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We found 6068 matches on Performance Comments, 1605 matches on Author, 1080 matches on Event Comments, 471 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Walter Raleigh

Afterpiece Title: Hobs Wedding

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Mainpiece Title: Sir Walter Raleigh

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. With a new Additional Scene of the Madness of Cobham. Receipts: money #18 11s. 6d.; tickets #44 18s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Walter Raleigh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Related Works
Related Work: The Subjects of Joy for the Kings Restoration Cheerfully made Known in a Sacred Masque Author(s): Anthony Sadler
Related Work: Alfred, a Masque Author(s): James Thomson
Related Work: Love's Mistress; or, the Queen's Masque Author(s): Thomas Heywood

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Dance: Sandham's Son and Daughter

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Pit and Boxes laid together at 5s. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Performance Comment: Belguard-Milward; Farewell-Browne; Hothead-Thomas; Testimony-Alleyn; Leonora-Mrs Herold; Violante-Mrs Howey; Crack-Williams.
Cast
Role: Hothead Actor: Thomas

Dance:

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Related Works
Related Work: The Subjects of Joy for the Kings Restoration Cheerfully made Known in a Sacred Masque Author(s): Anthony Sadler
Related Work: Alfred, a Masque Author(s): James Thomson
Related Work: Love's Mistress; or, the Queen's Masque Author(s): Thomas Heywood

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne or Harlequins Metamorphoses

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice Or It Cannot Be

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Related Works
Related Work: The Subjects of Joy for the Kings Restoration Cheerfully made Known in a Sacred Masque Author(s): Anthony Sadler
Related Work: Alfred, a Masque Author(s): James Thomson
Related Work: Love's Mistress; or, the Queen's Masque Author(s): Thomas Heywood

Song: Singing in Italian-Mrs Robinson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Afterpiece Title: The Miser

Related Works
Related Work: The Miser Author(s): Thomas Shadwell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Walter Raleigh

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these Thirty Years. All the Characters New Dress'd. Afterpiece: A New Dramatick Pantomime Entertainment. With New Cloaths, Scenes, Machines, and other Decorations. An Exact Representation of the Hermitage, as in the Royal Garden at Richmond. And Entire New Musick, compos'd by Mr Jones. [Author not known. Apparently not published.] Daily Advertiser, 2 Feb.: When one of the Changes [on 1 Feb.] by Chance miscarried, a second Attempt was generally desir'd, which, when executed, was so pleasing, a general Clap continu'd for more than the Space of a Minute

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Harry Wildair

Afterpiece Title: Hymens Triumph or Trick Upon Trick

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Harry Wildair

Afterpiece Title: Hymens Triumph

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Harry Wildair

Afterpiece Title: Hymens Triumph

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Harry Wildair

Afterpiece Title: Hymens Triumph

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Afterpiece: A New Farce of one Act. [Author not known. Apparently not published.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Rehearsal Of Kings

Afterpiece Title: Sir Peevy Pet

Event Comment: By Authority. By the Hurlothrumbo Company of Comedians. Mainpiece: An Operatical Comedy of Three Acts. Written by Lord Flame [Samuel Johnson of Chesire]. Afterpiece: a Farce of Two Acts. [Presumably by Johnson also.] Box 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d. 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Fool Made Wise

Afterpiece Title: Sir John Falstaff in Masquerade

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Fool Made Wise

Afterpiece Title: Sir John Falstaff in Masquerade

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Fool Made Wise

Afterpiece Title: Sir John Falstaff in Masquerade

Event Comment: At the French Theatre, over against the Opera House in the Haymarket, a Concert of Vocal and Instrumental Musick. Boxes 4s. Pit 1s. 6d., Gallery 1s. 6d. Between the two Halves of the Concert will be presented...gratis. 6 p.m. Benefit a Tradesman. Afterpiece: By the Author of The Toy-Shop. [Note, This customary concert formula and the notice of time and prices will not be repeated here.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pamela

Afterpiece Title: Sir John Cockle at Court

Event Comment: Benefit for the author of the Dramatic Entertainment. [Afterpiece written by Joseph Dorman.] Never before performed. [See 18 Nov. 1740.] Tickets to be had of the Author at Pons Coffee House in Cecil Court, St. Martin's Lane. Tickets deliver'd out for Monday the 22nd Instant will be taken. Ladies send servants by three

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Related Works
Related Work: The Miser Author(s): Thomas Shadwell

Afterpiece Title: Sir Roger de Coverly or the Merry Christmas

Song: III: Lowe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: II: A Comic Dance-Sg Piettero, Sga Piettero second time upon English Stage; IV: By Desire a Hornpipe-the Little Swiss

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains R. Palmer as Sir H. Lovewit , but he was ill, and Benson "at very short notice [supplied] Palmer's place" (Thespian Magazine, Dec. 1792, p. 150).] Receipts: #164 7s. (110.10; 50.9; 3.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings Know Your Own Mind

Performance Comment: As17920920, but Sir H. Lovewit-Benson.

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Related Works
Related Work: The Prisoner Author(s): Thomas Attwood