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2299 results for: Keyword - British, Spanish, and French Fleets
We found 1299 matches on Performance Title, 694 matches on Event Comments, 432 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1701
25 October 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these Ten years [but see 22 Dec. 1713]. By His Royal Highness's Command. Written by Ben Johnson. [Prince and Princess present. The Epilogue is in Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 16 Dec.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

1702
05 April 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Legare. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Otway. Receipts: money #25 1s.; tickets #39 9s. Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 7 April: Mr Christopher Bullock, the Comedian, died Thursday Morning of a Fistula and a Consumption

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldier's Fortune

Afterpiece Title: The Magician

Song: With several new collected Songs-Mr Legare, never performed by him before

Dance: Hornpipe-Jones

1703
07 November 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Sir Richard Steele.] With new Scenes, and all the Characters new drest. Daily Journal, 8 Nov.: Where a greater Concourse of People was never known to be assembled. [See also Cibber, Apology, II, 206; Dennis, Remarks on a Play call'd The Conscious Lovers; and British Journal, 10 Nov. and 8 Dec.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Edition of 1723 lists: Sir John Bevil-Mills; Sealand-Williams; Bevil Jr-Booth; Myrtle-Wilks; Cimberton-Griffin; Humphrey-Shepard; Tom-Cibber; Daniel-Theo. Cibber; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Moore; Isabella-Mrs Thurmond; Indiana-Mrs Oldfield; Lucinda-Mrs Booth; Phyllis-Mrs Younger; Prologue by Welsted-Wilks; Epilogue-Mrs Oldfield.
Cast
Role: Sealand Actor: Williams
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Moore

1704
12 January 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by Haym. Music by Handel.] Admission as 7 Nov. Daily Journal, 14 Jan.: On Saturday Night, his Majesty was at the Opera...and Signiora Catzoni, newly arrived from Italy, perform'd for the first Time, to the Surprize and admiration of the Audience, which was very numerous. [See also London Journal and British Journal, 12 and 19 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

1705
18 January 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Not Acted these Twelve Years. Receipts: #46 14s. 6d. The Prologue is printed in British Journal, 26 Jan. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 2 Feb.: It was well acted, in all its different Parts, and justly as well as beautifully drest

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolitus

Performance Comment: Phaedra-Mrs Seymour; Hippolitus-Ryan; Theseus-Boheme; Lycon-Quin; Cretander-Diggs; Ismena-Mrs Bullock; With a new Prologue-.
Cast
Role: Cretander Actor: Diggs

1706
25 February 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Receipts: money #45 3s. 6d; tickets #179 1s. British Journal, 3 March: On Monday last, which was the Third Day, there was the greatest Audience ever known at either Theatre....'Tis thought the Author will get upwards of a Thousand Pounds by this Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Related Works
Related Work: The Duke of Milan Author(s): Richard Cumberland

1707
18 March 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Rich's Register: Dismiss'd at a very full House by reason Mrs Seymour wou'd not Act for the Benefit fo Mr Ch. M. Rich. Abt #200 in Money and Tickets. British Journal, 23 March: As they were performing...Mariamne...before a Crowded Audience, the Celebrated Mrs Seymour was suddenly taken ill, and the Money return'd to the Value of 150 Pounds

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Related Works
Related Work: The Duke of Milan Author(s): Richard Cumberland

1708
15 April 1723 @ Moorfields

Event Comment: At a Booth on Windmill Hill. London Journal, 20 April: On Monday Night last one Mr Redshaw, one of the Actors belonging to the Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn Fields, being to be kill'd in Jest in the Play of Darius on Windmill Hill, was kill'd in Earnest, for he was accidentally run into the Eye, of which Wound he died the Day following. [In British Journal, 20 April, the name is Redstraw; in Freeholder's Journal, 20 April, it is Rackstraw.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Darius, King Of Persia

1709
30 November 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Daily Post, 30 Nov.: Harlequin Doctor Faustus...meets with universal Approbation. The Incidents are taken from the old History of the doctor and several Tricks supposed to be done by the Power of the Black Art, art executed in a very surprising Manner, and the last Grand Scene is superior in Magnificence to any thing that has ever yet appeared on the British Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

1710
20 February 1724 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Brown, Buchanan, Richards, Sparkling. [The Prologue was printed in British Journal, 29 Feb.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Afterpiece Title: The Adventures of Half an Hour

Afterpiece Title: The Plots of Harlequin

1711
03 August 1724 @ Richmond

Event Comment: Benefit Chetwood. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. N.B. Tickets given out for The Merry Wives of Windsor will be taken at this Play. [See Daily Post, 3 Aug., for Penkethman's celebration at Richmond on 1 Aug., the anniversary of the Hanoverian succession to the throne, and British Journal, 8 Aug., for an account of William Marshall, of lif, as an anti-Hanoverian demonstrator on 1 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: Drunken Man-Harper

Song:

1712
13 November 1724 @ Westminster School

Event Comment: WWeekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 28 Nov. Before many Persons of distinction, was acted the Adelphi of Terence....The Epilogue is printed in that issue

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adelphi

1713
02 October 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Wycherley. [See Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 2 Oct., for lines on the death of Penkethman.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Dance: HHussars-Thurmond, Mrs Booth; Passacaile-Miss Robinson; La Folete, as17250928

1714
12 February 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #102 7s. For comments on recent plays, see Mist's, 12 Feb., and British Journal, 12 Feb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd

Cast
Role: Nymphs Actor: Mrs Bullock, Mrs Wall, Mrs Ogden, Mrs Anderson
Role: Bacchants Actor: Mrs Ogden, Mrs Anderson
Role: Frenchman Actor: Lally
Role: Spanish Woman Actor: Mrs Bullock
Role: Frenchwoman Actor: Mrs Younger

1715
10 September 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Mr Congreve. [For an essay on the stage, see Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 10 Sept.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Music: Between Acts: Select Pieces-

Dance:

1716
28 September 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. By the Italian Company of Comedians newly arriv'd. Pit and Boxes together by tickets only at 4s. Gallery 2s. N.B. Whereas the Number of Subscribers for this Company that are in Town, is very little, some of the first Representations will not be on thair Account. Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 1 Oct.: Last Wednesday Night his Majesty and their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, together with great Numbers of the Nobility and Persons of Distinction...saw the Comedy...The Faithful Wife

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Faithful Wife; Or, Arlequin Strip'd, Sentry, Brave, Coward, Terrour Of The Turks, And Judge Of His Own Cause

Dance: Monsieur Poictier, others

1717
25 February 1727 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For a letter on opera, see Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 25 Feb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Admetus

1718
04 March 1727 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For an essay on opera, see British Journal, 4 March

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Admetus

1719
18 March 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [For letter on pantomime, see British Journal, 18 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mithridates, King Of Pontus

Cast
Role: Semandra Actor: Mrs Oldfield.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Triumph

Cast
Role: Miller's Wife and Daughter Actor: Mrs Wetherilt, Miss Tenoe
Role: Country Lads Actor: Young Rainton, Young Sandham

1720
12 April 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Leveridge. Receipts: money #33 17s.; tickets #58 7s. Probable attendance: boxes, 66 by moeny and 106 by tickets; P1t, 69 by money and 167 by tickets; slips, 6 by money; first gallery, 33 by money and 68 by tickets; second gallery 13 by money. Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 15 April: Wednesday died Mr Diggs, a noted Actor at the New Play-House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Nivelon, Poitier

1721
06 June 1727 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: On this occasion the partisans of Signora Cuzzoni and Signora Faustina prec1pitated hissing, catcalls, and other disturbances. For details, see British Journal, 10 June; Mist's, 10 June; Craftsman, 10 June; and Ilchester, pp. 18-19

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Astyanax

1722
10 February 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For a letter concerning dl, see Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 10 Feb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

1723
30 March 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #179 4s. Probable attendance: boxes, 214 paid and 1 order; stage, 51 paid; pit, 297 paid and 2 orders; slips, 66 paid; first gallery, 426 paid; second gallery, 198 paid. [For a letter on this play, see Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 30 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

1724
20 September 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. [For a brief comment on this performance, see Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 27 Sept.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

1725
31 October 1729 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: By Authority. At 6 P.M. Boxes 3s. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s. [The opening night of the new theatre in Goodman's Fields. The Prologue and Epilogue were printed in Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 8 Nov.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: