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6791 results for: Keyword - Thomas Betterton
We found 5707 matches on Author, 895 matches on Performance Comments, 539 matches on Event Comments, 60 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

5626
21 May 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: St Davids Day

Related Works
Related Work: St. David's Day Author(s): Thomas Attwood

Afterpiece Title: Liberal Opinions

Afterpiece Title: Paul and Virginia

Dance: In 3rd piece: As18000501

Song: In 3rd piece: As18000501

5627
22 May 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Abroad And At Home

Afterpiece Title: Britains Sons or Success to our Heroes

Afterpiece Title: The Turnpike Gate

Related Works
Related Work: The Turnpike Gate Author(s): Thomas Knight

Song: In: Together let us range the Fields-Incledon, Mrs Atkins; The Soldier Tir'd (from Artaxerxes)-Mrs Atkins

5628
23 May 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Performance Comment: Alberto-Murray; Count Valentia-Betterton; Marquis Almanza-Whitfield; Duke Mercia-Davenport; Seville-Whitmore; Granada-Atkins; Marchioness Merida-Mrs Maddocks; Amanthis-Miss Murray.
Cast
Role: Count Valentia Actor: Betterton

Afterpiece Title: The Dramatist

Afterpiece Title: The Mouth of the Nile

Related Works
Related Work: The Mouth of the Nile Author(s): Thomas Attwood

Dance: In 1st piece: Hornpipe-Cuerton; End 2nd piece: The Minuet de la Cour, a Favorite Scotch Pas Deux-Klanert, Mrs Watts

5629
24 May 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Indiscretion

Cast
Role: Thomas Actor: Wathen

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Related Works
Related Work: The Follies of a Day Author(s): Thomas Holcroft
Related Work: The Follies of a Day; or, The Marriage of Figaro Author(s): Thomas Holcroft

5630
26 May 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Related Works
Related Work: Speed the Plough Author(s): Thomas Morton

Afterpiece Title: Paul and Virginia

Dance: As18000503

Song: As18000503

5631
09 June 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Related Works
Related Work: Speed the Plough Author(s): Thomas Morton

Afterpiece Title: Paul and Virginia

Dance: As18000503

Song: As18000503

5632
11 June 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Related Works
Related Work: The Road to Ruin Author(s): Thomas Holcroft

Afterpiece Title: The Turnpike Gate

Related Works
Related Work: The Turnpike Gate Author(s): Thomas Knight

Dance: End: New Hornpipe-a Young Lady (1st appearance in public [Miss Rogers]); End I afterpiece: A Scotch Pas Deux-Jackson, Miss Bologna

Song: After 1st dance: The Little Farthing Rushlight-Master Standen

5633
14 June 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Blue Devils

Afterpiece Title: The Jew

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Related Works
Related Work: The Castle of Sorrento Author(s): Thomas Attwood

Song: 3rd piece: Chorus-Kenrick, Little, Willoughby, Dibble, Aylmer

5634
17 June 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Related Works
Related Work: The Follies of a Day Author(s): Thomas Holcroft
Related Work: The Follies of a Day; or, The Marriage of Figaro Author(s): Thomas Holcroft

Song: In course evening: The Soldier tir'd of War's alarms-Miss Stephens; End I afterpiece: Crazy Jane-Mrs Bland

5635
17 June 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zorinski

Related Works
Related Work: Zorinski Author(s): Thomas Morton

Afterpiece Title: Tis All a Farce

5636
24 June 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zorinski

Related Works
Related Work: Zorinski Author(s): Thomas Morton

Afterpiece Title: Tis All a Farce

5637
25 July 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Point Of Honour

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Related Works
Related Work: The Castle of Sorrento Author(s): Thomas Attwood

Song: Afterpiece: Chorus, as18000614

5638
02 August 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Related Works
Related Work: The Castle of Sorrento Author(s): Thomas Attwood

Song: As18000725

5639
05 August 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Related Works
Related Work: The Castle of Sorrento Author(s): Thomas Attwood

Song: As18000725

5640
21 August 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Blue Devils

Afterpiece Title: The Point of Honour

Cast
Role: Chorus of Negro Men Actor: Thomas.

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Related Works
Related Work: The Castle of Sorrento Author(s): Thomas Attwood

Song: As18000614

5641
08 September 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Related Works
Related Work: The Castle of Sorrento Author(s): Thomas Attwood

Song: As18000725

5642
September 1680 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. As the play was not printed until 1689, the date of composition is uncertain. In Act I, however, a reference to the death of the Earl of Rochester (26 July 1680) suggests that the play probably followed that even rather closely. On the other hand, the latest likely date for the first production seems set at late 1682 by the fact that Thomas Farmer's music for the play in BM Add. Mss. 19183-19185 is dated December 1682. The play has been placed in September 1680 as the earliest likely date (the presence of an experienced cast makes somewhat unlikely a production in mid-summer 1680). A song, All other blessings are but toys, with music by Thomas Farmer, is in Choice Ayres and Songs, The Fourth Book, 1683. A song, Lovely Selina, innocent and free, with music by John Blow, is in the same collection; and another, Weep all ye nymphs, with music by John Blow, is in The Theater of Music, The First Book, 1685

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Princess Of Cleve

Performance Comment: Edition of 1689: The Prologue-; Prince of Cleve-Williams; Duke Nemours-Betterton; St. Andre-Lee; Vidam of Chartres-Gillo; Poltrot-Nokes; Princess of Cleve-Mrs Barry; Tournon-Mrs Lee [Elinor Leigh]; Marguerite-Lady Slingsby; Elianor-Mrs Betterton; The Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: Duke Nemours Actor: Betterton
Role: Elianor Actor: Mrs Betterton

5643
17 January 1678 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@145, p. 120. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349. There is no certainty that this is the first performance, but a licensing date of 28 Jan. 1677@8 and Mrs Behn's statement in the Preface that she hurried the play into print suggest a premiere not far from this date. Edition of 1678: To the Reader: I Printed this Play with all the impatient haste one ought to do, who would be vindicated from the most unjust and silly aspersion, Woman could invent to cast on Woman; and which only my being a Woman has procured me, That it was Bawdy, the least and most Excusable fault in the Men Writers, to whose Plays they all crowd, as if they came to no other end then to hear what they condemn in this: but from a Woman it was unnaturall. One song, Sitting by yonder river side, with music by Thomas? Farmer, is in Choice Ayres and Songs, The Second Book, 1679

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Patient Fancy

Performance Comment: Edition of 1678: Prologue-Mr Betterton; Sir Patient Fancy-Anthony Leigh; Leander Fancy-Crosby; Wittmore-Betterton; Lodwick Knowell-Smith; Sir Credulous Easy-Nokes; Curry-Richards; Lady Fancy-Mrs Corrar; Lady Knowell-Mrs Gwin [Quin]; Lucretia-Mrs Price; Isabella-Mrs Betterton; Maundy-Mrs Gibbs; Epilogue-Mrs Gwin [Quin].Quin].
Cast
Role: Prologue Actor: Mr Betterton
Role: Wittmore Actor: Betterton
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Betterton

5644
April 1679 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first performance is uncertain, but the fact that the play was entered in the Stationers' Register on 14 April 1679 suggests a premiere not later than April 1679. A song, Can life be a blessing, with music by Thomas Farmer, is in Choice Ayres and Songs, The Third Book, 1681

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Troilus And Cressida Or Truth Found Too Late

Performance Comment: Edition of 1679: The Prologue-Mr Betterton Representing the Ghost of Shakespear; Hector-Smith; Troilus-Betterton; Priam-Percivall; Aeneas-Joseph Williams; Pandarus-Leigh; Calchas-Percivall; Agamemnon-Gillo; Ulysses-Harris; Achilles-David Williams; Ajax-Bright; Nestor-Norris; Diomedes-Crosby; Patroclus-Bowman; Anthenor-Richards; Thersites-Underhill; Cressida-Mrs Mary Lee; Andromache-Mrs Betterton; The Epilogue-Thersites.
Cast
Role: The Prologue Actor: Mr Betterton Representing the Ghost of Shakespear
Role: Troilus Actor: Betterton
Role: Andromache Actor: Mrs Betterton

