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13151 results for: Keyword - Clarke</i>, <i>William</i>, <i><span class=
We found 11031 matches on Author, 2585 matches on Performance Comments, 516 matches on Event Comments, 58 matches on Performance Title, and 1 matches on Roles/Actors.

10876
25 April 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. Tickets to be had of Clarke at Mr Settree's Cap Warehouse, Catherine St. and of Crudge at the Stage Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: As17561013, but Chamont-Clarke, 1st time; Serina-Miss Condill.
Cast
Role: Chamont Actor: Clarke, 1st time

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue or The Jealous Farmer Outwitted

Dance: FFingalian Revels, as17570329 Hornpipe-Poitier Jr

10877
22 April 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. Charges #64 7s. [Profit to Clarke #23 9s. plus #122 19s. from tickets (Box 220; Pit 339; Gallery 171).] (Account Book). Receipts: #87 16s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Performance Comment: As17670310 but Young Knowell-Clarke; Clement-Wignel.
Cast
Role: Young Knowell Actor: Clarke

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: End: The Village Romps, as17661008; End I Farce: The Female Archer, as17661215

10878
30 March 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. Mainpiece: Not Acted this season. Charges #72 11s. 6d. Profit to Clarke #55 8s., plus #117 11s. from tickets (Box 239; Pit 284; Gallery 152). Paid Mr Murphy the balances for his 1, 2 & 3 nights of Alzuma #271 17s. (Account Book). Receipts: #122 19s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens Or The Death Of Alexander The Great

Performance Comment: Alexander-Smith; Clytus-Clarke; Lysimachus-Hull; Hephestion-Wroughton; Cassander-Gardner; Thessalus-R. Smith; Polyperchon-Perry; Roxana-Miss Miller; Parisatis-Miss Pearce; Sysigambis-Mrs Vincent; Statira-Mrs Hartley (first time); Triumphal Entry into Babylon-.
Cast
Role: Clytus Actor: Clarke

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: End II: New Dance, as17730206

10879
02 December 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A New Comedy (by Hugh Kelly] of 2 Acts never perform'd. [Written, as the author states in his Advertisement to the Edition of 1774, at the instigation of and on the inspiration of Mrs Abington. The Larpent MS 379 lists a partial cast and the lengths for each part: 10 Hector Strangeways-Clarke; 6 Bussora-...; 5 +Orson-...; 6 +Pillage-$Dunstall; 1!2 Servant-...; 5 +Lady Strangeways-$Mrs Green; 7 1!2 Zelinda 1!2 Jenny-....(A Length was 42 lines of dialogue.)] [From the +Westminster Magazine, Dec: Though there is scarce anything new in the Plot, Characters, Dialogue of this piece; yet upon the whole we found it extremely entertaining. The Indian servant is well introduced to satirize the follies and vices of the metropolis; and Sir Hector and his son give us a good dish of sea terms, well served up by Messrs $Shuter">Shuter; 7 Brownlow-$Bensley; 5 Ormsby-$Clarke; 6 Bussora-...; 5 +Orson-...; 6 +Pillage-$Dunstall; 1!2 Servant-...; 5 +Lady Strangeways-$Mrs Green; 7 1!2 Zelinda 1!2 Jenny-....(A Length was 42 lines of dialogue.)] [From the +Westminster Magazine, Dec: Though there is scarce anything new in the Plot, Characters, Dialogue of this piece; yet upon the whole we found it extremely entertaining. The Indian servant is well introduced to satirize the follies and vices of the metropolis; and Sir Hector and his son give us a good dish of sea terms, well served up by Messrs $Shuter and Quick."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Romance of An Hour

Performance Comment: Parts by: Shuter, Bensley, Clarke, Lee Lewes, Quick, Dunstall, Miss Pearce, Mrs Green, Mrs Bulkley. With a New Prologue and Epilogue. Sir Hector Strangeways-Shuter; Brownlow-Bensley; Col. Ormsby-Clarke; Bussora-Lee Lewes; Orson-Quick; Pillage-Dunstall; James-Bates; Jenny-Miss Pearce; Lady Di Strangeways-Mrs Green; Zelida-Mrs Bulkley; With a New Prologue by Kelly-Lee; Epilogue by Kelly-Mrs Bulkley (Edition of 1774).
Cast
Role: Ormsby Actor: Clarke

Dance: I: The Vintage Festival, as17741007; End Opera: The Irish Lilt-Aldridge, Miss Valois. [See17731005]

10880
08 April 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. Public Advertiser, 18 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Clarke, Great Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #220 17s. 6d. (103.2.6; tickets: 117.15.0) (charge: #69 5s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Thomas Overbury

