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We found 759 matches on Author, 107 matches on Event Comments, 64 matches on Roles/Actors, 17 matches on Performance Comments, and 2 matches on Performance Title.
Event Comment: For the order silencing Cibber, see Blanchard, Correspondence of Richard Steele, p.146

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spartan Dame

Song: As17191003

Event Comment: Weekly Packet, 20 Feb., announces several forthcoming plays for dl: Mrs Centlivre's The Sacrifice and Mrs Manley's The Double Mistress; or, 'Tis Well 'Tis No Worse. Steele's The Gentleman is deferred to winter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. Post Boy, 5 March: On Thursday Morning the King's Company of Comedians, belonging to the Play-House in Drury-Lane, were sworn at the Lord Chamberlain's Office in Whitehall, pursuant to an Order occasion'd by their Acting in Obedience to his Majesty's Licence, lately granted Exclusive of a Patent formerly obtained by Sir Richard Steele Kt. The Tenor of the Oath was, That as his Majesty's Servants, they should act Subservient to the Lord Chamberlain, Vice-Chamberlain, and Gentleman Usher in Waiting

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode Or Sir Fopling Flutter

Event Comment: DDaily Journal, 3 Nov.: We are assured that a Patent for the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, is order'd to pass the Seals in Favour of Mr Wilks, Mr Booth, and Mr Cibber, The Patent for the said Theatre was granted to Mrs Oldfield, deceas'd, upon the Death of the late Sir Richard Steele

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Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

Event Comment: Benefit Fenn (Stage Door-Keeper), Bishop (Gallery Keeper), Steele, Heath, Kisheir, Hussey. Being the last time of acting the mainpiece this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: I: a Tambourine-Mlle Auguste; V: a Peasant-Muilment

Event Comment: Benefit Simpson, Collins, Baudouin, Shawford, Berkley, Miss Story. Tickets deliver'd by Falwood, George and Steele will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Muilment; II: Running Footman's Dance-Shawford; III: Minuet-Baudouin, Miss Story

Event Comment: Benefit Peacopp, Emberton, Dunbar, Berrisford, and Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A Dramatick Piece of Two Acts (taken from Sir Richard Steele's Accomplished Fools)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not

Afterpiece Title: Numpss Courtship or Love Makes the Painter

Related Works
Related Work: Accomplished Fools Author(s): Richard Steele
Related Work: The Tender Husband; or, The Accomplish'd Fools Author(s): Richard Steele

Dance: As17580112

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Afterpiece [1st time; P 3, author unknown. "Founded on the Tale of Inkle & Yarico" (Kemble Mem.), by Sir Richard Steele, in The Spectator, No. II, 13 March 1710-11. Not in Larpent MS; not published]: The Music by Gluck and Martini [i.e. Martin y Soler]. Morning Herald, 9 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Palmer, No. 3, London-road, St. George's Fields. Receipts: #452 16s. (169.17; 47.13; 2.11; tickets: 232.15) (charge: #169 5s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The American Heroine or Ingratitude Punished

Dance: In afterpiece: the Dances (composed by Hamoir,)-Hamoir, Bidotti, Keys, Nicolini, Walker, Whitmill, Mrs Barrett, Mrs Bourk, Mrs Brooker, Mrs Davis, Mrs Harris, Mrs Haskey, Miss Jacobs, Miss DeCamp