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476
23 October 1797 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: "It was with extreme regret that we perceived the ravages of time in the person of [Mrs Crawford, who had not acted in London since 12 Apr. 1785], tho' we were much consoled in observing that his influence is not equally apparent in her abilities...The blaze is gone, but there is a richness in the setting lustre...Kemble is evidently [Johnston's] model, and he followed him so closely, as even to the crossing of the legs in dying; so that where he was best, his efforts seemed to be the effect of imitation" (True Briton, 24 Oct.). "Mrs Crawford has had her day; but the sun of her genius has long sunk beneath the horizon...Many parts of her performance, we were sorry to observe, evinced the most evident decline of powers, and her tremulous accents, the debility of which was rendered the more striking from the want of several teeth, proclaimed that her days of play and action were nearly brought to a close...She was received with reiterated plaudits throughout...Nature has been very bountiful in supplying [Johnston] with a voice of much compass and melody, but he does not appear to have paid much attention to the cultivation of her favours. His transitions are often abrupt, and sometimes discordant; and the management of his tones is of so strange a nature that it appears more like two distinct voices than a judicious modulation of his natural accents" (Morning Herald, 24 Oct.). Receipts: #260 9s. (253.4.6; 7.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Performance Comment: Douglas-Johnston (from the Theatre Royal Edinburgh; 1st appearance on this stage); Lord Randolph-Clarke; Glenalvon-Whitfield; Officer-Thompson; Old Norval-Murray; Anna-Miss Mansel; Lady Randolph-Mrs Crawford.
Cast
Role: Officer Actor: Thompson

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Mill

Cast
Role: Sanchio Actor: Thompson
Role: Woodley Actor: Claremont

Afterpiece Title: England's Glory

Cast
Role: Sanchio Actor: Thompson
Role: Woodley Actor: Claremont

Dance: As17971018

477
16 February 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He's Much To Blame

Cast
Role: Thompson Actor: Davenport
Role: Master of the Hotel Actor: Thompson
Related Works
Related Work: He's Much to Blame Author(s): Thomas Holcroft

Afterpiece Title: Joan of Arc

Performance Comment: As17980214, but The Argument-. [The Ballet (principally taken from Historical facts) commences with a Grand Battle before the Town of Orleans, in which the English being victorious, a wounded French Officer (Alenson) solicits shelter in the Inn where Joan of Arc and her sister Blanche reside; this is granted, and they scarcely retire, before the conquering party rush into the Inn, but are prevented from using outrage by the intervention of a young English General (Talbot) of whom the sisters become enamoured. He prefers Blanche; and Joan, from resentment, in conjunction with Alenson, meditate his ruin, in which they fail, and are forced to fly--Joan grown desperate, invokes supernatural aid, and receives a Banner from Lucifer--distinguishes the French King in the midst of his Courtiers, tho' a Nobleman in his habit had been imposed on her for him--demands a consecrated sword and shield at the tomb of Charlemagne--heads the French troops, and being victorious, takes young Talbot and her sister (whom he had espoused) Prisoners. +Edwin (young Talbot's Page), not allowed to attend on his master, by concealing himself in the spoils of his tent is conveyed to the court-yard of his Prison, thro' the grating of which he gives him a sleeping draught, telling him on drinking it that they will suppose him dead, and the English demand his body. He complies, but the request of the English is refused, and he lowered into the Cell where Blanche is confined--She conceives him dead--despairing, is on the point of destroying herself, when he awakes--the Page from the top of the Cell points out the means of escape, which they are accomplishing, when Joan rushes in, but appalled at the ghost-like appearance of Talbot, whom she conceived dead, permits them to glide by, but pursues them--excursions with the enemy--Joan kills Talbot's Father, and forces him to combat-disdaining the threats of a woman, he throws away his sword, acting only on the defensive--disarms her--she rushes on him, when her supernatural power failing, her sword and shield break to pieces-she snatches her banner, which takes fire--grown desperate, seizes a sword and attempts to stab him, is prevented by British soldiers who surround and vanquish her--Young Talbot at the same time killing Alenson--her life is preserved by the intercession of Blanche--the British are victorious, she rushes off, again solicits supernatural aid--is surrounded by Daemons but saved by the interposition of an Aerial Spirit--Blanche and Talbot are rendered happy, and the whole concludes with a Grand Historical Pageant (as17980214)] . .
Cast
Role: Abbot Actor: Thompson