Performance Comment: As17770201, but Earl of Northampton-Clarke.
Cast
Role: Earl of Northampton Actor: Clarke.
Related Works
Related Work: Sir Thomas Overbury Author(s): William Woodfall

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: As17761223

10881
12 April 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. Public Advertiser, 3 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Clarke, Great Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #166 5s. (82.15; tickets: 83.10) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon Or The Two Sosias

Performance Comment: Jupiter-Lewis; Amphitryon-Wroughton; Mercury-Whitfield; Judge Gripus-Clarke; Phoebus-Booth; Polidas-Fearon; Tranio-Thompson; Sosia-Quick; Phaedra-Mrs Mattocks; Bromia-Mrs Pitt; Night-Miss Green; Alcmena-Mrs Hartley.
Cast
Role: Judge Gripus Actor: Clarke

Afterpiece Title: The Spaniards Dismayed

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Song: IV: Interlude between Plutus and Wit-Reinhold, Miss Morris

Dance: End 2nd piece: As17800401; IV: an Interlude between Plutus and Wit-Reinhold (Plutus), Miss Morris (Wit); with a masque of Singing and Dancing-

10882
June 1696 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company. The date of the first performance is not known, but the fact that the play was advertised in the Post Boy, 25-27 Aug. 1696, suggests that it was first acted not later than July 1696 and possibly in June 1696. In the edition of 1696 are two dialogues, set by Clarke, the words by Haynes, and sung by Bowen and Mrs Cross. A Comparison Between the Two Stages (1702), p. 18: Cornish Comedy: No matter whose, 'twas Damn'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cornish Comedy

Performance Comment: Edition of 1696: Prologue-Mr Haines in a Barrister's Gown; Epilogue-Miss Chalke Seven Years Old by Mr Haynes; Gripe-Johnson; Peregrine-Mills; Trusty-Simpson; Manley-Harland; Swas -Lee; Sharper-Powell; Busy-Haynes; Freeman-Williams; Nic Froth-Penkethman; Shuffle-Bullock; Clarinda-Mrs Temple; Eugenia-Mrs Andrews; Sue-Mrs Lucas; Margaret-Mrs Mills; Maid-Mrs Unwinn.
Cast
Role: Freeman Actor: Williams

10883
04 June 1795 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets delivered for The Castle of Andalusia [Account-Book: by Claremont, Ledger, Heathcote, Dick, Doe, Mrs Egan, Hall (carpenter), Pitt, Young, Hall (box-keeper), Larkman, Bayzand, Clarke, Hawtin, Davenport] will be admitted. Receipts: #386 15s. 6d. (35.5.6; 11.0.0; tickets: 340.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: As17941120, but Sir Francis Gripe-Munden; added: Whisper-Farley; Sir Jealous Traffic-Thompson; William-Ledger.
Cast
Role: William Actor: Ledger.

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner at Large

Ballet: Dermot and Kathlane. As17950219

10884
13 May 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Clarke, Fulford, Dupre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Performance Comment: As17361202, but Driver-Fulford; Daniel-Clarke; Widow Lackit-Mrs Fulford, the first time of her appearing on that stage.
Cast
Role: Daniel Actor: Clarke

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: I: The Lady's Lamentation, as17370414

Dance: In II: Hornpipe-Ferguson; IV: The Prince of Wales' Saraband (composed by L'Abbe), concluding with a Minuet-Dupre, Miss Norman; V: Grecian Sailors-Glover

10885
03 May 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Aston, Bencraft, Clarke, Stevens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: As17380116, but Daniel-Clarke; Lucinda-Miss Sharpe.
Cast
Role: Daniel Actor: Clarke

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Wedding

Dance: JJe ne scai quoy-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Pantomime Dance-Nivelon, Mrs LeBrun; Serious Dance-Nivelon, Miss Oates

Music: H$Handel's Water Musick-; with a Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Jo. Woodbridge

10886
11 May 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Clarke and Stevens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Cast
Role: Supple Actor: Clarke

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Performance Comment: Major Rakish-Hippisley; School Boy-Clarke; Friendly-Anderson; Young Rakish-Stevens.
Cast
Role: School Boy Actor: Clarke

Dance: A new Ballet-Desse, Miss Oates; Comic Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Grecian Sailors-Glover; Hornpipe-J. Thompson

10887
09 May 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Clarke, Stoppelaer, Anderson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Performance Comment: Damon-Salway; Phillida-Mrs Vincent; Arcas-Anderson; Cymon-Stoppelaer; Mopsus-Mullart; Corydon-James; Aegeon-Clarke.
Cast
Role: Aegeon Actor: Clarke.

