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252 results for: Keyword - Abigail Harley
We found 251 matches on Performance Comments, 17 matches on Event Comments, 4 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1
27 May 1795 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Harley. 2nd piece: Scene, A View of the British Fleet. Morning Chronicle, 25 May: Tickets to be had of Harley, No. 1, Castle-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #287 3s. (94.6.6; 15.15.0; tickets: 177.1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Performance Comment: Essex-Holman; Raleigh-Macready; Burleigh-Richardson; Southampton (1st time)-Harley; Rutland-Miss Morris; Nottingham-Mrs Fawcett; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: Southampton Actor: Harley

Afterpiece Title: True Blue; or, The Parting Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Netley Abbey

Dance: As17950428

Song: In 2nd piece: the following additional songs: Wives and Sweethearts-Townsend; The Wand'ring Sailor-Incledon (1st time); When gen'rous wine-Bowden; The days we now possess-Munden; The Storm-Incledon; Ye Gentlemen of England, as17950428; Rule Britannia-Incledon

Entertainment: Monologue In evening: The Young Widow a fable-Harley

2
22 April 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command. According to the Original Weekly Journal 26 April the Prince was present, but Edward Harley Jr writing to Abigail Harley on 6 May stated: The P..., not long ago, bespoke at the Old Playhouse, a play called the Indian Emperor. The K...hearing of it, sent to the players to tell them that if the P...came, and they acted that play, he would turn them out of his service, which message they sent to the P..., who had the good sense not to come, so the Indian Emperor was acted.-Portland MS, V, 560

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperour

Dance: Serious and Comic Dancing-

3
27 December 1666 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: And my wife, and by coach to the King's playhouse, and meeting Creed took him up, and there saw The Scornfull Lady well acted; Doll Common [Mrs Corey] doing Abigail most excellently, and Knipp the widow very well, and will be an excellent actor, I think. In other parts the play not so well done as used to be, by the old actors. Anon to White Hall by coach, thinking to have seen a play there to-night, but found it a mistake, so back again

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Performance Comment: See16661210 l666 Elder Loveless-Burt?; Younger Loveless-Kynaston?; Welford-Hart?; Sir Roger-Lacy?; The Lady-Mrs Rebecca? Marshal?; Martha-Mrs Rutter?; Abigail-Mrs Cory; Widow-Mrs Knipp.
Cast
Role: Abigail Actor: Mrs Cory

4
25 February 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Altered from Beaumont and Fletcher. Not acted these 3 years. [The playbill assigns Abigail to Mrs Webb, but "an apology being made for Mrs Webb, who was indisposed, Mrs Platt undertook to read the part" (Public Advertiser, 26 Feb.). Afterpiece in place of The Farmer, advertised on playbill of 23 Feb.] Receipts: #162 15s. (155.17; 6.18)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Capricious Lady

Performance Comment: Elder Loveless-Farren; Welford-Bernard; Savel-Quick; Morecraft-Booth; Poet-Wewitzer; Traveller-Davies; Welford's Servant-Fearon; Captain-Cubitt; Young Loveless-Lewis; Widow-Mrs Morton; Martha-Mrs Lewis; Abigail-read by Mrs Platt; The Capricious Lady-Mrs Abington.
Cast
Role: Abigail Actor: read by Mrs Platt

Afterpiece Title: The Dumb Cake

5
03 May 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Harley. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same for rest of season]. Gazetteer, 9 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Harley, No. 252, Holbourn. Receipts: #360 12s. (163.1; 2.8; tickets: 195.3)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17900208, but Macbeth (for that night only)-Harley (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Macbeth Actor: Harley

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: As17891021

Song: As17900208

Entertainment: Monologue. End I afterpiece: Occasional Address-Harley

Performance Comment: End I afterpiece: Occasional Address-Harley.
Cast
Role: Occasional Address Actor: Harley.

6
01 June 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Harley. Mainpiece: As altered from Beaumont and Fletcher by the Duke of Buckingham and D. Garrick, Esq. Not acted these 7 years. Morning Chronicle, 20 May: Tickets to be had of Harley, No. 22, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Receipts: #242 1s. 6d. (84.10.6; 7.5.0; tickets: 150.6.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: Don John-Harley (1st appearance in that character); Don Frederick-Marshall; Duke-Davies; Petruchio-Macready; Peter-Blanchard; Anthony-Cubitt; Surgeon-Powel; Antonio's Man-Rock; Antonio-Quick; First Constantia-Miss Chapman; Mother-Mrs Webb; Landlady-Mrs Pitt; Niece-Mrs Platt; Second Constantia-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: Don John Actor: Harley

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Dance: As17901204

Song: End I: The Group of Lovers-Munden; End II: a favourite Sea Song-Incledon

7
18 May 1792 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Harley. 1st piece: In Three Acts. Morning Herald, 7 May: Tickets to be had of Harley, No. 51, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Receipts: #308 14s. 6d. (104.2.0; 6.13.6; tickets: 197.19.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comedy Of Errors

Performance Comment: Dromio of Ephesus-Quick; Antipholis of Syracuse-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]); Antipholis of Ephesus (1st time)-Harley; Duke-Davies; Angelo-Powel; Dr Pinch-Cubitt; AEgeon-Hull; Dromio of Syracuse-Blanchard; Abbess-Miss Chapman; Luciana-Mrs Mountain; Adriana-Mrs Fawcett.
Cast
Role: Antipholis of Ephesus Actor: Harley

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Comus Actor: Harley

Dance: As17920410

Song: End II 1st piece: a new Comic Song, The Ups and Downs of Life-Munden; in 3rd piece: Give me Wine rosy Wine, Nor on beds of fading flowers-Incledon

8
23 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Harley. Morning Herald, 15 May: Tickets to be had of Harley, No. 1, Castle-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #341 5s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performance Comment: As17920928, but Strickland-Harley (1st appearance in that character); Mrs Strickland (for that night only)-Mrs Mattocks; Jacintha-Miss Chapman; Lucetta-Mrs Harlowe; Clarinda-Mrs Esten (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Strickland Actor: Harley

Afterpiece Title: The Relief of Williamstadt

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Performance Comment: As17930510, but Petruchio (for that night only)-Harley (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Petruchio Actor: Harley

Song: In course: The Mid Watch-Incledon

9
12 May 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Harley [whose 1st appearance as Shylock was at cg, 6 Nov. 1789]. 1st piece: Not acted these 6 yexrs. 2nd piece: With a view of High-street, Portsmouth, at the time of an Illumination. Morning Herald, 12 May: Tickets to be had of Harley, Castle-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #219 12s. 6d. (102.13.0; 2.11.6; tickets: 114.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: Shylock-Harley (2nd appearance in that character); Antonio-Macready; Bassanio-Pope; Gratiano-Knight; Lorenzo (with songs)-Johnstone; Launcelot-Quick; Salanio-Claremont; Solarino-Williamson; Old Gobbo-Powel; Duke-Davenport; Jessica (with a song)-Mrs Mountain; Nerissa-Mrs Townsend; Portia-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: Shylock Actor: Harley

Afterpiece Title: Arrived at Portsmouth

Cast
Role: Earl of Devonshire Actor: Harley

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Mimick

Dance: As17960420

Song: In Evening: a Hunting Song [Old Towler]-Incledon; 2nd piece: We've bade the restless seas adieu-; O why to be happy, as17960412; Here we laugh and work together-; With pride we steer'd for England's coast, as17960412; When love was a stranger, as17960412; Hearts of Oak-Incledon, Chorus

10
13 November 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Mrs Crouch, but she "had, in her way to the theatre, been overturned in a coach. Mrs Brereton read the part of Miss Harley " (London Chronicle, 14 Nov.). The playbill also lists the song, as 12 Nov., but it was not sung on this or any subsequent night. As afterpiece the playbill announces Comus, in which Mrs Crouch was to appear, but it was not acted. Its substitute is listed in the Account-Book.] The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15 [see 23 Apr. 1788]. Receipts: #124 14s. 6d. (107.12.0; 15.15.0; 1.7.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The New Peerage

Performance Comment: As17871110, but Miss Harley-read by Mrs Brereton.
Cast
Role: Miss Harley Actor: read by Mrs Brereton.

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

11
23 April 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Horatio to Kemble, but he "being indisposed, Harley was the Horatio" (Thespian Magazine, June 1793, p. 1).] Receipts: #129 7s. (123.0; 6.7)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay The Fair Penitent

Performance Comment: Sciolto-Bensley; Altamont-Barrymore; Horatio-Harley [of cg]; Lothario-Palmer; Rossano-Caulfield; Servants-Maddocks, Webb, Lyons; Calista-Mrs Siddons; Lavinia-Mrs Powell; Lucilla-Miss Heard.
Cast
Role: Horatio Actor: Harley

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

12
04 January 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: "Harley's youth and vigour so repeatedly got the better of his endeavours to conceal them under the veil of assumed debility that it was rather the grandson of Lear, who was rehearsing the part of that injured Prince and parent, than the good old King himself" (Diary, 5 Jan.). Receipts: #269 8s. 6d. (266.13.0; 2.15.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Cast
Role: King Lear Actor: Harley

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Dance: As17891231

13
29 January 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer; Or, The Haunted House

Performance Comment: Sir George Truman-Havard; Vellum-Yates; Tinsel-King; Butler-Weston; Coachman-Moody; Abigail-Mrs Clive; Lady Truman-Mrs Pritchard; Fantome-Packer; Gardener-Blakes.
Cast
Role: Abigail Actor: Mrs Clive

