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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speculation

Cast
Role: Tanjore Actor: Lewis
Role: Alderman Arable Actor: Quick
Role: Project Actor: Munden
Role: Jack Arable Actor: Fawcett
Role: Arable Actor: Middleton
Role: Sir Frederick Faintly Actor: Claremont
Role: Meanwell Actor: Davenport
Role: Promptly Actor: Thompson
Role: Vickery Actor: Farley
Role: Cecilia Actor: Miss Mansel
Role: Lady Project Actor: Mrs Davenport
Role: Emmeline Actor: Miss Wallis
Role: unassigned Actor: Abbot, Blurton, Master Curties

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day

Performance Comment: As17951109, but Whalebone-Follett; Turner-_.

Dance: As17951109

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Turner (1st appearance on any recte theLondon stage; Macduff-Pope; Duncan-Hull; Banquo-Murray; Malcolm-Clarke; Lenox-Whitfield; Donalbaine-Simmons; Doctor-Waddy; Seward-Davenport; Seyton-Thompson; Fleance-Master Rees; Officer-Klanert; Murderers-Claremont, Abbot; Witches-Munden, Emery, Rees; Hecate-Townsend; Waiting Gentlewoman-Mrs Platt; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Johnson (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Macbeth Actor: Turner
Role: Macduff Actor: Pope
Role: Duncan Actor: Hull
Role: Banquo Actor: Murray
Role: Malcolm Actor: Clarke
Role: Lenox Actor: Whitfield
Role: Donalbaine Actor: Simmons
Role: Doctor Actor: Waddy
Role: Seward Actor: Davenport
Role: Seyton Actor: Thompson
Role: Fleance Actor: Master Rees
Role: Officer Actor: Klanert
Role: Murderers Actor: Claremont, Abbot
Role: Witches Actor: Munden, Emery, Rees
Role: Hecate Actor: Townsend
Role: Waiting Gentlewoman Actor: Mrs Platt
Role: Lady Macbeth Actor: Mrs Johnson

Dance: As17981211

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts-Incledon, Johnstone, Townsend, Hill, Linton, Blurton, Street, Gray, Little, Lee, Sawyer, Tett, Dyke, Mrs Chapman, Miss Mitchell, Miss Wheatley, Mrs Iliff, Miss Sims, Mrs Whitmore, Mrs Watts, Mrs Follett, Miss Leserve, Mrs Castelle, Mrs Norton, Mrs Gilbert, Mrs Masters, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Blurton, Miss Walcup, Miss Gray, Miss Burnett, Mrs Martyr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Wood; Or, St James's Park

Performance Comment: Edition of 1672: Prologue-; Ranger-Hart; Vincent-Bell; Valentine-Kinnaston; Alderman Gripe-Lacy; Sir Simon Addleplot-Wintersell; Dapperwit-Mohun; Christina-Mrs Boutell; Lydia-Mrs Betty Cox; Lady Flippant-Mrs Knepp; Mrs Martha-Mrs Farlowe; Mrs Joyner-Mrs Cory; Mrs Crossbite-Mrs Rutter; Lucy-Mrs Betty Slade; Isabel-Mrs James; Leonore-Mrs Cartwright; Epilogue-Dapperwit.
Cast
Role: Prologue Actor:
Role: Ranger Actor: Hart
Role: Vincent Actor: Bell
Role: Valentine Actor: Kinnaston
Role: Alderman Gripe Actor: Lacy
Role: Sir Simon Addleplot Actor: Wintersell
Role: Dapperwit Actor: Mohun
Role: Christina Actor: Mrs Boutell
Role: Lydia Actor: Mrs Betty Cox
Role: Lady Flippant Actor: Mrs Knepp
Role: Mrs Martha Actor: Mrs Farlowe
Role: Mrs Joyner Actor: Mrs Cory
Role: Mrs Crossbite Actor: Mrs Rutter
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Betty Slade
Role: Isabel Actor: Mrs James
Role: Leonore Actor: Mrs Cartwright
Role: Epilogue Actor: Dapperwit.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: As17350110, but Lucy-Miss Jones; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Monlass; Jenny-Miss Gerrard; Betty omitted. hathi. Betty omitted. hathi.
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Jones
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Monlass
Role: Jenny Actor: Miss Gerrard
Role: Macheath Actor: Hulett
Role: Polly Actor: Mrs Hamilton
Role: Peachum Actor: Rosco
Role: Locket Actor: Huddy
Role: Filch Actor: Jenkins
Role: Mat Actor: Eyres
Role: Diana Actor: Monlass
Role: Mrs Coaxer Actor: Miss Norman
Role: Mrs Vixen Actor: Miss Tollett
Role: Betty Actor: Miss Sandham
Role: Sukey Actor: Mrs Vallois
Role: Molly Actor: Mrs Dove
Role: Mrs Slammekin Actor: Mrs Woodward. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: Jupiter and Io

