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Event Comment: Rich's Company. Lady Morley attended this performance. Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 377: Lady Morley and one in the Box at Prophetesse 10s. [See also 18 Dec. 1697.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Lady Morley attended this performance. Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 377: Lady Morley and one in the Box at Esop 8s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Event Comment: Rich's Company. This play was also reprinted in 1698. Lady Morley attended this performance. Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 377: Lady Morley and two in the Pitt at the Relapse 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse Or Virtue In Danger

Event Comment: Rich's Company. There is no certainly as to whether this performance is the premiere. Because the play was not published until 1715, the cast for the first performance is not known. Lady Morley attended this performance. Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 377: Lady Morley and one in the Box att Country House 8s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country House

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Lady Morley attended this performance. Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 377: Lady Morley and two in the Box at King Arthur 18s. [In The Female Wits--see September 1696--in Act I is a reference to the enlivening of King Arthur created by the Pudding and Dumbling Song.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur Or The British Worthy

Event Comment: On this date the Czar of Muscovy attended an opera, but the title is not given. Lady Newton, Lyme Letter, 1660-1760, p. 209: On Saturday last the Czar of Muscovy, attended by the Marquis of Carmarthen, and some of his Bayers, was at the King's Playhouse in Drury Lane, and saw 3 acts of the Opera. Luttrell, A Brief Relation, IV, 343, 12 Feb. 1697@8: This evening the czar was at the playhouse in Drury Lane to see an opera

Performances

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Lady Morley attended this performance. Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 377: Lady Morley and one in the Box att King Arthur 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Event Comment: Rich's Company. The date of the premiere is not known, but the fact that the play was advertised in the Post Boy, 28-30 April 1698, suggests a first performance in late March. The Songs, published separately, include: Come all ye shepherds, set by Daniel Purcell and sung by Freeman. Let every shepherd bring his lass, set by Daniel Purcell and sung by Magnus. Life is but a little span, set by Daniel Purcell and sung by Young Bowin and Mrs Campion. Fond shepherd, set by Daniel Purcell and sung by Pate. To pensive years resign your pining, set by Daniel Purcell and sung by Young Bowen. Look down, set by Daniel Purcell and sung by Pate. Dedication, edition of 1698: I have no Reason to complain of the Success it had on the Stage. A Comparison Between the Two Stages (1702), p. 20: Damn'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phaeton Or The Fatal Divorce

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Lady Morley attended this performance. Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 377: Lady Morley and one in the Box att King Arthur 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Beauty In Distress

Performance Comment: Edition of 1698: Prologue-Bowen [an induction scene, with a player coming forward to announce that there is no prologue, then Bowen entering, having forgotten it, but the prompter gets Bowen's memory restored and the prologue proceeds]; Epilogue-Mrs Bracegirdle; Don Vicentio-Betterton; Ricardo-Verbruggen; Duke Ferdinand-Kynaston; Fabiano-Hodgson; Zemet-Arnold; Laura-Mrs Barry; Placentia-Mrs Bracegirdle; Morella-Mrs Moore; Melinda-Mrs Prince.
Cast
Role: Duke Ferdinand Actor: Kynaston
Event Comment: Rich's Company was apparently suspended because of its action in allowing John Powell, who had been involved in an altercation with Colonel Stanhope and Charles Davenant, to act before making satisfaction for the incident. See Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 368, and Cibber, Apology, II, 20n. The suspension lasted but a day; on 19 May 1698 Powell was forbidden to be received at either Drury Lane or Dorset Garden

Performances

Event Comment: Rich's Company. The date of the first performance is not known, but the fact that the play was advertised in the Post Man, 7-9 July 1698, suggests a premiere in June 1698. In addition, the Preface replies to Jeremy Collier, whose Short View had a second edition appear in mid-May, and the presence of some younger actors--Fairbank and Bullock, for example--in the cast suggests a summer performance. The music for the songs was composed by Daniel Purcell. A Comparison Between the Two Stages (1702), p. 20: Damn'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Campaigners Or The Pleasant Adventures At Brussels

Performance Comment: Edition of 1698: Prince Landevile-Evans; Don Leon-Sympson; The Sieur Bondevelt-Johnson; Col. Darange-Mills; Kinglove-Thomas; Min Heer Tomas-Penkethman; Marqui Bertran-Cibber; Van Scopen-Fairbank; Mascarillo-Bullock; Angellica-Mrs Knight; Madam la Marquise-Mrs Verbruggen; Anniky-Mrs Powel; Gusset-Mrs Kent; Fardell-Mrs Lynsey; Prologue-Mr Pinkethman in a Cloak, with a Poetical Wreath on; Epilogue-Mr Cibber (Acting the Fr. Marquis).
Cast
Role: Prince Landevile Actor: Evans

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Queen Catharine Or The Ruines Of Love

Event Comment: According to Sir Edward Smith's bill (see Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 308) Rich's Company acted 209 times from 9 Oct. 1698 to 9 July 1699, after which the young actors performed 27 times from 9 July 1699 to 10 Oct. 1699

Performances

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Lady Morley attended this performance: Lady Morley and two in the Box att Allexander. See Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 777. This play was also reprinted in 1699

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander

Related Works
Related Work: Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Musique Author(s): George Frideric Handel
Event Comment: Rich's Company. Lady Morley attended this performance: Lady Morley and two in the Box at Oedipus. See Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 377

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus King Of Thebes

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Lady Morley attended this performance: Lady Morley and two in the Box att Little Theife. See Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 377

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Little Thief

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Lady Morley attended this performance: Lady Morley and nne in the Box att Bonduca. 8s. See Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 377. When this play was revived at Drury Lane on 12 Feb. 1705, the bill bore the heading: Not Acted these Six Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bonduca

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Lady Morley attended this performance: Lady Morley and one in the Box at Spanish Wives. 8s. See Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 377

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Wives

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Lady Morley attended this performance: Lady Morley and two in the Box att King Lear. 12s. See Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 377

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Lady Morley attended this performance: Lady Morley and one in the Box att the Island Princess. 10s. See Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 377

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

Event Comment: James Brydges, Diary: I set Mr Bullock down at ye Playhouse, & came home (Huntington MS St 26). John Dryden wrote to Mrs Steward on 23 Feb. [1699@1700, but possibly 1698@99, as the letter concerns theatrical affairs of the autumn and winter of 1698-99]: The Poem of The Confederates [see The Island Princess, November 1698] some think to be Mr Walsh: the copies are both lik'd. And there are really two factions of ladyes, for the two play-houses. If you do not understand the names of some persons mention'd I can help you to the knowledge of them. You know, Sir Tho. Skipwith is master of the play-house in Drury-Lane; and my Lord Scarsdale is the patron of Betterton's house, being in love with somebody there [presumably Anne Bracegirdle] (The Letters of John Dryden, p. 133)

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Event Comment: See L. C. 7@3 (Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 382) for an agreement concerning new scenes and machines for a new opera by Settle

Performances

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Lady Morley attended this performance: Lady Morley and two in the Box att the Joviall Crew. See Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 377

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew