerable, that gave it the air of a Hussar's jacket lengthened, was lately a coat won by the Prince of Wales" (Morning Chronicle, 20 Sept.). Receipts: #242 5s. 6d. (239.19.6; 2.6.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp or Patrick in Prussia

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

1522
04 January 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: "Harley's youth and vigour so repeatedly got the better of his endeavours to conceal them under the veil of assumed debility that it was rather the grandson of Lear, who was rehearsing the part of that injured Prince and parent, than the good old King himself" (Diary, 5 Jan.). Receipts: #269 8s. 6d. (266.13.0; 2.15.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Related Works
Related Work: King Lear Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Chaplet

Dance: As17891231

1523
16 April 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Jordan. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Simon, based partly on La Bonne Mere, by Jean Pierre Claris deFlorian; incidental music by Johann Gottlieb Nicolai. Larpent MS 940; not published]: To conclude with a Rural Breakfast [a representation of that given by the Countess of Buckinghamshire for the Prince of Wales at her villa near London (Genest, VII, 53)], and a Dance by the Characters. Morning Herald, 31 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Jordan, No. 14, Somerset-street, Portman-square. Receipts: #548 9s. 6d. (216.8.6; 30.2.0; 5.9.0; tickets: 296.10.0) (charge: #153 5s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Related Works
Related Work: The Country Wife Author(s): William Wycherley

Afterpiece Title: The Village Coquette

1524
04 June 1794 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Particular Desire of the Mirza, Prince of Broach. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1, by Charles Dibdin; music by the author. MS: Larpent 1030; not published]: The Words of the Songs, &c. will be given at the different Doors of the Theatre. Tickets delivered for THE BEGGAR'S OPERA [Account-Book: by Heathcote, Bayzand, Egan, Pitt, Masters, Dick, Hall (carpenter), Doe, Goodwin] will be admitted. Receipts: #238 14s. 6d. (26/4/0; 3/17/6; tickets: 208/13/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The World In A Village

Afterpiece Title: A LOYAL EFFUSION

Afterpiece Title: THE HIGHLAND REEL

Related Works
Related Work: The Highland Reel Author(s): William Shield

Dance: In 2nd piece Hornpipe by Bayzand

Song: 2nd piece: To conclude with a Song and Chorus [Come ye who from your souls (BUC, 281)], in Honor of His Majesty's Birth-Day

1525
25 June 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Performance Comment: As17940610 but Benson's name listed in playbill; omitted: William, Servant, Nelly .
Related Works
Related Work: No Song No Supper Author(s): Prince Hoare

Afterpiece Title: HIGH LIFE BELOW STAIRS

Afterpiece Title: LODOISKA

Cast
Role: . Prince Lupauski Actor: Aickin
Role: Pages Actor: Master Welsh, Master GregsonPrincess Lodoiska-Mrs Crouch. Capti"PtI. As above, but added: Miss Arne. Tartars. Kera Khan-Barrymore
Role: Master GregsonPrincess Lodoiska Actor: Mrs Crouch. Capti"PtI. As above, but added: Miss Arne. Tartars. Kera Khan-Barrymore

Dance: In 2nd piece A Mock Minuet by Palmer and Miss Pope