Cast
Role: ; Courtezan Actor: Lyon
Role: Jupiter Actor: Kelly
Role: Juno Actor: Miss Jones
Role: Io Actor: Mrs Chambers
Role: Mercury Actor: Cunningham
Role: Inachus Actor: Excell
Role: Argus Actor: Hind
Role: Iris Actor: Miss Gerrard
Role: Nereus Actor: Haughton
Role: His Followers Actor: Vallois, Tench, Topham, Delagarde
Role: Laverna Actor: Mrs Bullock
Role: Nymphs Actor: Mrs Woodward, Miss Sandham, Mrs Vallois, Miss Norman. In it The Chymical Counterfeits. Pestle-Ray
Role: Pestle Actor: Ray
Role: Mortar Actor: Dove
Role: Harlequin Actor: Lun Jr
Role: Rappee Actor: Bardin
Role: Meagre Actor: Penkethman
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Hamilton
Role: Colombine's Maid Actor: Mrs Dove
Role: Courtezan Actor: Hamilton
Role: Pierot Actor: Norris
Role: Dropsical Men Actor: Ayres, Martin
Role: Chimneysweepers Actor: Two Masters Hamilton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: As17821022, but Captain Macheath-Mrs Kennedy; Lockit-Mrs Webb; Lucy-Mrs Morton; Jenny Diver-Miss Morris; Polly-Mr Bannister; Mrs Davenett's name listed in playbill; omitted: Dolly Trull, Betty Doxey. hathi. Mrs Davenett's name listed in playbill; omitted: Dolly Trull, Betty Doxey. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace; or, Harlequin Skeleton

Cast
Role: Chasseur Royal Actor: Mrs Kennedy
Role: Harlequin Jupiter Actor: W. Bates
Role: Punch Actor: Rayner
Role: Mars Actor: Cranfield
Role: Hercules Actor: Dumay
Role: Leander Actor: Ratchford
Role: Pantaloon Actor: Thompson
Role: Mercury Actor: Davies
Role: Anatomist Actor: Jones
Role: Pierrot Actor: Stevens
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mr Wewitzer
Role: Columbine Actor: Miss Matthews

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece a Hornpipe by Miss Besford

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: As17821022, but Captain Macheath-Mrs Kennedy; Lucy-Mr Edwin; Jenny Diver-Mrs Poussin; Polly-Mr Bannister; Mrs Davenett's name listed in playbill; omitted: Betty Doxey. hathi. Mrs Davenett's name listed in playbill; omitted: Betty Doxey. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: Tristram Shandy

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece, as17830422; End of mainpiece, as17821231

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116. This was the King's Company (under Killigrew), split off from the United Company. According to Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 2) the roster included: Theophilus Bird, Hart, Mohun, Lacy, Burt, Cartwright, Clun, Baxter, Robert Shatterel, William Shatterrel, Duke [Marmaduke Watson], Hancock, Kynaston, Wintersel, Bateman, Blagden. (But see also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 295.) According to the articles of agreement, 5 Nov. 1660 (Herbert, Dramatic Records, pp. 96-100), the Duke's Company (under Davenant) included Thomas Batterton, Thomas Sheppey, Robert Noakes, James Noakes, Thomas Lovell, John Moseley, Cave Underhill, Robert Turner, Thomas Lilleston

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Took Mrs Turner out and carried her to the King's house, and saw The Indian Emperour

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperour

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: I carried [Mercer and Mrs Turner] to the Duke of York's house, and there saw The Man's the Master, which proves, upon my seeing it again, a very good play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man's The Master

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: Carried The. and my wife to the Duke of York's house, to Macbeth,...and I to the Duke of York's house and saw the last two acts.... This day The. Turner shewed me at the play my Lady Portman, who has grown out of my knowledge

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: So we to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw She Would if She Could,... This day, going to the play, The. Turner met us, and carried us to her mother, at my Lady Mordaunt's; and I did carry both mother and daughter with us to the Duke of York's playhouse

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Would If She Could

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or, The Enchanted Island

Performance Comment: Edition of 1674: Prologue-; Second Prologue-; Epilogue-; Second Epilogue-; According to L. C. 5@15, p. 3 (16 May 1674; see Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 356) Charles? Hart and Robert? Turner sang in The Tempest. Trinculo-Underhill?.
Cast
Role: Prologue Actor:
Role: Second Prologue Actor:
Role: Epilogue Actor:
Role: Second Epilogue Actor:
Role: Trinculo Actor: Underhill?.
Event Comment: It is possible that The Tempest had been acted regularly to this date and that it continued to be presented frequently in the following week. In L. C. 5@15, p. 3 (Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 356) there is an order directing Turner and Hart (and any other members of the His Majesty's Chapel Royal) who sing in The Tempest to remain in London during the week, going to Windsor (when the King was absent from Whitehall) on Saturdays and returning on Mondays

Performances

Event Comment: [The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407. There is no certainty that this performance is the premiere, btt an additional known performance on 15 June suggests that early June probably saw the initial run. The music for two songs, Thou joy of all hearts and When you dispense your influence, both set by Dr William Turner, is in Choice Ayres and Songs, Second Book, 1679. Preface, Edition of 1676: I have no reason to complain of the success of this Play, since it pleased those, whom, of all the World, I would please most: Nor was the Town unkind to it....[There] being no Act in it, which cost me above Five days writing: and the last Two (the Play-house having great occasion for a Play) were both written in Four Days. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 37): The Libertine and Virtuoso: Both Wrote by Mr Shadwell; they were both very well Acted, and got the Company great Reputation. The Libertine perform'd by Mr Betterton Crown'd the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Libertine

Cast
Role: Prologue Actor:
Role: Epilogue Actor: Jacomo
Role: Libertine Actor: Betterton.
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p.408. It is not certain that this was the premiere, but, as the play was licensed for publication on 20 Nov. 1676, the first performance may well have been on this day. A song, Away with the causes of riches and cares, with music by Matthew Lock, is in Catch that Catch Can, No. 64, 1685. Another, Beneath a shady willow, with music by William Turner, is in A New Collection of Songs and Poems...by Thomas D'Urfey, 1683. Edition of 1677: That its only good Fortune was, in being the Subject of the Courts Diversion, where their Noble Clemency and Good Nature were extremely requisite, in covering its defects from the too Censorious; His Majesty, according to His accustomed Royal and Excellent Temper, was pleas'd to descend so far, as to give it a particular Applause, which was seconded by your Grace [The Duke of Ormond]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Madam Fickle; Or, The Witty False One

Cast
Role: Prologue Actor: Mr Smith
Role: Epilogue Actor:
Role: Lord Bellamore Actor: Betterton
Role: Manley Actor: Smith
Role: Sir Arthur Oldlove Actor: Sandford
Role: Captain Tilbury Actor: Medbourn
Role: Zechiel Actor: Anthony Leigh
Role: Toby Actor: James Nokes
Role: Old Jollyman Actor: Underhill
Role: Harry Actor: Jevan
Role: Flaile Actor: Richards
Role: Dorrel Actor: Norrice
Role: Madam Fickle Actor: Mrs Mary Lee
Role: Constantia Actor: Mrs Barrer
Role: Arbella Actor: Mrs Gibbs
Role: Silvia Actor: Mrs Napper.
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first production is not known, but the licensing date of 26 Dec. 1676 establishes the premiere as occurring in December 1676 or earlier. One song, Why does the foolish world mistake, with music by William? Turner, is in Choice Ayres and Songs, The Second Book, 1679

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pastor Fido; Or, The Faithful Shepherd

Cast
Role: Prologue Actor:
Role: Montano Actor: Medbourn
Role: Sylvio Actor: Crosby
Role: Mirtillo Actor: Smith
Role: Titiro Actor: John Lee
Role: Sylvano Actor: Batterton
Role: Ergasto Actor: Norris
Role: Carino Actor: Perseval
Role: Dameta Actor: Richards
Role: Lynco Actor: Gillo
Role: Amaryllis Actor: Mrs Batterton
Role: Corisca Actor: Mrs Mary Lee
Role: Dorinda Actor: Mrs Petty
Role: Gerana Actor: Mrs Hughes
Role: Celia Actor: Mrs Napier.
Event Comment: This celebration of the Queen's Birthday presumably was given on 30 April, her birthday. The music in the Royal Society of Music gives the singers as Mrs Ayliff, The Boy, Turner, Snow, Edwards, Howell, Bowman, Damascene, Bouchier, Williams, Woodeson, Roberts. See Purcell's Works, Purcell Society, XXIV (1926), ii

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: London Gazette, No. 3388, 28 April-2 May 1698: On Wednesday next, the 4th of May, will be performed in York-Buildings, the Song which was Sung before her Royal Highness on Her Birth Day last; With other Variety of New Vocal and Instrumental Musick, Composed by Dr Turner, and for his Benefit

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Performance Comment: Edition of 1706 lists: Latinus-[Turner]; Prenesto-Holcomb; Turnus-Hughs; Metius-Ramondon; Linco-Leveridge; Camilla-Mrs Tofts; Lavinia-Mrs Joanna Maria; Tullia-Mrs Lyndsey; Prologue [written by Mainwaring-; Epilogue [written by Estcourt,-Mrs Oldfield.
Cast
Role: Latinus Actor:
Role: Prenesto Actor: Holcomb
Role: Turnus Actor: Hughs
Role: Metius Actor: Ramondon
Role: Linco Actor: Leveridge
Role: Camilla Actor: Mrs Tofts
Role: Lavinia Actor: Mrs Joanna Maria
Role: Tullia Actor: Mrs Lyndsey
Role: Mainwaring Actor:
Role: , Actor: Mrs Oldfield.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or, The Inchanted Island

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis (two interludes)

Performance Comment: Mrs Margarita, Mrs Barbier, Turner.
Event Comment: Benefit Will. Wilks and Turner. Written by the late Mr Wycherley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Cast
Role: Dorilant Actor: W. Wilks.
Role: Horner Actor: Wilks
Role: Harcourt Actor: Mills
Role: Pinchwife Actor: Booth
Role: Sparkish Actor: Cibber
Role: Sir Jasper Actor: Norris
Role: Mrs Pinchwife Actor: Mrs Bicknell
Role: Alithea Actor: Miss Younger
Role: Lady Fidget Actor: Mrs Saunders
Role: Mrs Dainty Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Mrs Squeamish Actor: Miss Willis.

Dance: As17161204

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Robinson, late Mrs Turner. By Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Concert divided into three Parts, the second entirely new, by Attilio Ariosti purposely on this Occasion-

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Turner Robinson. Tickets half a guinea. Gallery Box 5s. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Overture for French Horns, Hautboys, and Violins by Gasperini-; Three Airs-Mrs Robinson; Concerto by Corelli-Castrucci, Claudio, Pepo; Three Airs-Mrs Robinson; Solo for Hautboy-Kytch; Cantata by Handel-Mrs Robinson; New Concerto with French Horns by Handel-; Three Airs-Mrs Robinson

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Turner Robinson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: First Entertainment: Overture in Scipio-; Solitudini Amate, Le mor che per te Sento-Mrs Robinson; Ti con solo-Clarke; Mi Volgo, Si Caro-Mrs Robinson; When Myra Sings-Clarke, Mrs Robinson; Second Entertainment: Overture in Tamerlane-; Padre Amanta, Alla Fama-Mrs Robinson; Solo on German Flute-Wiedeman; La Tigrearde Disdegno-; Un Lampoe-; Cease to Beauty-Clarke; Vedeste Mai Sulprato, Seacciata del suo nido-Mrs Robinson; A Teneri Assetti Duetto-Mrs Robinson; Third Entertainment: Solo-Jones; Ah! Pardre Quel Golsomino-Mrs Robinson; No non Temer-Clarke; Baccia per me la Mana Sgomtra dell Anima-Mrs Robinson; Al Trionfo@Duetto-Clarke, Mrs Robinson

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Tame, late Mrs Turner, of Bow St. Tickets delivered out for 9 April will be taken. [Customary concert formula.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, Tom Thumb

Cast
Role: Tom Thumb Actor: Mrs Tame, by Desire.