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1195 results for: Keyword - Hannah More
We found 815 matches on Event Comments, 261 matches on Author, 105 matches on Performance Comments, 52 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1101
05 May 1787 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

1102
25 May 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never performed here. Public Advertiser, 26 Ma8: As it has been found impracticable to prepare a sufficient Variety of Entertainments, without the Assistance of more Performers, the Theatre is closed 'till further Notice; after which Plays will be continued as usual [see 11 June]. "Sat. May 26th 1787. When the performers assembled t[his] morning, with intent to rehearse, they were acquain[ted] that the Theatre would be shut till the close of Drury? Lane and Covent Garden" (MS annotation on Harvard playbill)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Harvest Home

Dance: II: a Masquerade Scene-; with Dancing-

1103
14 August 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tit For Tat

Afterpiece Title: Dr Last's Examination

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Afterpiece Title: The Day

Performance Comment: Morning. Champaign Country The Early Horn-Miss George; How sweet in the Woodlands-Davies, Miss George; Noon. Skirts of a Wood Sweet Echo-Mrs Bannister; Dance Shepherd's Wedding-Byrn, Mrs Goodwin, the two Miss Simonets; Prithee Susan-Meadows, Mrs Forster; Afternoon. A Drawing-Room Time has not thinn'd-Meadows, Mrs Bannister; Where the Bee sucks-Davies, Mathews, Miss George, Mrs Bannister; Night. A Country Church-yard My Lucy alas is no more-Chapman, Mrs Forster, Mrs Edwards; dance Fairies Sporting-young D'Egville, Giorgi's Scholars, Miss DeCamp; Musical Epilogue-Meadows, Chapman, Mathews, Mrs Edwards, Mrs Gaudry, Mrs Forster.
Cast
Role: A Country Church Actor: yard My Lucy alas is no more-Chapman, Mrs Forster, Mrs Edwards
Role: yard My Lucy alas is no more Actor: Chapman, Mrs Forster, Mrs Edwards
Related Works
Related Work: A Day in Turkey; or, The Russian Slaves Author(s): Hannah Cowley

1104
27 October 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: "In his first scenes [Kemble] was judicious, but too studiously so; and though most critically correct in his address to the Senate, evidenced he was more anxious to do justice to the text of his author than the feelings of Othello. But in the subsequent scenes he made ample recompense, and most successfully combined accuracy of expression with spirit of character...We much approve his dressing Othello in the Moorish habit...[but] is it necessary the Moor should be as black as a native of Guiney?" (Public Advertiser, 29 Oct.). Receipts: #117 16s. (102.6; 15.5; 0.5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: Othello-Kemble; Roderigo-R. Palmer; Cassio-Barrymore; Brabantio-Aickin; Lodovico-Packer; Duke-Chaplin; Montano-Benson; Gratiano-Fawcett; Iago-Bensley; AEmilia-Mrs Hopkins; Desdemona-Mrs Siddons.
Cast
Role: Cassio Actor: Barrymore

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End I afterpiece: The Irish Fair, as17870929

1105
05 November 1787 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Castle

1106
12 January 1788 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: "The orchestra, during the whole time of representations [of the opera] has by no means been conducted with that exactness that should be expected from that band...It must be supposed that neither the master of music at the harpsichord, nor Mr Cramer, the leader, have influence or power enough to prevail on the band to play, or rather, to accompany, more correctly...The arias of the tenor and base [sic] have been played, or rather accompanied, too fast, and without harmony with the voices of Morelli and Fineschi, which being good, and they seeming to wish to sing with all possible expression, the orchestra should have accompanied accordingly. Mme Storace, howefer, has baffled the efforts of the musicians to make her sing out of tune, quick or slow. As they fiddled, she modulated" (Public Advertiser, 17 Jan.). Receipts: #147 12s. 6d. [non-subscription]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Re Teodoro In Venezia

Cast
Role: Taddeo Actor: Morelli

Dance: End I: a new ballet, The Military Dance (composed by Chevalier)-Didelot, Chevalier, Coulon, Vestris, Mlle Coulon, the two Miss Simonets, Sga Bedini, Mlle Hilligsberg; End Opera: Les Offrandes a l'Amour, as17871208

1107
14 January 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King And No King

Afterpiece Title: The Dumb Cake

Song: II: a Grand Chorus-Johnstone, Davies, Darley, Cubitt, Blurton, Janson, Bonville, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Watts, Mrs Byrne, Miss Rowson, Miss Francis, Miss Paye, Miss Blower, Mrs Kennedy

1108
12 February 1788 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: "Miss Hilligsberg cannot be praised enough for her exertions and sucess in the execution of [the second] ballet, which has given her an opportunity of making herself perfect in her profession [this being her 1st season on the stage]...The scenery has no doubt by Noverre, and if it is not more magnificent it is not for want of genius on his part, but to spare the purse of the Managers...The Palace of Cupidv for the reception of Psiche in the first, and that of Venus in the last act, with the appearance of Jupiter, &c. in the skies, were very well executed, and beautifully arranged by the actors" (Public Advertiser, 7 Feb.). Receipts: #202 11s. (non-subscription]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Locandiera

Cast
Role: Don Polidoro Actor: Morelli

Dance: End I: The Military Dance, as17880115

Ballet: End Opera: L'Amour et Psiche. As17880129

1109
12 April 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ton

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

1110
26 August 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kemble. "Kemble? Sen. performed the Miller...Here and there we could perceive the liberty of the country performer, by saying more than was set down by the author" (Public Advertiser, 27 Aug.). [Address by John Taylor (European Magazine, Sept. 1788, p. 217).] Public Advertiser, 21 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Kemble, No. 26, Villiers-street, York-buildings, Strand

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Election

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: The Miller-Kemble Sen. (1st and only time that he ever will appear in London); Richard-R. Palmer; Joe (with a song)-Chapman; Lord Lurewell-Phillimore; King-Kemble; Margery-Mrs Love; Peggy-Miss Palmer; Kate-Miss Brangin.
Cast
Role: Lord Lurewell Actor: Phillimore

Entertainment: Monologue End 3rd piece: Address (written on the Occasion)-Mrs Kemble

1111
16 September 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Performance Comment: Leontes-Wroughton; Polixenes-Bensley; Florizel-Barrymore; Camillo-Aickin; Old Shepherd-Packer; Clown-Suett; Rogero-Williames; Autolicus-Dodd; Perdita-Mrs Kemble; Paulina-Mrs Hopkins; Hermione-Mrs Ward.
Cast
Role: Florizel Actor: Barrymore

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: End: The Conjugal Frolick-the young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp

Song: In I: Sheep@shearing Song-Mrs Forster

1112
02 May 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Fontenelle. Public Advertiser, 14 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Fontenelle at her house, No. 271, Holbourn. 2nd piece: Compressed into 3 short Acts. "Miss Fontenelle...is the best Romp we ever saw, Mrs Jordan alone excepted...We were sorry to see [her] fall over the groove of the scene; but as practice is more forcible than precept, we hope it will teach her the truth of Friar Lawrence's caution, 'they stumble who run fast'" (Diary, 4 May). Receipts: #219 19s. (133.14.6; 6.8.6; tickets: 79.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sultan

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Dance: End 2nd piece: The Piping Pedlar-Byrne, Mrs Goodwin

1113
16 June 1789 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [On the night of 17 June this theatre was burned to the ground. On 27 June performances were resumed, for 6 more nights, at cg.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Generosita D'alessandro

Dance: End I: New Divertissement, as17890611 End Opera: La Nymphe et le Chasseur, as17890319but Mlle Emilie _Colombe; in which Minuet of Iphigenia, as17890428

1114
27 June 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Generosita D'alessandro

Dance: End I: New Divertissement, as17890310End Opera: L'Embarquement pour Cythere, as17890110, but Mlle _Normand

1115
21 October 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces the 1st night of The False Friend (see 24 Oct.), but "Miss Farren was taken ill, and The Beggar's Opera was the substitute. It proved, however, to be a substitute flat, stale and unprofitable. We never saw more indiffernet acting" (Oracle, 22 Oct.). Afterpiece in place of Richard Coeur de Lion, advertised on playbill of 20 Oct.] Paid Watch & Beadles, St. Martin's parish? 1 Year #42 10s. 4d. Receipts: #73 4s. (46.17.0; 24.17.6; 1.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Comus

1116
02 November 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15 [see 3 May 1790]. Paid Say for Tallow Candles last Season #88 6s. 3d. "That beautiful and best drawn character that the world ever saw, Sir John Falstaff, was mangled by Ryder. He substitutes savageness to jollity, and stiff mimicry to the natural debauchery that should hang as easily on Sir John as the Roomy mantle he moves in...Lewis gave us more the manner of the pretty man of fashion than of a dissipated hero" (Prompter, 4 Nov.). Receipts: #168 1s. 6d. (164.12.6; 3.9.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Afterpiece Title: Don Juan

