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Event Comment: To begin exactly at Six o'clock. Play Written by Shakespear. The Principal Characters new dress.d, and the Theatre New Decorated. None will be admitted into the Boxes but by Printed tickets, which will be deliver'd at the Office in the Lobby at 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. N.B. For the Better Regulation of the stage, it is desired that no persons will take it ill, that they cannot be admitted behind the scenes. [The notice about time and prices remains constant throughout the season and will not again be noted here. The notice about refusal of admission behind the scenes appears on each bill till the benefits begin. It will not be repeated here.

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Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

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Related Work: Othello Author(s): William Shakespeare
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

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Afterpiece Title: Old Man Taught Wisdom

Song: By Desire, Arrah my Judy-Stoppelaer

Dance: Villeneuve, Dumont, Richardson, Delagarde, Destrade, Dupre, DeVaul

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear

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Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

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Related Work: Hamlet Author(s): William Shakespeare

Dance: As17421026

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Duke, and Princesses Amelia, Caroline, Louise. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear,

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Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

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Related Work: Hamlet Author(s): William Shakespeare

Song: II: Song-Beard

Music: Concerto-Piantinada

Dance: IV: Grand Serious Ballet, as17421005

Event Comment: Play written by Shakespear. Not acted these nine years [but see 6 Feb. 1734.

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Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

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Related Work: Measure for Measure Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: The Law Against Lovers Author(s): Sir William Davenant

Dance: LLes Bourgeoise-Dumont, Mlle Auguste, Mrs Delagarde; Grand Ballet, as17421108; Characters of Dancing, as17421025

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. At Common Prices. No person to be admitted behind the scenes. To begin exactly at 6 o'clock. [Customary notice, not to be included again unless changed.

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Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

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Related Work: Hamlet Author(s): William Shakespeare
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Not acted in six years [but see 15 Oct. 1740]

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Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

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Related Work: The Merry Wives of Windsor Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: V: Dance, as17431123

Event Comment: Tragedy reviv'd. As written by Shakespear. The Characters new Dress'd. [See G. W. Stone Jr., Garrick's Handling of Macbeth," pp. 609-28.] An Essay on Acting (London, 1744): In which will be Consider'd the Mimical Behaviour of a Certain Fashionable faulty Actor....A short criticism on His Acting Macbeth. [See especially first part, pp. 1-12, on Acting; second, pp. 12-27, on Garrick as Macbeth.

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

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Afterpiece Title: Columbine Courtezan

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. Containing the Death of the Duke of Buckingham; the Divorce of Queen Katherine; the Fall of Cardinal Wolsey; the Christening of Queen Elizabeth; with many other Historical passages. [This elaboration occurs on all Subsequent notices this season, but will not be further recorded.] Thomas Griffith died (Burney Actors MS.)

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Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

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Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. Benefit a Gentleman under misfortunes. Tickets at George's Coffee House, Temple Bar, and at the Stage door

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Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

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Related Work: Othello Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Event Comment: Will be reviv'd a Play Not acted these 100 Years. Written by Shakespear. To begin at 6 p.m. 4s., 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d. Daily Advertiser, 12 Sept.: Last night the much-admir'd Play of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was reviv'd....Many Persons of Distinction were in the Pit and Gallery, who could not find room in the Boxes, which were all bespoke. [Note that Cibber has omitted the concert formula.

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Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

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Related Work: Romeo and Juliet Author(s): William Shakespeare
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

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Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

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Related Work: As You Like It Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay or The Wives Metamorphosed

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear Containing the Death of the Duke of Buckingham; the Divorce of Queen Katherine; the Fall of Cardinal Wolsey; the Christening of Queen Elizabeth; with many other Historical Passages. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s

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Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

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Event Comment: Mainpiece: As Written by Shakespear

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

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Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Event Comment: At Cibber's Academy in the Hay-Market...will be presented a Concert of Musick, Vocal and Instrumental. The Vocal Parts-Mr Brett, Mrs Hill, and others; the Instrumental by eminent Masters. The Doors to be open'd at Four, the Concert to begin at Five, and no Persons to be admitted after Seven o'clock. The Prices are Four Shillings, Half a Crown and Eighteen Pence. Places may be bespoke at the Academy. After the Concert will be exhibited Gratis, a Rehearsal, in Form, of the Play-(often acted with great Applause) call'd Romeo and Juliet. Written by Shakespear. The Characters personated by the Master of the Academy, his Assistants, Pupils, and Servants. With Proper Habits, Scenes and Decorations. [After Cibber announced his Academy, he received the following letter from the Justice of the Peace: I see by your advertisements, in regard to your Academical Performances, that they are of the same Nature as Mr L/c@y's were some Years ago, which brought him to a great deal of Trouble. Some strong Applications are making now to give you some; of which I think proper to give you Notice, in this private Manner, that you may avoid it.-Tho. de Veil. 31 Oct. Cibber, A Serio-Comic Apology. p. 12.

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Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

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Related Work: Romeo and Juliet Author(s): William Shakespeare
Event Comment: Announced as 1 Nov., but not performed as theatre was closed by order of the Lord Chamberlain. See T. Cibber's letter in the Daily Post, 12 Nov., cited by Hogan, Shakespear in the Theatre, I, 69

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Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

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Related Work: Cymbeline Author(s): William Shakespeare
Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. Not acted in 50 Years. It is hoped no Gentleman will take it ill, he cannot be admitted behind the scenes, the play being so full of characters, that any company there will be of great prejudice to the performance. [The play advertised as ready on 15 Feb., but held off until after the first performance of Papal Tyranny at cg so as not to detract from Cibber's first night.] The Principal Characters New Dress'd

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Mainpiece Title: King John

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Related Work: King John Author(s): William Shakespeare

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Lady Macbeth-Mrs Carlisle (Hogan, Shakespear in the Theatre, p. 295).
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Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

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Mainpiece Title: I Henry Iv

Performance Comment: Falstaff-Dance (Hogan, Shakespear in the Theatre, p. 173).
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Related Work: Henry ye Fourth, Part II Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Lampe and Mrs Vincent. Mainpiece: an Historical Play reviv'd as written by Shakespear

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Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth

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Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

Dance: Cooke, Sga Campioni

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. Places for the boxes to be taken of Mr Page at the stage door of the theatre. To begin exactly at six o'clock

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Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

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Event Comment: Mainpiece: As written by Shakespear, Containing the Memorable Battle of Agincourtv, with the total Overthrow of the French Armyv, and many other historical passages

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Mainpiece Title: Henry V

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Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: 1 Written by Shakespear. Benefit Powell, Howard, and others; by particular Desire. Afterpiece: Never acted there before. [The Debauchees; or, The Jesuit Caught, originally issued as The Old Debauchees by Henry Fielding, 1 June 1732, dl. Concluding the program with the National Anthem now omitted from the advertisements.

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Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv

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Related Work: Henry the Fourth, Part I Author(s): William Shakespeare
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Afterpiece Title: 1 The Debauchees

Song: 1 Brett

Dance: 1 As17451028

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Pritchard. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Servants admitted to keep places on the stage, which will be fram'd into Front and side boxes, and entirely enclosed after the manner of an Oratorio. Ladies are desired to send servants to keep places to prevent mistakes. Tickets and places to be had at Mrs Pritchard's in Duke's late Earl's Court, Bow St.; At Mr Vaughan's, the Royal Exchange, Cornhill, and at the stage door

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Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

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Related Work: Much Ado About Nothing Author(s): William Shakespeare
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Afterpiece Title: Duke and no Duke

Dance: PPeasant-Cooke; Comic Ballet-Cooke, Signora Campioni

Song: SSong of Diana from Dryden's Secular Masque,-Beard (set by Mr Boyce); Genius of England-Beard

Event Comment: Mainpiece never acted there before. Written by Shakespear

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Mainpiece Title: Alls Well That Ends Well

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Related Work: Alls Well yt Ends Well Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Dance: DDrunken Tyrolese-Sodi