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Event Comment: Mainpiece: Taken from the French of Mons Voltaire. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 13 Oct.: We are assured Mr Giffard will very shortly open the Theatre in Goodman's-Fields, notwithstanding the many false and invidious Reports o his having intirely left that part of the Town

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alzira

Afterpiece Title: The Worm Doctor

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales [who were present]. Pit and Boxes put together at half a guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 2s. 6d. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 8 Nov.: The Box in which their Royal Highnesses sat, was of white Sattin, beautifully Ornamented With Festons of flowers, in their proper Colours, and in Front was a flaming Heart, between two Hymeneal Torches, whose different Flames terminated in one Point, and were surmounted with a Label, on which were wrote, in Letters of Gold, these Words, Mutuus Ardor

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Mainpiece Title: Alcina

Event Comment: By Desire. At Common Prices. N.B. There being an Entertainment, the After-Money will be taken. [In London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 8 Nov., The Inconstant had been advertised for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Dance: IV: Delagarde, Delamayne, the first time of his appearing on this stage

Event Comment: For essays on the rivalry of actors, see Daily Journal, 13 Nov., and London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 13 Nov

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite; Or, The Earl Of Essex

Related Works
Related Work: The Earl of Essex Author(s): Colley Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton: With Harlequin a Captive

Event Comment: For Giffard's Proposals for carrying on at lif by Subscription, see London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 13 Nov

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Dance: II: Pierrots-Vallois, Delagarde

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Alter'd from Shakespear. [For a letter by Catherine Clive on th role of Polly in The Beggar's Opera, see London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 19 Nov.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Dance: In II: Muilment

Music: Select Pieces-

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 20 Nov.: We hear that Mr Giffard...last Night, upon the happy Occasion of her Royal Highness' s Birth-Day, entertained his Company with an elegant Supper and a Concert of Musick, where the Healths of their Majesties, the Prince and Princess of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family were drank with universal Demonstrations of Joy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Event Comment: For revisions of Giffard's proposals for a subscription, see London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 22 Nov

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part I

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Dance: II: Harlequin-Delamayne

Event Comment: By Desire. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Afterpiece: Not perform'd these Eight Years. [For a letter on theatrical affairs, see London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 4 Dec.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part Ii

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Role: Pistol Actor: Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Poor Pierot Married; or, Harlequin Happy

Event Comment: LLondon Evening Post, 1 Jan. 1737: Last Night the Beggar's Opera (about the Playing of which, as much Noise has been made, as about several of our Modern Treaties) was perform'd...to a crowded Audience; the House being full by Four. There was a prodigious uproar, with Clappin, Hissing, Catcalls, &c. Mrs Clive, who play'd the Part of Polly, when she came forward, address'd herself to the House, saying, Gentlemen, I am very sorry it should be thought I have in any Manner been the Occasion of the least Disturbance; and then cry'd in so moving a Manner, that even Butchers wept. The she told them, She was almost ready with the Part of Lucy, and at all Times shou'd be willing to play such Parts as the Town should direct, and desir's to know if they were willing she should go on with the Part of Polly; she behaving in so humble a Manner, the House approv'd of her Behavious by a general Clap. [For Occasional Prompter XI, see Daily Journal, 31 Dec.

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance: With proper Dances-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Performance Comment: (London Daily Post and General Advertiser missing).

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Performance Comment: (London Daily Post and General Advertiser missing).

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Event Comment: [P$Prince and Princess of Wales present.] London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 1 Feb. A great Disturbance made on Saturday last at Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Parthenope

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these Thirty Years. All the Characters New Dress'd. Afterpiece: A New Dramatick Pantomime Entertainment. With New Cloaths, Scenes, Machines, and other Decorations. An Exact Representation of the Hermitage, as in the Royal Garden at Richmond. And Entire New Musick, compos'd by Mr Jones. [Author not known. Apparently not published.] Daily Advertiser, 2 Feb.: When one of the Changes [on 1 Feb.] by Chance miscarried, a second Attempt was generally desir'd, which, when executed, was so pleasing, a general Clap continu'd for more than the Space of a Minute

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Harry Wildair

Afterpiece Title: Hymen's Triumph; or, Trick Upon Trick

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Performance Comment: (London Daily Post and General Advertiser missing), but see17361218.

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: (London Daily Post and General Advertiser missing), but see17370210.

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Charles The First; An Historical Play [charles I]

Performance Comment: (London Daily Post and General Advertiser missing), but see17370303.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Charles The First; An Historical Play [charles I]

Performance Comment: (London Daily Post and General Advertiser missing), but see17370303.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Universal Passion

Performance Comment: (London Daily Post and General Advertiser missing), but See17370303.
Event Comment: EEgmont, Diary, II, 364: I went to the new play called 'King Charles the First,' acted with approbation at [lif]. The Characters are as the historians represent them, the language good and the sentiments fine, but the players are bad, he who represented General Fairfax and Cromwell excepted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Charles The First; An Historical Play [charles I]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Performance Comment: (London Daily Post and General Advertiser missing), but See17361111.

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Charles The First

Performance Comment: (London Daily Post and General Advertiser missing), but See17370303.
Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales [who were present]. An Ode, written by Mr Dryden. The Pit will be floored over, and laid into the Boxes. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 17 March: The Prince and Princess of Wales seem'd to be highly entertain'd, insomuch that his Royal Highness commanded Mr Handel's Concerto on the Organ to be repeated

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast

Event Comment: By the Great Mogul's Company of Comedians. Mainpiece: Written by the Author of George Barnwell. Afterpiece: A new Dramatick Satire: With freshest Advices Foreign and Domestick. Written by the Author of Pasquin [Henry Fielding]. These Characters will all be seen cheap; 1n the Boxes at 5s.; in the Pit at 3s.; in the Gallery at 2s. Note, None will be admitted after the House is full; for which Reason, the sooner you come, or secure your Places, the better. All Persons are desir'd to cry at the Tragedy, and laugh at the Comedy, being quite contrary to the present general Practice. Mr Hen gives Notice, that if any Joke is both Hiss'd and Clapp'd, such Division will be consider'd an Encore, and the said Joke be put up again. Daily Advertiser, 22 March: Last Night the two new Performances at the Hay-Market...were receiv'd with the greatest Applause ever shown at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: The Historical Register

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 17 March: This is to inform the Publick, that the new Tragi-Comedy, intitled The Free-Thinker; or, The Fox uncas'd, which was last Summer rehearsed and was to have been play'd at [lif], but by Mr Rich's letting that House to Mr Giffard, for that Season, was prevented, will be acted on the 14th of April next [at yb], by Mr Hallam's Company of Comedians. The Play is writ much in the same Stile and Manner of George Barnwell....The Author hopes that the Generous and Judicious will encourage the Performance, tho' the Company of Players are not dropt down from the Clouds, nor does the Play libel the Government. [No further announcement of the performance has been noted before 28 April.

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