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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "HH Walpole"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "HH Walpole")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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91 results for: Keyword - HH. Walpole
We found 51 matches on Event Comments, 27 matches on Author, 18 matches on Performance Comments, 3 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1
22 December 1741 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: HH. Walpole to H. Mann, 24 Dec.: House full on Saturdays, never on Tuesday.-From Walpole's Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann, I, 282

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Penelope

Dance: Bettina

2
02 May 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Walpole. Public Advertiser, 15 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Walpole, No. 150, Drury-lane. Receipts: #153 5s. (56.19; 26.13; 0.12; tickets: 69.1) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Rosetta Actor: Miss Walpole

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Performance Comment: Whittle-Parsons; Sir Patrick O'Neale-Moody; Nephew-Davies; Bates-Baddeley; Thomas-Burton; Kecksey-Dodd; Widow Brady (with an Epilogue Song)-Miss Walpole (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Widow Brady Actor: Miss Walpole

Dance: End II: The Minuet de la Cour, as17771111; End: Hornpipe-Miss Walpole; End I afterpiece: The Sailors' Revels, as17780425

3
16 April 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Walpole. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Public Advertiser, 26 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Miss Walpole, No. 15, Henrietta-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #203 19s. 6d. (100.2.0; 15.10.0; 3.15.6; tickets: 84.12.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple; Or, A Trip To The Jubilee

Performance Comment: Sir Harry Wildair-Miss Walpole; Col. Standard-Brereton (Their 1st appearance in those characters); Alderman Smuggler-Parsons; Clincher Jun.-Waldron; Vizard-Packer; Dicky-Burton; Tom Errand-Griffiths; Beau Clincher-Palmer (1st appearance in that character); Angelica-Mrs Brereton; Lady Darling-Mrs Johnston; Parley-Mrs Love; Lady Lurewell-Miss Pope (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Sir Harry Wildair Actor: Miss Walpole

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Dance: End: a Dance-Miss Walpole

4
10 June 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Afterpiece [1st time; INT 1, by Horace Walpole. Text 1st Published in Walpole's Works, vol. II (G. G. and J. Robinson and J. Edwards, 1798)]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail: A Dramatic Proverb

Related Works
Related Work: Nature Will Prevail: A Dramatic Proverb Author(s): Horace Walpole

Dance: As17780518

5
07 October 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [For Henderson as King Richard see hay, 7 Aug. 1777.] Afterpiece: The Music composed by Dibdin. With New Scenes and Dresses. Books of the Songs, &c. to be had at the Theatre. [The text erroneously assigns: Gillian-$Mrs Wrighten; Floretta-$Miss Walpole, but see Public Advertiser, 8 Oct., which in a review, gives the correct assignment; see also 6 Oct. 1778.] Receipts: #260 7s. (241.14; 17.17; 0.16)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Vernon, Parsons, Wrighten, Bannister, Miss Walpole, Mrs Love, Mrs Wrighten. Cast from text (John Bell, 1777): Lubin-Vernon; Solomon-Parsons; Easy-Wrighten; Steady-Bannister; Gillian-Miss Walpole; Cicely-Mrs Love; Floretta-Mrs Wrighten.
Cast
Role: Gillian Actor: Miss Walpole

6
02 October 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Miss Walpole was from the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin.] Receipts: #178 19s. 6d. (146.17.0; 31.13.6; 0.9.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: Hawthorn-Vernon; Justice Woodcock-Parsons; Young Meadows-Dodd; Sir William Meadows-Aickin; Eustace (1st time)-Lamash; Hodge-Davies; Margery-Mrs Wrighten; Deborah Woodcock-Mrs Love; Lucinda (1st time)-Miss Collett; Rosetta-Miss Walpole (1st appearance on the English stage).
Cast
Role: Rosetta Actor: Miss Walpole

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Dance: I: Country Dance (incident to the [main]piece)-; This was danced in both performances.] End II: [New Ballet, Demi-Caractere (composed by Gallet), Rural Grace-Gallet, Henry, Miss Armstrong, Mlle Dupre

7
11 November 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [The playbill retains Mrs Baddeley as Polly, but she "being indisposed Miss Walpole played the part of Polly on Tuesday night' (London Chronicle, 12 Nov.).] Paid Chettell, timber merchant, #286 13s. Receipts: #135 15s. 6d. (118.10.0; 16.18.6; 0.7.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: As17771108, but Polly-Miss Walpole.
Cast
Role: Polly Actor: Miss Walpole.

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Dance: End II: The Minuet de la Cour, as17771107, but Master _Holland, Henry

8
02 November 1742 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gianguir

Dance: Barbara Campanini (Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann, I, 191)

9
15 June 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

Related Works
Related Work: Nature Will Prevail: A Dramatic Proverb Author(s): Horace Walpole

Dance: End: The Merry Lasses, as17780529

10
19 June 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

Related Works
Related Work: Nature Will Prevail: A Dramatic Proverb Author(s): Horace Walpole

11
22 June 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

Related Works
Related Work: Nature Will Prevail: A Dramatic Proverb Author(s): Horace Walpole

Dance: End II: The Merry Lasses, as17780518; End: The Gardeners, as17780618

12
09 July 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

Related Works
Related Work: Nature Will Prevail: A Dramatic Proverb Author(s): Horace Walpole

Dance: End I: The Gardeners, as17780618

13
10 July 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

Related Works
Related Work: Nature Will Prevail: A Dramatic Proverb Author(s): Horace Walpole

Dance: As17780605

14
22 August 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

Related Works
Related Work: Nature Will Prevail: A Dramatic Proverb Author(s): Horace Walpole

Dance: End II: As17780624

15
31 May 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bonduca

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

Related Works
Related Work: Nature Will Prevail: A Dramatic Proverb Author(s): Horace Walpole

Dance: End: The Provencale-Master and Miss Byrn

16
07 June 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

Related Works
Related Work: Nature Will Prevail: A Dramatic Proverb Author(s): Horace Walpole

Dance: End II: Tambourine Dance- , as17790602; End: As17790531

17
02 July 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

Related Works
Related Work: Nature Will Prevail: A Dramatic Proverb Author(s): Horace Walpole

Dance: As17790701

18
08 July 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

Related Works
Related Work: Nature Will Prevail: A Dramatic Proverb Author(s): Horace Walpole

19
03 June 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Village

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

Related Works
Related Work: Nature Will Prevail: A Dramatic Proverb Author(s): Horace Walpole

Dance: End II 2nd piece: As17800530

20
12 June 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

Related Works
Related Work: Nature Will Prevail: A Dramatic Proverb Author(s): Horace Walpole

Dance: As17800603

21
11 June 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Polly

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail: A Dramatic Proverb

Related Works
Related Work: Nature Will Prevail: A Dramatic Proverb Author(s): Horace Walpole

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece a Dance of Pirates; In Act III a Dance of Indians {performers not listed for either dance)

22
07 September 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

Related Works
Related Work: Nature Will Prevail: A Dramatic Proverb Author(s): Horace Walpole

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague

Dance: As17820826

23
09 September 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

Related Works
Related Work: Nature Will Prevail: A Dramatic Proverb Author(s): Horace Walpole

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague

Dance: As17820826

24
12 September 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

Related Works
Related Work: Nature Will Prevail: A Dramatic Proverb Author(s): Horace Walpole

Afterpiece Title: THE AGREEABLE SURPRISE

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague

Dance: As17820826

25
06 June 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail: A Dramatic Proverb

Related Works
Related Work: Nature Will Prevail: A Dramatic Proverb Author(s): Horace Walpole

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason