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4669 results for: Keyword - The Duke
We found 3568 matches on Roles/Actors, 1162 matches on Performance Comments, 1039 matches on Event Comments, 402 matches on Author, and 331 matches on Performance Title.

1926
26 April 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Beaumont and Fletcher, acted but once these 15 years. Afterpiece: At the particular Desire of several persons of Quality. Benefit for my Self & Wife (Cross). [See The Spouter; or, The Triple Revenge, farce in two acts attributed to Mr Murphy, satirizing John Hill, Theophilus Cibber, Samuel Foote. Discussed by Genest, IV, 459-61.] Receipts: #214 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Havard

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: NNew Sailor's Dance, as17560217

1927
26 April 1756 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Elmy. Being positively the last time of performing it this season. Afterpiece: By Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Barry
Role: Duke Actor: Marten

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17551126

1928
27 April 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Haughton. Miss Haughton shar'd the House with ye Managers. She play'd and was brought to Bed 4 hours after (Cross). Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Usher
Role: Mother Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: To conclude with a New Country Dance Actor: the Characters of the Play.
Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

1929
12 May 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Prince of Wales. Tickets deliver'd out by Wood, which were to have been admitted this night, will be taken Saturday next, to the play of the Rehearsal. Receipts; #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Havard

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Cast
Role: e17560327 but Parts Actor: Mt Simson, Mt Perkins, Mt Wallace, Mt Martin, Mt Cautherley, Mas. Hanyours, Miss Pope, Miss Simson

Dance: DDance of the Millers-

1930
21 May 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Havard

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Cast
Role: e17560327 but Parts Actor: Mt Simson, Mt Perkins, Mt Wallace, Mt Martin, Mt Cautherley, Mas. Hanyours, Miss Pope, Miss Simson

Dance: Last new Comic Dance, The Indian Peasants, as17560515

1931
22 October 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tomorrow The Careless Husband, Lady Betty-Miss Pritchard, 1st time in that character. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Duke of York Actor: Master Cautherly

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: Leviez, Blakes, Clough, Miss Minors, Master Simson, The Little Swiss, Miss Haughton
Role: The Dances Actor: Mathews, Granier, Mrs Vernon, Mrs Preston.

1932
18 November 1756 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The young Gentlewoman was Mrs Stot afterwards Mrs Lessingham. (Genest, IV, 496).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Barry
Role: Duke Actor: Marten

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: As17561023

1933
20 November 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Barry
Role: Duke Actor: Marten

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

1934
26 November 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Barry
Role: Duke Actor: Marten

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Dance: As17561023

1935
23 December 1756 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Old Cole [William Cole] Citizen of London and Family, under Misfortunes, who has been a Free Mason these thirty years, and Master of several Lodges. Being the last time of performing till the Christmas Holidays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: As17561217

Song: By the Desire of the Friends of Old Cole we will endeavor to sing a Song at the End of the Play (Public Advertiser)

1936
30 December 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Both pieces By Command of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales (Public Advertiser). [Present] Prince of Wales & 7 More (Cross). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Mossop

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Cast
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: Woodward, Blakes, Beard, Bransby, Ackman, Walker, Atkins, Clough, Miss Barton, Miss Haughton, Mrs Vernon.

1937
04 January 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Duke of York Actor: Master Cautherly

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Cast
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: Woodward, Blakes, Beard, Bransby, Ackman, Walker, Atkins, Clough, Miss Barton, Miss Haughton, Mrs Vernon.

1938
10 January 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Mossop

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Cast
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: Woodward, Blakes, Beard, Bransby, Ackman, Walker, Atkins, Clough, Miss Barton, Miss Haughton, Mrs Vernon.

1939
11 January 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Barry
Role: Duke Actor: Marten

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: AAs 17 Dec. 1756

1940
19 January 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [M+Mercury Harlequin seems to have been the afterpiece. The Public Advertiser carried the following notice under news from London: "Mr Garrick was prevented from appearing in the character of Chamont last night, by a sudden and violent Indisposition, but we hear that he is better, tho' not quite free from pain."] Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Mossop

Afterpiece Title: [Lilliput, ]Mercury Harlequin

Cast
Role: to conclude with a new Dance Actor: the Lilliputians.
Role: Lord Flimnap Actor: Master Cautherly
Role: Toadel Actor: Miss Matthews

1941
29 January 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: of the Tower Actor: Cushing
Role: Duke of York Actor: Miss Hallam

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: As17561217

1942
01 February 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: of the Tower Actor: Cushing
Role: Duke of York Actor: Miss Hallam

Afterpiece Title: The Frenchified Lady

Dance: As17561023

1943
08 February 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: of the Tower Actor: Cushing
Role: Duke of York Actor: Miss Hallam

Afterpiece Title: The Frenchified Lady

Dance: Granier, Leppie, Mrs Granier

1944
10 February 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: of the Tower Actor: Cushing
Role: Duke of York Actor: Miss Hallam

Afterpiece Title: The Frenchified Lady

Dance: As17561023

1945
01 March 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Book of the Farce [The Author] will be sold in the theatre (Public Advertiser). [The Author probably the afterpiece.] Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Mossop

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin (Cross); The Author (Public Advertiser)

Performance Comment: As17561227 for Mercury Harlequin; as17570212 for The Author.
Cast
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: Woodward, Blakes, Beard, Bransby, Ackman, Walker, Atkins, Clough, Miss Barton, Miss Haughton, Mrs Vernon.

Dance: IV: The Millers, as17570129

1946
05 March 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Duke of York Actor: Master Cautherly

Afterpiece Title: The Author

1947
07 March 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Barry
Role: Duke Actor: Marten

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: As17561217

1948
14 March 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Usher
Role: Mother Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: To conclude with a Country Dance Actor: the characters of the play.
Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

1949
03 May 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Duke Sr Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue

Song: I: A Song=-Howard; III: By Particular Desire, When Phoebus the Tops of the Hills does adorn-Lowe, Howard

1950
07 May 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Barry
Role: Duke Actor: Marten

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer