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12303 results for: Keyword - William Shatterrel
We found 10791 matches on Author, 1664 matches on Performance Comments, 434 matches on Event Comments, 51 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

12151
06 November 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Ryder, Diary, pp. 359-60: Went to see the tragedy of Tamerlane which was acted with a new prologue in honour of King William and in memory of what he did for us. The play itself is good....Mills who acted the part of Bajazet did it mighty well and expressed that furiousness and rage and malice and ambition admirably well in his gesture at the end, but, which is his distinguishing character, very well kept up throughout. I observed in the general that the manner of speaking in our theatres in tragedy is not natural. There is something that would be very shocking and disagreeable and very unnatural in real life. Persons would call it theatrical, meaning by that something stiff and affected

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

12152
28 February 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: '[By William Taverner.] Never Acted before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 'tis Well If It Takes

Related Works
Related Work: Tis Well if it Takes Author(s): William Taverner

12153
23 December 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit William Cobston. By Subscription

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

12154
23 February 1720 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: Benefit William Douglass, commonly called the Black Prince. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; Singing-Mrs Fletcher; Concerto-Matthew Dubourg; Solo-Kytch

12155
09 May 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit William Mills and Chetwood, Prompter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Dance: Shaw, Weaver, Boval, Lally, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Bullock, Miss Tenoe

12156
08 May 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit William Mills and Chetwood

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Dance: Desnoyer, Thurmond Jr, Boval, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Younger, Mrs Tenoe

12157
16 February 1722 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: Benefit William Douglas, commonly call'd Prince. Tickets 5s. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-Castrucci, Kytch

12158
07 May 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit William Mills and the Prompter. Mainpiece: As it was alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Booth, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Bullock, Boval, Mrs Bicknell, Miss Tenoe

12159
06 March 1723 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: Benefit William Douglas, commonly call'd Prince. Tickets 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Violin-Michael Christian Festin; Lute-Francisco Weybough; Hautboy-Kytch [but see hay]

12160
29 April 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Williams. By Her Royal Highness's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Constancy

Dance: Shaw, Topham, Boval, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bullock, Miss Tenoe; particularly Myrtillo-

Related Works
Related Work: Small Talk; or, The Westminster Boy Author(s): William Shield

12161
26 February 1724 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: Benefit William Douglass, commonly called Prince. Tickets 5s. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Concerto, Solo on Hautboy-Kytch; Solo on Violin-Michael Festing; Sonata-Mr China

12162
03 August 1724 @ Richmond

Event Comment: Benefit Chetwood. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. N.B. Tickets given out for The Merry Wives of Windsor will be taken at this Play. [See Daily Post, 3 Aug., for Penkethman's celebration at Richmond on 1 Aug., the anniversary of the Hanoverian succession to the throne, and British Journal, 8 Aug., for an account of William Marshall, of lif, as an anti-Hanoverian demonstrator on 1 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Related Works
Related Work: The Stage Coach Opera Author(s): William Chetwood

Dance: Drunken Man-Harper

Song:

12163
17 May 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Rob. Williams, Mrs Whitherilt [Mrs Wetherilt], Mrs Boman, Miss Davison. Afterpiece: Set to Musick by Mr Eccles

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don John

Related Works
Related Work: King Henry the Fourth: With the Humours of Sir John Falstaff Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: The Comical Gallant: or, The Amours of Sir John Falstaffe Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: King John Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea

Music: Mainpiece: Original Shepherd's Musick by the late Mr Henry Purcell-

Dance:

12164
03 August 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Journal, 3 Aug.: Mr Williams, one of the Comedians belonging to the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, is dead

Performances

12165
13 November 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command.Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. The King, Queen, Prince William, and three Princesses present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

12166
23 November 1731 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince of Wales, Prince William, three eldest Princesses, Duke of Lorrain present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Porus

12167
30 November 1731 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, Prince William, Princess Royal, the young Princesses, and Duke of Lorrain present. See also Lord Hervey and his Friends, p. 115.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Porus

12168
28 April 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd If She Cou'd

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: Singing in Italian-Roberts

Dance: TThe Masques-Essex, Thurmond, Houghton, Lally Jr, F. Tench, Mrs Walter, Miss Robinson, Miss Williams, Mrs Delorme, Miss Mears, Mrs Rogers

Performance Comment: Tench, Mrs Walter, Miss Robinson, Miss Williams, Mrs Delorme, Miss Mears, Mrs Rogers.
Related Works
Related Work: King Henry the Fourth: With the Humours of Sir John Falstaff Author(s): William Shakespeare

12169
17 August 1732 @ Tottenham Court

Event Comment: At Rayner-Walker Booth. [Prince William and Princesses Mary and Louisa present, also His Excellency Ach Mahomet, Ambassador from Algiers.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Wife Well Manag'd; Or, Cuckoldom Prevented

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Harlequin; or, The Life and Death of Dr Faustus

12170
10 February 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: A new Opera. Written by the late Mr Gay. With New Habits and Scenes. Receipts: #207 11s. 6d. Daily Courant, 12 Feb.: Mr Pultney and Mr Pope were in the Pit....They were in the House before any body else was admitted. Sir William Windham was also present at this Performance; but notwithstanding the Countenance given to it, there was so much Obscenity and Scurrility in it, that it raised a general Abhorrence in the Audience. [See also The Bee, 17 Feb., for a puff concerning this performance and the play in general.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Father; or, The Death of Achilles Author(s): William Hatchett

12171
19 May 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: On this day died Mrs William Mills

Performances

12172
31 May 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Set to Musick after the Italian Manner. The Habits and Decorations entirely New. [Probably by Eliza Haywood and William Hatchett, with music by Arne.] 7 p.m. 5s., 3s., 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Opera Of Operas; Or, Tom Thumb The Great

Related Works
Related Work: The Opera of Operas; or Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): William Hatchett

12173
18 June 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 22 June: On Monday last died Mr William Bullock, one of the Comedians of Goodman's-Fields, and Master of a Coffeehouse in that Neighborhood

Performances

12174
09 January 1734 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: A new Comedy. [By William Popple.] All the Characters new drest. Preface to edition of 1734: A Report having been maliciously raised, and industriously spread all over the Town, that the Play was a Party Play, and supported by the Court, and therefore to be opposed, Numbers of Persons came into the House with an Intent ... to damn it at all Events. . . . However, the Play having had a fair Hearing, went off with infinitely more Applause than Blame

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Revenge; Or, The Rover Reclaim'd

Related Works
Related Work: The Lady’s Revenge; or, The Rover Reclaim'd Author(s): William Popple

Dance: By Malter and Mlle Salle

12175
24 March 1735 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman under Misfortunes. [In London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 24 March, Ryan thanks the public for assistance at his benefit and adds that Sir William Saunderson engaged for Ryan "near a fourth Part of his Audience."]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Music: Solo on Violin by a Youth of 13 Years, who never performed in public before, a scholar of Signor Catanio

Dance: Scot's Dance, as17350311 By Lally, S. Lally, Mlle Salle