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Event Comment: Afterpiece: A New Italian Piece by Mons Sorin and Mr Baxter. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Afterpiece Title: La Guinquette or Harlequin Turned Tapster

Dance: An Entertainment of Mimick Dancing, call'd, La Caprice-Harlequin (in Imitation of Mlle Provost, the Famous Dancer in the Opera at Paris)

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs del'Epine. Afterpiece: [Words by Barton Booth. Music by Pepusch.] A New Masque, Set to Musick after the Italian Manner, and perform'd all in English. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Dido Dido and Aeneas

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command. With Magnificent New Scenes, Particularly one in Perspective of a Royal Palacev, which exceeds any that has been seen in England, containing about One Thousand Yards of Painting by Sig Roberto Clerici, and to be seen again this Year. Admission as 1 Feb. [The Prince and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Music: As17160502

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldiers Fortune Or The Witty And Humorous Ladies

Afterpiece Title: Oration

Performance Comment: With a New Oration on [several famous Heads [design'd as an Entertainment for the Court, and the rest of his Friends, written-[D'Urfey] [on the Stage.D'Urfey] [on the Stage.

Song: The Best Performers

Dance: the best Performers

Event Comment: Benefit Antonio Bernacchi. By Command. With an Addition of a New Scene perform'd by Bernacchi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Event Comment: Ryder, Diary, pp. 359-60: Went to see the tragedy of Tamerlane which was acted with a new prologue in honour of King William and in memory of what he did for us. The play itself is good....Mills who acted the part of Bajazet did it mighty well and expressed that furiousness and rage and malice and ambition admirably well in his gesture at the end, but, which is his distinguishing character, very well kept up throughout. I observed in the general that the manner of speaking in our theatres in tragedy is not natural. There is something that would be very shocking and disagreeable and very unnatural in real life. Persons would call it theatrical, meaning by that something stiff and affected

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: See17161105, but Bajazet-Quin [Chetwood, General History of the Stage, p. 214]; With a New Prologue [by the Author of the Play-.
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Role: by the Author of the Play Actor: .
Event Comment: [By William Taverner.] Never Acted before. The Dresses for all the Characters being entirely new. Receipts: #58 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Artful Husband

Event Comment: Afterpiece: a New Dramatick Entertainment of Dancing after the Manner of the Antient Pantomimes. Mainpiece: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maids Tragedy

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

Event Comment: [Author unknown. Apparently not printed.] A new Opera. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. Admission as 5 Jan. N.B. Servants will be allow'd to keep Places. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wenceslaus

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. In which will be seen two New Scenes, one representing a most Magnificent Palace, containing above a Thousand Yards of Painting. The other a Room adorn'd with Tapestry, representing the famous Battles of Alexander by Mons leBrun; both (in their kind) exceeding any Scenes that has been seen in England. Admission as 8 Dec. 1716

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleartes

Event Comment: Benefit Spiller and Mrs Spiller. The Prologue is printed and will be dispos'd of at the House that Night for the Author. Receipts: money #24 2s.; tickets #71 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

Performance Comment: As17161025, but Governor-Keene; Quisara-Mrs Spiller; With a new Comi/Tragi/Mechanical Prologue in the gay Stile by Spiller-Spiller.

Song: Leveridge, Pack

Dance: As17161221; La Folie-Moreau, Mrs Bullock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Old Rake Or Greenwich Park

Performance Comment: And a New Oration on several Famous Heads for the Entertainment of the Court, and the Audience his Friends, -D'Urfey on the Stage.
Cast
Role: Actor: D'Urfey on the Stage.

Song: A very Comical Song about the Humours of the Town-

Event Comment: At Penkethman and Pack's very large, commodious Booth, proper for the Reception of the Quality. A new Droll

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twice Married And A Maid Still Or Bedding Makes The Bargain Last

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Dance:

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear, and since revis'd with several Alterations. The whole Play being new dress'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cimbeline

Dance: As17171005

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With a New Sett of Scenes, after LeBrun's Battle of Alexander

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maids Tragedy

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: With an entire Sett of New Scenes from the Opera, never us'd here before, and proper to this Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: With an entire Set of New Scenes from the Opera never us'd here before, and proper to the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Or The Unhappy Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

Event Comment: Benefit J. and Ch. Rich. Afterpiece: A New Dramatic Entertainment of Dancing in Grotesque Characters. Receipts: #45 6s. 6d. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant Or Beggars Bush

Afterpiece Title: Mars and Venus or The Mouse Trap

Performance Comment: Mars-Dupre; Vulcan-Lun; Venus-Mrs Schoolding; Graces-Mlle Gautier, Mlle Corail, Miss Schoolding Jr; Hour-Miss Smith; Scaramouches-Boval, Tully, Newhouse, Thurmond Jr; Cyclops-the Four Carpenters; Foreman of the Shop-Spiller; rest-Cook, Pelling, Cook Jr.
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear, and since revis'd with several Alterations. A new comedy, The Artful Wife, announced for this day, is deferred to 3 Dec

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cimbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Doctor

Song: Ray

Dance: As17171022

Event Comment: [By William Taverner.] Never Acted before. All the Characters being new Drest

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Artful Wife

Related Works
Related Work: The Female Chevalier Author(s): George Colman, the elder
Event Comment: Benefit J. and Ch. Rich. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Afterpiece: A New Dramatick Entertainment of Vocal and Instrumental Musick after the Italian Manner, in Grotesque Characters. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: #56 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The School of Folly

Performance Comment: Professor-Gautier , the first time of his appearing upon the English Stage.

Dance: Dances for the afterpiece composed by DuPre-DuPre, Boval, Cook, Pelling, Cook Jr, Newhouse, Mlle Gautier, Mrs Schoolding, Mlle Corail, Miss Schoolding Jr

Event Comment: Not Acted these Five Years. With all new Habits and Dances proper to the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperor

Event Comment: Written by Mr Congreve. All the Characters being new drest

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Event Comment: By reason of the sudden Indisposition of Mr Keene, the new Tragedy call'd Scipio Africanus is deferr'd till Tuesday next

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: Pan and Syrinx

Related Works
Related Work: Pan and Syrinx Author(s): Lewis Theobald