Music: As17980214

478
29 October 1660 @ The City, London

Event Comment: Edition of 1660: The Royal Oake, with Other various and delightfull Scenes presented on the Water and the Land, Celebrated in Honour of the deservedly Honoured Sir Richard Brown, Bar. Lord Mayor of the City of London, The 29th day of October...and performed at the Costs and Charges of the Right Worshipfull Company of Merchant-Taylors. [Tatham refers to Dyamond, a Lightfoot, Paynter; Thomas Whitein, Joyner; and Richard Cleere, Carver.] Pepys, Diary: And I...at the Key in Cheapside; where there was a company of fine ladies, and we were very civilly treated, and had a very good place to see the pageants, which were many, and I believe good, for such kind of things, but in themselves but poor and absurd. Evelyn, Diary: My Lord Majors shew stop'd me in cheape-side: one of the Pageants represented a greate Wood, with the royal Oake, & historie of his Majesties miraculous escape at Bosco-bell &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Oake

479
19 November 1660 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Edward Gower to Sir R. Leveson, 20 Nov. 1660: Yesternight the King, Queen, Princess, &c. supped at the Duke of Albemarle's, where they had the Silent Woman acted in the cockpit (HMC, 5th Report, 1876, p. 200). The King's Company. Pepys, Diary, 20 Nov. 1660: This morning I found my Lord in bed late, he having been with the King, Queen, and Princess, at the cockpit all night, where General Monk treated them; and after supper a play, where the King did put a great affront upon John? Singleton's musique, he bidding them stop and bade the French musique play, which, my Lord says, do much outdo all ours. The prologue was printed in 1660: The Prologue to His Majesty at the first Play presented at the cock-pit in Whitehall, Being part of that Noble Entertainment which Their Majesties received Novemb. 19. from his Grace the Duke of Albemarle. [The Prologue has been reprinted by Wiley, Rare Prologues and Epilogues, pp. 11-12. Bodleian Wood 398 has a MS note: By Sir Jo. Denham.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

480
03 July 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: On the assumption that the run began on 28 June and extended twelve days (as Downes states), it would continue through 11 July. On 3 July a group of players entitled the Red Bull Company began a series of performances at Oxford. The performances are known through the entries in Anthony Wood's journal. For a discussion of the problems as to what actors these were, see Sybil Rosenfeld, "Some Notes on the Players in Oxford, 1661-1713", Review of English Studies, XIX (1943), 366. On this day the players acted Tu Quoque, in which, according to Richard Walden (Io Ruminans, 1662) Anne Gibbs acted Gertrude

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Rhodes, Part I

Related Works
Related Work: The Comical History of Don Quixote, Part I Author(s): Thomas D'Urfey
Related Work: The Comical History of Don Quixote, Part II Author(s): Thomas D'Urfey
Related Work: An Eclogue; or, Representation in Four Parts Author(s): Thomas Jordan
Related Work: The Amorous Bigotte: With the Second Part of Tegue O Divelly Author(s): Thomas Shadwell
Related Work: The Atheist; or, The Second Part of the Souldiers Fortune Author(s): Thomas Otway

481
26 October 1671 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: John Aubrey to Anthony a Wood, 26 Oct. 1671: I am writing a comedy for Thomas Shadwell, which I have almost finished since I came here, et quorum pars magna sui.... And I shall fit him with another, The Countrey Rebell, both humours untoucht, but of this, mum! for 'tis very satyricall against some of my mischievous enemies which I in my tumbling up and down have collected (Aubrey's Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark [Oxford, 1898], I, 52n). See also the season of 1670-71

Performances

482
07 December 1671 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. There is uncertainty as to the date of the first performance, but in A Bibliography of John Dryden, p. 193, Macdonald cites as evidence for this date, Wood's Ath. Ox., IV, 209. The play was certainly first acted not later than this month, because John Evelyn saw it on 14 Dec. 1671. For further details, see 14 Dec. 1671

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Edition of 1672: Prologue-; Epilogue-. In spite of the fame of this work, the actors (with a few exceptions) associated with the principal roles are not known. Buckingham, however, taught John Lacy how to act Bayes in ridicule of John Dryden. According to A Key to the Rehearsal (1704), Anna Reeves acted Amaryllis. Several actors are named in the text: Abraham Ivory (an old actor who possibly did not play in the work); William Wintershall; Joseph Haines, William Cartwright, and George? Shirley. John Littlewood (along with Joseph Haines) is referred to in a poem on the play--see16711214--as though he performed in it. William Wintershall; Joseph Haines, William Cartwright, and George? Shirley. John Littlewood (along with Joseph Haines) is referred to in a poem on the play--see16711214--as though he performed in it.

