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6681 results for: Keyword - Edward Henry Iliff
We found 4292 matches on Author, 1296 matches on Performance Title, 1177 matches on Performance Comments, 571 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

376
20 October 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth [part I]

Performance Comment: Sir John Falstaff-Fawcett; King Henry-Murray; Prince of Wales-Lewis; Sir Richard Vernon-Middleton; Worcester-Hull; Poins-Macready; Francis-Knight; Sir W. Blount-Toms; Bardolph-Thompson; Douglas-Farley; Northumberland-Davenport; Westmorland-Claremont; Sheriff-Haymes; Carriers-Quick, Munden; Hotspur-Holman; Hostess-Mrs Davenport; Lady Percy-Miss Chapman.
Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Murray

Afterpiece Title: Sprigs of Laurel

377
18 September 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, First Part

Performance Comment: Sir John Falstaff-Fawcett; King Henry-Murray; Prince of Wales-Lewis; Sir Richard Vernon-Waddy; Worcester-Hull; Poins-Claremont; Francis-Knight; Sir Walter Blount-Toms; Bardolph-Thompson; Douglas-Farley; Northumberland-Davenport; Westmorland-Clarke; Sheriff-Abbot; Peto-Street; Gadshill-Wilde; Prince John of Lancaster-Curties; Messenger-Dyke; Carriers-Munden, Rees; Hotspur-Holman; Hostess-Mrs Davenport; Lady Percy-Miss Chapman.
Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Murray

Afterpiece Title: The Farm House

378
25 November 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Performance Comment: King Henry-Wroughton; Prince of Wales-C. Kemble; Duke of Lancaster-Gregson; Earl of Worcester-Aickin; Earl of Northumberland-Packer; Hotspur-Kemble; Earl of Douglas-Caulfield; Sir R. Vernon-Barrymore; Earl of Westmoreland-Trueman; Sir Wal. Blunt-Holland; Sir John Falstaff-A Gentleman (1st appearance on the stage [Longley]); Poins-Russell; Gadshill-Gibbon; Peto-Simpson; Bardolph-Webb; Francis-Suett; Carriers-Dowton, Hollingsworth; Sheriff-Maddocks; Traveller-Fisher; Messenger-Evans; Lady Percy-Mrs Powell; Mrs Quickly-Mrs Walcot.
Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Wroughton

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

379
30 December 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth [part I]

Performance Comment: Sir John Falstaff-Fawcett; King Henry-Murray; Prince of Wales-Lewis; Sir Richard Vernon-Waddy; Worcester-Hull; Poins-Whitfield; Francis-Knight; Sir Walter Blount-Mansel; Bardolph-Thompson; Douglas-Farley; Northumberland-Davenport; Westmorland-Claremont; Gadshill-Wilde; Peto-Street; Carriers-Emery, Rees; Hotspur-Holman; Hostess-Mrs Davenport; Lady Percy-Miss Chapman.
Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Murray

Afterpiece Title: The Volcano

380
02 January 1705 @ Hill's Dancing Room

Event Comment: Benefit Henry Eccles, Jr. At 6 p.m. Tickets 2s. 6d. The Dancing Room is in Crosby Square in Bishopsgate Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-several Eminent Masters; with several Italian Sonatas perform'd on the Violin-Mr Henry Eccles

381
16 February 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these Fifty Years. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by Shakespear. N.B. The above Play of King Henry IV is the Genuine Play of Shakespear, and not that alter'd by Mr Betterton, and so frequently acted at the other Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Related Works
Related Work: The Royal Chace; or, Harlequin Skeleton Author(s): Edward Phillips
Related Work: The Royal Chace; or, Merlin's Cave Author(s): Edward Phillips

382
02 December 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: 1 Written by Shakespear. Benefit Powell, Howard, and others; by particular Desire. Afterpiece: Never acted there before. [The Debauchees; or, The Jesuit Caught, originally issued as The Old Debauchees by Henry Fielding, 1 June 1732, dl. Concluding the program with the National Anthem now omitted from the advertisements.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: 1 The Debauchees

Song: 1 Brett

Dance: 1 As17451028

383
08 May 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Aickin and Mrs Lee. House Charges #33 8s. Rec'd stopages #2 13s. (Treasurer's Book). Tickets deliver'd by Sg Giorgi and Miss Berkley will be admitted. Neville MS Diary: Went to ye Pit to see 2nd part of Henry IV. [Comments on performances of individual characters in general.] Falstaff very well by Love. This last uses his eyes with great propriety in this and many other characters....Pistol by Baddeley (King should have played it)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

Dance: End: A Minuet-Miss Giorgi, Miss Collett Scholars to Sg Giorgi; End I of the Farce: Hearts of Oak, as17670212, but-Grimaldi, Mrs King

384
19 January 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: KKing Henry, Mr Garrick (Cross Diary). Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [See 8 May 1767.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

385
26 January 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: KKing Henry, Mr Garrick (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

386
02 February 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: KKing Henry, Mr Garrick (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

