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Mainpiece Title: Madrigal And Truletta

Afterpiece Title: Sir ThomasCallico; or, The Mock Nabob

Performance Comment: Taken from the Comedy of Sir Courtly Nice.
Event Comment: Sir John Brute, Mr Garrick (Cross Diary)

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Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Performance Comment: Sir John Brute-Garrick; Constant-Cautherly; Heartfree-Aickin; Bully, song-Vernon; Lord Rake-Ackman; Justice-Bransby; Razor-Baddeley; Lady Fanciful-Mrs Abington; Belinda-Mrs Jeffries; Mademoiselle, song-Miss Radley; Lady Brute-Mrs Barry.
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Role: Sir John Brute Actor: Garrick

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies' Frolick

Event Comment: [N.B. Lee still played Sir Lucius O'Trigger.

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Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Related Works
Related Work: The Rivals Author(s): Sir William Davenant

Afterpiece Title: The Druids

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: As17880328but Sir Lucius O'Trigger-Aickin.
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Related Work: The Rivals Author(s): Sir William Davenant

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Dance: As17880129

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Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: As17880328but Captain Absolute-Macready; Sir Anthony Absolute-Hull; The Author's original Epilogue-Mrs Pope.
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Related Work: The Rivals Author(s): Sir William Davenant

Afterpiece Title: Love and War

Dance: As17871029

Entertainment: Monologue. End I afterpiece: Virtue its own Rewardexemplified in a Moral Tale, and founded on a Real Event,-Hull

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: As17901101, but Sir Anthony Absolute-Bannister Jun.
Related Works
Related Work: The Rivals Author(s): Sir William Davenant

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Sir John Loverule Actor: Dignum
Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Charles Coffey

Song: End: (for this night only) Mad Bess-Mrs Crouch, in character

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Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: As17971124, but Sir Lucius O'Trigger-R. Palmer; Fag-Russell; David-_; Coachman-_; Servants-_.
Related Works
Related Work: The Rivals Author(s): Sir William Davenant

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

Dance: Two Pas Seulsincidental to the Ballet-Mlle Favre Guiardele (for that night only); In afterpiece: a new Pas Seul-Mlle Parisot

Ballet: End II: a New Ballet (for that night only), Kitty and Jemmy. Jemmy-Mlle Parisot; Kitty-Sga Bossi DelCaro; the Other Characters-Fialon (for that night only), Master Menage, Miss Menage, Roffey, Whitmell, Wells, Male, Garman, W. Banks, Ms Brooker, Ms Daniels, Ms Brigg, Ms Haskey, Ms Illingham, Ms Byrne, Ms Willis, Ms Vining

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: As17981110, but Sir Anthony Absolute-King; Lydza Languish-Miss Mellon; Servants-_.
Related Works
Related Work: The Rivals Author(s): Sir William Davenant

Afterpiece Title: Feudal Times

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: As17991005, but Sir Anthony Absolute-King; Faulkland-C. Kemble.
Related Works
Related Work: The Rivals Author(s): Sir William Davenant

Afterpiece Title: Of Age To-morrow

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: As17991005, but Sir Anthony Absolute-King.
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Related Work: The Rivals Author(s): Sir William Davenant

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116. The King's Company. It is surprising to see a Davenant play acted by the King's Company. Edward Gower to Sir R. Leveson, 20 Nov. 1660: Yesternight at the Fleece Tavern...The gentlemen were discussing the play which they then came from, by name The Unfortunate Lover; at the latter end of the play there was a duel upon the stage; which, they, discounting upon, drew their swords in jest to show wherein they failed (HMC, 5th Report, 1876, p. 200)

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Mainpiece Title: The Unfortunate Lovers

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Related Work: The Unfortunate Lovers Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Related Work: The Ungrateful [Unfortunate] Lovers Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Event Comment: The date of the first performance is not certainly known, but Pepys, on 2 July, saw Part II, stating that 2 July was the premiere of Part I and the opening of the Duke's Company's new theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, pp. 20-21): His [Davenant's] Company Rehears'd the First and Second Part of the Siege of Rhodes...at Pothecaries-Hall: And in Spring 1662 [1661], Open'd his House with the said Plays, having new Scenes and Decorations, being the first that e're were Introduc'd in England....All Parts being Justly and Excellently Perform'd; it continu'd Acting 12 Days without Interruption with great Applause. Downes, p. 34: I must not forget my self, being Listed for an Acotr in Sir William Davenant's Company in Lincolns-Inn-Fields: The very first Day of opening the House there, with the Siege of Rhodes, being to Act Haly; (The King, Duke of York, and all the Nobility in the House, and the first time the King was in a Publick Theatre). The sight of that August presence, spoil'd me for an Actor too. HMC, 10th Report, Appendix, Part IV, p. 21: @For the Siege of Rhodes all say@It is an everlasting play@Though they wonder now Roxalana is gon@What shift it makes to hold out so long@For when the second part took, butt for Bully@The first did not satisfie so fully.@ [Presumably this verse was written after Mrs Davenport left the stage, in 1662(?).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Rhodes, Part I

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Related Work: The Siege of Rhodes, Part I Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Related Work: The Siege of Rhodes, Part II Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Related Work: The Siege of Rhodes Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: To Sir William Davenant's Opera; this being the fourth day that it hath begun, and the first that I have seen it. To-day was acted the second part of The Siege of Rhodes. We staid a very great while for the King and the Queen of Bohemia. And by the breaking of a board over our heads, we had a great deal of dust fell into the ladies' necks and the men's hair, which made good sport. The King being come, the scene opened; which indeed is very fine and magnificent, and well acted, all but the Eunuch, who was so much out tha he was hissed off the stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Rhodes, Part Ii

Related Works
Related Work: The Siege of Rhodes, Part II Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Related Work: The Siege of Rhodes, Part I Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Related Work: The Siege of Rhodes Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Event Comment: See Calendar of the Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood, p. 169, for a fee of #20 paid to Sir William Davenant's@company, the receipt being signed by Richard Baddeley; and for #1 5s. for baize to cover the stage and scenes. The play may well have been Love and Honour

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Honour

Related Works
Related Work: Love and Honour Author(s): Sir William Davenant

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Law Against Lovers

Performance Comment: [Altered from William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and Much Ado About Nothing by Sir William Davenant.] Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 26) and the edition of 1673 have no actors' names. But see16610218@2.
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Related Work: The Law Against Lovers Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Event Comment: The King's Company. This is the first known performance of the comedy, but it may not be the premiere. Evelyn, Diary: At night saw acted the Committe, a ridiculous play of Sir R. Howards where that Mimic Lacy acted the Irish-footeman to admiration: a very Satyrus or Roscius. Downes, Roscius Anglicanus, p. 16: @For his Just Acting, all gave him due Praise,@His Part in the Cheats, Jony Thump, Teg and Bayes,@In these Four Excelling; The Court gave him the Bays.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Related Works
Related Work: The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Related Work: The Committee Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Event Comment: See also 15 Dec. 1662. Evelyn, Diary: I went with Sir S. Tuke to heare the Comedians con, & repeate his new Comedy, the Adventures of 5 houres: a play whose plot was taken out of the famous Spanish Poet Calderon

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Mainpiece Title: The Adventures Of Five Hours

Related Works
Related Work: The Adventures of Five Hours Author(s): Sir Samuel Tuke
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This apparently was not the first performance, but the time of premiere is not known. Pepys, Diary: My wife and I and Mercer to the Duke's house, and there saw The Rivalls, which is no excellent play, but good acting in it; especially Gosnell comes and sings and dances finely, but, for all that, fell out of the key, so that the musique could not play to her afterwards, and so did Harris also go out of the tune to agree with her. Downes (p. 23): The Rivals, A Play, Wrote by Sir William Davenant; having a very Fine Interlude in it, of Vocal and Instrumental Musick, mixt with very Diverting Dances: M Price introducing the Dancing, by a short Comical Prologue, gain'd him an Universal Applause of the Town....And all the Womens Parts admirably Acted; chiefly Celia, a Shepherdess being Mad for Love; especially in Singing several Wild and Mad Songs

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Related Works
Related Work: The Rivals Author(s): Sir William Davenant

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: [Probably adapted by Sir William Davenant.] among those named in the quarto of 1673 these may have played at this time: Macbeth-Betterton?; Macduff-Harris?; Banquo-Smith?; Malcolm-Norris?; Lennox-Medbourne?; Donalbain-Cademan?; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Betterton?; Heccat-Sandford?.
Related Works
Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): Sir William Davenant

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: [Adapted by Sir William Davenant.] see16641105.
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Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): Sir William Davenant

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: [Adapted by Sir William Davenant.] see16641105.
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Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): Sir William Davenant

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: [Adapted by Sir William Davenant.] see16641105.
Related Works
Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): Sir William Davenant

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: [Altered by Sir William Davenant.] See16641105.
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Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Sir W. Pen and I to the King's house, and there saw The Committee, which I went to with some prejudice, not liking it before, but I do now find it a very good play, and a great deal of good invention in it; but Lacy's part is so well performed that it would set off anything

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

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Related Work: The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Related Work: The Committee Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: With Sir W. Pen, my wife, and Mary Batelier to the Duke of York's house, and there saw Heraclius, which is a good play; but they did so spoil it with their laughing, and being all of them out, and with the noise they made within the theatre, that I was ashamed of it, and resolve not to come thither again a good while, believing that this negligence, which I never observed before, proceeds only from their want of company in the pit, that they have no care how they act

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Heraclius

Related Works
Related Work: Heraclius Author(s): Sir Thomas Clarges