Afterpiece Title: The Parting Lovers

Dance: I: Tambourine-French Girl; II: Comic Dance-Richardson, Mrs LeBrun; IV: Grand Ballet-Desse, Miss Oates

10888
29 April 1756 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. Afterpiece: Not acted these 10 years. [See 10 Dec. 1746.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alzira

Performance Comment: Zamor-Clarke, first time; Alvarez-Sparks; Carlos-Dyer; Ezmont-Ridout; Alzira-Mrs Bellamy.
Cast
Role: Zamor Actor: Clarke, first time

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: LLes Paisans Gallants, as17551203

10889
10 April 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. Mainpiece: Not acted these 8 years. [See 22 March 1750.] No building on the Stage. Receipts: #49 4s. 6d. Charges: #63. Deficiency covered by #114 14s. from tickets (boxes 160; pit 394; gallery 156). Rec'd from John Rich, #300, being part of the sum paid Mrs Finny on account of the New Building. Paid out for sundries from the theatres and sum, to Barry and Lee, #284 14s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Anna Bullen Or Virtue Betrayed

Performance Comment: Henry VIII-Clarke, 1st time; Piercy-Smith, 1st time; Wolsey-Ryan; Rochford-Ridout; Northumberland-Sparks; Lady Diana Talbot-Miss Condill; Lady Elizabeth Blunt-Mrs Vincent; Anna Bullen-Mrs Bellamy, 1st time.
Cast
Role: Henry VIII Actor: Clarke, 1st time

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Ballet: JJudgment of Paris. As17580407

Dance: JJovial Coopers, as17571107

Music: By Desire, a piece onthe Welch Harp-Roberts

10890
31 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: We borrow'd Clarke for Osman. #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Performance Comment: As17590502, but Osman-Clarke from cg; Zara-Mrs Cibber.
Cast
Role: Osman Actor: Clarke from cg

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

10891
13 April 1763 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. No Building on Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Performance Comment: As17621025, but Young Knowel-Clarke.
Cast
Role: Young Knowel Actor: Clarke.

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Music: I: A Piece on the Harp-Roberts

Dance: TThe Catalonian Marriage, as17630308

10892
12 April 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. None admitted behind Scenes. Books of the Entertainment (a Musical Afterpiece, perform'd but once) to be sold at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Performance Comment: As17650312 but Young Knowell-Clarke.
Cast
Role: Young Knowell Actor: Clarke.

Afterpiece Title: The Shepherds Artifice

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; End: A Tambourine, as17641015

10893
09 April 1776 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Performance Comment: As17760112, but Dionysius-Clarke, first time; Evander-Aickin.
Cast
Role: Dionysius Actor: Clarke, first time

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Entertainment: InterludeEnd: True Blue; or, The Press Gang-Mattocks, Reinhold, Baker, Mrs Willems; The Dance-Aldridge

10894
02 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. Receipts: #182 14s. (81/15; tickets: 100/19) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Performance Comment: As17830407, but Grey (1st time)-Clarke .
Cast
Role: Grey Actor: Clarke

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Related Works
Related Work: The Opera of Operas; or Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): William Hatchett

Dance: As17821009

10895
10 October 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece With the Scene of the Drawing. [William Hint in a Letter on Managers (Daily Gazetteer 26 Oct.) laments that Dunstall was cast as Sir William Belfond in the mainpiece and that Hippisley was cast in an inferior part. He thought Hippisley would have done better as Sir William.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Performance Comment: Squire-Chapman; Belfond Jun.-Hale; Sir Edward Belfond-Bridgwater; Sir William Belfond-Dunstall; Lolpoop-Hippisley; Trueman-Cashell; Attorney-Ridout; Scrapeall-James; Cheatly-Rosco; Shamwell-Gibson; Capt Hackem-Marten; Termagant-Anderson; Teresia-Mrs Hale; Isabella-Mrs Vincent; Lucia-Miss Hippisley; Ruth-Mrs Martin; Mrs Hackem-Stoppelaer; Mrs Termagant-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Sir William Belfond Actor: Dunstall

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Related Works
Related Work: The Shepherd's Lottery Author(s): William Boyce

Dance: LLe Gondalier-Cooke, Villeneuve, Delagarde, Rector, Destrade, Mrs Delagarde, Mrs Norman, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve; La Provencale-Picq, Mlle Duval

10896
04 October 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Williams made her first appearance this Night in Polly. Spoke some of the part tolerably well, wants power in her singing (Hopkins). Polly by Miss Williams. Great Applause (Cross Diary). Miss Williams made her first appearance this night in Polly--a Lady, I think, that has but few requisites for the stage--a very indifferent voice spoke some of the part tolerable,--some few hisses (Hopkins Diary--MacMillan). Receipts: #256 9s. 6d. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17630917, but Polly-Miss Williams; Player-Mozeen.
Cast
Role: Polly Actor: Miss Williams

