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Event Comment: [In Daily Courant, 11 April, Hydaspes had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Epsom Wells

Event Comment: Benefit Betterton. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. To which will be added Three Designsv, Representing the Three Principal Actions of the Play, in Imitation of so many great Pieces of History Painting, where all the real Persons concern'd in those Actions will be plac'd at proper distances, in different Postures peculiar to the Passion of each Character. In his Apology (I, 117-18) Cibber said that Betterton...when being suddenly seiz'd by the Gout,...submitted, by extraordinary Applications, to have his Foot so far reliev'd that he might be able to walk on the Stage in a Slipper, rather than wholly disappoint his Audience. He was observ'd that Day to have exerted a more than ordinary Spirit, and met with suitable Applause

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid's Tragedy

Event Comment: [In Daily Courant, 15 April, a new play, The Force of Friendship, had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [In Daily Courant, 12 May, but not later, two afterpieces-The Walking Statue and (new) The Twin Venturers-had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caius Marius

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Being the last time of performing any Opera this Season, the Agreements with the Singers (for this Year) ending this day. [For a full account of this performance, see London in 1710, pp. 17-18.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hydaspes

Event Comment: To which Note: Mr Penkethman acts six Days more for the Subscribers to bring their Tickets. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

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

Dance: Irish Trot-; Harlequin Dance-; French Peasant-; Dutch Skipper-; Flemming in Wooden Shoes-; Dance between a Miller his Wife and a Town Miss-; Ladder Dance-a famous Master; Night Scene between a Harlequin, a Cooper, his Wife, and others-

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of Esquire Bickerstaff, who will honour Mr Penkethman with his Presence. These Performances will be done between the 1st and 4th Act, by reason Esquire Bickerstaff is oblig'd to be gone when the 3d Act is over. Altho' Mr Penkethman is at an Extraordinary Charge for these Entertainments, besides the Play, yet to oblige his Friends he lets 'em in at Common Prices [as 7 Aug.]. Note, No Subscribers Tickets will pass this Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fond Husband

Entertainment: 1st: turns upon one Foot 300 times-A Young Gentlewoman, who never appear'd on a publick Stage, and as she is turning fixes 12 Swords points about her, 2 to her Eyes, 2 to her Eye-lashes, 2 to her Eye-brows, 2 to her Nose, 2 to her Lips, and 2 to her Breasts

Dance: French Peasant-; Scaramouch-; Wooden Shoe-; Dance by Harlequin Scaramouch Cooper and his Wife-; Ladder Dance-

Event Comment: Note, The Subscribers' Tickets will pass this Day. Admission as 7 Aug. At 5 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue

Dance: Italian Night Scene between Scaramouch, Harlequin, Cooper, and Wife-

Event Comment: Benefit Penkethman. The Boxes and Pit 2s. 6d., the Boxes being laid open to the Pit. Note, No Subscribers' Tickets to pass this Day. To begin exactly at 5 of the Clock, by reason that the Gentlemen and Ladies that come from London may have time to return home before Night. Note, The Tide happens very luckily for Mr Penkethman's Friends in London: It Ebbs to Greenwich from 10 in the Morning till 6 at Night, flows from 6 in the Evening till 11, it being Moon-light

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Entertainment: Young Gentlewoman, as17100817; Likewise a Vaulting the Managed Horse-famous Master who never appear'd on the Publick Stage

Dance: Ladder Dance-; French Peasant-; Wooden Shoe-; Harlequin Scaramouch Cooper and Wife-

Event Comment: Benefit Spillar. Note, The Tickets given out for Monday 4 [for The Confederacy] will be taken this Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Wives' Confederacy; Or, The Usurer Outwitted

Song: The Whimsical Country-

Dance: The Whimsical Country Wedding-

Event Comment: [In Daily Courant, 13 Nov., I Henry IV had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage; Or, The Innocent Adultery

Event Comment: Receipts: #128 18s. 6d. [According to Deutsch, p. 30, Francesca Vanini-Boschi introduced a Handel aria into this opera on this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [In Daily Courant, 31 Jan., Rule a Wife and Have a Wife had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Event Comment: [In Daily Courant, 23 March, The Recruiting Officer had been advertised for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Event Comment: At 3 p.m. and 6 p.m., by reason of the Children's Playing twice a Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Thyrsis; Or, The Lost Shepherdess

Song:

Dance:

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Performance Comment: As17110430 but Mrs Day-_.
Event Comment: Benefit the boxkeepers. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Tickets for Hydaspes taken on this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

Event Comment: [In Daily Courant, 26 July, Hamlet had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Event Comment: [By Susanna Centlivre.] Never Acted before. [In the Preface the author discusses her difficulties with the Epilogue. The managers did not think it safe to speak the Epilogue without a License. As she could not get it approved in time, Norris spoke "six Lines Extempore" asking the audience to excuse the defect and promising one for the second night. The Spectators, convinced no Epilogue was intended, hissed. On the following day the Epilogue was licensed, but Mrs Oldfield, who had been intended to speak it, received letters against it; Norris then spoken an Epilogue which implied that the intended one had never been licensed.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Perplex'd Lovers

Event Comment: Note, The Author's Tickets that were given out for Monday will be taken this Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Perplex'd Lovers

Event Comment: The Boxes will be laid open to the Pit for this Day. Tickets 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Loves Of Baldo And Media

Music: Between the Acts: Concertos-

Dance: Four Scaramouches-; Dutch Skipper-; Miller and his Wife-

Event Comment: [In Daily Courant and Spectator, 2 Aug., The Guardian had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feign'd Innocence

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Song: A Dialogue between a drunken Rake and a Town Miss-Pack, Rainton

Dance: The last new Morrice Dance-Prince, others

Event Comment: [By Niccola Haym. Apparently never printed.] Colman's Opera Register: A new Pastorall Opera called Dorinda. The musick of this is taken out of Severall Italian operas by Nico Haym. In this Sigra Margarita had no part. The other Singers the same as in the former [The Faithful Shepherd], the Same Scene & Habits also & the same prices. It was performed 4 times on the opera days successively

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dorinda

Event Comment: Colman's Opera Register: March 24 they gave out in ye printed Bills they would revive ye Opera Rinaldo, but by some accident it was put off, & no Opera perform'd this Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

Event Comment: Benefit Penkethman. Written by Shakespear. N.B. The Tickets delivered out for The Trip to the Jubilee will be taken at this Play. [See Swift's Journal to Stella for the rehearsal of Cato at 10 a.m. on this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar