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Event Comment: At Fielding-Hippisley Booth at the George Inn in West Smithfield. A new Dramatick Entertainment. Done from the French of Moliere, and intermix'd with Variety of Songs to old Ballad Tunes and Country Dances. All the Characters to be entirely new Dressed. [Advertised 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31 Aug.; 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 Sept.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Envious Statesman; Or, The Fall Of Essex; With The Humours Of The Forc'd Physician

Dance: Mons D'Ferrou Ville , lately arrived from Paris, Miss Brett, Miss Mears

Music: A Band , including Burk Thumoth

Entertainment: Before the Opera: Postures-Phillips

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. Daily Advertiser, 12 Oct.: The same Day [11 Oct., the Anniversary of His Majesty's Coronation] Mr Giffard...gave a handsome Entertainment, with a Concert of Musick, to the Company of Comedians, and a large Bonfire and Liquor to the Populace, when the Healths of their Majesties, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; the Duke, and the Princesses, were drank, with the sounding of Kettle Drums and Trumpets, and repeated Acclamations of Joy. Daily Post, 13 Oct.: Mr Fielding the Player (who keeps a Booth...during...Bartholomew Fair) gave to the Populace before his own Door in Hart-street, Bloomsbury, a Butt of the strongest Beer that could be got; also a large Bonfire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Dance: DDutch Skipper-D'Valois, Mrs Bullock; Tambourine-Miss Wherrit; Sailor's Dance-Jones

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Egmont, Diary, I, 333: to the new play called The Miser, which is well translated from Moliere by Mr Fielding, and well acted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Related Works
Related Work: The Miser Author(s): Henry Fielding
Related Work: The Miser Author(s): Henry Fielding
Event Comment: Benefit Fielding and Houghton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: The Imaginary Cuckolds

Event Comment: At Fielding-Hippisley Booth, in the George-Inn-Yard. Mainpiece: A Dramatic Entertainment. Afterpiece: A Ballad Opera. Done from the French of Moliere. Intermix'd With Variety of Songs set to old Ballad Tunes, and Country Dances. 1 to 11 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Jealousy; Or, The Downfall Of Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: A Cure for Covetousness; or, The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: FFooting Dance-LeBrun, Mrs Ogden; Fisher Tench, Mlle D'Lorme

Event Comment: At Fielding-Hippisley Booth. Daily Post, 4 Sept.: We hear...that there have been such frequent Calls for Copies of that favourite Duetto of Sweet If You Love Me Smiling Turn. (sung by Salway and Mrs Pritchard) that they have been provided printed Copies of it be given Gratis daily at their Booth...and that further to entertain...Hippisley, at the End of the last Time of Acting every Night, will divert the Audience with his Comic Scene call'd the Drunken Man, as will also Mons LeBrun with his Drunken Peasant

Performances

Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 17 Aug.: This Day, Mr Fielding will Rehearse his Play [for BF], and Practice his Musick, at his own House, the Buffalo Tavern, Bloomsbury, at Ten in the Morning

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Carlos, Prince Of Spa1n

Event Comment: At Fielding-Oates Booth. [Advertised 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 Aug.; 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Sept.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Carlos, Prince Of Spa1n

Afterpiece Title: The Constant Lovers: With the Comical Humours of Mons Ragout

Dance: By Davenport, Mrs Davenport, Master Oates, Miss Oates

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Taken from Plautus and Moliere by Mr Fielding. Afterpiece: Taken from the French of Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Related Works
Related Work: The Miser Author(s): Henry Fielding
Related Work: The Miser Author(s): Henry Fielding

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Related Works
Related Work: The Mock Doctor; or, The Dumb Lady Cur'd Author(s): Henry Fielding

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. III: Pierrots by Nivelon and Poitier. V: Les Bergeries by Essex, Mrs Walter, Pelling, Chose, Davenport, Mrs Pelling, Miss Brett

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Taken from Plautus and Moliere by Mr Fielding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Related Works
Related Work: The Miser Author(s): Henry Fielding
Related Work: The Miser Author(s): Henry Fielding

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Dance: By Denoyer and Mlle Roland

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Taken from Plautus and Moliere by Mr Fielding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Related Works
Related Work: The Miser Author(s): Henry Fielding
Related Work: The Miser Author(s): Henry Fielding

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Dance: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. Black Joak by Nivelon and Miss Mann. Polonese by Essex and Mrs Walter

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Eminent Citizens. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Lillo. Afterpiece: Taken from the French of Moliere, by H. Fielding, Esq. At Common Prices. 6:30 P.M. [Tickets for Grey, Peploe, Mrs Moor taken. The Doorkeepers are ordered not to take tickets sold by Orange Women.] London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 3 July: The Play of George Barnwell, and the Farce of the Mock Doctor . . . was perform'd to a Crowded Audience, with Great Applause . . . The Revival of the above-mentioned Play seems welltim'd, when so many fine Ladies of Pleasure make their Appearance, with unusual Equipages, and their Gallants run the most extraordinary Lengths, to their own Ruin, and Grief of their Friends

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Related Works
Related Work: The Mock Doctor; or, The Dumb Lady Cur'd Author(s): Henry Fielding

Music: Select Pieces. II: A Concerto for two Hautboys performed by Woodbridge and Neale

Dance: I:Jenny come tie me; or, The Neu, Way of Wooing by Davenport and Miss Brett. III: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. V: Pierot by Davenport and Cox. End Afterpiece: A new Comic Dance by Le Brun and Mrs Anderson

Song: IV: As17350603

Event Comment: At Fielding-Hippisley Booth. [From 23 Aug. to 26 Aug.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Carlos, Prince Of Spain

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Music: A Great Band of Musick

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Event Comment: At Fielding-Hallam Great Booth, Near the Trunpike in Tottenham-Court [during the Fair]. 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. [Advertised also on 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mad Lovers; Or, Sport Upon Sport: With The Comical Humours Of Squire Graygoose, His Man Doodle, My Lady Graygoose, Captain Atall

Song: the two Mhe two Master Hamilton

Dance: A comic Peasant Dance-DelaGrange, Mlle DelaGrange, LeBrune, Mlle LeBrune, Bencraft, Mrs Penkethman

Music: an extraordinaryBan extraordinaryBand of Musick is provided, consisting of Violins, Hautboys, Bassoons, Kettle-Drums, Trumpets, French-Horns

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 21 Aug.: On Saturday Morning early died at his house the Buffalo's Head Tavern in Bloomsbury Square, Mr Fielding, formerly belonging to the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane

Performances

Event Comment: FFawkes and Pinchbeck's Booth, end of Hosier Lane, West Smithfield. Noon to 10 p.m. Boxes 2s. Pit 1s. Gallery 6d. Mainpiece: Written by Henry Fielding, Esq. Afterpiece: The Present Tense...by Punch's Company of comical Tragedians from the Haymarket [i.e., a puppet show]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Humours Of Covent Garden; Or, The Covent Garden Tragedy

Related Works
Related Work: The Covent Garden Tragedy Author(s): Henry Fielding
Related Work: The Rival Queens; or, Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden Author(s): Henry Fielding
Related Work: The Covent Garden Tragedy Author(s): Henry Fielding

Afterpiece Title: The Universal Monarch Defeated; or, The Queen of Hungary Triumphant

Entertainment: While the booth is filling, the Audience will be diverted by Curious Performances-Ruffian Boy

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Written by Mr Fielding. [The twenty-five performances of this piece this season capitalized upon the anti-French sentiment, anti-Popish sentiment manifest in the daily press.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees; or, The Jesuit Caught

Related Works
Related Work: The Old Debauchees Author(s): Henry Fielding

Dance: III: Grand Dance, as17451008

Song: IV: Lowe

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

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Written by Fielding. Powel: Rec'd of the Fruit Woman in Part #10. Receipts: #140 (Cross); #136 1s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees; or, The Jesuit Caught