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

10897
28 April 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit R. Williams. Mainpiece: Not Acted these Twenty Years. On this day the Lord Mayor and the Court of Aldermen of the City presented a petition to the King seeking the suppression of the theatre in Goodman's Fields. Thomas Odell, Master of the Theatre, also appeared before His Majesty and sought royal leave to continue acting.--See Grub St. Journal, 7 May, for a summary of the events, but see also Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer and London Journal, 2 May

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mans Bewitchd Or The Devil To Do About Her

Performance Comment: Faithful-Giffard; Captain Constant-W. Williams; Lovely-Huddy; Manage-W. Giffard; Trusty-Bardin; Sir David Watchum-Penkethman; Clinch-Collet; Roger-R. Williams; Slouch-Pearce; Old Constant-Mynns; Squire Num-W. Bullock; Belinda-Mrs Haughton; Laura-Mrs Seal; Maria-Mrs Mountfort; Dorothy-Mrs Palmer; Lucy-Mrs Thomas.
Cast
Role: Captain Constant Actor: W. Williams
Role: Roger Actor: R. Williams

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Turnd Dancing Master

Dance: TThe White Joke (new)-Eaton

10898
10 February 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, author unknown. MS: Larpent 651; not published]. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Rice at the Theatre; and Tickets to be had of Mrs Williams, the Artificial Flower Warehouse, Store-street, Bedford-square. [Mrs Williams is identified in Morning Post, 11 Feb.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Refugee Or The Rival Jews

Afterpiece Title: A Musical Interlude

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Performance Comment: Cadwallader-Jackson; Vamp-Osborne; Young Cape-Edwards; Sprightly-Frederic / Mrs Cadwallader (for that night only)-A Young Lady (Sister to Mr Edwin, of Covent Garden, 1st appearance in this, and 2nd on any stage [Mrs Williams]) .Mrs Williams]) .

Song: End of Act I of 3rd piece How sweet's the love that meets return by Mrs Henley

10899
05 August 1786 @ Windsor Castle Inn, King Street, Hammersmith

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Johnston & Miss Williams. Mainpiece: Written by R. Cumberland, Esq., and perform'd at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane, with great Applause. Never acted there. Tickets to be had of Mr and Mrs Johnston & Miss Williams at the Windsor Castle [Inn], Plough and Harrow, Angel, Cock and Magpie, Salutation; and of Waldron, No. 17, Dorville's Row, where places for the Boxes may be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Natural Son

Performance Comment: Blushingly-Hill; Rueful-Wright; Dumps-Benson; Sir Jeffery Latimer-Sadler; Major O'Flaherty-Nash; David-Johnston; Jack Hustings-Waldron; Lady Paragon-Miss Williams; Penelope-Mrs Gore; Mrs Phoebe Latimer-Mrs Johnston .
Cast
Role: Lady Paragon Actor: Miss Williams

Afterpiece Title: The Wrangling Lovers or Like Master Like Man

Performance Comment: Carlos-Hill; Sancho-Benson; Jacintha-Mrs Johnston; Leonora-Miss Williams .
Cast
Role: Leonora Actor: Miss Williams
Related Works
Related Work: The Wrangling Lovers Author(s): William Lyon

10900
12 January 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 1st piece: Acted but Once [on 5 May 1790]. With new Scenes and Dresses. A Procession, representing the Ceremonies attending the Sacrifice of an Indian Woman on the Funeral Pile of her deceased Husband. [This was included in all subsequent performances.] The Music by Stevens. [Prologue by William Thomas Fitzgerald. Epilogue by Richard John Hughes Starke.] Receipts: #231 14s. 6d. (230.6.6; 1.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Malabar

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Holman, Farren, Thompson, Powel, Evatt, Harley, Mrs Rock, Miss Brunton Vocal Parts-Bannister, Incledon, Mrs Warrell, Miss Williams, Miss Stuart, Mrs Mountain; [Cast from text (William Lane, 1791): Young Bramin-Holman; Raymond-Farren; Narrain-Thompson; 2nd Bramin-Powel; Albert-Evatt; Chief Bramin-Harley; Fatima-Mrs Rock; Indamora-Miss Brunton; Prologue-Holman; Epilogue-Mrs Mattocks. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]
Cast
Role: Miss Brunton Vocal Parts Actor: Bannister, Incledon, Mrs Warrell, Miss Williams, Miss Stuart, Mrs Mountain

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Afterpiece Title: Hob in the Well

Dance: In 2nd piece: Byrn, Miss Blanchet (of dl)