Dance: As17890916

1117
21 April 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Annette And Lubin

Afterpiece Title: The Pharo Table

Afterpiece Title: The Soldier's Festival

Performance Comment: In which: How stands the Glass around-Johnstone; Sigh no more Ladies, How shall we Mortals spend our Hours, Poor ThomasDay, Welcome the Covert, Here's a Health to all good Lasses=-Bannister, Johnstone, Blanchard, Davies, Duffey, Darley, Cubitt, Reeve, Edwin; As I saw fair Chlora-Johnstone, Bannister.

Afterpiece Title: Patrick in Prussia i

1118
29 April 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Adventure; Or, Stop Her Who Can

Afterpiece Title: Cymon

Dance: Following Imitations at end: As17891021; In afterpiece: Dances, as17900409

Entertainment: End II: Tragic Imitations [of Mrs Siddons in Belvidera's 1st scene in Venice Preserved, I.i., and of Mrs Crawford in Lady Randolph's 1st speech in Douglas]-Mrs Wells; End III: Comic and Vocal Imitations [of Mrs Abington as Widow Belmour in The Way to Keep Him, and of Mrs Martyr, Mrs Jordan, Sga Storace, Sga Sestini]-Mrs Wells; End: A Scene from Isabella [The "ring speech" in II.ii] (Above identified in World, 29 Apr.)-Mrs Wells

1119
11 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: True Blue; Or, A Bang At The Dons

Afterpiece Title: King Henry the Fifth

Cast
Role: Thomas Actor: Phillimore

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Cast
Role: Bazil Actor: Phillimore

Entertainment: Monologue. End 2nd piece: (for this night only) The Monster Discovered-

1120
20 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Cast
Role: Bravoes Actor: Maddocks, Phillimore, Alfred, Webb

Afterpiece Title: The Court of Apollo [i

Performance Comment: e. The Sons of Anacreon]. President-R. Palmer; In which (for that night only) The Anacreontic Song-Sedgwick; [following glees: Now is the Month of Maying (Morley), Could a Man be Secure (Goodwin)-Dignum, Sedgwick; Sigh no more Ladies (Stevens), Poor Jack (Dibdin)-Dignum; Welcome the Covert (Mellish), Here's a Health to all good Lasses, Wake Sons of Odin (Stevens)-Sedgwick; Sing Old Rose and Burn the Bellows-.

Afterpiece Title: Comus

1121
16 July 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not; Or, The Kind Impostor

Afterpiece Title: A Merry Sketch of Folly and Fashion

1122
23 August 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: "Yesterday evening Palmer performed the part of Inkle for the first time to a very full house. He went through the two first acts with much credit, and had he been less imperfect in the last scene it would have proved more interesting" (Diary, 24 Aug.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Dance: As17900701

1123
20 October 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: "Although [Mrs Esten] is rather under-hung, her face may fairly be pronounced pretty, and her figure engaging. Her voice, in the pathetic tones, resembles that of Mrs Siddons, but is more clear and articulate' (Diary, 21 Oct.). Receipts: #182 14s. 6d. (180.12.0; 2.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Provocation

Dance: End I: The Irish Lilt-Mr Ratchford, Mrs Ratchford; In V: Dance of Forresters-

1124
23 October 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: ["The Lord Ogleby of (The Clandestine Marriage) raised Mr King to the summit of comic excellence, which his more recent great character, Sir Peter Teazle in The School for Scandal, has established him in the unrivalled possession of" (Johnson, ed. Waldron, 169).] Receipts: #245 (211.9; 33.6; 0.5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Performance Comment: Lord Ogleby-King (1st appearance on that stage these 3 years); Sir John Melvil-Whitfield; Sterling-Parsons; Lovewell-Barrymore; Canton-Baddeley; Brush-Palmer; Serjeant Flower-Packer; Traverse-Phillimore; Trueman-Benson; Mrs Heidelberg-Mrs Hopkins; Miss Sterling-Miss Pope; Fanny-Mrs Kemble; Betty-Miss Tidswell; Chambermaid-Mrs Williames; Trusty-Mrs Booth.
Cast
Role: Lovewell Actor: Barrymore
Role: Traverse Actor: Phillimore

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

1125
20 December 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris, Taken in the Year 1790