Related Works
Related Work: The Old Debauchees Author(s): Henry Fielding
Event Comment: The Fifteenth Day. [See Fielding's Author's Farce.] @Punch, Punch, Punch@Take care of your Hunch@Take care of your big strutting Belly@If once you should dare@War with me to declare@I'll beat your fat Head to a Jelly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Event Comment: This day is publish'd written by Henry Fielding, Esq. the 4th edn. of An Old Man taught Wisdom; or the Virgin Unmask'd, a Farce, as it is now acting at Drury Lane. With the Music prefix'd to each song. Printed for I. Watts. Receipts: #170 (Cross); #171 12s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Peace

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Comedie in 5 Actes de Mr Baron. The alleged deposition of Wm Davison:...he on the 17th Day of November being the second Night of the French Strollers acting at the Theatre in the Haymarket, was at the Sign of the Globe, a Publick House about Nine of the Clock that Night, where this Deponent saw John Haines, one of the Waiters at the said Tavern, and several other Persons, to the Number of 16, dressed like Chairmen, each of which had a great Bludgeon in his Hand, which he put under his Coat, in order to hide the same, but in such a manner as this Deponent was capable of seeing said Bludgeons;...and was informed by several Persons of credit that they and others to the number of 30, were hired by Lord Trentham to protect the French Strollers from any Attempt that might be made to prevent their Acting [claims Haines had a list of their names and told them Lord Trentham would need them again on other nights] notarized before John Waple, 24 Nov. [Lord Trentham offered a fifty pound reward for the original copy of the above affidavit.] John Haynes...maketh Oath...that he...never had any Conversation directly or indirectly, with Lord Trentham, relating to the French Players, nor did the said Lord Trentham dine at the King's Arms on 17 Nov., nor did this Deponent see the said Lord Trentham on that Day, nor for several Days before, nor did the Deponent make use of the said Lord Trentham's name, in any conversation at the Globe Alehouse the said Lord Trentham was not in the least privy to this Deponent's going to the said little Theatre on the said 17th of Nov. with several Persons as mentioned in the affidavit or pretended affidavit of Wm Davison...Sworn the 26th Day of Nov., before me, H. Fielding. [This notice repeated in the General Advertiser for a week. The French players departed for France on 28 Dec.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'homme A Bonne Fortune

Afterpiece Title: La Chercheuse D'esprit

Event Comment: My son Dick taken up for playing Timoleon at ye Tennis Court & Dishd by Jus. Fielding (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timoleon

Event Comment: By order of the Town. None to be admitted without tickets at 2s. 6d. each. The Roarings of the Lion disturbing some of the inhabitants of Covent Garden, his Leonic Majesty has adjudged it necessary to remove from that end of town to the place of performance. To begin at 7 p.m. [See Cross, History of Henry Fielding, II, 409, for an account of this piece and the way it was stopped by officers while the performance was in progress.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Grand Composition Of Fun And Music

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs James and Miss Minors. No building on stage. Tickets of Mrs James at her lodgings at Mr Saunder's Carpenter, in Little Wild St., Lincoln's Inn Fields; Miss Minors' at Mr Nicholl, a Baker in Catherine St., and at stage door. An Information was given to Henry Fielding, Esq; that a Set of Barber's apprentices, journeymen staymakers, maid-servants, &c. had taken a large Room at the Black Horse in the Strand, to act the tragedy of The Orphan; the Price of Admittance One Shilling. About eight o'clock the said Justice issued his warrant, directed to Mr Welch, High Constable, who apprehended the said actors, and brought them before the said Justice, who, out of compassion to their youth, only bound them over to their good behavior. They were all conducted through the streets in their Tragedy Dresses, to the no small Diversion of the Populace. (General Advertiser). Receipts: #138 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: IV: Sg Piettro, Janeton Auretti, Master Piettro