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5350 results for: Keyword - Henry the 8th
We found 3489 matches on Author, 1215 matches on Performance Title, 713 matches on Performance Comments, 409 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2176
01 January 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This year was published A Collection of the Dresses of Different Nations, Antient and Modern, Particularly Old English Dresses after the Designs of Holbein, VanDyke, Hollar and others, with an account of the Authorities from which the figures are taken, and some short historical remarks on the subject. To which are added the Habits of the Principal characters on the English Stage. Two vols. with French Text [Recueil des Habiliments...] facing English text. Coptume plates included. Vol II for the English. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Cast
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: Woodward, Blakes, Beard, Bransby, Ackman, Walker, Atkins, Clough, Miss Barton, Miss Haughton, Mrs Vernon.
Related Works
Related Work: Mercury Harlequin Author(s): Henry Woodward

2177
03 January 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant Or The Way To Win Him

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Cast
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: Woodward, Blakes, Beard, Bransby, Ackman, Walker, Atkins, Clough, Miss Barton, Miss Haughton, Mrs Vernon.
Related Works
Related Work: Mercury Harlequin Author(s): Henry Woodward

2178
04 January 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Duke of York Actor: Master Cautherly
Role: King Henry Actor: Berry

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Cast
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: Woodward, Blakes, Beard, Bransby, Ackman, Walker, Atkins, Clough, Miss Barton, Miss Haughton, Mrs Vernon.
Related Works
Related Work: Mercury Harlequin Author(s): Henry Woodward

2179
05 January 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Cast
Role: Dancing Actor: Beard, Miss Young, others
Related Works
Related Work: Amphitryon; or, The Two Sosias Author(s): Henry Purcell

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Related Works
Related Work: Mercury Harlequin Author(s): Henry Woodward

2180
06 January 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Performance Comment: As17561115, but Don Pedro-Blakes, and Masquerade Scene omitted from the Bill.
Cast
Role: Don Pedro Actor: Blakes, and Masquerade Scene omitted from the Bill.
Related Works
Related Work: The Honest Yorkshireman Author(s): Henry Carey

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Cast
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: Woodward, Blakes, Beard, Bransby, Ackman, Walker, Atkins, Clough, Miss Barton, Miss Haughton, Mrs Vernon.
Related Works
Related Work: Mercury Harlequin Author(s): Henry Woodward

2181
07 January 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Cast
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: Woodward, Blakes, Beard, Bransby, Ackman, Walker, Atkins, Clough, Miss Barton, Miss Haughton, Mrs Vernon.
Related Works
Related Work: Mercury Harlequin Author(s): Henry Woodward

2182
08 January 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire N.B. The Masquerade Scene of the Mainpiece is oblig'd to be omitted on account of the Pantomime. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Cast
Role: Don Pedro Actor: Blakes, and Masquerade Scene omitted from the Bill.
Related Works
Related Work: The Honest Yorkshireman Author(s): Henry Carey

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Cast
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: Woodward, Blakes, Beard, Bransby, Ackman, Walker, Atkins, Clough, Miss Barton, Miss Haughton, Mrs Vernon.
Related Works
Related Work: Mercury Harlequin Author(s): Henry Woodward

2183
10 January 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Cast
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: Woodward, Blakes, Beard, Bransby, Ackman, Walker, Atkins, Clough, Miss Barton, Miss Haughton, Mrs Vernon.
Related Works
Related Work: Mercury Harlequin Author(s): Henry Woodward

2184
11 January 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Cast
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: Woodward, Blakes, Beard, Bransby, Ackman, Walker, Atkins, Clough, Miss Barton, Miss Haughton, Mrs Vernon.
Related Works
Related Work: Mercury Harlequin Author(s): Henry Woodward

2185
12 January 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Cast
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: Woodward, Blakes, Beard, Bransby, Ackman, Walker, Atkins, Clough, Miss Barton, Miss Haughton, Mrs Vernon.
Related Works
Related Work: Mercury Harlequin Author(s): Henry Woodward

2186
13 January 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Cast
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: Woodward, Blakes, Beard, Bransby, Ackman, Walker, Atkins, Clough, Miss Barton, Miss Haughton, Mrs Vernon.
Related Works
Related Work: Mercury Harlequin Author(s): Henry Woodward

