The London Stage Database team will be retiring the Legacy Search on May 1, 2025. Please take a moment before that date to reproduce any pre-2021 searches and export any resulting datasets you may wish to preserve for future use. We are making this change in order to free up computational resources for new features and data, currently in development with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Watch this space for more updates and, coming soon, new ways to keep up with the latest project developments!

13 December 1700

Event Information
Theatre: Drury Lane Theatre
Theatrical Season: 1700-1701
Volume: 2
Comments: London Post, 13-16 Dec.: There being a French Scaramouch Dance betwixt the second and third Acts, a certain Person went in a Frolick, Incognito, up into the upper Gallery, and so pelted the Dancers with Oranges, that they were forced to quit the Stage, and the Play-house was all in an Uproar; but some of the Auditory perceiving who threw them, cryed out, fling him down into the Pit, which so startled him, that he was forced to make the best of his way down Stairs; however, a Constable having been sent for in the mean time, he was secured. Preface to Ximena (1719): The Fop's Fortune lagg'd on the Fourth Day and only held up its Head by the Heels of the French Tumblers

Performance List

Event Downloads

JSON XML CSV

  • Your web browser doesn't have a PDF plugin. Instead, click here to download the PDF file

  • Original Data

    Source: London Stage Information Bank

    *p>?dl Love Makes a Man. see 9 Dec. *d>?dl End II: a <i>French Scaramouch</i>-. *c>?dl <i>London Post</i>, 13-16 Dec.: There being a <i>French Scaramouch Dance</i> betwixt the second and third Acts, a certain Person went in a Frolick, Incognito, up into the upper Gallery, and so pelted the Dancers with Oranges, that they were forced to quit the Stage, and the Play-house was all in an Uproar; but some of the Auditory perceiving who threw them, cryed out, fling him down into the Pit, which so startled him, that he was forced to make the best of his way down Stairs; however, a Constable having been sent for in the mean time, he was secured. Preface to <i>Ximena</i> (1719): <i>The Fop's Fortune</i> lagg'd on the Fourth Day and only held up its Head by the Heels of the <i>French Tumblers</i>.

  • Cleaned Data

    *p1700 12 13 dl Love Makes a Man. ^see17001209^.*d1700 12 13 dl End II: a <i>French Scaramouch</i>-.*c1700 12 13 dl <i>London Post</i>, 13-16 Dec.: There being a <i>French Scaramouch Dance</i> betwixt the second and third Acts, a certain Person went in a Frolick, Incognito, up into the upper Gallery, and so pelted the Dancers with Oranges, that they were forced to quit the Stage, and the Play-house was all in an Uproar; but some of the Auditory perceiving who threw them, cryed out, fling him down into the Pit, which so startled him, that he was forced to make the best of his way down Stairs; however, a Constable having been sent for in the mean time, he was secured. Preface to <i>Ximena</i> (1719): <i>The Fop's Fortune</i> lagg'd on the Fourth Day and only held up its Head by the Heels of the <i>French Tumblers</i>.

  • Parsed Data

    Event: 2374 | 17001213 | dl | <i>London Post</i>, 13-16 Dec.: There being a <i>French Scaramouch Dance</i> betwixt the second and third Acts, a certain Person went in a Frolick, Incognito, up into the upper Gallery, and so pelted the Dancers with Oranges, that they were forced to quit the Stage, and the Play-house was all in an Uproar; but some of the Auditory perceiving who threw them, cryed out, fling him down into the Pit, which so startled him, that he was forced to make the best of his way down Stairs; however, a Constable having been sent for in the mean time, he was secured. Preface to <i>Ximena</i> (1719): <i>The Fop's Fortune</i> lagg'd on the Fourth Day and only held up its Head by the Heels of the <i>French Tumblers</i>
    Performance: 2393 | 2374 | p | Love Makes A Man | see17001209.
    Performance: 2394 | 2374 | d | End II: a <i>French Scaramouch</i>-

Mainpiece

Title: Love Makes A Man
Comments:
see17001209.
Cast:
None Listed

Related Works

Publish Date: 1701
Author: Colley Cibber
Birth: 1671
Death: 1757

Dance

Comment: End II: a French Scaramouch-

Cite this page

Chicago:
MLA: