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Event Comment: Afterpiece: A new Entertainment of Vocal and Instrumental Musick...set to Musick by Mr Clayton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Passions of Sappho

Dance: As17181104

Event Comment: Not Acted these Twelve Years [but see 2 May 1709]. Written by the late Mr Dryden. All the Habits being entirely new. With Decorations proper to the Play. Steele wrote a Prologue for this play, possibly for this run; it was not used but appeared in The Theatre, 2 Feb. 1720. See also The Works of John Dennis, Hooker, ed., II, 162-65. Cibber states that #600 was expended on the habits, scenes, and decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love Or The World Well Lost

Performance Comment: Antony-Booth; Ventidius-Mills; Dollabella-Wilks; Alexas-Cibber; Cleopatra-Mrs Oldfield; Octavia-Mrs Porter; Edition of 1717 adds: Serapion-Thurmond; Another Priest-Williams; Charmion-Mrs Garnet; Iras-Mrs Robins.
Cast
Role: Another Priest Actor: Williams
Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege
Related Work: Love the Leveller: or, The Pretty Purchase Author(s): George Bowes
Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Dryden. All the Habits being entirely new. With Decorations proper to the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Cast
Role: Another Priest Actor: Williams
Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege
Related Work: Love the Leveller: or, The Pretty Purchase Author(s): George Bowes
Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. In which is contain'd, The Storming of the City Corioli, the Overthrow of the Volscians, the Triumph of Coriolanus , His Banishment by the Common Wealth, His Return against Rome, and his Death by the Treachery of Tullus Ausidious . With Scenes, Machines, Truimphal Arches, and other Decorations after the Custom of the Romans

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Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Performance Comment: And a new Prologue, Epilogue-.
Event Comment: Afterpiece: A new Dramatick Entertainment of Dancing, compos'd by Mr Thurmond

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: The Dumb Farce

Event Comment: [By T. Killigrew.] Never Acted before. All the Characters new dress'd. Original Weekly Journal, 21 Feb.: The House was so crowded, that several hundred could not find admittance. Some Disorder happen'd in one of the side Boxes, occasion'd by a Gentleman drawing his Sword on a Footman, who was keeping Places; and some Blows were exchang'd between the Gentleman and the Footman, which, however, ended without any bad Consequences

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Chit Chat

Event Comment: Tickets will be deliver'd out at the Treasury Office at the Theatre, and no where else in the Theatre, at usual Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Balourd Or Harlequin A Blunderer

Performance Comment: And the last new Prologue spoken on Thursday last between Harlequin and Colombine The London edition of 1719 gives no cast but contains Prologue, Epilogue-Vezian.
Event Comment: [By Edward Young.] Never Acted before. With new Habits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Busiris King Of Egypt

Event Comment: Not Acted these Twenty Years. With new Scenes, Machines, Flyings, and other Decorations. The Musick compos'd by Mr Galliard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Circe

Event Comment: With new Scenes, Machines, Flyings, and other Decorations. The Musick compos'd by Mr Galliard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Circe

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command at the Opening of Mr Penkethman's New Theatre at Richmond. At 6 p.m. [The Prologue was printed in the Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 13 June.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Chit Chat

Afterpiece Title: The Island Princess the Comedy in the last Act

Performance Comment: Original Parts-Penkethman, Norris; Likewise a Prologue-Penkethman in Company of an Ass, Ground Landlord of the Place, upon a Writ of Ejectment.

Dance: Salle, Mlle Salle; Shepherdess-; Turkey Cock-; Mimic Song of an Old Woman-; The Irish Trot-Mrs Willis

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Moliere. Afterpiece: A new Comi-Tragi-Heroick Farce [but see 29 June 1710]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tartuffe Or The Hypocrite

Related Works
Related Work: Tartuffe; or, The French Puritan Author(s): Matthew Medbourne

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Queens or The Comical Humours of Alexander the Great

Event Comment: At Bullock and the Widow Leigh's Great Booth, in the Greyhound Inn Yard. An excellent new Droll

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Lovers Or The False Friend With The Comical Humours Of Sir Timothy Timberhead And His Man Pismire

Performance Comment: Sir Timothy-Bullock Sr; Pismire-Norris; Signor Don Diego Fizgiggo-Griffin; others-Ogden, Smith, H. Bullock, Mrs Willis.

Song: Mrs Willis

Dance: Newhouse, Pelling, Miss Francis, Mrs Willis

Event Comment: By the Comedians from the Theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields. An excellent new Dramatick Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Noble Soldier Or Love In Distress

Performance Comment: Squire Softhead-Bullock Sr; Sally-Mrs Willis.
Cast
Role: Squire Softhead Actor: Bullock Sr
Related Works
Related Work: The Parthian Hero; or, Love in Distress Author(s): Matthew Gardiner

Dance: Comical Scene-Mr Harper , Mimicking a Drunken Man; Newhouse, Pelling, Mrs Willis, Miss Francis

Event Comment: [Author unknown. Apparently not published.] Benefit the Author. A new Comedy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Benefit Ticket Or The Self Rival

Event Comment: A meeting of the Court of Directors of the Royal Academy of Music initiated arrangements for a new season. For details, see Lord Chamberlain's Office, 7@3, Nicoll, p. 286, and Deutsch, p. 97

Performances

Event Comment: On this day a new license was issued to Wilks, Cibber, Booth

Performances

Event Comment: Benefit Leveridge. Afterpiece: A new Pastoral of Musick, in Two Interludes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: The Happy Shepherd

Song: The Tippling Philosophers at the Request of several Persons of Quality-

Event Comment: [By Paolo Antonio Rolli. The Scenes by Roberto Clerici, Engineer to the Royal Academy.] A New Opera. Pit and Boxes by tickets only at half a guinea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Numitor

Event Comment: Benefit J. and Ch. Rich. Mainpiece: [Author unknown.] All in the Characters of the Italian Theatre. Receipts: #69 19s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Theatre

Performance Comment: With a new Prologue to the Town by Sir Richard Steele-.

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Afterpiece Title: Amadis

Dance: As17200120; The Italian Shadows-

Event Comment: Mainpiece: [Author unknown. Apparently not published.] A new Farce of three Acts. Benefit Ryan. By His Royal Highness's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mississippi

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wake

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue

Event Comment: [Music by Dominico Scarlatti, with additional numbers by Thomas Roseingrave. Text by P. A. Rolli.] A new Opera. Pit and Boxes together at half a guinea. Gallery 5s. Stage one Guinea. N.B. When the Tickets are disposed of, no Person will be admitted for Money; places will be kept in the Boxes only

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Narcissus

Event Comment: At Bullock's and Pack's Great Booth at Hounslow during the Fair. Mainpiece: a new Droll

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend With The Comical Humours Of Sir Timothy Timberhead And His Sister Jezebel

Dance: The Tavern Bilkers-

Event Comment: Not Acted these Five Years. All the Characters being new dress'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Lovers Or Marriage A La Mode

Event Comment: All the Characters being new dress'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Lovers