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14775 results for: Keyword - John, Duke of Bedford
We found 11402 matches on Author, 2799 matches on Performance Comments, 2237 matches on Event Comments, 654 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

626
11 March 1678 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C., 5@145, p. 120: Mr Lymberham. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, P. 349. There is no indication as to whether this performance was the premiere, but it probably was part of its initial run, which was limited to three days. Langbaine (English Dramatick Poets): In this Play (which I take to be the best Comedy of his) he so much expos'd the keeping part of the Town, that the Play was stopt, when it had but thrice appear'd on the Stage (p. 164). [In the Dedication to the play, Dryden also refers to its being stopped.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Kind Keeper Or Mr Limberham

Related Works
Related Work: The Kind Keeper; or, Mr Limberham Author(s): John Dryden

627
28 May 1678 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@143, p. 162; on a similar list (L. C. 5@145, p. 120) the date is given as 25 May, but the second list may have been compiled from the first one and subject to error. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349. There is no indication that this is the first production, but the Epilogue refers to the shortly expected "long Vacation," a suggestion that the premiere came in May. The play was not licensed until 29 Aug. 1678

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Counterfeits

Related Works
Related Work: The Counterfeits Author(s): John Learnerd

628
September 1678 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first production is uncertain. The date of licensing was 3 Jan. 1678@9, but Wilson (Six Restoration Play-Dates, p. 222) has argued that it may well have been the first new play of the season. The Prologue refers to it as "The first Play bury'd since the Wollen Act," the Act going into effect on 1 Aug. 1678. For Sandford as Creon, see Cibber, Apology, ed. Lowe, I, 131. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 37): Oedipus King of Thebes, Wrote by Mr Nat. Lee and Mr Dryden: The last Writing the first two Acts, and the first the 3 last. This play was Admirably well Acted; especially the Parts of Oedipus and Jocasta: One by Mr Betterton, the other by Mrs Betterton; it took prodigiously being Acted 10 Days together

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus

Related Works
Related Work: Oedipus Author(s): John Dryden
Related Work: Oedipus, King of Thebes Author(s): John Dryden

629
November 1678 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first production is not known, but the fact that Medbourne, who is in the cast, was sent to Newgate Prison on 26 Nov. 1678 establishes November as the latest probable date for the first production. The play was not licensed for printing until 19 Jan. 1678@9. A Compleat List of all the English Dramatic Poets (London, 1747): This Play had no Success on the Stage (p. 168)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Destruction Of Troy

Related Works
Related Work: The Destruction of Troy Author(s): John Banks

630
April 1679 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first performance is uncertain, but the fact that the play was entered in the Stationers' Register on 14 April 1679 suggests a premiere not later than April 1679. A song, Can life be a blessing, with music by Thomas Farmer, is in Choice Ayres and Songs, The Third Book, 1681

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Troilus And Cressida Or Truth Found Too Late

Related Works
Related Work: Troilus and Cressida; or, Truth Found Too Late Author(s): John Dryden

631
June 1680 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first performance is not known. Luttrell, however, dated the copy he purchased 6 July 1680 (VanLennep, Two Restoration Comedies, pp. 57-58) and attributed it to Mrs Aphra Behn. If copies were available in early July, the play was most probably performed in June 1680. Langbaine (English Dramatick Poets, p. 547) had heard that Mrs Behn was the author, but A Comparison between the Two Stages (p. 11) attributed it to Thomas Betterton. For a discussion of the authorship, see also Ten English Farces, ed. Leo Hughes and A. H. Scouten (Austin, Texas, 1948), pp. 203-4

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge Or A Match In Newgate

Related Works
Related Work: The Dutch Courtezan Author(s): John Marston

632
01 November 1680 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first production is not certain, particularly since an entry in L. C. 5@145, p. 120 (see also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349) lists this play for 8 March, the year uncertain. Since the entry follows one for The Souldier's Fortune which followed the premiere of The Female Prelate, 31 May 1680, the L. C. entry probably is one for 8 March 1680@1. That the premiere occurred near 1 Nov. 1680 is suggested by a letter of Anne Montague to Lady Hatton, 1 Nov. 1680: For I never see the towne fuller, for I was to see the new play, The Spanish Frier, and there was all the world, but the Court is a letell dull yet; the Queen being sick, there is noe drawing room (Hatton Correspondence, Camden Society, XXII [1878], 240). A song, Farewell ungratefull Traytor, with music by Captain Pack and sung by Mrs Crofts, is in Act V. For Leigh's and Nokes' acting, see Cibber, Apology, ed. Lowe, I, 143, 145-46. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 37): 'Twas Admirably Acted, and produc'd vast Profit to the Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar Or The Double Discovery

Related Works
Related Work: The Spanish Fryar; or, The Double Discovery Author(s): John Dryden

633
08 March 1681 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This play is on the L. C. list, 5@145, p. 120--see also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349--immediately following the 1 March listing for The Soldier's Fortune. Because The Spanish Fryar was apparently a newly acted play on 1 Nov. 1680, the performance on this L. C. list is assigned to 8 March 1680@1 rather than to 8 March 1679@80

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Related Works
Related Work: The Spanish Fryar; or, The Double Discovery Author(s): John Dryden

