London Stage Event: 09 December 1692 at Drury Lane Theatre

09 December 1692

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Theatre: Drury Lane Theatre

Theatrical Season: 1692-1693

Volume: 1

Comments: The United Company. On this evening William Mountfort, the actor, was killed by Lord Mohun and Captain Hill, but the name of the play given that night seems not to have been mentioned in the testimony at the trial. In a novel based on the event, The Player's Tragedy; or, Fatal Love (1693), Mrs Bracegirdle acted the Wife of Essex in The Unhappy Favourite, and the fiction may have been based on fact. Luttrell, A Brief Relation, II, 637, 10 Dec. 1692: Last night lord Mohun, captain Hill of collonel Earles regiment, and others, pursued Mountfort the actor from the playhouse to his lodgings in Norfolk Street, where one kist him while Hill run him thro' the belly: they ran away, but his lordship was this morning seized and committed to prison. Mountfort died of nis wounds this afternoon. The quarrell was about Bracegirdle the actresse, whom they would have trapan'd away, but Mountfort prevented it, wherefore they murthered him thus. [See also HMC, 14th Report, Appendix, Portland MSS., III, 509; The Ladies Lamentation for their Adonis, 16@2, a poem on Mountfort's death; The Player's Tragedy; or, Fatal Love, 1693, a fictional treatment of the affair; and, particularly, Borgman, The Life and Death of William Mountfort, pp. 123-69. See also Cibber, Apology, I, 108, for an account of Betterton's taking the role of Alexander after Mountfort's death.

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*p2?dl The Unhappy Favourite; or, The Earl of Essex. Countess of Essex-Mrs Bracegirdle. *c2?dl The United Company. On this evening $William Mountfort=, the actor, was killed by $Lord Mohun= and $Captain Hill=, but the name of the play given that night seems not to have been mentioned in the testimony at the trial. In a novel based on the event, The Player's Tragedy; or, Fatal Love (1693), $Mrs Bracegirdle= acted the Wife of Essexr in The Unhappy Favourite, and the fiction may have been based on fact. $Luttrell=, A Brief Relation, II, 637, 10 Dec. 1692: Last night lord Mohun, captain Hill of $collonel Earle=s regiment, and others, pursued $Mountfort= the actor from the playhouse to his lodgings in Norfolk Street, where one kist him while Hill run him thro' the belly: they ran away, but his lordship was this morning seized and committed to prison. Mountfort died of nis wounds this afternoon. The quarrell was about $Bracegirdle= the actresse, whom they would have trapan'd away, but Mountfort prevented it, wherefore they murthered him thus. [See also HMC, 14th Report, Appendix, Portland MSS., III, 509; The Ladies Lamentation for their Adonis, 16@2, a poem on Mountfort's death; The Player's Tragedy; or, Fatal Love, 1693, a fictional treatment of the affair; and, particularly, $Borgman=, The Life and Death of William Mountfort, pp. 123-69. See also Cibber, Apology, I, 108, for an account of $Betterton='s taking the role of Alexander after Mountfort's death.]
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*p1692 12 09 dl The Unhappy Favourite; or, The Earl of Essex. Countess of Essex-Mrs Bracegirdle.*c1692 12 09 dl The United Company. On this evening $William Mountfort=, the actor, was killed by $Lord Mohun= and $Captain Hill=, but the name of the play given that night seems not to have been mentioned in the testimony at the trial. In a novel based on the event, The Player's Tragedy; or, Fatal Love (1693), $Mrs Bracegirdle= acted the Wife of Essexr in The Unhappy Favourite, and the fiction may have been based on fact. $Luttrell=, A Brief Relation, II, 637, 10 Dec. 1692: Last night lord Mohun, captain Hill of $collonel Earle=s regiment, and others, pursued $Mountfort= the actor from the playhouse to his lodgings in Norfolk Street, where one kist him while Hill run him thro' the belly: they ran away, but his lordship was this morning seized and committed to prison. Mountfort died of nis wounds this afternoon. The quarrell was about $Bracegirdle= the actresse, whom they would have trapan'd away, but Mountfort prevented it, wherefore they murthered him thus. [See also HMC, 14th Report, Appendix, Portland MSS., III, 509; The Ladies Lamentation for their Adonis, 16@2, a poem on Mountfort's death; The Player's Tragedy; or, Fatal Love, 1693, a fictional treatment of the affair; and, particularly, $Borgman=, The Life and Death of William Mountfort, pp. 123-69. See also Cibber, Apology, I, 108, for an account of $Betterton='s taking the role of Alexander after Mountfort's death.]
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Event: 1867 | 16921209 | dl | The United Company. On this evening $William Mountfort=, the actor, was killed by $Lord Mohun= and $Captain Hill=, but the name of the play given that night seems not to have been mentioned in the testimony at the trial. In a novel based on the event, The Player's Tragedy; or, Fatal Love (1693), $Mrs Bracegirdle= acted the Wife of Essex in The Unhappy Favourite, and the fiction may have been based on fact. $Luttrell=, A Brief Relation, II, 637, 10 Dec. 1692: Last night lord Mohun, captain Hill of $collonel Earle=s regiment, and others, pursued $Mountfort= the actor from the playhouse to his lodgings in Norfolk Street, where one kist him while Hill run him thro' the belly: they ran away, but his lordship was this morning seized and committed to prison. Mountfort died of nis wounds this afternoon. The quarrell was about $Bracegirdle= the actresse, whom they would have trapan'd away, but Mountfort prevented it, wherefore they murthered him thus. [See also HMC, 14th Report, Appendix, Portland MSS., III, 509; The Ladies Lamentation for their Adonis, 16@2, a poem on Mountfort's death; The Player's Tragedy; or, Fatal Love, 1693, a fictional treatment of the affair; and, particularly, $Borgman=, The Life and Death of William Mountfort, pp. 123-69. See also Cibber, Apology, I, 108, for an account of $Betterton='s taking the role of Alexander after Mountfort's death.

Performance: 1872 | 1867 | p | The Unhappy Favourite; Or, The Earl Of Essex | Countess of Essex-Mrs Bracegirdle.
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3195 | 1872 | Countess of Essex | Mrs Bracegirdle.

09 December 1692

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