387
27 January 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Younger for 2 Licenses (King Henry II, and The Man of Business) #4 4s. Paid Farrington & Scarr (haberdashers) #26 16s. Receipts: #179 7s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs

388
13 April 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Hartley. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire, with New Music, Dresses and Decorations. Interlude taken from Prior's celebrated poem, The Nut Brown Maid. Books of the Interlude to be had at the Theatre. Adapted by Henry Bate. Charges: #72 9s. 6d. Profit to Mrs Hartley #54 15s., plus #61 18s. from tickets (Box 202; Pit 76). Paid Whitfield for making cloaths #33 17s. 4d.; Paid Mr Walker for trimmings &c. #13 4s. Receipts: #127 4s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: End: The Old Ground Young, as17731208; After which: New Poetical Interlude, Henry and Emma: Parts-Smith, Hull, Miss Brown, Mrs Hartley; To conclude with: a New Air and Chorus by Dr Arne-

389
02 January 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [On this night Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Henry and Sga Crespi also danced in 3 ballets at king's. A probable explanation is that the play at dl began three-quarters of an hour earlier than did the opera.] Receipts: #103 4s. (69.16; 31.18; 1.10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: End: The Countryman Deceiv'd-Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Henry, Sga Crespi, Delpini

390
20 September 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe; or, Harlequin Friday

Dance: Afterpiece: To conclude with a Dance by Henry, Miss Armstrong, the Miss Stageldoirs, &c. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances, but beginning with 1 Dec. Henry is omitted.]

Performance Comment: [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances, but beginning with 1 Dec. Henry is omitted.] hathi.

391
19 October 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur; Or, The British Worthy

Related Works
Related Work: Arthur and Emmeline Author(s): Henry Purcell

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Dance: In mainpiece by Zuchelli, Henry, Miss Armstrong, Miss M. Stageldoir. [This was the same, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances, but beginning with 11 Dec. Henry is omitted.]

Performance Comment: Stageldoir. [This was the same, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances, but beginning with 11 Dec. Henry is omitted.] hathi.
Related Works
Related Work: Miss Lucy in Town Author(s): Henry Fielding
Related Work: The Country Madcap in London Author(s): Henry Fielding

Song: In mainpiece the Vocal Parts by Du-Bellamy, Williams, Fawcett, Chaplin, Phillimore, &c.; Miss Phillips, Miss Collett, Miss Wright, Miss Stageldoir, Mrs Wrighten

392
17 December 1782 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [In the 1st ballet the playbill lists Mme Rossi, but she did not dance. As the 2nd ballet the playbill announces Il Ratto delle Sabine, but Mme Rossi was ill, which "rendered a verbal apology unavoidable. 'Mme Rossi was in hopes that her wish to court your favour would enable her to overcome her illness, but it has been as sudden as it is now alarming. She has just been let blood. The manager therefore intreats your indulgence, and that you will accept of Apelles and Campaspe instead of the Grand Ballet, which cannot possibly be performed.' . . . Henry performed the part of Alexander with the greatest propriety" (Public Advertiser, 19 Dec.).]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Convito

Dance: End of Act I New Divertisement, probably as17821119; End of Open Apelles and Campaspe, probably as17821102, but added: Henry

393
09 May 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Martyr. 1st piece: Never performed here. [Miss Thornton is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill. Address by Horatio Edgar Robson (European Magazine, May 1786, p. 369).] 2nd piece: Not acted these 7 years. 3rd piece: Written by Henry Fielding. Morning Herald, 19 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Martyr, No. 31, Tavistock-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #280 6s. 6d. (138/15/6; 3/6/0; tickets: 138/5/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lover

Afterpiece Title: Annette and Lubin

Afterpiece Title: The Country Mad Cap; or, Miss Lucy in Town

Related Works
Related Work: Miss Lucy in Town Author(s): Henry Fielding
Related Work: The Country Madcap in London Author(s): Henry Fielding

Dance: End of 2nd piece The Drunken Sailor Reclaim'd, as17860424

Song: End of Act II of 1st piece a new song, Toung Henry, by Mrs Martyr

Monologue: 1786 05 09 Before 1st piece a new Occasional Address spoken by Holman

394
18 December 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: "A new Tragedy, called Eloisa [and Richard Coeur de Lion, both announced on playbill of 16 Dec. were] to have been represented last night; but on account of the illness of Farren [were] obliged to be deferred, and Fontainbleau, with Hob in the Well were announced [in playbill of this present night], but on account of the sudden indisposition of Edwin...both pieces were obliged to be changed to Henry IV, with Barataria" (Public Advertiser, 19 Dec.). Receipts: #117 0s. 6d. (115.0.0; 2.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Afterpiece Title: Barataria

395
17 June 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [In 3rd piece the playbill retain Iliff, but "On the fifth night of the representation, while R. Palmer was reading the part of Lord Megrim (Iliff being ill) an alarm of fire occasioned a disgreeable tumult; the performers assured the audience there was no danger, it being the opposite theatre (the Opera House, which was consumed) that was in flames. The Ladies, however, still retained their apprehensions, and all were eager to depart; happily this anxiety produced no accident" (Oulton, 1796, II, 52). Iliff perhaps did not act in Vimonda.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seeing Is Believing

Afterpiece Title: Vimonda

Performance Comment: Dundore (1st time)-Williamson; Barnard-Aickin; Rothsay-Kemble; Servant-Johnson; Melvil-Iliff; Alfreda-Mrs Barresford; Vimonda-Mrs Kemble.
Cast
Role: Melvil Actor: Iliff

Afterpiece Title: As It Should Be

Performance Comment: As17890603 but Lord Megrim Iliff's part-R. Palmer.
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Chambers, Reeve, Mathews, Chapman, Miss George, Mrs Iliff, Mrs Plomer, Mrs Powell, Mrs Bannister
Role: Lord Megrim Actor: Iliff

Entertainment: Monologue. End 2nd piece: British Loyalty or A Squeeze for St. Paul's-Bannister Jun.; conclude with: God save the King-Chapman, Chambers, Mathews

396
31 July 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Iliff. Afterpiece: Not acted these 10 years [not acted since 30 July 1778]. Diary, 28 July: Tickets to be had of Iliff, No. 20, Charles-street, Westminster

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Performance Comment: Count Almaviva-Iliff; Doctor Bartholo-Moss (Their 1st appearance in those characters); Basil-Aickin; Argus-Reeve; Tallboy-R. Palmer; Notary-Burton; Alcade-Chapman; Lazarillo-Edwin; Rosina-Mrs Bannister.
Cast
Role: Count Almaviva Actor: Iliff

Afterpiece Title: The Portrait

Performance Comment: Leander-Davies; Pantaloon-Reeve; Columbine-Mrs Iliff; Isabella-Miss George.
Cast
Role: Columbine Actor: Mrs Iliff

Entertainment: Imitations End: Theatrical Imitations Serious, Comic, Vocal, and Rhetorical,-Rees; Duologue End afterpiece: Hobby@Horses Describing the Statesman's Hobby, the Ladies' Hobby, the Lawyer's Hobby, the Physician's Hobby, the Manager's Hobby, and R. Palmer's own Hobby,-R. Palmer, Iliff

Performance Comment: Palmer's own Hobby,-R. Palmer, Iliff.
Cast
Role: almer's own Hobby, Actor: R. Palmer, Iliff.

397
04 August 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Iliff

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Afterpiece Title: Inkle and Yarico

Performance Comment: As17900628 but Wowski (1st time)-Mrs Iliff.
Cast
Role: Wowski Actor: Mrs Iliff.
Role: Marinette Actor: Mrs Edwards

Afterpiece Title: Thimble's Flight from the Shopboard

Performance Comment: Sir Brimmer Bountiful-Moss; Dermot O'Dogherty-R. Palmer; Ensign Frederick-Iliff; Tim Thomble (with Imitations, Serious, Comic, and Rhetorical)-Rees; Betty-Miss Palmer; Sophia-Mrs Taylor.
Cast
Role: Ensign Frederick Actor: Iliff

398
12 August 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Beneift for Mr and Mrs Iliff

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Performance Comment: As17910623 but Araminta (1st time)-Mrs Iliff.
Cast
Role: Araminta Actor: Mrs Iliff.

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Cast
Role: The Minor Actor: Iliff

399
14 April 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [3rd piece in place of Harlequin's Return, advertised on playbill of 13 Apr. In it the playbill retains Mrs Mountain as Norah, but she "was taken ill & Mrs Iliff played Norah" (MS annotation on BM playbill, cg, Vol. X). Incledon renewed his engagement (see 14 Feb.), and acted on this night and regularly thereafter.] Receipts: #87 14s. 6d. (86.0.6; 1.14.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Raft

Afterpiece Title: Secrets Worth Knowing

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Performance Comment: As17970927, but Norah-Mrs Iliff.
Cast
Role: Norah Actor: Mrs Iliff.

400
13 October 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these Six years [8 April 1735]. Containing the Distresses and Death of King Henry VIv. The artful acquisition of the Crown by King Richardv. The Murder of Young King Edward Vv and his Brother, in the Tower. The Landing of the Earl of Richmondv, and the Death of King Richard in the memorable Battle of Bosworth Fieldv, being the last that was fought between the Houses of York and Lancaster. [This customary description appears in all subsequent notices.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Performance Comment: Richard-Ryan; King Henry-Bridgwater; Richmond-Hale; Buckingham-Cashell; Prince Edward-Mrs Vincent; Duke of York-Miss Morrison; Tressel-Chapman; Stanley-Rosco; Norfolk-Stephens; Lord Mayor-Marten; Lieut. of Tower-Stevens; Catesby-Gibson; Ratcliff-Harrington; Oxford-Bencraft; Blunt-Clark; Tyrrel-Stoppelaer; Forrest-Vaughan; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs Pritchard; Lady Anne-Mrs Horton; Duchess of York-Mrs Mullart.
Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Prince Edward Actor: Mrs Vincent

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer