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18170 results for: Keyword - the Sir Williams
We found 11787 matches on Author, 6982 matches on Performance Comments, 1316 matches on Event Comments, 1129 matches on Roles/Actors, and 512 matches on Performance Title.

3576
15 January 1672 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, Plays on the English Stage, p. 19

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pompey

Related Works
Related Work: Pompey Author(s): Sir Charles Sedley
Related Work: Pompey the Great Author(s): Sir Charles Sedley

3577
28 March 1672 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 2 (see also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347); for the dating of this performance, see the discussion under 9 March 1671@2

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pompey

Related Works
Related Work: Pompey Author(s): Sir Charles Sedley
Related Work: Pompey the Great Author(s): Sir Charles Sedley

3578
20 April 1672 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 2. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Adventures Of Five Hours

Related Works
Related Work: The Adventures of Five Hours Author(s): Sir Samuel Tuke

3579
17 August 1672 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 2: Loue in a Tubb. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge Or Love In A Tub

Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege

3580
31 January 1674 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 216. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 348

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Adventures Of Five Hours

Related Works
Related Work: The Adventures of Five Hours Author(s): Sir Samuel Tuke

3581
October 1674 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sophy

Related Works
Related Work: The Sophy Author(s): Sir John Denham

3582
30 December 1674 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 216.See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 348

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Would If She Could

Related Works
Related Work: She Would If She Could Author(s): Sir George Etherege

3583
10 May 1675 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 215. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 345. There is no certainty that this is the premiere, but it or the preceding Saturday may well be, since Sophonisba seems to have dominated the preceding week

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In The Dark Or The Man Of Busness

Related Works
Related Work: Love in the Dark; or, The Man of Bus'ness Author(s): Sir Francis Fane

3584
11 November 1675 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 345

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Related Works
Related Work: The Committee Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Related Work: The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

3585
February 1676 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attened a performance of this play, probably in February 1676, See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Would If She Could

Related Works
Related Work: She Would If She Could Author(s): Sir George Etherege

3586
18 April 1676 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@142, p. 81: At the Man of Mode and Box for the Mayds of Honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 348

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Related Works
Related Work: The Man of Mode; or, Sir Fopling Flutter Author(s): Sir George Etherege

3587
26 October 1676 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p.408

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Adventures Of Five Hours

Related Works
Related Work: The Adventures of Five Hours Author(s): Sir Samuel Tuke

3588
12 February 1677 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@142, p. 81. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 348. The play has a musical setting by Jeremiah Clarke. There is no certainty that this date represents the premiere, but a certain performance on 14 Feb. 1676@7 suggests that this performance on 12 Feb. 1676@7 is part of the initial run. Very probably the play was repeated on 13 Feb. 1676@7

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antony And Cleopatra

Related Works
Related Work: Antony and Cleopatra Author(s): Sir Charles Sedley

3589
13 February 1677 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antony And Cleopatra

Related Works
Related Work: Antony and Cleopatra Author(s): Sir Charles Sedley

3590
14 February 1677 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The Diary of Robert Hooke: Grace and Tom at Play Antony and Cleopatra

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antony And Cleopatra

Related Works
Related Work: Antony and Cleopatra Author(s): Sir Charles Sedley

3591
27 January 1680 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: It is not certain that this performance was given by the King's Company, but because it first produced the play, it has been assigned to Drury Lane. Pepys, Diary: Tuesday January the 27th...comeing home at night (after I had carryed my Cozen Winn Houblon home from a Play (shee would if she could). [Mornamont MS II, folio 1192, Cambridge University Library.] See also Arthur Bryant, Samuel Pepys: Years of Peril (New York, 1935), p. 314

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Would If She Could

Related Works
Related Work: She Would If She Could Author(s): Sir George Etherege

3592
27 February 1680 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This is another in the series of Court performances in L. C. 5@145, p. 120. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350, and 11 Feb. 1679@80. It should be noted that not only is this date a Friday in Lent but it is also during the period of mourning for the Princess Elizabeth. Yet to place this performance in 1681 would make it fall on Sunday

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Would If She Could

Related Works
Related Work: She Would If She Could Author(s): Sir George Etherege

3593
30 December 1685 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350. Peregrine Bertie to the Countess of Rutland, 31 Dec. 1685: Yesterday was acted The Committee. The King and Queen were there and all the whole Court went to see it, but coming a little after it was begun [I] could not get any roome (HMC, 12th Report, Appendix, Rutland MSS., Part V, Vol. II, p. 100). Bridget Noel to the Countess of Rutland, ca. 6 Jan. 1685@6: [Last Wednesday] my Lady Exeter engaged us to goe to a play with her...which was a Commity. The King and Queen was at it, and the house as full as ever I saw it (ibid.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Related Works
Related Work: The Committee Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Related Work: The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

3594
02 February 1686 @ Inner Temple

Event Comment: The United Company. The players received the customary fee of #20. See A Calendar of Inner Temple Records, III, 238

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Related Works
Related Work: The Committee Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Related Work: The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

3595
08 April 1686 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 125: The King & Queene & a Box for ye Maydes of honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Related Works
Related Work: The Committee Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Related Work: The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

3596
17 November 1686 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 260. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Related Works
Related Work: The Committee Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Related Work: The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

3597
01 February 1687 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. Lord Ashburnham's Diary: I went to the Play, (The Committee) [Ashburnham MS 932; see 14 Dec. 1686]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Related Works
Related Work: The Committee Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Related Work: The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

3598
28 November 1689 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. A somewhat puzzling entry in the Reverend Robert Kirk's description of London in 1689 implies a performance of The Committee undertaken but not completed: At a play in Whitehall King Charles, his trage-comedy, when the actors were come to that part of seducing King Charles II, some Williamites in the pit below hissed at it (as if the play had meant the like of King James in Ireland). At this there sprang such huzzas and holloes above applauding that part of the play, that it was in a confusion, and they durst pursue it no further, lest the two parties made violence one upon another. Two or three noblemen were remarked to be forward in the acclamations of joy, and therefore are looked on as Jacobites. The Play's name is The Committee, November 28, 1689 (Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archeological Society, New Series, VI, 655)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Related Works
Related Work: The Committee Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Related Work: The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

3599
April 1695 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: Christopher Rich's Company. The date of this revival is not certain. Apparently the revival was in preparation before the division of the company, but the publication of the Songs in 1695 confines the production to the period between mid-April and the late autumn. For the opera, see The Works of John Dryden, Vol. VIII: The Plays, edited by John Harrington Smith and Dougald MacMillan (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1692), pp. 325-30; Moore, Henry Purcell and the Restoration Theatre, Chapter VI;and Purcell's Works, Purcell Society, Vol. XIX. The Songs (1695), the music by Henry Purcell, lists the following pieces and singers: I, Wake, wake, Quivera, sung by Freeman. I, Why shou'd men quarrel, sung by The Boy, with Flutes. Their looks are such that mercy flows, sung by Freeman. II, I come to sing, sung by Freeman. Scorn'd Envy here's nothing, sung by Freeman. Begone, curst Feinds of Hell, sung by Freeman. III, Ah, how happy we are, sung by Freeman and Church. I attempt from Love's sickness to fly, sung by Mrs Cross. IV, They tell us that you mighty powers above, sung by Mrs Cross. In addition, other parts of the opera appeared elsewhere: Act V, a Masque, set by Daniel Purcell, O Bless the Genial Bed with chast delights, in Deliciae Musicae, First Book of the Second Volume, 1696. [The others, since they do not name the performers, are omitted here.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Queen

Performance Comment: BM Add. Mss. 31,449, contains a cast (possibly a proposed cast): The Ynca of Peru-Mills; Montezuma-Powell; Acacis-Harland; Garrucca-Disney; God of Dreams-Bowen; Ismeron-Leveridge; Zempoalla-Mrs Knight?; Orazia-Mrs Rogers; Prologue-Indian Boy and Girl; Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: The Ynca of Peru Actor: Mills
Related Works
Related Work: The Indian Queen Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

3600
09 December 1695 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: It is not known in which theatre this revival occurred. It was witnessed by van Constantijn Huygens, Monday 19 Dec. 1695 N.S. [translation]: In the afternoon I was at the comedy with my wife and Mrs Creitsmar. They played an old show called: The Love in the Tubb (Publications of the Dutch Historical Society, New Series, XXV [Utrecht, 1877], 560)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Tub

Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege