*p1774 11 19 cg The Winter's Tale. Leontes-Melmoth; Clown-Woodward; Old Shepherd-Clarke; Autolicus-Quick; Florizel-Lewis; Polixenes-Bensley; Hermione-Mrs Melmoth; Perdita (with the <i>Sheep Sheering Song</i>)-the Lady who performed Indiana [$Mrs Armstead=].*a1774 11 19 cg The Druids Masque. Characters-Mattocks, Reinhold, DuBellamy, Fox, Mas. Loader, Mas. George, Miss Dayes, Mrs Baker, Mrs Ogilvie, Mrs Willems, Miss Brown, Pantomime Characters-Lee Lewes, Fearon, Banks, Cushing, Holingsworth, Thompson, Mrs Pitt, Mrs Whitefield, Mrs White, Miss Wilde; The <i>Dances</i>-Aldridge, Helm, Harris, Blurton, Miss Valois, Mrs Stephens, Mas. Holland, Mas. Scriver, Miss Armstrong, Daiguville, Sga Vidini; Bridegroom-Mattocks; 1st Druid-Reinhold; 1st Shepherd-DuBellamy; 2nd Shepherd-Fox; Hymen-Mas. George; Cupid-Mas. Loader; Speaking Druid-Booth; Bride-Miss Dayes; Venus and Pastoral Nymph-Miss Brown; Graces-Mrs Baker, Mrs Ogilvie, Mrs Willems; Chorus of Druids-(1774 libretto).*c1774 11 19 cg Mainpiece: In three acts altered from $Shakespeare=. Afterpiece, a New Pastoral Masque and Pantomime interspersed. The Music composed by $Fisher=. The scenes painted by Messrs $Dahl=, $Richards= and $Carver=. Nothing under Full Prices will be taken. Books of Songs, &c. sold in Theatre. The words of the Masque taken chiefly from $Ben Johnson= (playbill). [<i>DNB</i> s.v. "Jonson," suggests <i>The Haddington Masque, 1608</i>, with the "Hue and Cry after Cupid" material as the source. The reviewer for the <i>Westminster Magazine</i> commented on the performance of 25 November, after outlining the story: "Such are the outlines of <i>The Druids</i>, whick is a hetereogeneous jumble of monstrous absurdities; and if considered merely as a vehicle for music, dances, and decorations, is, in our opinion, far inferior to the dramatic monstrum horrendum of the other House [<i>The Maid of the Oaks</i>]. Both pieces, however, are equally an insult on the understanding and judgments of the Public, and exhibit striking proofs of the miserably depraved state of the <i>English theatre</i>, whose entertainments are at present conducted by Managers either destitute of taste and abilities or actuated by no other than the paltry, despicable motives of vanity, prejudice, and avarice,"] .