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Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of Several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #153 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

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Related Work: Othello Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Benefit Mrs Giffard. Tickets to be had of her at her house, No 11 in Craven Buildings, Drury Lane, and of Hobson at the stage door where places may be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

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Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: Salomon, Sga Padouana, Muilment, Salomon's Son, the Mechels

Event Comment: Whereas several Ungenerous aspersions have been cast on me, with respect to an Advertisement published in the London Gazetteer of Tuesday last, directed to the Friends of the Manager of Covent Garden Theatre, I declare that I was in no way consenting, or privy to the said Advertisement. John Rich (General Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

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

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the particular desire of several Persons of Quality. Being positively the last time of the company's performing this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

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Related Work: Romeo and Juliet Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer Deceivd

Dance: As17500926

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Hallam. At the New Wells, Lemon St., Goodman's Fields. For one Night only. A Concert &c. By Desire of Several Persons of Distinction. Boxes 3s. Pit or Gallery 2s. (London Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

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Related Work: Othello Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Event Comment: At the Particular Desire of Several Foreign Ministers Tomorrow, Romeo and Juliet. On Thursday will be reviv'd The Silent Woman-dress'd in the Habits of the Times. Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

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Related Work: Henry VIII Author(s): William Shakespeare
Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of several Foreign Ministers. Afterpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

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Related Work: Romeo and Juliet Author(s): William Shakespeare

Dance: III: Devisse, Mlle Auretti

Event Comment: At the particular desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: The Vocal parts Actor: Beard, Wilder, Vernon
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Related Work: Romeo and Juliet Author(s): William Shakespeare
Event Comment: Benefit for Old Cole [William Cole] Citizen of London and Family, under Misfortunes, who has been a Free Mason these thirty years, and Master of several Lodges. Being the last time of performing till the Christmas Holidays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

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Related Work: The Merchant of Venice Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: As17561217

Song: By the Desire of the Friends of Old Cole we will endeavor to sing a Song at the End of the Play (Public Advertiser)

Event Comment: Benefit for Me & Wife (Cross). Afterpiece: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #236 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winters Tale

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Related Work: The Winters Tale Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Event Comment: Benefit for Philips and Bransby. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Tickets deliver'd for This Night will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

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Related Work: Richard III Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Cast
Role: Freeman Actor: Packer

Dance: T+The May Day Morning Fingalian Dance, as17610416

Song: By Particular Desire, the Mimic Comic Opera Song-Mrs Clive

Event Comment: Benefit for Several, Lings, Mortimer, Tomlinson. [Tickets etc. see 13 May.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Cast
Role: Douglas Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

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Related Work: The Taming of the Shrew Author(s): William Shakespeare

Dance: II: Double Hornpipe-Mas. Cape, Miss Taylor; End: The Medley, as17680416

Event Comment: By Authority For one Night only. Benefit for Phillips. By the Particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction. To begin at 6:00 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

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Related Work: Othello Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick. Afterpiece: A new Farce never performed. Altered from Sir Charles Sedley's Piece of the same title by Dr Goldsmith. Acted only this night (playbill). [The notation on the alteration is by Kemble on the playbill. The characters are: Sourby, Octavio, Wentworth, Dancing Master, Scamper, Clarissa and Jenny. See Edition by Alice I. Perry Wood (Cambridge, Mass., 1931).] Charges #66 5s. Profit to Quick #7 6d., plus #80 from tickets (Box 100; Pit 263; Gallery 156) (Account Book). [Brief review of the Grumbler in the Westminster Magazine for May 1773: "It was several years ago translated from the French, and received this night some additional touches from the pen of Dr Goldsmith. An entertainment of one act cannot be expected to contain much. The whole merit of this is centered in one character, and perhaps in one scene."] Receipts: #73 5s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

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Related Work: King Lear Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Grumbler

Performance Comment: Principal parts-Quick, Davis, Owenson, King, Saunders, Miss Pearce, Miss Helme.

Dance: After the Interlude: The Whim, as17730426

Monologue: 1773 5 8 End of Play: Interlude. An Interlude by S. Foote Esq; Lady Pentweazle-Quick; Carmine-Davis

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time in London; F 2, by John O'Keeffe, 1st acted at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, 13 Apr. 1774. Prologue by George Colman elder (Prose on Several Occasions, III, 222)]. Public Advertiser, 16 Aug. 1780: This Day is published Tony Lumpkin in Town (1s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Related Works
Related Work: Henry VIII Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Tony Lumpkin in Town or The Dilettante

Dance: As17780623

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties."The croud was so great at Drury-lane playhouse, to see the young prince William in his naval uniform, that it was found necessary to throw a kind of bridge from the stage to the pit to liberate several people, who otherwise must have perished in the throng" (Gentleman's Magazine, Mar. 1780, P. 151). Receipts: #271 14s. (259.13; 9.6; 2.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

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

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Dance: I: Dance of Spirits, as17791103; III: a Dance of Fantastic Spirits, as17791103; IV: Grand New Dance, as17800228, but Sga _Crespi

Event Comment: In afterpiece, added, following Lord Mayor's Show: A New Historical Procession of the Several Companies, with their respective Pageants, and the Chief Magistrates belonging to the City of London, from its Foundation. The Scenes, Machinery and Decorations, both of the Pantomime and Procession, invented and designed by Richards, and executed by Him, Smirk, Hodgins, Catton, and others. Book of the Songs, with an Explanation of the Procession [reprinted in Public Advertiser, 21 Jan.], to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 21 Jan.: The glee is the composition of the late [Benjamin] Rogers (who lived in 1600); the other airs are by Handel, [the Earl of] Kelly, Abel, Stamitz, and Shield . . . More than 200 supernumeraries are employed to walk in the Procession. Receipts: #236 4s. 6d. (231/4/0; 5/0/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

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Related Work: The Merry Wives of Windsor Author(s): William Shakespeare
Event Comment: Mainpiece: With the Procession from the Abbey at the Coronation of Anne Bullen. Afterpiece: To end with a Representation of the Lord Mayor's Show on the Water. After which will be an Historical Procession of the Several Companies, with their respective Pageants, and the Chief Magistrates belonging to the City of London, from its Foundation. Books of the Songs, with an Explanation of the Procession, to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #198 8s. 6d. (195/9/0; 2/19/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Related Works
Related Work: Henry VIII Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayors Day or A Flight from Lapland in an Air Balloon

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but for parts see17821125 .

Song: In Act III of mainpiece a song by Mrs Kennedy

Event Comment: [Extra night] Benefit for Wild. Wild respectfully informs the Public, on account of the Loss he sustained by his former Night [see 17 May], the Managers of Covent Garden and Hay-market Theatres, as well as the several Performers, have granted him their free Assistance. Receipts: none listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

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Related Work: The Merchant of Venice Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece Dance by Byrne and Mrs Goodwin; End of Act IV Dance by Harris and Miss Besford

Song: In afterpiece Sweet Echo, as17840323but accompanied by Foster

Event Comment: The Careless Husband [advertised on playbill of 8 Nov.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of a Principal Performer. [This was F. Aickin's last appearance in London. Subsequently he acted for several years at the Liverpool theatre, of which he was the manager.] Receipts: #349 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

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Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Song: As17921029

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

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Related Work: Othello Author(s): William Shakespeare
Event Comment: All the other Parts being exactly done, and the Court very well pleas'd [Downes, p. 47]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Related Works
Related Work: Anthony and Cleopatra Author(s): William Shakespeare

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

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Related Work: Coriolanus Author(s): William Shakespeare

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

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Related Work: Timon of Athens Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Dance: End II: Grand Moorish Dance-Essex, others; IV: Spanish Entry-Lally, others; V: Sultana-Miss Robinson Jr; End Afterpiece: Village Dance-Thurmond, Houghton, Rainton, Burney, Mrs Mills, Miss Robinson Sr, Mrs Walter, Miss Price