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We found 10820 matches on Event Comments, 6058 matches on Author, 5498 matches on Performance Comments, 2490 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Benefit Penkethman. Written by Shakespear. N.B. The Tickets delivered out for The Trip to the Jubilee will be taken at this Play. [See Swift's Journal to Stella for the rehearsal of Cato at 10 a.m. on this day.

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Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

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Related Work: Julius Caesar Author(s): William Shakespeare
Event Comment: With Scenes, Machines, and all the Original Decorations proper to the Play

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Mainpiece Title: The Tempest Or The Inchanted Island

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Related Work: The Tempest Author(s): William Shakespeare
Event Comment: Benefit Newman and Mrs Baker. With Scenes, Machines, Dances, and all the Original Decorations proper to the Play. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s

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Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

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Related Work: The Tempest Author(s): William Shakespeare

Dance: Mrs Santlow

Event Comment: With Scenes, Machines, Dances, and all the Original Decorations proper to the Play

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Mainpiece Title: The Tempest Or The Inchanted Island

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Related Work: The Tempest Author(s): William Shakespeare
Event Comment: Not Acted these Eight Years. Written by Shakespear. Containing, the Death of the Duke of Buckingham. The Fall of Cardinal Wolsey. The Divorce, and Death of Queen Catherine. The Coronation of Queen Anne Bullen, and the Christning of Queen Elizabeth. With Decorations proper to the Play. [The Prince of Wales present.

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Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

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Related Work: Henry VIII Author(s): William Shakespeare
Event Comment: With the Scenes, Machines, Songs, Dances, and all the Decorations proper to the Play

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Mainpiece Title: The Tempest Or The Inchanted Island

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Related Work: The Tempest Author(s): William Shakespeare
Event Comment: With all the Scenes, Machines, Songs, Dances, and all the other Decorations proper to the Play. At Common Prices

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Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

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Related Work: The Tempest Author(s): William Shakespeare
Event Comment: Mainpiece; With the Scenes, Machines, Songs, Dances, and all the Decorations proper to the Play

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Mainpiece Title: The Tempest Or The Inchanted Island

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Related Work: The Tempest Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Turned Judge

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. With all the Musick, Dances, and other Decorations proper to the Play

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

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Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): William Shakespeare
Event Comment: [By John Dennis.] Never Acted before. [See the Dedication of the 1720 edition for Dennis' grievances in the presentation of his play. The receipts this night, he states, were: near a hundred Pound.

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Mainpiece Title: The Invader Of His Country Or The Fatal Resentment

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Related Work: Coriolanus Author(s): William Shakespeare
Event Comment: With Scenes, Machines, and Dances proper to the Play

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Mainpiece Title: The Tempest Or The Inchanted Island

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Related Work: The Tempest Author(s): William Shakespeare
Event Comment: Benefit John Rich. Afterpiece: With all the Scenes, Machines, Flyings, and other Decorations proper to the Play. Receipts: money #66 3s. 6d.; tickets #20 8s

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Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

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Related Work: Othello Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Amadis or The Loves of Harlequin and Colombine

Song: Leveridge, Mrs Fletcher; Leveridge's new song The Tippling Philosophers-Leveridge

Dance: As17200120

Event Comment: With Scenes, Machines, Songs, and Dances proper to the Play. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

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Related Work: The Tempest Author(s): William Shakespeare
Event Comment: Benefit Rogers and Theophilus Cibber. With all the Decorations and Dances proper to the Play

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Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

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Related Work: The Tempest Author(s): William Shakespeare

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Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. With all the Songs, Dances, and Decorations proper to the Play

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

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Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): William Shakespeare
Event Comment: Benefit Quin. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. By Reason of Mrs Seymour's Indisposition, the Tickets deliver'd out for Troilus and Cresida will be taken at this Play. Receipts: money #66 17s. 6d.; tickets #75

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Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

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Related Work: The Merry Wives of Windsor Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Amadis

Event Comment: For the Benefit an Author, whose Play is deferr'd till next Season

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Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

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Related Work: The Merry Wives of Windsor Author(s): William Shakespeare
Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. With all the Songs, Dances, and Decorations proper to the Play

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

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Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): William Shakespeare
Event Comment: With all the Songs, Dances, and Decorations proper to the Play

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

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Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): William Shakespeare
Event Comment: Receipts: #140 13s. Probable attendance: boxes and pit, 308 paid and 73 orders; stage, 1 paid; slips, 27 paid and 7 orders; first gallery, 304 paid and 1 orders; second gallery, 172 paid. Daily Journal, 25 May: We hear that this Evening the famous Captain Lemuel Gulliver is to be at...Lincoln's Inn Fields, very handsomely attended and dress'd in a rich Habit, the like of which was never seen in England before. The two Stage Boxes are kept for him and his Company....The Master of the House has promised the Captain that neither during the Play or Entertainment, any Person shall be admitted behind the Scenes, that the Captain may bot be too much press'd with the Crowd

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Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

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Related Work: Measure for Measure Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. With all the Songs, Dances and Decorations proper to the Play

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

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Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): William Shakespeare
Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. With all the Songs, Dances, and other Decorations proper to the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

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Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): William Shakespeare
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. With all the Scenes, Machines, and other Decorations proper to the Play and the Original Musick, Songs, and Dances. Afterpiece: With the Additional Scene representing the Drawing of the Lottery in Guild-Hall. [For a discussion of Wilks as actor-manager and a brief comment on the defects of T. Cibber as Macduff, see Grub St. Journal, 5 Oct.

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

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Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Music: The Original Musick-; Vocal Parts-Stoppelaer, Miss Raftor, E. Roberts, Charke

Dance: Essex, Thurmond, Houghton, Tench, Davenport

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Heron's Executors. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Daily Advertiser, 9 April: We hear, the late Mrs Heron, on Account of her long and expensive Illness, having contracted some Debts more than she apprehended her Effects would discharge, in order to do Justice to her Creditors, in almost her last Moments made her Entreaty, that the Profits arising from a Benefit Play . . . might be distributed amongst them. . .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Related Works
Related Work: Julius Caesar Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: I: Pierrots by Delamagne and Villeneuve. III: Black and White Joak by Phillips and Miss Mann. V: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. With all the Scenes, Habits, and Decorations proper to the Play. Afterpiece: Taken from the French of Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

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Related Work: Julius Caesar Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Music: Comic Medley Overture composed by Charke-

Dance: I: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; III: Polonese-Essex, Mrs Walter; V: Last new Grand Ballet-Denoyer, Mlle Roland