634
March 1682 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first performance is uncertain, but the fact that Luttrell dated his separately printed copies of the Prologue and Epilogue 5 April 1682 (Huntington Library) sets a probability that the play first appeared within a week to ten days preceding that date. The Prologue and Epilogue, separately printed, have been reprinted in Wiley, Rare Prologues and Epilogues, pp. 89-91. A Prologue Intended for Vertue Bertray'd, by Thomas Shadwell, is reprinted in Welbeck Niscellany 3, A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, ed. Francis Needham, 1934. Some details in it suggest the "Dead Time" preceding Easter, when the Court was gone, the Russian ambassador departed, the Moroccan Ambassador shortly to go. The Russian ambassador left on 15 Feb. 1681@2 OS (see Evelyn, Diary), and the Prologue refers to the execution of Colonel Vratz and his accomplices on 10 March 1681@2 (Evelyn, Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Vertue Betrayd Or Anna Bullen

Related Works
Related Work: Vertue Betray'd; or, Anna Bullen Author(s): John Banks

635
01 November 1682 @ Inner Temple

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The players received the customary #20. See A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, III, 183. Loyal Protestant and True Domestick Union. 4 Nov. 1682: London November 2. Yesterday began the Revels at the Temple; where all the Judges belonging thereunto were nobly entertained by a Splendid Banquet, and afterwards by an excellent new Comedy, acted by His Royal Highness's Servants in the Inner-Temple-Hall, called, Rule a Wife and have a Wife, to the great satisfaction of all the Spectators

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Related Works
Related Work: Rule a Wife and Have a Wife Author(s): John Fletcher

636
July 1696 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. There may have been a revival of Oedipus in the summer of 1696. In Francis Manning's Poems upon Several Occasions and to Several Persons (1701) there is a poem To Mr Betterton, Acting Oedipus King of Thebes. The first stanza describes the splendor of the installation of the Duke of Gloucester as a Knight of the Garter, an event which occurred at Windsor Castle in July 1696; but there is no certainty that Betterton's performance occurred before that date. It should be noted also that the play was reprinted in 1696

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus King Of Thebes

Related Works
Related Work: Oedipus, King of Thebes Author(s): John Dryden

637
03 June 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Bowen. For the Entertainment of the Duke d'Aumont

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don John Or The Libertine Destroyd

Cast
Role: John Actor: Mills
Role: Iacomo Actor: Johnson
Related Works
Related Work: London's Triumph: Presented in severall Delightfull Scaenes: And Celebrated in Honour of the truly Loyal, and known deserver of Honour, Sir John Robinson Author(s): John Tatham
Related Work: The Rambling Justice; or, The Jealous Husbands: With the Humours of Sir John Twiford Author(s): John Leanerd
Related Work: Sir Courtly Nice; or, It Cannot Be Author(s): John Crowne
Related Work: The Comical Gallant: or, The Amours of Sir John Falstaffe Author(s): John Dennis

Afterpiece Title: A Woman Will Have Her Will

Related Works
Related Work: A Woman Will Have Her Will Author(s): John Eccles
Related Work: Women Pleased Author(s): John Fletcher

638
21 October 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As it was alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wake

Related Works
Related Work: Hob's Opera Author(s): John Hippisley

639
18 January 1714 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As it was Alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

640
17 November 1714 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: As it was alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

641
17 January 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As it was Alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Related Works
Related Work: Hob's Opera Author(s): John Hippisley

642
17 March 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Wantlow; By Their Royal Highness's Command. Mainpiece: As it was alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy or The Comical Rivals

Dance: Wade, Mrs Santlow

643
27 October 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As it was alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy or The Comical Rivals

Dance: As17151014

644
16 March 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. As it was alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham. Pit and Boxes together at 5s. Note, to prevent the Company's waiting, none but the Gallery Doors will be opened till 5 a Clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

Dance: Shaw, Wade, Thurmond Jr, Topham, Mrs Santlow, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Tenoe, Miss Lindar

645
23 January 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 30 Jan.: On Saturday Night, after the Actors...had perform'd the Maid's Tragedy, a Proclamation was made upon the Stage from the Duke of Newcastle, Lord Chamberlain, signifying that it was his Majesty's Pleasure to suspend for the present any more Acting at that House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maids Tragedy

Related Works
Related Work: The Maid's Tragedy Author(s): John Fletcher
Related Work: The Maid of Honour Author(s): John Philip Kemble

Song: As17191003

646
10 January 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As it was alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham. Afterpiece: A new Dramatick Entertainment of Dancing in Grotesque Characters

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

Afterpiece Title: The Escapes of Harlequin

647
18 November 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As it was altered by the late Duke of Buckingham

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne or Harlequins Metamorphoses

Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne Author(s): John Hughes
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, Harlequin Mercury Author(s): John Thurmond
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd Author(s): John Rich
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, Harlequin's Metamorphosis Author(s): John Thurmond

Dance: new Dance of Fawns-

648
09 January 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: As it was alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

Afterpiece Title: The Miser

Related Works
Related Work: The Miser; or, Wagner and Abericock Author(s): John Thurmond

649
01 November 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness. [The Prince, accompanied by the Duke of Manchester, Lord Charles Cavendish, and Colonel Schutz, present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Related Works
Related Work: The Shipwreck; or, Perseus and Andromeda Author(s): John Weaver
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Spaniard Outwitted Author(s): John Galliard

650
09 April 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #138 6s. [Prince, Duke, Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Related Works
Related Work: The Shipwreck; or, Perseus and Andromeda Author(s): John Weaver
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Spaniard Outwitted Author(s): John Galliard