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14707 results for: Keyword - Ackman</i> (<i>Public Advertiser</i>). This day only. Paid $Mr C. Bannister
We found 9758 matches on Event Comments, 4881 matches on Performance Comments, 1353 matches on Performance Title, 31 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

9151
26 February 1669 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse...and there saw The Faithfull Shepherdesse. But, Lord! what an empty house, there not being, as I could tell the people, so many as to make up above #10 in the whole house! The being of a new play at the other house, I suppose, being the cause, though it be so silly a play that I wonder how there should be enough people to go thither two days together, and not leave more to fill this house. The emptiness of the house took away our pleasure a great deal, though I liked it the better; for that I plainly discern the musick is the better, by how much the house the emptier

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Faithful Shepherdess

9152
16 April 1669 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: And my wife being gone abroad with W. Hewer, to see the new play to-day, at the Duke of York's house, Guzman, I dined alone.... I thence presently to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there, in the 18d. seat, did get room to see almost three acts of the play; but it seemed to me but very ordinary. After the play done, I into the pit, and there find my wife and W. Hewer...[and] here I did meet with Shadwell, the poet, who, to my great wonder, do tell me that my Lord of Orrery? did write this play, trying what he could do in comedy, since his heroique plays could do no more wonders. This do trouble me; for it is as mean a thing, and so he says, as hath been upon the stage a great while; and Harris, who hath no part in it, did come to me, and told me in discourse that he was glad of it, it being a play that will not take

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Guzman

9153
20 April 1669 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Travels of Cosmo the Third [Tuesday 30 April 1669 NS; Tuesday 20 April 1669 OS]: This day, his highness went to the comedy at the Duke of York's theatre, where the music and dancing, after the English manner, were less pleasing than the operas performed by the comedians; because, being in the English language, the only pleasure which we who heard them, can derive from the latter, is that of observing their action, which it cannot be denied, was supereminently excellent (London, 1821, p. 194)

Performances

9154
22 April 1669 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary:, 23 April: My wife stopped me; and, after a little angry talk, did tell me how she spent all day yesterday with M. Batelier and her sweetheart, and seeing a play at the New Nursery, which is set up at the house in Lincoln's Inn Fields, which was formerly the King's house

Performances

9155
13 May 1669 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. If Downes' statement--that the play was acted eight days successivelly-is correct, this tragedy was acted from 12 May through 20 May

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Virgin Or The Unjust Judge

9156
29 October 1669 @ The City, London

Event Comment: As had been the case in recent years, the Lord Mayor's swearing-in lacked the formal pageantry which had been characteristic of the day in the early 1660's

Performances

9157
April 1670 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the premiere is not known. Although the play was not in print until 1671, it was acted on 9 May 1670 and again at Dover on 19 or 20 May 1670. Downes (p. 29) placed the comedy among the plays of 1669, but the presence of Mrs Johnson (who, according to Downes, p. 31, did not join the company until 1670) and the performances in May 1670 suggest that the comedy was first given in the spring of 1670. Downes (pp. 29-30): The Play being Singularly well Acted, it took 12 Days together

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Salomon Or The Cautious Coxcomb

9158
22 June 1670 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: On this day arrived in London the news of the death of the King's sister, the Duchess of Orleans, which occured on 20 June 1670. According to The Bulstrode Papers (I, 144), 25 June 1670: The players are silenced dureing this tyme of sadness. [Probably acting ceased for at least six weeks, the customary period for silencing the companies when the Court went into full mourning. Nevertheless, the Duke's Company may have been permitted to act at Oxford. See Sybil Rosenfeld, "Some Notes on the Players in Oxford, 1661-1713," Review of English Studies XIX (1943), 366-67.

Performances

9159
03 January 1671 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: See 2 Jan 1670@1 for the possibility that this play was given on this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conquest Of Granada Part Ii

9160
15 January 1671 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: The Prologue and Epilogue to Sir William Cartwright's The Ordinary were printed in A Collection of Poems Written Upon Several Occasions, 1673, and the play was licensed for a revival, the date of the license being 15 January 1671. See The Plays and Poems of Sir William Cartwright, ed. G. Blakemore Evans (Madison, Wisc., 1951), p. 262. The fact that this day falls on Sunday and the fact that the Prologue and Epilogue were printed in 1673, raise the possibility that this date should be regarded as 15 January 1671@2 rather than 15 January 1670@1

Performances

9161
03 February 1671 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: On this day Jeffreys Boys gave Punchinello 1s. See I. K. Fletcher, "Italian Comedians in England in the Seventeenth Century," Theatre Notebook, VIII (1954), 87, for Anthony Devoto, presumably the puppet player whom Boys saw

Performances

9162
30 October 1671 @ The City, London

Event Comment: The Lord Mayor's Day pageant

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Londons Resurrection To Joy And Triumph

9163
November 1671 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first performance is not known, but Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 32) states: The first new Play Acted there, was King Charles the VIII. of France; it was all new Cloath'd, yet lasted but 6 Days together, but 'twas Acted now and then afterwards. Two songs for this play, Too justly alas, set by James Hart, and O love if e'er thou'lt ease a heart, set by Pelham Humphrey, are in Choice Songs and Ayres, First Book, 1673

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The History Of Charles The Eighth Of France Or The Invasion Of Naples Of The French

9164
14 November 1671 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: Although Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 32) states that this play was acted two days "together," the certain performance on Wednesday 15 Nov. suggests either that Downes misstated the number of performances or that the play was given on Monday and Wednesday but not on Tuesday, a somewhat unlikely event

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge Or Love In A Tub

9165
21 April 1673 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: A troupe of foreign comedians under Tiberio Fiorelli had arrived by this date, for on this day the Customs Commissioners were ordered to admit their clothes, scenes, and other equipment. See CSP, Treasury Books, 1672-1675, p. 119 (in Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 119; Boswell, Restoration Court Stage, p. 118). E. Cholmeley to Lady Harley, April 1673: Pray tell Sir Edward that I now want him to go to the new play 'for the Italian comedian Scarramouch is come, which are things I know hee delights in not a little' (HMC, 14th Report, Appendix, Part II [1894], p. 337)

Performances

9166
30 June 1673 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: A quarrel occurred at the King's Theatre on this day (apparently) between Ravenscroft and Sir George Hewitt. See Letters Adressed from London to Sir Joseph Williamson, Camden Society, VIII (1874), 87

Performances

9167
04 September 1673 @ Music School, White Fryars

Event Comment: London Gazette, No. 813, 1-4 Sept. 1673: These are to give notice, there will be no publick Musick at the Musick-School in White Fryers, till Michaelmas day next

Performances

9168
01 November 1673 @ Inner Temple

Event Comment: An unnamed play was acted at the Inner Temple on this day. See A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 98, which does not specify the play or the company

Performances

9169
20 November 1673 @ Music School, White Fryars

Event Comment: London Gazette, No 834, 13-17 Nov. 1673: At the Musick School in White Fryers, on Thursday next, will be new Musick, Vocal and Instrumental, beginning and ending at the same hours as formerly, and for the future, the first day of every Month shall be new Musick

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

9170
02 February 1674 @ Inner Temple

Event Comment: A play was probably acted on this day, but the accounts do not name the drama. See A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 98

Performances

9171
17 March 1674 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: A disturbance occurred at this theatre on this day. Newdigate newsletters (Folger Shakespeare Library), 21 March 1673@4: His Maty has also been pleased to Order ye Recorder of London to examine ye Disorders & disturbances on Tuesday last at ye Dukes Theatre by some persons in drink (John Harold Wilson, Theatre Notes, p. 79). See also CSPD, 1673-1675, p. 231

Performances

9172
22 September 1674 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Preparations for the production of a play (Calisto) at court in midwinter had been underway by this time. On this day Margaret Blagge wrote to John Evelyn: the play goes on mightily, which I hoped would never have proceeded farther....Would you believe it, there are some that envy me the honour (as they esteeme it) of acting in this play (The Life of Mrs Godolphin, ed. Samuel Lord Bishop of Oxford [1847], p. 96. See also pp. 93-95.). Several orders for costumes, scenes, and properties dated through the winter offer valuable information concerning details of the preparations. See Nicoll, Restoration Drama, pp. 357-58, p. 43n; Boswell, Restoration Court Stage, pp. 178-227

Performances

9173
04 February 1675 @ Fleece Tavern

Event Comment: London Gazette, No. 961, 1-4 Feb. 1674@5: A Rare Concert of four Trumpets Marine, never heard before in England. If any Persons desire to come and hear it, they may repair to the Fleece Tavern, near St James's, about two of the clock in the Afternoon every day in the Week (except Sundays). Every Concert shall continue one hour, and so to begin again; the best places are one shilling, the other six pence

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

9174
16 February 1675 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: On this date the masque was certainly acted, and the possible performance on 15 Feb. 1674@5 may have been a final rehearsal. Newdigate newsletters (Folger Shakespeare Library): This day the great maske at court is publiquely acted wch is intended to exceed all others of that Nature, the 2 young Princesses, the Duke of Monmouth & all ye principall persons of quality abt ye Court having parts in it (Wilson, Theatre Notes, p. 79). The Bulstrode Papers (1, 277): 15 Feb. 1674@5: To-morrow the great mask at Court is to be publickly acted in all its bravery and pompe, the like of whch was never yett seene, all the greatest persons of quality about Court having pts in it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Calisto

Afterpiece Title: Calistos Additional performers

9175
01 March 1675 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is assumed from Downes' statement that the play was given on eight days and from known performances on 2 and 3 March 1674@5

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Psyche