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Event Comment: The King's Company. It is difficult to assign a date to this burlesque, but it is obviously a satiric thrust at Elkanah Settle's The Empress of Morocco, which had been acted on 3 July 1673, and on Macbeth, which had been most recently acted (probably) on 9 Aug. 1673. As the title page of Duffett's burlesque does not name a theatre, it is not known whether it was acted before the King's Company left Lincoln's Inn Fields for the new theatre in Drury Lane. But the fact that Settle's Empress of Morocco was acted again at Dorset Garden on 6 Dec. 1673 makes December 1673 a likely month (or the King's Company to play its burlesque, although it may have been given in the late summer or early autumn, as many lesser actors are in the cast

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Mainpiece Title: The Empress Of Morocco

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Related Work: The Empress of Morocco Author(s): Elkanah Settle
Event Comment: The United Company. The date of this production is determined by a letter (see below). For a discussion of the origin and development of this play, see Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, pp. 274-76. A song, Why shou'd the world mistake, the music composed by John Eccles and sung by Mrs Hudson, is in Thesaurus Musicus, 1695. An unidentified letter, 22 March 1693@4: We had another new play yesterday, called The Ambitious Slave, or a Generous Revenge. Elkanah Settle is the author of it, and the success is answerable to his reputation. I never saw a piece so wretched, nor worse contrived. He pretends 'tis a Persian story, but not one body in the whole audience could make any thing of it; 'tis a mere babel, and will sink for ever. The poor poet, seeing the house would not act it for him, and give him the benefit of the third day, made a present of it to the women in tie house, who act it, but without profit or incouragement (Edmond Malone, An Historical Account of the Stage in Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare [London, 1821], III, 163-64). Gentleman's Journal, March 1694: 'Tis not altogether strange for a Play to be less kindly receiv'd, immediately after one that has deservedly ingross'd all the Applause which the Town can well bestow in some time on new Dramatic Entertainments. Perhaps Mr Settle may partly impute to this, the want of success of a new Tragedy of his which was lately acted, 'tis called, The Ambitious Slave; or, The Generous Revenge. [This play followed Southerne's The Fatal Marriage.

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Mainpiece Title: The Ambitious Slave; Or, A Generous Revenge

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Related Work: The Ambitious Slave; or, A Generous Revenge Author(s): Elkanah Settle
Related Work: The Ambitious Slave Author(s): Elkanah Settle
Event Comment: The King's Company, This performance is on the L. C. lists 5@139, p. 129, and 5@12, p. 17. The latter states: The King here. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344. Elkanah Settle's Prologue to his revision of Philaster (1695): @The good old Play Philaster ne're can fail@But we Young Actors, how shall we prevail?@Philaster and Bellario, let me tell ye,@For these Bold Parts we have no Hart, no Nelly;@Those Darlings of the Stage, that charm'd you there.

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Mainpiece Title: Philaster; Or, Love Lies A Bleeding

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Related Work: Philaster; or, Love Lies a Bleeding Author(s): Elkanah Settle
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 216. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 348. There is considerable uncertainty as to when the first performance occurred, but it appears to have been acted first at court. See Boswell, Restoration Court Stage, pp. 131-34. The first Prologue, written by Lord Mulgrove, and the second, written by Lord Rochester, are in A Collection of Poems Written upon several Occasions by several Persons (1673). Roger North: And now we turne to the Publik theatres. It had bin strange if they had not observed this promiscuous tendency to musick, and not have taken it into their scenes and profited by it. The first proffer of theirs, as I take it, was in a play of the thick-sculd-poetaster Elkanah Settle, called The Empress of Morocco; which had a sort of masque poem of Orfeus and Euridice, set by Mr M. Lock, but scandalously performed. It begins The Groans of Ghosts, &c. and may be had in print (Roger North on Music, ed. John Wilson [London, 1959], p. 306)

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Mainpiece Title: The Empress Of Morocco

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Event Comment: By Elkanah Settle. Luttrell, A Brief Relation, 29 Oct. 1692: This day the usuall show of lord mayors, where the king and queen dined, most of the nobility, &c., but the prince and princesse were not invited: the feast was at charge of lord mayor and court of alderman: the lord mayor subscribed 300#, each she rife, 150#, and the aldermen 50# apeice: the kings regiment of foot guards was all in new cloths, and the horse guards too: the militia of Middlesex were as a guard in the Strand, and the artillery, with silver and steell headpeices, lined tne streets where the mayor came

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Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

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Related Work: The Triumphs of London Author(s): Elkanah Settle
Related Work: The Triumphs of London, Performed on Thursday, Octob. 29. 1691, for the Entertainment of the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Stamp, Kt; Lord Mayor of the City of London Author(s): Elkanah Settle
Related Work: Glory's Resurrection: Being the Triumphs of London Reviv'd for the Inauguration of the Right Honourable Sir Francis Child, Kt. Lord Mayor of London Author(s): Elkanah Settle
Related Work: The Triumphs of London: For the Inauguration of the Right Honourable Sir Richard Levett, Kt. Lord Mayor of the City of London Author(s): Elkanah Settle
Related Work: The Triumphs of London: Performed on Monday October 30, 1693 Author(s): Elkanah Settle
Related Work: The Triumphs of London: Prepared for the Entertainments of Sir Thomas Lane, Knight Author(s): Elkanah Settle
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Event Comment: The Lord Mayor's Shoew. By Elkanah Settle. The cost of the pageants: Masters' Accounts, #479 14s. 2d.; Wardens' Accounts, #43 1s. 2d. See R. T. D. Sayle, Lord Mayors' Pageants (London, 1931), p. 145

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Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

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Related Work: The Triumphs of London Author(s): Elkanah Settle
Related Work: The Triumphs of London, Performed on Thursday, Octob. 29. 1691, for the Entertainment of the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Stamp, Kt; Lord Mayor of the City of London Author(s): Elkanah Settle
Related Work: Glory's Resurrection: Being the Triumphs of London Reviv'd for the Inauguration of the Right Honourable Sir Francis Child, Kt. Lord Mayor of London Author(s): Elkanah Settle
Related Work: The Triumphs of London: For the Inauguration of the Right Honourable Sir Richard Levett, Kt. Lord Mayor of the City of London Author(s): Elkanah Settle
Related Work: The Triumphs of London: Performed on Monday October 30, 1693 Author(s): Elkanah Settle
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Event Comment: The Lord Mayor's Show. By Elkanah Settle. See Celia Fennes, Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (1888), pp. 242 ff, for an account of a Lord Mayor's show in the late seventeenth century

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Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

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Related Work: The Triumphs of London Author(s): Elkanah Settle
Related Work: The Triumphs of London, Performed on Thursday, Octob. 29. 1691, for the Entertainment of the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Stamp, Kt; Lord Mayor of the City of London Author(s): Elkanah Settle
Related Work: Glory's Resurrection: Being the Triumphs of London Reviv'd for the Inauguration of the Right Honourable Sir Francis Child, Kt. Lord Mayor of London Author(s): Elkanah Settle
Related Work: The Triumphs of London: For the Inauguration of the Right Honourable Sir Richard Levett, Kt. Lord Mayor of the City of London Author(s): Elkanah Settle
Related Work: The Triumphs of London: Performed on Monday October 30, 1693 Author(s): Elkanah Settle
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Event Comment: London. By Elkanah Settle. The Lord Mayor's Show

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Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

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Related Work: The Triumphs of London, Performed on Thursday, Octob. 29. 1691, for the Entertainment of the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Stamp, Kt; Lord Mayor of the City of London Author(s): Elkanah Settle
Related Work: Glory's Resurrection: Being the Triumphs of London Reviv'd for the Inauguration of the Right Honourable Sir Francis Child, Kt. Lord Mayor of London Author(s): Elkanah Settle
Related Work: The Triumphs of London: For the Inauguration of the Right Honourable Sir Richard Levett, Kt. Lord Mayor of the City of London Author(s): Elkanah Settle
Related Work: The Triumphs of London: Performed on Monday October 30, 1693 Author(s): Elkanah Settle
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Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

Performance Comment: For the Inauguration of the Right Honourable Sir Richard Levett, Kt. Lord Mayor of the City of London. Containing a Description of the Pageants, together with the Publick Speaches, and the whole Solemnity of the Day. Perform'd on Monday the 30th day of October, Anno 1699. All set forth at the proper cost and charges of the Honourable Company of Haberdashers. [By Elkanah Settle.]
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Event Comment: [By Elkanah Settle. Advance notice in Post Boy, 3-6 May, may indicate premiere on this day, but possibly delayed to 15 May.

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Mainpiece Title: The Virgin Prophetess; Or, The Fate Of Troy

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Related Work: The Virgin Prophetess or the Fate of Troy Author(s): Elkanah Settle
Event Comment: [By Elkanah Settle.] Never Acted before. Preface: I was reduced to the Necessity of bringing it in in the long Vacation, and consequently with a very narrow Expectation of Profit from the Product of so barren a Season. And as the then Emptiness of the Town cou'd give it but a few, though those all friendly Auditors, I sit down contented with the general Reception it has met

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Mainpiece Title: The City Ramble; Or, A Playhouse Wedding

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Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 81. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 348. There is no certainty as to whether this is the date of the first performance. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 35): Then the Conquest of China by the Tartars, by Mr Settle; in this Play Mr Jevon Acting a Chinese Prince and Commander in it, and being in the Battle, Vanquisht by the Tartars; he was by his Part to fall upon the point of his Sword and Kill himself, rather than be a Prisoner by the Tartars: Mr Jevon instead of falling on the point of his Sword, laid it in the Scabbard at length upon the Ground and fell upon't, saying, now I am Dead; which put the Author into such a Fret, it made him speak Treble instead of Double Jevons answer was; did not you bid me fall upon my Sword

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Mainpiece Title: The Conquest Of China By The Tartars

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Event Comment: The King's Company. The Newdigate newsletters, 3 June 1680: But on Wednesday the Duchesse of Portsmouth to disoblige Mr Settle the Poet carryed all the Court with her to the Dukes house to see Macbeth (Wilson, Theatre Notes from the Newdigate Newsletters, p. 80)

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Mainpiece Title: The Female Prelate

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Mainpiece Title: Philaster; Or, Love Lies A Bleeding

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Mainpiece Title: Cambyses, King Of Persia

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Mainpiece Title: Philaster; Or, Love Lies A Bleeding

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Mainpiece Title: Philaster; Or, Love Lies A Bleeding

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Mainpiece Title: The Empress Of Morocco

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Mainpiece Title: Philaster; Or, Love Lies A Bleeding

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Mainpiece Title: Love And Revenge

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Mainpiece Title: Love And Revenge

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Mainpiece Title: The Conquest Of China By The Tartars

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Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

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Mainpiece Title: Ibrahim The Illustrious Bassa

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Mainpiece Title: Philaster; Or, Love Lies A Bleeding

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