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Song: II: Hearts of Oak, as17620115; End: An Occasional Ballad by Way of Epilogue, in the Character of Abigail,-Mrs Clive

14
27 January 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris

Dance: End II: The Wapping Landlady, as17901204

Entertainment: Monologue Preceding: an Occasional Address-Harley

15
28 April 1792 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Notoriety

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

Entertainment: Monologues Preceding: [a New Address, She Couldn't Help It-[by Harley]; End: Collins's Ode on the Passions-Mrs Esten; [Imitations End II: Dramatic Imitations [Comic, Vocal and Tragic,-Mrs Wells

16
13 November 1793 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Berwick

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Holman, Middleton, Harley, Macready, Powel, Thompson, Evatt, Abbot, Blurton, Pope//Mrs Fawcett, Mrs Pope. [Cast from text Q. Robson, 1794): Valentine-Holman; Archibald-Middleton; Anselm-Harley; Donaldson-Macready; Sir Alexander Seaton-Pope//Juliana-Mrs Fawcett; Ethelberta-Mrs Pope. Powel, Thompson, Evatt, Abbot, Blurton are unassigned.] Prologue spoken by Harley. Epilogue spoken by Mrs Pope . Prologue spoken by Harley. Epilogue spoken by Mrs Pope .
Cast
Role: Anselm Actor: Harley

Afterpiece Title: ANNETTE AND LUBIN

Afterpiece Title: THE SCHOOL FOR ARROGANCE

17
10 December 1666 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Performance Comment: . the cast may be that in Downes (p. 6): Elder Loveless-Burt; Younger Loveless-Kynaston; Welford-Hart; Sir Roger-Lacy; The Lady-Mrs Rebecca? Marshal; Martha-Mrs Rutter; Abigail-Mrs Corey.
Cast
Role: Abigail Actor: Mrs Corey.

18
05 April 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Performance Comment: As17080327 but Abigail-Mrs Willis.
Cast
Role: Abigail Actor: Mrs Willis.

19
03 January 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Performance Comment: Elder Loveless-Powell; Young Loveless-Mills; Welford-Booth; Savil-Johnson; Morecraft-Bullock; Roger-Cibber; Lady-Mrs Knight; Martha-Mrs Bradshaw; Widow-Mrs Moor; Abigail-Mrs Willis.
Cast
Role: Abigail Actor: Mrs Willis.

20
11 February 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Performance Comment: Scornful Lady-Mrs Oldfield; Loveless-Wilks; Young Loveless-Mills; Savil-Doggest; Morecraft-Bullock; Roger-Cibber; Poet-Bowen; Martha-Mrs Bicknell; Abigail-Mrs Willis.
Cast
Role: Abigail Actor: Mrs Willis.

21
25 January 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Performance Comment: Scornful Lady-Mrs Oldfield; Elder Loveless-Wilks; Young Loveless-Mills; Welford-Booth; Morecraft-Bullock; Roger-Cibber; Poet-Norris; Savil-Dogget; Martha-Mrs Bicknell; Abigail-Mrs Willis.
Cast
Role: Abigail Actor: Mrs Willis.

22
11 October 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Performance Comment: Lady-Mrs Oldfield; Loveless-Wilks; Young Loveless-Mills; Welford-Booth; Morecraft-Bullock; Roger-Cibber; Poet-Norris; Martha-Mrs Bicknell; Abigail-Mrs Willis; Savil-Dogget.
Cast
Role: Abigail Actor: Mrs Willis

23
28 February 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Performance Comment: Elder Loveless-Wilks; Young Loveless-Mills; Welford-Booth; Savil-Dogget; Roger-Cibber; Morecraft-Bullock; Scornful Lady-Mrs Oldfield; Martha-Mrs Bicknell; Abigail-Mrs Willis.
Cast
Role: Abigail Actor: Mrs Willis.

24
25 November 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Apparition; Or, The Sham Wedding

Performance Comment: Edition of 1714 lists: Sir Tristram Getall-Norris; Sir ThomasEitherside-Bullock; Mendwell-Bowman; Welford-Booth; Friendly-Mills; Dawbwell-Keen; Foist-Spiller; Plotwell-Pack; Bankbill-Leigh; Aurelia-Mrs Mountfort; Clarinda-Mrs Santlow; Mrs Abigail Eitherside-Mrs Baker; Buisy-Mrs Saunders; Prologue-Mills; Epilogue-Mrs Santlow.
Cast
Role: Mrs Abigail Eitherside Actor: Mrs Baker

25
18 December 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Performance Comment: Scornful Lady-Mrs Oldfield; Savil-Johnson; Elder Loveless-Wilks; Young Loveless-Mills; Welford-Booth; Roger-Cibber; Morecraft-Bullock; Poet-Norris; Martha-Mrs Bicknell; Abigail-Mrs Willis.
Cast
Role: Abigail Actor: Mrs Willis.