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Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Woollery. [As afterpiece the playbill announces A Beggar on Horseback, but "on account of Edwin's being unluckily hurt by a fall from his horse, the farce was changed to A Mogul Tale (General Advertiser, 15 July).] Morning Chronicle, 10 July: Tickets to be had of Miss Woollery, No. 5, Delahay-street, Westminster

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: Othello-Lacy; Cassio-Bannister Jun.; Brabantio-Aickin; Roderigo HAY R. Palmer; Duke-Gardner; Lodovico-Usher; Montano-Riley; Iago-Bensley; AEmilia-Mrs Bates; Desdemona-Miss Woollery .
Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Lacy
Role: Desdemona Actor: Miss Woollery

Afterpiece Title: A Mogul Tale

Cast
Role: Maria Actor: Miss Burnett
Role: The Mogul Actor: Williamson
Role: Zapphira Actor: Miss Brangin

Dance: As17860706

Event Comment: Morning Chronicle, 7 June: Foote caught cold on Wednesday last...Unwilling to disappoint the public [last night] he determined to play his part in The Devil upon Two Sticks, but, after he had ended the second act, was so much worse that he was obliged to retire...An apology was made to the audience, and Palmer undertook to read the remainder of Foote's part

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Cast
Role: Amelia Actor: Mrs Armstead. Edition of 1767 lists the other parts: +Sir William Douglas, Owen, La France, Officer, Servants.

Afterpiece Title: Lilliput

Event Comment: [In afterpiece the playbill retains Wood, but "As soon as the play was finished, Palmer stepped forward, and...informed the Audience that Wood was taken suddenly and dangerously ill, but in order to prevent the Company from being disappointed of the farce, R. Palmer had undertaken to perform the character of Bouquet at a few hours notice. After the usual Musick the farce commenced, and it is but justice to R. Palmer to declare that he acquitted himself much to his own credit and entirely to the satisfaction of the audience" (Morning Chronicle, 14 July).
Event Comment: Benefit for R. Palmer. The Public is respecfully inform'd that the Prelude of The Hop formerly advertised for Mr Palmer's Benefit is on a very particular account withdrawn from the Theatre. Oracle, 7 May: Tickets to be had of R. Palmer, No. 14, East Place, Lambeth. Receipts: #292 5s. 6d. (77.13.0; 30.15.6; 2.6.0; tickets: 181.11.0) (charge: #117 0s. 7d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Cast
Role: Lady Emily Actor: Miss Farren
Role: Miss Alscrip Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Miss Alton Actor: Mrs Crouch

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Cast
Role: Nelly Actor: Miss Hagley
Role: Grandmother Actor: Mrs Booth.

Entertainment: Monologue. End: The Picture of a Play@House, or, Bucks have at ye all-R. Palmer

Performance Comment: End: The Picture of a Play@House, or, Bucks have at ye all-R. Palmer.
Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Account-Book: The Proprietors made Palmer a present of Mrs Siddons's [charge for] playing this Night, #20. Morning Chronicle, 1 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Palmer, No. 12. New Lisle-street, Leicester-square. Receipts: #473 5s. (284.15; 54.14; 4.14; tickets: 129.2) (charge: #231 11s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Related Works
Related Work: The Fatal Marriage Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Fatal Marriage; or, The Innocent Adultery Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

Cast
Role: Lady Autumn Actor: Miss Tidswell
Role: Hannah Actor: Miss Heard

Song: As17941011

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Collins's Ode on the Passions-Palmer

Performance Comment: End: Collins's Ode on the Passions-Palmer.
Event Comment: The Fop's Fortune oblig'd to be deferr'd. Paid Woodward for 2 hats, a Tambour Waist-coat & a pair of Buckskin Breeches #7 2s. 6d. Paid Palmer (wax chandler's) bill #90 6s., and Pattinson (tallow chandler's) bill #34 14s. Paid Mrs Rich@&@Co. for half years rent for the House in Bow Passage due Mich. last #20 (Account Book). Receipts: #106 19s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Performance Comment: Young Mirabel-Smith; Old Mirabel-Shuter; Duretete-Woodward; Dugard-Gardner; Petit-Cushing; Oriana-Mrs Lessingham; Lamorce-Miss Ogilvie; Bizarre-Miss Macklin.
Cast
Role: Lamorce Actor: Miss Ogilvie
Role: Bizarre Actor: Miss Macklin.

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Dance: IV: The Merry Sailors, as17721012

Monologue: 1772 11 12 Before: (By particular desire) New Occasional Prelude. As 27 Oct

Event Comment: Benefit for the City of London Lying-In Hospital, Corner of the City Road in Old Street. Tickets deliver'd for the Clandestine Marriage, and the 22nd instant will be taken. Charges: #81 5s. Profit to Hospital #23 6s., plus #111 14s. from tickets (Box 293; Pit 171; Gallery 128). Paid Palmer (wax chandler) #144 8s. Receipts: #104 11s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Performance Comment: Young Mirabel-Smith; Old Mirabel-Shuter; Duretete-Woodward; Dugard-Gardner; Petit-Cushing; Oriana-Mrs Lessingham; Lamorce-Miss Ogilvie; Bizarre-Miss Macklin.
Cast
Role: Lamorce Actor: Miss Ogilvie
Role: Bizarre Actor: Miss Macklin.

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Cast
Role: Commissary Actor: Quick
Role: Dolly Actor: Miss Helme
Role: Jenny Actor: Miss Pearce

Dance: III: The Old Ground Young, as17731208

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years [acted 18 Jan. 1782]. [In afterpiece the playbill retains Edwin, but "At the conclusion of the play an apology was made for Edwin's non-appearance, owing to indisposition, and Palmer and Meadows announced as his substitutes in the two songs in Omai" (Morning Post, 6 Feb.).] Receipts: #231 15s. (229/7; 2/8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Performance Comment: Lord Townly-Pope (1st appearance in that character); Squire Richard-Quick; Manly-Farren; Lady Grace-Mrs Bannister; Lady Wronghead-Mrs Bates; Miss Jenny-Mrs Wilson; Myrtilla-Mrs Lewis; Mrs Motherly-Miss Platt; Lady Townly-Mrs Warren .
Cast
Role: Miss Jenny Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Miss Platt
Event Comment: [This was Baddeley's last appearance on the stage (see 19 Nov.).] Powell: R. Palmer Ill, Benson Trip [as in playbill]; Banks Servt to Joseph Surface for Benson. School for Lovers rehearsed at 10; Mithridates at 12 [but this play not acted at this or any other London theatre between 1738 and 1800], Receipts: #329 1s. (259.0.6; 68.9.0; 1.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Performance Comment: Sir Peter Teazle-King; Sir Oliver Surface-Aickin; Sir Benjamin Backbite-Dodd; Joseph Surface-Barrymore; Charles Surface-Wroughton; Crabtree-Parsons; Careless-Dignum; Snake-Phillimore; Rowley-Packer; Moses-Baddeley; Trip-Benson; Lady Teazle-Miss Farren; Lady Sneerwell-Mrs Goodall; Mrs Candour-Miss Pope; Maria-Mrs Kemble; Maid-Mrs Heard.
Cast
Role: Lady Teazle Actor: Miss Farren
Role: Mrs Candour Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Cast
Role: Sir Matthew Medley Actor: Maddocks
Role: Charlotte Actor: Miss DeCamp

Song: III: a song-Sedgwick

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. No Building on Stage. Leon by Powell (Hopkins). Leon by Mr Powell-Queer enough-Not above charges in the House (Hopkins Diary-MacMillan). Receipts: #61 4s. (MacMillan); charges: #64 4s. [Deficit to Palmer: #3.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

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: The Provancalle, as17631014; End: The Irish Lilt, as17630922

Event Comment: Benefit for King. House charges #76 10s. [Profit to King #55 14s.] Paid Master Burney 15 nights #3 2s. 6d. Printer's bill #9 6s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #132 4s. (Treasurer's Book). At 5 went to the Pit at Drury Lane to see the Clandestine Marriage...I could see this play, as it is now performed, every night, but J. Palmer was not so good in Brush as the other Mr Palmer whose character it is. Plym did not please tonight. The scene between the lawyers was omitted. We had the Irish Lilt by Mrs King, Giorgi, &c., and a comic scene by her and M Dugermay, with Linco's Travels...Mrs King is certainly a very fine dancer and has the best legs I ever saw. Past eleven ere we got out. A little girl of 7 or 8 years old danced very prettily (Neville MS Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Fairy Actor: Miss Rogers
Role: Queen Actor: Miss Ford

Dance: I: The Irish Lilt-Giorgi, Mrs King; End: A Comic Dance-Duquesney, Mrs King

Entertainment: LLinco's Travels-King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Cast
Role: Maria Actor: Miss Mills

Dance: End: A Double Hornpipe, as17670511

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Palmer. The Entertainment, a New Poetical Interlude (never perform'd there) Alter'd from Prior's Nut Brown Maid, by Mr Bates, With a New Air and Chorus. Music by Dr Arne. Receipts: #203 12s. Charges: #68 2s. 6d. Profits to Palmer: #13 9s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Cast
Role: Mariana Actor: Miss Hopkins
Role: Juliet Actor: Miss Platt

Dance: The Sailors Revels, as17740920

Monologue: End of Play: Henry and Emma. Henry-Brereton; Eugenius-Palmer; Venus-Mrs Smith; Emma-Mrs Baddeley

Event Comment: [Henderson's 1st appearance on the stage was as Hamlet, at Bath, 6 Oct. 1772. In I.iv "after the short ejaculation of 'Angels and ministers of grace, defend us!' he endeavoured to conquer that fear and terror into which he was naturally thrown by the first sight of the vision, and uttered the remainder of the address calmly, but respectfully, and with a firm tone of voice, as from one who had subdued his timidity and apprehension" (Davies, III, 30). "Palmer's Ghost would have been more in character had he given less into the rant of declamation and the bustle of stage action, which accord not with our ideas of a supernatural being; his crying, likewise, at the recital of his murder, was childish, and destroyed the solemnity of the scene' (Morning Post, 27 June).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Related Works
Related Work: Polly Honeycomb Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Cast
Role: Fidget Actor: Miss Hale
Role: Amelia Actor: Miss Harper

Afterpiece Title: The Tailors

Cast
Role: Timotheus Actor: Stevens
Role: Dorothea Actor: Mrs Jewell

Entertainment: Monologue. End: The Picture of a Playhouse; or, Bucks have at ye all-Palmer

Performance Comment: End: The Picture of a Playhouse; or, Bucks have at ye all-Palmer.
Event Comment: [In afterpiece the playbill retains Dodd, but he "having lost his Father, an apology was made for R. Palmer's playing his character in the Critic; and though the apology was a very handsome one, it is but justice to say it was unnecessary, R. Palmer acquitting himself in such a manner as did him infinite credit" (Morning Chronicle, 4 Feb.).] Receipts: #186 8s. (151.1; 33.19; 1.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Cast
Role: Lady Lambert Actor: Miss Sherry
Related Works
Related Work: Tartuffe; or, The French Puritan Author(s): Matthew Medbourne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Cast
Role: Marwood Actor: Miss Sherry
Role: Foible Actor: Miss Pope

Dance: End III: As17791122

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Palmer (the Lady who perform'd Calista). [Mainpiece: Prologue by Thomas Baker.] No Person to be admitted without a ticket, which may be had of Mrs Palmer, No. 13 Pierpont-Row; at the King's Head Tavern in the upper-Street; and at the place of Performance. [The date of the performance of The Fair Penitent, of which play Calista is the heroine, has not as yet come to light.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Related Works
Related Work: The Deuce is in Him Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

Cast
Role: Bridget Actor: Miss Wheeler
Role: Nancy Actor: Miss Phillips

Dance: As17840311athi

Event Comment: "We have been frequently displeased at [Palmer's] noisy extravagance of acting in many of his tragic parts, but in none more than in the character of Dionysius in that patched-up pantomimic drama entitled The Grecian Daughter" (Candid Strictures, pp. 6-7). Receipts: #279 16s. (249/8/0; 28/0/6; 1/12/6; tickets not come in: 0/15/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performance Comment: Don Diego-Bannister; Leander-Williames; Mungo-Suett; Ursula-Mrs Love; Leonora-Miss Phillips .
Cast
Role: Leonora Actor: Miss Phillips

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion, Ladies are desired to send their Servants at half past Four o'Clock. Public Advertiser, 10 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Palmer, Kentish Town. Receipts #322 8s. 6d. (151.11.0; 8.2.0; 0.3.6; tickets: 162.12.0) (charge: #66 4s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Related Works
Related Work: The Fatal Marriage Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Fatal Marriage; or, The Innocent Adultery Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Cast
Role: Ismene Actor: Miss Romanzini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Related Works
Related Work: Inkle and Yarico Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Event Comment: [The playbill assigns Joseph Surface to Palmer, but "Palmer at a late hour sent word that he was unable to attend to his Business this Evening, in consequence of which a messenger was dispatch'd after Mr Barrymore to play Joseph Surface, but he could not be found, Mr Benson was therefore sent for, who, after having an apology made for him, play'd the Part. Banks play'd Surface's Servant " (Powell: Trip to Scarborough rehearsed at 10; Measure at 12. Receipts: #252 16s. (172.13.0; 77.9.6; 2.13.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Lady Teazle Actor: Miss Farren
Role: Mrs Candour Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Cast
Role: Louisa Actor: Miss DeCamp

Song: As17941112

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble as Macbeth, Wroughton as Banquo, and Palmer as Macduff, but "The Publick are respectfully informed that Mr Kemble being confined by Indisposition...Macbeth will be performed by Palmer, Macduff by Wroughton, Banquo by Packer" (printed slip attached to Kemble playbill). No mention is made of the Physician, but Jones was Packer's usual substitute in this part. See 11 Apr. 1796.] Receipts: #218 11s. 6d. (153.14.6; 61.11.6; 3.5.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: Gentlewoman Actor: Miss Tidswell.

Afterpiece Title: The Adopted Child

Cast
Role: Clara Actor: Miss Leak
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss DeCamp
Role: Jannette Actor: Miss Tidswell