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We found 4020 matches on Performance Title, 2401 matches on Performance Comments, 2178 matches on Author, 792 matches on Event Comments, and 1 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Mainpiece: As it was alter'd from Shakespear by Sir William D'Avenant and Mr Dryden. With all the Songs, Dances, and other Decorations proper to the Play. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest Or The Inchanted Island

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea or The Country Wedding

Event Comment: Avec Tous Ces Spectacles & Dances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Feint Astrologue Statue Enfant Perroquet

Event Comment: As it was alter'd from Shakespear by Sir William D'Avenant and Mr Dryden. With all the Songs, Dances, and other Decorations proper to the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest Or The Inchanted Island

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. With all the Songs, Dances, and Decorations proper to the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Event Comment: With all the Songs, Dances, and Decorations proper to the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Event Comment: As it was altered from Shakespear by Sir William D'Avenant and Mr Dryden. With all the Songs, Dances, and other Decorations proper to the Play. [The Rural Modes intended, but deferred by the indisposition of a player.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest Or The Inchanted Island

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With all the Original Decorations of Rising, Sinking, and Flying; and Dances proper to the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lancashire Witches Or Teague Odivelly

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Triumph

Music: ll the Witches Musick both Vocal and Instrumental, by the late Mr Barret-

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. With all the Songs, Dances and Decorations proper to the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Event Comment: As it was alter'd from Shakespear by Sir William D'Avenant and Mr Dryden. With all the Songs, Dances, and other Decorations proper to the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest Or The Inchanted Island

Event Comment: By a New Company who never appear'd on that Stage before. All the Songs and Dances set to Musick, as it is perform'd at the Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. At 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Event Comment: With proper Dances, and all the usual Decorations. Receipts: #54 3s. Probable attendance: boxes, 46 paid and 17 orders; pit, 193 paid and 14 orders; slips, 16 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 101 paid and 5 orders; second gallery, 70 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Thomyris Queen Of Scythia

Event Comment: With all the Original Songs and Dances, and several new Decorations. [Prince Frederick and Princess Amelia present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest Or The Inchanted Island

Event Comment: Afterpiece: With Alterations. Intermix'd with Songs made to Old Ballad Tunes and Country Dances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral Or Grief A La Mode

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Event Comment: With all the Original Decorations of Rising, Sinking, and Flying; and Dances proper to the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lancashire Witches Or Teague Odivelly

Music: ll the Witches Musick both Vocal and Instrumental, by the late Mr Barret-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mad Tom Of Bedlam Or The Distressd Lovers With The Comical Humours Of squire Numscul

Song: Mr Corse, age 12

Dance: DDutch Skipper-Sandham; Drunken Man-Wilcox; (On 8 Aug. and there after:) Mad Dance, Pierrot-Le Sieur Labisle, from France

Performance Comment: and there after:) Mad Dance, Pierrot-Le Sieur Labisle, from France.
Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. With all the Songs, Dances, and other Decorations proper to the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Event Comment: Benefit Jones (Numberer) and Little (Gallery Boxkeeper). At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. With the Original Musick, Songs, and Dances, Scenes, Machines, and other Decorations proper to the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Hob or The Country Wake

Music: Select Pieces-

Song: As17310427

Dance: EEnglish Maggot-Rainton, Mrs Walter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: I: Miss Raftor; II: Pastoral Dialogue-Stoppelaer, Miss Oates

Music: TThe Cuckow-

Dance: IV: Bartholomew Fair-F. Tench, Miss Brett; End Afterpiece: Country Dance-

Performance Comment: Tench, Miss Brett; End Afterpiece: Country Dance-.
Cast
Role: Country Dance Actor: .
Event Comment: Benefit Bowman and Paget. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. With all the Songs, Dances, and other Decorations proper to the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Cast
Role: James Actor: Mullart

Dance: SSt. Giles' Jig-Lilliputian (Scholar of Jones), others; Highland Dance-Scotch Gentleman; French Peasant-d'Vallois, Mrs Walter

Performance Comment: Giles' Jig-Lilliputian (Scholar of Jones), others; Highland Dance-Scotch Gentleman; French Peasant-d'Vallois, Mrs Walter.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Cast
Role: James Actor: Mullart

Dance: SSt. Giles' Jig-Lilliputian; Highland Dance-Native of Scotland; Je ne scai quoy-D'Vallois, Mrs Walter

Performance Comment: Giles' Jig-Lilliputian; Highland Dance-Native of Scotland; Je ne scai quoy-D'Vallois, Mrs Walter.
Event Comment: At Fielding-Hippisley Booth at the George Inn in West Smithfield. A new Dramatick Entertainment. Done from the French of Moliere, and intermix'd with Variety of Songs to old Ballad Tunes and Country Dances. All the Characters to be entirely new Dressed. [Advertised 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31 Aug.; 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 Sept.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Envious Statesman Or The Fall Of Essex With The Humours Of The Forcd Physician

Dance: Mons D'Ferrou Ville , lately arrived from Paris, Miss Brett, Miss Mears

Music: A Band , including Burk Thumoth

Entertainment: Before the Opera: Postures-Phillips

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. With all the Scenes, Machines, and other Decorations proper to the Play and the Original Musick, Songs, and Dances. Afterpiece: With the Additional Scene representing the Drawing of the Lottery in Guild-Hall. [For a discussion of Wilks as actor-manager and a brief comment on the defects of T. Cibber as Macduff, see Grub St. Journal, 5 Oct.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Music: The Original Musick-; Vocal Parts-Stoppelaer, Miss Raftor, E. Roberts, Charke

Dance: Essex, Thurmond, Houghton, Tench, Davenport

Event Comment: Alter'd from Shakespear by Sir Wm. Davenant and Mr Dryden. With all the Original Songs and Dances, Serious and Comic, Scenes, Machines, Habits, Flyings, Sinkings, and other Decorations proper to the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Music: Solo on Violin-Eversman

Dance: PPierrots-de Vallois, J. DelaGard; Friendly Lasses-Miss Wherrit, Miss Sandham; Sailor's Dance-Jones

Performance Comment: DelaGard; Friendly Lasses-Miss Wherrit, Miss Sandham; Sailor's Dance-Jones.
Cast
Role: Sailor's Dance Actor: Jones.