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17230 results for: Keyword - Admiral Sir John Jervis
We found 11245 matches on Author, 6650 matches on Performance Comments, 1699 matches on Event Comments, 700 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

16976
27 September 1697 @ New Wells Richmond

Event Comment: Post Man, 25 Sept. 1697: A Trumpet Song on the King, and a Song made for the Birth day of his Highness the Duke of Gloucester: with two Sonatas by Mr John Shore. And variety of other new Musick...being the last time of performance this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

16977
01 November 1697 @ Inner Temple

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. This performance is recorded in A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 227. Post Boy, 30 Oct.-2 Nov. 1697: There was Yesterday a very great Feast in the Temple, there being present the High Honourable the Lord Chancellor, with Divers of the Judges; after Dinner there was a Play Acted. John Oldmixon, Reflections on the Stage (London, 1699), p. 69: The Bar-Gown has often been play'd with, and shewn in a more despicable Figure, yet the Lawyers don't think it worth their while to cry out against Comedy, as aiming at the ruin of the Courts in Westminster-hall, and the Judges themselves have desir'd Love for Love, with all the faults Mr Collier has laid to its charge, to be presented 'em, and were extreamly well pleas'd with their entertainment, tho' the Lawyer there makes a trivial appearance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

16978
04 November 1697 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: In L. C. 5@152, pp. 202, 220--see Boswell, Restoration Court Stage, p. 105--is a reference to a performance given jointly by both companies. As this was the customary date of the celebration of King William's birthday, this musical work was probably given on this day. The BM copy has a MS date of 29 Nov. 1697; and a dialogue from this work was noticed in the Post Boy, 30 Nov.-2 Dec. 1697. The music was composed by John Eccles

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Europe's Revels For The Peace

16979
03 May 1698 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company was apparently suspended because of its action in allowing John Powell, who had been involved in an altercation with Colonel Stanhope and Charles Davenant, to act before making satisfaction for the incident. See Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 368, and Cibber, Apology, II, 20n. The suspension lasted but a day; on 19 May 1698 Powell was forbidden to be received at either Drury Lane or Dorset Garden

Performances

16980
13 May 1700 @ Drury Lane Theatre and Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Both playhouses were closed for the burial services of John Dryden. See The Patentee; or some Reflections in Verse (1700), titlepage

Performances

16981
11 December 1700 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-. Compos'd by Dr John Blow, for the late Anniversary Feast of St Cecilia

Performance Comment: Compos'd by Dr John Blow, for the late Anniversary Feast of St Cecilia.

16982
16 April 1703 @ Girdlers Hall

Event Comment: Benefit John Wilford. The Hall is in Basinghall Street. At 8 p.m. Tickets 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and instrumental Music-several Eminent Masters

16983
28 April 1704 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Benefit John Banister Jr. At the usual hour

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Newly composed by Keller, with vocal Music-Signora Maria Gallia; instrumental Music-Paisible, Gasperini, laTour, Banister, others Masters

Related Works
Related Work: The Man's The Master Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Related Work: Like Master Like Man Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd Author(s): John Rich

16984
09 May 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Genest, II, 309, lists Don John; or, The Libertine Destroy'd, probably as a mistake for 1 May

Performances

16985
02 October 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: A new Farce, never acted but twice. [By John Corey. Date of premiere unknown.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Metamorphosis; Or, The Old Lover Outwitted

Performance Comment: Edition of 1704 lists no actors' names; Prologue by C. Johnson designed for Verbruggen, in the Astrologer's Habit. Prologue-Mrs Bradshaw; Epilogue written by C. Johnson-Booth.
Cast
Role: Johnson Actor: Booth.
Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, Harlequin's Metamorphosis Author(s): John Thurmond

16986
07 September 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In Daily Courant, 4 Sept., The Heir of Morocco had been announced for this day.] The Playhouse in Little-Lincoln's-Inn-Fields is to be Let for a Tennis-Court, or for any other use, (except a Playhouse). Enquire of Mr John Hall next Door to the Sign of the Angel in Little-Russell street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

16987
19 January 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Cavaliero Nicolini Grimaldi. And (at the Desire of several Persons of Quality) the Boxes are to be open'd to the Pit, and none to be admitted but by printed Tickets, which are deliver'd by him. [Ch. Dering, writing to John Percival, stated that Nicolini got 800 guineas.-Egmont MS, p. 246.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

16988
04 February 1710 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of Isaac Bickerstaffe, Esq.; for the Benefit of his cousin John Bickerstaffe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Quixote, Part Ii

Related Works
Related Work: The Siege of Rhodes, Part II Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Related Work: The Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus Vespasian, Part II Author(s): John Crowne
Related Work: The Destruction of Jerusalem, Part II Author(s): John Crowne
Related Work: Aesop, Part II Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards, Part II Author(s): John Dryden

Dance: Harlequin-Layfield, Miss Santlow; With other comical Dances originally in the play-

Entertainment: As17100202

16989
24 February 1710 @ Couch's Drawing Room

Event Comment: Benefit James Graves and John Garee. Tickets 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Several Eminent Masters

16990
11 January 1711 @ Stationer's Hall

Event Comment: Benefit John Geree. At 6 p.m. Tickets 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-several Eminent Masters

16991
06 February 1711 @ Clerkenwell

Event Comment: Mr Skeete reported that John Honeycott, the master of the charity school at Clerkenwell, had yesterday [6 Feb.], with the children of the above school, publickly acted the play called Timon of Athens, and by Tickets signed by himself had invited several people to it (Minutes of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, in Secretan, pp. 129-30)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

16992
25 April 1711 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Lady Hervey to John Hervey, 26 April: Yesterday I dined with Lady Dalkeith, and she and Lady Katt: supd with me after the Opera, which was as full as ever I saw it at a subscription, but that was by way of party, in order to get it empty on Saturday (Hervey, I, 301)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

Related Works
Related Work: Rinaldo and Armida Author(s): John Dennis

16993
20 December 1711 @ Coachmaker's Hall

Event Comment: Benefit Thomas and John Baston. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; several Pieces on the French and Arch Lutes- the famous Henricus Fonthornoycts

Dance: An Entry-Mr Thurmond Jr, who hath so often perform'd with the greatest Applause

16994
06 February 1712 @ Clerkenwell Charity School

Event Comment: Minutes of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 7 Feb.: Mr Skeate reported that John Honeycott the master of the Charity School at Clerkenwell had yesterday with the Children of the School publickly acted the play called Timon of Athens, and by Tickets signed by himself invited Several people to it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

16995
07 February 1712 @ Stationer's Hall

Event Comment: Benefit John Geree. Postponed from 25 Jan

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

16996
05 April 1712 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Elizabetta Piloti Schivaonetti. Admission to pit and boxes by ticket only at half a guinea. At 6 p.m. Lady Hervey to John Hervey, 5 April: Yet I venture to the Opera, because poor Pilota has great faction made against her (Hervey, I, 323)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antiochus

Related Works
Related Work: Antiochus Author(s): John Mottley

Afterpiece Title: Thomyris (the famous Scene only)

16997
08 December 1712 @ Stationer's Hall

Event Comment: Benefit Thomas and John Baston. At 6 p.m. Tickets 2s. 6d. [The discontinuance of The Spectator on 6 Dec. caused an interruption in the advertisement of plays until 10 Dec.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; Where will be perform'd several select Songs with Symphonies out of the Operas-; that celebrated Sonata for the Violin and Lute, so often performed on the Stage-Signior Gasperini, Mr Pasiable

Dance: Spanish Entry, Dutch Skipper-a scholar of DuRuel

16998
18 December 1714 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [Opening night, under the management of John Rich.] By the Company of Comedians under Letters Patents granted by King Charles the Second. Beginning exactly at Six. No Persons are to be admitted behind the Scenes, nor any Money to be return'd after the Curtain is drawn up. Receipts: #143. Weekly Packet, 18 Dec.: This Day the New Play-House...is to be open'd...by the Company that act under the Patent; tho' it is said, that some of the Gentlemen who have left the Theatre in Drury-Lane for that Service, are order'd to return to their Colours, upon Pain of not exercising their Lungs anywhere; which may in Time prove of ill Service to the Patentee; that has been at vast Expence to make his Theatre as convenient for the Reception of an Audience as any one can possibly be

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

16999
19 March 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit John Leigh. Receipts: #103 12s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue

Dance: As17150314

Song: As17150310

17000
09 February 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit John and Chr. Rich. At 6 p.m. Notice concerning scenes and machines essentially as 3 Dec. 1715. Receipts: money #35 10s. and tickets #45 16s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Vision