Event Comment: Benefit Quin. Mainpiece: Written by Dryden, in Imitation of Shakespear. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Toyshop. [Tickets at Quin's Lodgings, The Sun, in Bedford-street, cg.

Event Comment: Benefit Harper. Mainpiece: Written by Dryden. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Gay, Author of the Beggar's Opera

Event Comment: Benefit Rosco, A. Ryan, Mrs Bellamy. Mainpiece: Written by Dryden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Dryden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Dryden

Event Comment: As 27 Nov. Mainpiece: Written by Dryden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Dryden

Event Comment: As 27 Nov. 1738. Mainpiece: Written by Dryden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Dryden

Event Comment: As 27 Nov. Mainpiece: Written by Dryden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Dryden

Event Comment: As 27 Nov. 1738. Mainpiece: Written by Dryden

Event Comment: An Ode. Written by Mr Dryden

Event Comment: For the Benefit and Increase of a Fund Establish'd for the Support of Decay'd Musicians or their Families. Written by Mr Dryden. Pit and Boxes at half a guinea. Gallery 5s. 7 p.m

Event Comment: Written by Mr Dryden. Receipts: #104 4s. 6d. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.)

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa. Written by Mr Dryden. Receipts: #114 12s. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.)

Event Comment: By particular Desire. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Dryden. Receipts: #53 16s. (Account Book); #90 (Rylands MS.)

Event Comment: Written by Mr Dryden. Receipts: #109 13s. 6d. (Account Book); #120 (Rylands MS.)

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Hignesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Mainpiece: Written by Dryden. Receipts: #160 6s. (Account Book); #120 (Rylands MS.). [According to the Account Book, Mrs Porter again received #20 for her performance this night.

Event Comment: N.B. That the Ladies and Gentlemen may not be detained at the Theatre while Tickets are given them, they are desir'd to send for them to Mr Arne's House in Craven Buildings near Drury Lane, Number 17, or to Mr Bradshaw, Box-Keeper, at the Kings Arms in Great Russel St., where tickets may be had, and places taken. Boxes 6s. Pit 4s. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. Ladies are desir'd to send their servants to keep places by Four o'clock. NB: Mr Arne humbly hopes the Town will not be offended at this small advance of Prices, being at an extraordinary expence for copying all the Music, building the stage, additional instrumental performers, chorus singers, and erecting an Organ. [The attendance apparently was heavy. See note to repeated performance on 19 March.] Mainpiece: Written by Dryden and set to Music by Handel

Event Comment: Revived Comedy. Never acted there before. Written by Mr Dryden

Event Comment: Mainpiece written by Dryden, acted but once these 20 years. For the Entertainment of His Excellency Hodge Brean Coritong, Ambassador from the Bey of Tripoli

Event Comment: Altered from Dryden by Colley Cibber....a Man who was in the Upper Gallery...threw an apple from thence, with an intent, as is suppos'd to hit some person who was looking through the Curtain, but struck a Lady of Quality in the face, who sat in the stage box; upon which the manager order'd the Constable attending the House to make inquiry after the person who did it, and he was immediately apprehended, on the information of several people who sat near him, and was, by the Lady's desire carried before a Justice, who would have committed him for the assault; but on his begging Pardon, and promising never to offend in the like manner, she was pleas'd to forgive him, and he was discharg'd.--As it was a Publick Affront some Gentlemen would have had him brought on the stage to make a Public acknowledgment of his folly;--and tis hop'd that will be the punishment hereafter, for those who offend in the like manner.--General Advertiser, 3 Nov

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman under misfortunes. Mainpiece Alter'd from Dryden by $Colley Cibber, Esq.

Event Comment: With proper scenes, Machines, &c. [This is the Dryden-Davenant version.] Paid G. Garrick balance of his bill #6 13s.; Christmas Box to ye Beadle 3s. 6d.; Mr Norton 5 chorus #1 5s.; Xmas Jury #1 1s.; Mr Madden for an Embroidered Coat and a velvet suit of Cloaths #12 (Treasurer's Book). [This month was published A Dissertation on Comedy (by John Hippisley, Jr) in which the Rise and Progress of that Species of the Drama is particularly considered and deduced from the earliest to the present age. By a Student of Oxford. Printed for T. Lowndes (Gentleman's Magazine, Register of Books). The "Student of Oxford" seems to have been a Garrick apologist in the extreme: "But whatever reason there may have been formerly for this complaint [the immorality of the stage] since Mr Garrick's management the Stage is become the school of manners and morality: Ribaldry and Profaneness are no longer tolerated, Sense and Nature exert their influence; Pantomime daily declines, Dancers are but little encouraged; the Burletta performs to empty benches, and the British can now vie with the Athenian Drama when in its severest state of purity" (p. 15). Also, from the same source, Reflections on that Species of Dramatic Writing which it improperly call'd Serious Comedy: from the French of M Maillet du Boulley.] Receipts: #120 (Cross); #126 3s. (Treasurer's Book)