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Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by Frances Brooke, based on the anonymous libretto of Sarti's opera Mitridate a Sinope. Prologue by the Rev. William? Collier (see text). Epilogue by Arthur Murphy (Murphy, Works, 1786, VII, 54)]: With New Scenes, Dresses, &c. Public Advertiser, 8 Feb. 1781: This Day at Noon will be published The Siege of Sinope. (1s. 6d.). Receipts:#231 5s. (228.10; 2.15)

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Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Sinope

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Related Work: The Siege of Sinope Author(s): Frances Brooke

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Free-Mason

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years [not acted since 26 Dec. 1776. Mrs Robinson, who was from the Portsmouth theatre, is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill]. Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2, by Frances Brooke, based on Les Moissonneurs, by Charles Simon Favart]: The new Music and overture composed, and the Selected Airs compiled [from Paxton and Sacchini], by Shield. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Account-Book, 30 June 1784: Paid Shield for composing Rosina #100. Receipts: #158 18s. 6d. (154/5/6; 4/13/0)

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Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Second; Or, The Fall Of Rosamond

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

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Related Work: Rosina Author(s): Frances Brooke

Dance: End of mainpiece new Dance, composed by Harris, Damon and Musidora, by Harris, Miss Besford, and others

Event Comment: 1st piece [1st time; MF 2]: Written by the Author of Rosina [Frances Brooke]. The Music compiled and composed by Shield. With entire New Scenes painted by Richards. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. [Text 1st published by T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1800.] Receipts: #165 9s. 6d. (162.18.0; 2.11.6)

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Mainpiece Title: Marian

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Related Work: Marian Author(s): Frances Brooke

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Afterpiece Title: Animal Magnetism

Dance: In I 2nd piece: As17880204

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Written by the Author of Rosina [Frances Brooke]. The Music by Shield. With entire new Scenes painted by Richards. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #207 9s. 6d. (197.9.0; 10.0.6)

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Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Marian

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Related Work: Marian Author(s): Frances Brooke

Song: In II: a song-Mrs Kennedy

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Abington. 1st piece: By Permission of the Author. 2nd piece [1st time; C 1, attributed to Frances Abington. Larpent MS 1209; not published]: From La? Somnambule; or, Sleep Walker [by Antoine deFeriol, comte de Pont-de-Veyle]. Receipts: #303 12s. (176.1.6; 4.1.0; tickets: 123.9.6)

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Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Matrimony

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Related Work: Matrimony Author(s): Frances Abington

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Song: In III 1st piece: song-Incledon; in 2nd piece: Strike the Harp in praise of Bragela-

Event Comment: The King's Company. The date of the premiere is not known, but a licensing date of 28 March 1678 suggests a first performance not later than February 1678. One song, One night while all the village slept, with music by Louis Grabu and words by Sir Car Scroop, is in Choice Ayres and Songs, The Third Book, 1681. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 17): Major Mohun...[in] Mithridates, &c. An Eminent Poet seeing him Act this last, vented suddenly this Saying: Oh Mohun, Mohun! Thou little Man of Mettle, if I should write a 100 Plays, I'd Write a Part for thy Mouth; in short, in all his Parts, he was most Accurate and Correct. [Downes, p. 12, gives an identical cast except for omissions.] Princess Anne apparently played Ziphares and Frances Apsley played Semandra in a production of this drama, probably at St James's Palace or at Sir Allen Apsley's house in St James's Square, between January 1677@8 and August 1679. See Benjamin Bathurst, Letters of Two Queens (London, 1924), p. 61

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Mainpiece Title: Mithridates, King Of Pontus

Event Comment: Apparently The Man of Mode had an amateur revival in Brussels in the autumn, possibly before the Duke and Duchess of York, when they were away from London. Princess Anne to Frances Apsley, 3 Oct. 1679: The play is practisde to night Miss Watts is to be Lady townly which part I beleeve wont much become her. [See Benjamin Bathurst, Letters of Two Queens (London, 1924), pp. 111-12]

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Event Comment: A New Opera. [Music by Frances Veracini.

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Mainpiece Title: Titus

Performance Comment: Edition of 1737 lists: Titus-Signora Frances Tolve; Sextus-Charles Broschi called Farinello; Vitella-Mrs Antonio Merighi; Annius-Mrs Marg. Chimanti called Droghierina; Servillia-Mrs Elizab. duParc called Francescina; Publius-Anthony Montagnana.
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Related Work: Titus Author(s): Francesco Veracini
Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346. There is no certainty that this performance is the premiere, but as the play was licensed for printing on 9 Jan. 1676@7, this performance may well be the first one. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, pp.9-10) lists the same cast except for the ommission of Letice. It is not certain which Mrs Knight played Letice. Possibly it was Frances Maria Knight (see Wilson, All the King's Ladies, where she is tentatively listed for that role), but the presence of Mrs Ursula Knight on an undated L. C. list, 3@24, with the date of her swearing into the company given as 12 March 1676@7, it is quite likely that she played this role. (I owe this reference to Ursula Knight to Professor John Harold Wilson.) John Dennis: And when upon the first representations of the Plain Dealer, the Town, as The Authour has often told me, appeard Doubtful what Judgment to Form of it; the foremention'd gentlemen [The Duke of Buckingham, Earl of Rochester, Earl of Dorset, Earl of Mulgrave, Savil, Buckly, Sir John Denham, Waller] by their loud aprobation of it, gave it both a sudden and a lasting reputation (Defense and Defects of Dramatick Poetry, 1725, in The Works of John Dennis, ed. Hooker, II, 277)

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Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Performance Comment: Edition of 1677: Prologue-; Epilogue-Widow-Blackacre; Manly-Hart; Freeman-Kynaston; Vernish-Griffin; Novell-Clark; Major Oldfox-Cartwright; Lord Plausible-Haines; Jerry Blackacre-Charlton; Olivia-Mrs Marshall; Fidelia-Mrs Boutell; Eliza-Mrs Knep; Letice-Mrs [Ursula or Frances] Knight (see below); Widow Blackacre-Mrs Cory.

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Mainpiece Title: Marcelia; Or, The Treacherous Friend

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Related Work: Marcelia; or, The Treacherous Friend Author(s): Frances Boothby

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Mainpiece Title: The Discovery

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Related Work: The Discovery Author(s): Frances Sheridan
Related Work: The Young Couple Author(s): Frances Sheridan

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Mainpiece Title: The Discovery

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Mainpiece Title: The Discovery

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Mainpiece Title: The Discovery

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Mainpiece Title: The Discovery

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Mainpiece Title: The Discovery

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Mainpiece Title: The Discovery

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Mainpiece Title: The Discovery

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Mainpiece Title: The Discovery

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Mainpiece Title: The Discovery

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Dance: TThe Irish Lilt, as17621025

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Mainpiece Title: The Discovery

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Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

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Mainpiece Title: The Discovery

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Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

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Mainpiece Title: The Discovery

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Afterpiece Title: Edgar and Emmeline

Dance: The Irish Lilt, as17621025

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Mainpiece Title: The Discovery

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Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Wedding

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Mainpiece Title: The Discovery

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Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio