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We found 4159 matches on Event Comments, 341 matches on Performance Title, 195 matches on Roles/Actors, 171 matches on Performance Comments, and 0 matches on Author.
Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Alter'd from Shakespear. [For Occasional Prompter IX, see Daily Journal, 27 Dec.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Dance: Muilment

Event Comment: LLondon Evening Post, 1 Jan. 1737: Last Night the Beggar's Opera (about the Playing of which, as much Noise has been made, as about several of our Modern Treaties) was perform'd...to a crowded Audience; the House being full by Four. There was a prodigious uproar, with Clappin, Hissing, Catcalls, &c. Mrs Clive, who play'd the Part of Polly, when she came forward, address'd herself to the House, saying, Gentlemen, I am very sorry it should be thought I have in any Manner been the Occasion of the least Disturbance; and then cry'd in so moving a Manner, that even Butchers wept. The she told them, She was almost ready with the Part of Lucy, and at all Times shou'd be willing to play such Parts as the Town should direct, and desir's to know if they were willing she should go on with the Part of Polly; she behaving in so humble a Manner, the House approv'd of her Behavious by a general Clap. [For Occasional Prompter XI, see Daily Journal, 31 Dec.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance: With proper Dances-

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Pantomime

Dance: III: Dutchman and Frow-Vallois, Mrs Bullock; V: Richmond Maggot-LeSac, Mrs Woodward

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear, [For Occasional Prompter XII, see Daily Journal, 6 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Alter'd from Shakespear, by $N. Tate, Esq.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear And His Three Daughters

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Event Comment: Benefit a Family under Misfortunes. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: FFrench Peasant, as17361109; Hornpipe-Ferguson

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All Alive And Merry

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Pantomime

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All Alive And Merry

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Pantomime

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All Alive And Merry

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. [For Occasional Prompter XVII, see Daily Journal, 17 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part I

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Benefit the Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All Alive And Merry

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar,

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Dance: II: La Caprice (new)-Mons Granier, the first time of his appearing on this stage, Miss Oates

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. [For Occasional Prompter XVIII, see Daily Journal, 21 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Toy Shop

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: III: Muilment; V: Tambourine-Mlle Roland

Event Comment: See Daily Advertiser, 4 Feb., for a letter from Colley Cibber to the Gentlemen of the Inns of Court. Daily Advertiser, 4 Feb.: Whereas it is agreed on between several Gentlemen, to erect a New Theatre for the exhibiting of Plays, Farces, Pantomime, &c. all such Persons as are willing to undertake the said Building, are desir'd to bring their Plans for the same by the 2d of May next ensuing, in order to be laid before the said Gentlemen, the Time and Place of which Meeting will be advertis'd in this Paper on the last of April. Proportions of the Ground: The North Side 120 Feet; the West, square with the North, 130 Feet; the South 110 Feet; and the East on a Bevil, joining the Parallel. Note, There must be a Passage left to go round the Building, and the Stages to be 30 Feet wide at the First Scene; the Distance between Wall and Wall 80 Feet; and the Scene-Rooms, Green and Dressing Rooms, to be on the outside of the last mention'd Measure. The Stage to be either North or South

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Toyship. [For Occasional Prompter XX, see Daily Journal, 7 Feb.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Alter'd from Shakespear by Sir W. Davenant and Mr Dryden. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Toy Shop

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or, The Inchanted Island

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Toy Shop

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Lee

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Alter'd from Shakespear. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Toy Shop. Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 26 Feb.: On Monday Night last a great Disturbance happened at Drury-lane Play-house, occasioned by a great Number of Footmen, who assembled themselves in a riotous and tumultuous Manner, with great Outcries of burning the House, unless they were immediately admitted into what they call their Gallery; and in order to strike a Terror, they began to hew down the Door of the Passage which leads to the said Gallery, of which Col. Deveil, who was then in the House, had immediate Notice, and thereupon came out where they were thus assembled, and notwithstanding they threatened to knock his Brains out, he read the Proclamation to them, admonish'd them to retire, and desist from so unlawful an undertaking. [The footmen soon withdrew.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Toy Shop

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Founded on Shakespear's Much Ado About Nothing. By the Author of the Man of Taste. [For an Epilogue designed to be spoken to King John, as amended by Colley Cibber, see Grub St. Journal, 3 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Universal Passion

Dance: Muilment

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Lowe, from Openshaw near Manchester in Lancashire, who lately kept the Gray's Inn Coffeehouse, near Gray's-Inn-Gate, in Holbourn, and is now in great Distress. At the Desire of several Worthy Gentlemen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida; or, Hymen's Triumph