2187
14 January 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Cast
Role: Don Pedro Actor: Blakes, and Masquerade Scene omitted from the Bill.
Related Works
Related Work: The Honest Yorkshireman Author(s): Henry Carey

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Cast
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: Woodward, Blakes, Beard, Bransby, Ackman, Walker, Atkins, Clough, Miss Barton, Miss Haughton, Mrs Vernon.
Related Works
Related Work: Mercury Harlequin Author(s): Henry Woodward

2188
15 January 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Cast
Role: Dancing Actor: Beard, Miss Young, others
Related Works
Related Work: Amphitryon; or, The Two Sosias Author(s): Henry Purcell

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Cast
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: Woodward, Blakes, Beard, Bransby, Ackman, Walker, Atkins, Clough, Miss Barton, Miss Haughton, Mrs Vernon.
Related Works
Related Work: Mercury Harlequin Author(s): Henry Woodward

2189
24 January 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Related Works
Related Work: The Earl of Essex Author(s): Henry Jones

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal

2190
28 January 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces by Command of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 years [see 8 May 1753]. Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. Afterpiece: Taken from Dryden and Colley Cibber, Poets Laureate. [Lucy was played by Miss Sledge; see 4 Feb. 1757.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: The Frenchified Lady never in Paris

Related Works
Related Work: The Frenchified Lady Never in Paris Author(s): Henry Dell

Dance: Poitier, Granier, Lucas, Mlle Capdeville, Miss Hilliard

2191
29 January 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. Reprisal Publish'd at 1s. "as it is now acting at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, printed for R. Baldwin, Paternoster Row. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Related Works
Related Work: The Earl of Essex Author(s): Henry Jones

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Cast
Role: with the last New Character of Lord Chalkstone Actor: Garrick.

Dance: IV: A Comic Dance call'd The Millers- [no dancers specified]

2192
29 January 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Ryan
Role: of the Tower Actor: Cushing

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Related Works
Related Work: Damon and Phillida Author(s): Henry Carey
Related Work: Love in a Riddle Author(s): Henry Carey

Dance: As17561217

2193
08 February 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Particular desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Cast
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: Woodward, Blakes, Beard, Bransby, Ackman, Walker, Atkins, Clough, Miss Barton, Miss Haughton, Mrs Vernon.
Related Works
Related Work: Mercury Harlequin Author(s): Henry Woodward

2194
10 February 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: To conclude with a Country Dance Actor: the characters of the Play.

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Related Works
Related Work: The Intriguing Chambermaid Author(s): Henry Fielding

Dance: I: The Indian Peasants, as17570127

2195
12 February 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Related Works
Related Work: The Earl of Essex Author(s): Henry Jones

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Related Works
Related Work: The Authors Farce; and, The Pleasures of the Town Author(s): Henry Fielding

Dance: IV: The Millers, as17570129

2196
14 February 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Cast
Role: Dancing Actor: Beard, Miss Young, others
Related Works
Related Work: Amphitryon; or, The Two Sosias Author(s): Henry Purcell

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Cast
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: Woodward, Blakes, Beard, Bransby, Ackman, Walker, Atkins, Clough, Miss Barton, Miss Haughton, Mrs Vernon.
Related Works
Related Work: Mercury Harlequin Author(s): Henry Woodward

2197
14 February 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Thessalus Actor: Anderson
Role: In which will be introduc'd the Triumphal Entry Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Related Works
Related Work: The Contrivances; or, More Ways Than One Author(s): Henry Carey

Dance: As17561215

2198
24 February 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: The Vocal Parts Actor: Beard, Champnes, Mrs Clive

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Cast
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: Woodward, Blakes, Beard, Bransby, Ackman, Walker, Atkins, Clough, Miss Barton, Miss Haughton, Mrs Vernon.
Related Works
Related Work: Mercury Harlequin Author(s): Henry Woodward

2199
28 February 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Cast
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: Woodward, Blakes, Beard, Bransby, Ackman, Walker, Atkins, Clough, Miss Barton, Miss Haughton, Mrs Vernon.
Related Works
Related Work: Mercury Harlequin Author(s): Henry Woodward

2200
03 March 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Cast
Role: The Principal Characters Actor: Woodward, Blakes, Beard, Bransby, Ackman, Walker, Atkins, Clough, Miss Barton, Miss Haughton, Mrs Vernon.
Related Works
Related Work: Mercury Harlequin Author(s): Henry Woodward