5645
04 May 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 2nd piece [1st time; F 1, by Thomas John Dibdin; incidental music by John Moorehead]: Altered from [Die Witwe und das Reitpferd, This Day is published The Horse and the Widow (1s.). 3rd piece: Altered into Two acts. Receipts: #187 17s. 6d. (180.6.6; 7.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Birth Day

Afterpiece Title: The Horse and the Widow

Afterpiece Title: Albert and Adelaide

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Incledon, Emery, Clarke, Betterton, Townsend, Miss Gilbert, Simmons, Claremont, Mrs Atkins, Miss Walcup, Mrs Whitmore, Mrs Chapman; Chorus of Soldiers and Followers in the Black Forest-Oddwell, Clarke, Sawyer, Curties, Little, Thomas, Everett, J. Linton, Smith, Lee; Chorus of Guards in the Castle-Linton, Street, Abbot, Kenrick, Silvester, Jones, Fairclough, Tett, Russel. [And see17981211.]And see17981211.]
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Incledon, Emery, Clarke, Betterton, Townsend, Miss Gilbert, Simmons, Claremont, Mrs Atkins, Miss Walcup, Mrs Whitmore, Mrs Chapman
Role: Chorus of Soldiers and Followers in the Black Fore Actor: Oddwell, Clarke, Sawyer, Curties, Little, Thomas, Everett, J. Linton, Smith, Lee
Related Works
Related Work: Albert and Adelaide; or, The Victim of Constancy Author(s): Thomas Attwood

Dance: In 3rd piece: Procession and Dance of Swabian Peasants, as17981211, but Miss _Gray

5646
04 December 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit the Author [Nicholas Rowe]. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [Announced as the last new farce, it had been originally scheduled for the week of 6-11 Nov. (Diverting Post, 4 Nov.), but postponed. It probably was acted before 25 Nov., for the Diverting Post of that date published the Prologue.] Thomas Davies: Did not the tragic Rowe write The Biter, a comedy; and was he not the only person of the audience that laughed during the acting of it [Dramatic Miscellanies, I, 94]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Biter

Performance Comment: Edition of 1705 lists: Sir Timothy Tallapoy-Betterton; Pinch-Pack; Clerimont-Verbruggen; Friendly-Booth; Scribblescrabble-Leigh; Bandileer-Knap; Trick-Fieldhouse; Grumble-Trout; Bohee-Freeman; Lady Stale-Mrs Leigh; Mariana-Mrs Bracegirdle; Angelica-Mrs Mountfort; Mrs Clever-Mrs Barry; Mrs Scribblescrabble-Mrs Lawson; Prologue-Betterton; Epilogue-Mrs Bracegirdle.
Cast
Role: Sir Timothy Tallapoy Actor: Betterton
Role: Prologue Actor: Betterton

5647
12 January 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Joseph George Holman. Prologue by William Thomas Fitzgerald; Epilogue by John Taylor (see text)]: With new Dresses, Scenery, &c. [Afterpiece in place of The Farmer, advertised on playbill of 11 Jan.] Morning Chronicle, 26 Mar. 1799: This Day is published The Votary of Wealth (2s.). Receipts: #326 10s. 6d. (321.2.6; 5.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Votary Of Wealth

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Lewis, Pope, Munden, Fawcett, H. Johnston, Murray, Emery, Thompson, Abbot, Curties, Wilde, Lee, Mrs Pope, Mrs H. Johnston, Miss Chapman, Mrs Davenport, Miss Betterton. [Cast from text (T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1799), and playbill of 25 Sept. 1799: Drooply-Lewis; Leonard Vizorly-Pope; Oakworth-Munden; Sharpset-Fawcett; Henry Melville-H. Johnston; Cleveland-Murray; Old Vizorly-Emery; Mastyr of Hotel-Thompson; Bailiff-Abbot; Servant-Curties; Waiter-Wilde; Simpson-Blurton; Julia Cleveland-Mrs Pope; Gangica-Mrs H. Johnston; Mrs Cleveland-Miss Chapman; Lady Jemima Vizorly-Mrs Davenport; Caroline-Miss Betterton; unassigned-Lee; Prologue-Murray; Epilogue-Mrs Pope. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 9 performances only (see17990128).]These were spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 9 performances only (see17990128).]
Cast
Role: Caroline Actor: Miss Betterton

