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Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is known by the separately printed Prologue and Epilogue: Prologue. By Mr Otway to his Play call'd Venice preserv'd or the Plot discover'd. Acted at His Royal Highness the Duke of Yorks Theatre, the 9th of February, 1681. [These have been reprinted in Wiley, Rare Prologues and Epilogues, pp. 61-66.] Luttrell dated his copy of the Prologue and Epilogue 11 Feb. 1681@2 (Huntington Library). It is not certain that 9 Feb. 1681@2 represents the first performance, but it may well be. For a comment by Downes, Roscius Anglicanus, on Mrs Barry, see The Orphan, February 1679@80

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Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd; Or, A Plot Discover'd

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The Prologue and Epilogue, separately printed, bear Luttrell's date of acquisition, 21 April 1682 (Huntington Library), and have been reprinted in Wiley, Rare Prologues and Epilogues, pp. 102-05. The Prologue and Epilogue were advertised in The Observator, 27 April 1682, with the statement: Recommended to All Men of Sense and Loyalty

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Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Performance Comment: See16820209, but Prologue To His Royal Highness Upon His first appearance at the Duke's Theatre since his Return from Scotland. Written by Mr Dryden-Mr Smith; The Epilogue Written by Mr Otway to his Play call'd Venice Preserv'd; or a Plot Discover'd; Spoken upon his Royal Highness the Duke of York's coming to the Theatre, Friday, April 21, 1682-. The Epilogue Written by Mr Otway to his Play call'd Venice Preserv'd; or a Plot Discover'd; Spoken upon his Royal Highness the Duke of York's coming to the Theatre, Friday, April 21, 1682-.

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Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Performance Comment: Lavinio-Thurmond; Trapolin-Bowen; Brunetto-Husband; Barbarino-Boman; Conjuror-Cross.
Cast
Role: Brunetto Actor: Husband

Dance: LaBee, lately arriv'd from the Opera at Paris; also new dances-Thurmond Jr, others

Song: A Variety of English and Italian Songs-

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Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: Between the Acts: Dancing-

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.

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Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: Drunken Man-Harper

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Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these Six Years. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the late N. Tate, Esq; Poet Laureat, Author of the Tragedy of King Lear. With Scenes, Habits, Machines, and other proper Decorations

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Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance:

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Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wedding and Skimmington

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Dance:

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Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wedding and Skimmington

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Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

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Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin a Sorcerer

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Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Event Comment: Receipts: #91 2s. [For a discussion of this performance, especialy the acting of Milward and Chapman, see Universal Spectator, 11 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

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Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Performance Comment: With a Song and an Epilogue address'd to the Ladies.

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Andromeda Actor: Mrs Carter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Cheats of Harlequin

Performance Comment: Perseus-Rochetti; Cepheus-Leveridge; Mercury-Laguerre; Cassiope-Mrs Sanderson; Andromeda-Mrs Carter; Medusa-Mrs Wright; Stheno-Salway; Euryale-Papillion; 1st Ethiopian-Thompson; 2d Ethiopian-Salway; Cyclops-Hall; Delagarde, DuPre Jr, Smith; Amazons-Mrs Cantrel, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Ogden; Infernals-Papillion, Poitier, DuPre, Pelling, Glover, Newhouse; Hussar-Nivelon; Harlequin-Lun; Petit Maitre-Poitier; Hussar's Servant-Hippisley; Valet-Ray; Colombine-Mrs Younger; with the Grand Dance of Momus-.

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Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Cassiope Actor: Mrs Sanderson
Role: Andromeda Actor: Miss Norsa

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Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

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Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

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Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Andromeda Actor: Miss Norsa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performance Comment: As17360124, but Rural Swain and Nymph omitted .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice