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1575 results for: Keyword - the English
We found 2299 matches on Roles/Actors, 488 matches on Performance Title, 389 matches on Event Comments, 258 matches on Performance Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

651
24 May 1736 @ Chelsea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Death Of Julius Caesar (in French)

Afterpiece Title: The Forced Marriage (in English)

Performance Comment: By the young Gentlemen of Mr L'Herondell's Boarding School in Church-Street, Chelsea .
Cast
Role: By the young Gentlemen of Mr L'Herondell's Boardin Actor: Street, Chelsea

652
25 May 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Livery Rake and Country Lass

Music: Select Pieces between the Acts, composed by Arne, particularly the March in Zara

Dance: I: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. II: Scot's Dance by Mr and Mrs Davenport. III: Drunken Peasant by Phillips. IV: Minuet by Villeneuve and Mrs Anderson. V: Grand Ballet by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c

Song:

653
26 May 1736 @ Chelsea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Death Of Julius Caesar (in French)

Afterpiece Title: The Forced Marriage (in English)

Performance Comment: By the young Gentlemen of Mr L'Herondell's Boarding School .

654
28 May 1736 @ Chelsea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Death Of Julius Caesar (in French)

Afterpiece Title: The Forced Marriage (in English)

Performance Comment: By the young Gentlemen of Mr L'Herondell's Boarding School .

655
02 June 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mother-1n-law

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: I: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. III: Drunken Peasant by Phillips. V: Grand Ballet by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c

656
04 August 1736 @ Tottenham Court

Event Comment: The New Theatre by the Pound. [From 4 Aug. to 20 Aug. At 1 P.M. and end at Nine. Sometimes it is called Jones' and Lacey's Company. For a puff, see Daily Advertiser, 9 Aug.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth; Or, The Conquest Of France By The English: [in It] A Ballad Opera, Call'd The Amorous Old Widow; Or, I Must Have A Comforter: With The Comical Humours Of The Rival Cowards; Or, The Whimsical Lovers

Performance Comment: The Characters to be perform'd by Poet Fustian, and the Mayor of Pasquin, and his Brethren .

Music: By a Band of Musick just arriv'd from Naples [9 Aug. and afterwards.]

657
22 October 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: I: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; III: Drunken Peasant-Philips; V: Rover-Essex, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann

658
25 October 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: I: English Maggot, as17361022; II: Comic Dance-Philips, Mrs Anderson; V: Rover, as17361022

659
28 October 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. With all the Scenes, Habits, and Decorations proper to the Play. Afterpiece: Taken from the French of Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Music: Comic Medley Overture composed by Charke-

Dance: I: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; III: Polonese-Essex, Mrs Walter; V: Last new Grand Ballet-Denoyer, Mlle Roland

660
29 October 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Greenwich Park; Or, The Merry Citizens

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Dance: I: Dutchman and Frow-Philips, Miss Brett; III: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; IV: Rover-Essex, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann

661
30 October 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Music: Select Pieces-

Dance: I: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; II: Rover, as17361029; V: Drunken Peasant-Philips

662
02 November 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Mr Dryden. Daily Advertiser, 2 Nov.: The Director of [dl] has resolv'd, for the future, to suffer no living Persons to be concern'd in any Flights, or hazardoUs Machinery, but to have Figures made for that Purpose

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar; Or, The Double Discovery

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trick'd

Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd Author(s): Lewis Theobald

Dance: II: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; II: Revellers-Essex, Mrs Walter

663
03 November 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trick'd

Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd Author(s): Lewis Theobald

Dance: I: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; III: Revellers-Essex, Mrs Walter

664
06 November 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Dance: I: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; II: Tambourine-Mlle Roland; IV: Flight-Essex, Mrs Walter

665
08 November 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: I: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; III: Drunken Peasant-Philips; V: Flight-Essex, Mrs Walter

666
10 November 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: III: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; V: Dutchman and his Frow-Philips, Miss Brett

667
12 November 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Taken from the French of Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mother-in-law; Or, The Doctor's The Disease

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: III: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; V: Revellers-Essex, Mrs Walter

668
17 November 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit of a Person lately a Merchant. At the Desire of several Eminent Merchants in the City

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: I: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; III: Rover-Essex, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann; V: Flight-Essex, Mrs Walter

669
20 November 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Dance: II: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; III: Muilment

670
29 November 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these Twenty-Five Years [but see dl, 19 July 1720]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ignoramus; Or, The English Lawyer

Performance Comment: Ignoramus-Rosco; Thodore-Lyon; Antonio-Havard; Torcol-Norris; Pyropus-W. Giffard; Dulman-Hewitt; Pecus-Yates; Trico-Woodward; Dorothea-Mrs Haughton; Rosabella-Mrs Hamilton; Surda-Miss Tollett; Polla-Mrs Roberts; Cupes-Penkethman.
Cast
Role: Dorothea Actor: Mrs Haughton

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

671
09 December 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: III: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; IV: Black Joak-Philips, Miss Mann

672
10 December 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve, [For Occasional Prompter III, see Daily Journal, 10 Dec.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trick'd

Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd Author(s): Lewis Theobald

Dance: In III: Black Joak-Philips, Miss Mann; V: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter

673
17 December 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat. Daily Advertiser, 18 Dec.: Yesterday at about Six in the Morning died Mr John Mills, a celebrated Comedian, after an Illness of ten or twelve Days: The last Time of his appearing upon the Stage was on Saturday se'nnight last, in the Character of the sick King in the second Part of Henry IV

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: I: Black Joak-Philips, Miss Mann; II: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter

674
22 December 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. [For Occasional Prompter VI, see Daily Journal, 22 Dec.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Cast
Role: With a New Burlesque Tragi Actor: Comic-Farcical Interlude: Tiddi@Doll, Director of the Gingerbread Company-Master Green
Role: Comic Actor: Farcical Interlude: Tiddi@Doll, Director of the Gingerbread Company-Master Green
Role: Director of the Gingerbread Company Actor: Master Green

Dance: II: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; III: Muilment

675
05 January 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: with a Hornpipe Actor: Phillips, others.

Dance: I: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; II: Muilment