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Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or, Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: The Naval Pillar

Dance: As17991007

Song: In afterpiece: As17991011

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

Dance: [By] 6 Companies of Rope Dancers; who] [are joyned in one, they being the greatest Performers of Men, Women, and Children, that could be found beyond the Seas, where will be performed such wonderful variety of Dancing, Vaulting, Walking on the Slack Rope, the Sloaping Rope-; [you will see a wonderful Girl of 10 years of Age, who walk backward up the sloaping Rope-Girl of 10 years[, driving a Wheel-barrow behind her; [also you will see the Great Italian Master, who not only passes all that has yet been seen upon the low Rope, [but he Dances[ without a Pole upon the Head of a Mast [as high as the Booth will permit, and afterwards stands upon his Head on the same-Great Italian Master; [You will also be entertained with the many Conceits of an Italian Scaramouch, who Dances on the Rope [with 2 Children and a Dog in a Wheel-barrow, and a Duck on his Head-Italian Scaramouch

Dance: Such variety of Dancing, Vaulting, Walking on the Slack/Rope, Tumbling, as has never been seen in this Fair before-

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the best Performers; Particularly several select Entertainments out of the following English Operas: The Fairy Queen, King Arthur, The Indian Queen, Dioclesian, with the Masque in Timon of Athens; all by that great Master the late Mr Henry Purcell-

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Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Queans: With the odd Humours of little Alexander the Great

Dance: I: Punch-Master Ferg; II: A new Sailor's Dance-Phillips; III: Dance of Turks-Muilment; End I Afterpiece: Pierrots-Pelling, Vallois; II: Drunken Peasant (for the Entertainment of Alexander)-Phillips; III: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

Song: IV: See from the Silent Groves-Beard

Music: H$Handel's Water Musick-; with Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Woodbridge, his first appearance here

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Queens; or, Death of Alexander the Little

Dance: II: Blind Man's Buff, as17641003

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander; Or, The Rival Queens

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: As17670729 but Italian Peasant-Dulm ($Neville)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Catch Club [i

Afterpiece Title: Gretna Green

Afterpiece Title: Look before You Leap

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Entertainment: Monologue End 1st piece: George Alexander Stevens's Original Lecture on Heads (Head of Alexander the Great, Head of a Cherokee Chief, Head of a Quack-Doctor, Cuckold's Head, Nobody's Head, The laughing and crying Philosophers' Heads, Head of Flattery, A fine Lady's Head, Head of an Old Maid, Cleopatra's Head, Plain Moll's Head, Head of a Married Lady)-Palmer

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Mainpiece Title: England Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Sailor; or, Little Bob and Little Ben

Dance: In afterpiece: Triple Hornpipe-Blurton, Mrs Watts, Mlle St.Amand

Song: End: Interlude of Songs, Glees, and Chorusses: With a jolly full Bottle, Great Britain still her Charter boasts, The Wooden Walls, Queen Betty was a famous Queen, To arms to arms-Incledon, Johnstone, Townsend, Linton, Gray, Street, Lee, Curties, Blurton, Wilde

Entertainment: Monologues. Preceding: An Occasional Prologue-Holman; Preceding singing: An Address to the Audience (instead of Epilogue)-Pope

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Mr Abell's new Consort of English Musick-; [composed on the Royal Subject [the Queen's Coronation]: With other Songs in several Languages-; accompanied-the greatest Masters [of Instrumental Musick

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: A great Consort of Musick-; several new songs-Mr Elford, Mr Weldon all compos'd on purpose for this Entertainment by the said Mr Weldon; Some of the Songs to be accompanied by a Flute-Mr Peasable; and a new Symphony for a Flute and a Violin-Mr Peasable, the Famous Signior Gasparini; who will perform several Italian Sonatas-Mr Peasable; accompanied-Mr Depar; and other great Symphonies-the best Masters

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Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens; Or, The Death Of Mary, Queen Of Scotland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Song: Songs by Henry Purcell-Leveridge

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music Essential to the Play-

Dance: duRuel, Mrs duRuel, Cherrier, others

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens; Or, The Death Of Mary Queen Of Scotland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Song: With all the Comical Songs and Dialogues that were perform'd in Wonders in the Sun-; particularly the Fop Song-Pack in Imitation of Italian

Dance: Dances-

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Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth; With The Divorce Of Queen Katherine, The Fall Of Cardinal Wolsey, And The Birth Of Queen Elizabeth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Several Celebrated Songs, Comic Dialogues by the late Mr Henry Purcel, other great English Masters, for 1, 2 and 3 voices; the whole, as it will be perform'd, and by whom, in our great Bills to which we refer-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queen's

Dance: The diverting Italian Night Scene- between a Scaramouch, a Harlequin, a Cooper, his Wife, and others, as it was performed at dl with general Applause

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens; Or, The Death Of Mary, Queen Of Scotland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens; Or, The Death Of Mary Queen Of Scots