483
14 December 1671 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Evelyn, Diary: Whence to see the Duke of Buckingam's ridiculous farce & Rhapsody called the Recital, bouffoning all Plays yet prophane enough. In a collection of broadsides (Bodleian Wood 417) A Ballad (on Buckingham and his son) has some lines which apparently refer to a performance: @I confess the Dances were very well Writ, @And the Tune and the Time by Haynes as well Hit, @And Littlewood's Motion and Dress had much Wit: @But when his Poet John Bayes did appear, @'Tis known to more than half that were there, @The greatest part was his own Character.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

484
July 1686 @ Oxford University

Event Comment: In 1686 at Oxford the Act was cancelled at a late moment, but the players performed nevertheless. In mid-July Anthony Leigh, acting in The Committee, added some lines to his role that created a commotion. See Sybil Rosenfeld, Some Notes on the Players in Oxford, p. 370; Memoirs of the Verney Family, ed. Margaret M. Verney (London, 1899), IV, 381; Anthony Clark, The Life and Times of Anthony Wood (Oxford, 1894), III, 192-93

Performances

485
21 January 1696 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Robert Shirley to Thomas Coke, Chartly, 21 Jan. 1695@6: I must agree with you that Wit and Sense seem this winter to have suffered an eclipse, and the dramatic writers more especially have showed how little they consulted either. I do assure you, I have not of late met with more of both than in your ingenious diverting letter to me, so that I am satisfied Wit is not retired out of town, but has only forsaken the stage. We that live in these northern parts are forced to range over fields and woods to find subjects of diversion, for in the frozen season of the year, there is nothing that is more so in the country than conversation. In my last ramble, either my own innate fancy, or the aversion I had to see such plays wrote in English as would hardly bear the reading, made me imagine I met with one of the Muses that had left the town, and by her discourse seemed to be Patroness of Dramatic Poetry. You know, Sir, to meet with a Nymph in the desert was no rarity in some countries heretofore, but yet I vow and swear between us, I asked her the occasion of her leaving the town, to which she made this sudden answer: @Neglected Wit is silent at a time@When puns, or bombast, stuff each doggrill rhyme.@In comic strain when they'd describe a fool,@The author proves the only ridicule.@In tragic verse while others fain would boast,@Landing some thousand Romans on the coast,@In what they would express themselves are lost,@Make Romans cowards, and make English great,@And make Bonduca valiant, to be beat.@Would Congreve or would Blackmoor now engage,@They might with manly thoughts reform the stage:@ ... As for Mr Southern's play, I have not yet seen it, so that I cannot at present give you my thoughts on it (HMC, 12th Report, Appendix, Part II, Cowper MSS., II, 359-60)

Performances

486
13 May 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Wood. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Weekly Pocket, 14 May: There has been a great Disturbance at...Lincoln's-Inn-Fields this Week, by the Means of some Gentlemen, who were in the Interest of the other House, and made Use of Catcalls to interrupt and ridicule their Theatrical Entertainments; but the Disturbers of the Peace were soon silenc'd. Receipts: #125 16s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Song: Trumpet Song-the little boy; the Instrumental part-Mr Grenoust; Vocal Part-Mr Rawlins

Music: Violin solo-Matthew Dubourg

Dance: delaGarde, Bovil, Mrs Bullock; Harlequin and a Countryman-; Swedish Dal Karl and His Wife, as17150509

487
10 May 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Moreau and Wood (Treasurer). At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: money #24 8s. and tickets #70 18s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

Music: The Frost Music from King Arthur-; Concerto to be perform'd upon the Hautboy-Mr Kytch upon the Stage

Song: As17160206

Dance: A new Grand Dance by Moreau-; Entry-Kellum's Scholar, Miss Schoolding; The What D'Ye Call It-delaGarde, Mrs Bullock

488
07 May 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Wood. Receipts: money #40 2s. 6d.; tickets #86 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Doctor

Music: With a Lesson on the Harpsicord-an eminent Master

Song: As17170319

Dance: As17161121; A Dance-Moreau, Mrs Schoolding's Sister a Scholar to Moreau

489
01 May 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Wood

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Amadis

Song: Since Times Are So Bad-Leveridge, Mrs Fitzgerald; Also by Babel's Scholar; accompanied on the Harpsichord-Babel; Also by Mrs Barbier

490
02 May 1721 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Wood, the Treasurer. Receipts: money #13 19s.; tickets #116 16s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Cast
Role: Lady Touchwood Actor: Mrs Seymour

Music: And between the Acts will be perform'd a Solo on Violon, Bass Viol, Lesson on Harpsicord-a young Gentlewoman, it being the second Time of her appearing on the Stage

491
02 May 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Wood, Treasurer. Receipts: money #14 10s.; tickets #126 17s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldier's Fortune

Related Works
Related Work: The Touchstone of Invention; or, The Soldier's Fortune Author(s): Thomas Otway
Related Work: The Soldier's Fortune Author(s): Thomas Otway
Related Work: The Soldiers' Fortune Author(s): Thomas Otway

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue; or, The Devil in the Wine Cellar

Dance: Lally, Lally's Brother, Pelling, Mrs Rogier, Mrs Bullock, Miss Hutton; Myrtillo-; Highland Dance-; Hornpipe-Jones

492
02 May 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Wood, Treasurer. N.B. The Indisposition of Mr Lun prevents the Performance of Amadis. Rece3,5#18 16s. 6d.;

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cartouche

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Related Works
Related Work: Hob; or, The Country Wake Author(s): Thomas Doggett

493
28 April 1724 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Wood, Treasurer. Written by Shakespear. Receipts: money #24; tickets #133 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Song: As17231116

Music: Select Pieces-; accompany'd by French Horns-; particularly a Lesson on the Harpsicord-a Youth who never perform'd before in publick

Dance: Nivelon Jr, Dupre, Glover, Mrs Rogier, Mrs Wall, Mrs Ogden; particularly Myrtillo-; French Peasant-Nivelon Sr, Mrs Rogeir; Flag Dance-Nivelon Sr

494
30 April 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Wood, Treasurer. Receipts: money #26 16s.; ticekts #168 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bath Unmask'd

Dance: End I: French Peasant-Nivelon, Mrs Legare; IV: Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock; V: Myrtillo-

Song: II: The Play of Love-Leveridge; III: Mrs Chambers; In IV: Bath Teazers-Leveridge

495
04 May 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Wood, Treasurer. Written by Mr Congreve. N.B. The Doors will not be open till Four o'Clock. Receipts: money #12 18s. 6d.; tickets #155 19s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Nivelon, Salle; French Peasant-Nivelon, Mrs Legare

Song: SSee From the Silent Groves by Dr Pepusch-Mrs Chambers; The Play of Love made and sung-Leveridge

496
03 May 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Wood, Treasurer. Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: money #12 18s.; tickets #152. Probable attendance: boxes, 13 by money and 220 by tickets; stage, 3 by money; Pit, 13 by money and 464 by tickets; first gallery, 26 by money and 274 by tickets; second gallery, 23 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Wives Confederacy

Song: TThe Genius of England-Salway; The Lass of Patie's Mill-Mrs Warren

Music: Between Acts: Select Pieces-

Dance: PPierot-Nivelon, Poitier; French Sailor and His Wife-Salle, Mlle Salle; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock

497
02 May 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Wood, Treasurer. Receipts: money #25 13s. 6d.; tickets #149 13s. Probable attendance: boxes, 23 by money and 132 by tickets; stage, 9 by money; pit, 44 by money and 591 by tickets; slips, 7 by money; first gallery, 38 by money and 280 by tickets; second gallery, 46 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Dance: new May Day Dance by Newhouse, for Four Countrymen and Four Milk Maids with Garlands-; French Peasant-Nivelon, Legare

Song: TThe Bonny Milk Maid a Ballad and, The Merry Month of May-Miss Warren; The Spinning Wheel Dialogue-Leveridge, Salway; The Cobler-Leveridge; Ballad Duetta-Walker, Miss Fenton

498
01 May 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Wood, the Treasurer. Receipts: money #27 5s.; tickets #180 13s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Cast
Role: Sir Thomas Actor: Hippisley
Role: Sir ThomasTesty Actor: Hippisley
Related Works
Related Work: Hob; or, The Country Wake Author(s): Thomas Doggett

Dance: HHighlander and Mistress-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; Dutch Skipper-Moreau, Mrs Bullock

499
21 January 1730 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Love; Or, The Degenerate Brother

Performance Comment: Principal parts by Wells, Mullart, Lacy, Fielding, Jones, Mrs Mullart, Mrs Martin, Mrs Lindsey, Mrs Nokes, Miss Wood; but edition of 1730 lists: Don Manuel-Wells Sr; Alonzo-Stopler; Pizarro-Wells Jr; Pedro-Fielding; Alvarez-Mullart; Rinaldo-Lacy; Diego-Dove; Hermit-Reynolds; Page-Achurch; Servants-Hicks, Richards; Ismena-Mrs Mullart; Lucina-Mrs Martin; Cleone-Mrs Lindsey; Julia-Mrs Newman; Florella-Mrs Nokes; Prologue, Epilogue-Charles Coffey.

500
01 May 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Wood, Treasurer. Receipts: money #18 10s.; tickets #197 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: End I: Numidian-Glover, Miss LaTour; II: Comic Dance-Nivelon, Miss Wherrit; III: Flag Dance-Nivelon; IV: Tollet's Grounds-Mrs Bullock, Mrs Ogden; V: Pierrots-Poitier, Nivelon

Song: II: Now the Men and the Maids are Making of Hay-Leveridge, Salway; IV: The Merry Month of May-Miss Rogers, the Lilliputian Lucy