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

5648
16 March 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. 1st piece [1st time; C 3, by Thomas John Dibdin. Prologue and Epilogue by the author (London Chronicle, 18 Mar.)]. Morning Chronicle, 12 Apr. 1799: This Day is published Five Thousand a Year (price not listed). Ibid, 8 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Lewis, Bow-street. Receipts: #542 0s. 6d. (383.9.0; 2.19.0; tickets: 155.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Five Thousand A Year

Performance Comment: [Principal Characters by Lewis, Pope, Munden, H. Johnston, Murray, Farley, Waddy, Simmons, Rees, Abbot, Miss Betterton, Mrs Pope, Miss Murray (1st appearance this season]), Mrs Mattocks. [Cast from text (G. G. and J. Robinson [1799]: George Fervid-Lewis; Frederick Fervid-Pope; Sir Matthew Maxim-Munden; Henry Hastings-H. Johnston; Mr Goulding-Murray; Paragraph-Farley; Truepenny-Waddy; Dick-Simmons; Officer-Rees; Servants to Sir Matthew-Abbot, Wilde; Servant to Frederick-Curties; Boy-Master Webb; Maria-Miss Betterton; Lady Julia-Mrs Pope; Aurelia-Miss Murray [in text: Mrs H. Johnston (see17990325; Lady Maxim-Mrs Mattocks; Prologue (partly Musical)-Munden; Epilogue-Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Maria Actor: Miss Betterton

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: In 2nd piece: Ballet-Blurton, Mrs Watts

Song: End 1st piece: Black Ey'd Susan-Incledon

5649
May 1679 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first production is uncertain. The fact that the Epilogue suggests that it followed Settle's The Female Prelate is not a factor in the dating, as the Newdigate newsletters--see Wilson, Theatre Notes from the Newdigate Newsletters, p. 80--show that Settle's play was first acted on 31 May 1680, whereas Caesar Borgia was entered in the Term Catalogues, November 1679. Although the reference in the Epilogue to burning the Pope's Effigies" has been argued as referring to the Pope-burning procession of 17 Nov. 1679, the references in the Epilogue to Father Lewis, who was tried and convicted at York, 28 March 1679, suggest that it was written before his execution, 27 Aug. 1679. Hence the play may have been acted first some time in the late spring or the summer. A song, Blush not redder than the Morning, with music by Thomas Farmer, is in Choice Ayres and Songs, The Third Book, 1681

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caesar Borgia Son Of Pope Alexander The Sixth

Performance Comment: Edition of 1680: Prologue by Mr Dryden-; Caesar Borgia-Betterton; Palante-Williams; Machiavel-Smith; Paul Orsino-Gillow; Ascanio Sforza-Lee; Vitellozzo-Peircifull; Bellamira-Mrs Lee; Adorna-Mrs Price; Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: Caesar Borgia Actor: Betterton

5650
March 1682 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first performance is uncertain, but the fact that Luttrell dated his separately printed copies of the Prologue and Epilogue 5 April 1682 (Huntington Library) sets a probability that the play first appeared within a week to ten days preceding that date. The Prologue and Epilogue, separately printed, have been reprinted in Wiley, Rare Prologues and Epilogues, pp. 89-91. A Prologue Intended for Vertue Bertray'd, by Thomas Shadwell, is reprinted in Welbeck Niscellany 3, A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, ed. Francis Needham, 1934. Some details in it suggest the "Dead Time" preceding Easter, when the Court was gone, the Russian ambassador departed, the Moroccan Ambassador shortly to go. The Russian ambassador left on 15 Feb. 1681@2 OS (see Evelyn, Diary), and the Prologue refers to the execution of Colonel Vratz and his accomplices on 10 March 1681@2 (Evelyn, Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Vertue Betrayd Or Anna Bullen

Performance Comment: Edition of 1682: Prologue- Spoken to Anna Bullen by a Person of Quality; King Harry-Smith; Cardinal-Gillow; Northumberland-Wiltshire; Piercy-Betterton; Rochford-Jos. Williams; Anna Bullen-Mrs Barry; Lady Diana Talbot-Mrs Petty; Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: Piercy Actor: Betterton