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3791 results for: Keyword - Lord Edward Herbert
We found 2132 matches on Performance Comments, 982 matches on Author, 837 matches on Event Comments, 185 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3476
23 September 1718 @ Hampton Court

Event Comment: Steele wrote a Prologue for the opening, but the Lord Chamberlain had already engaged one by Tickell. For Steele's Prologue, see Blanchard, Occasional Verse of Richard Steele, p. 49: for Tickell's, see R. E. Tickell, pp. 231-32. Original Weekly Journal, 27 Sept.: His Majesty beheld the Performance with much Satisfaction. The young Princesses were present, and a very great Concourse of Nobility and Gentry

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

3477
09 May 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Ray and Mrs Moore. On this day a warrant for establishing an Academy of Music was issued. See Lord Chamberlain's Office, 7@3 and 5@157, p. 228

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Song: Ray

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

Related Works
Related Work: Deaf Indeed! Author(s): Edward Topham
Related Work: The Fool Author(s): Edward Topham
Related Work: Small Talk; or, The Westminster Boy Author(s): Edward Topham
Related Work: Bonds without Judgement; or, The Loves of Bengal Author(s): Edward Topham

Music: A new Piece for the Ecchoe Flute-Paisible

3478
27 November 1719 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A meeting of the Court of Directors of the Royal Academy of Music initiated arrangements for a new season. For details, see Lord Chamberlain's Office, 7@3, Nicoll, p. 286, and Deutsch, p. 97

Performances

3479
30 November 1719 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For further deliberations of the Court of Directors of the Royal Academy of Music, see Lord Chamberlain's Office, 7@3 or Deutsch, p. 97

Performances

3480
02 December 1719 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For further deliberations of the Royal Academy of Music, see Lord Chamberlain's Office, 7@3 or Deutsch, Handel, p. 97

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

3481
19 December 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spartan Dame

Performance Comment: See17191211 [Cibber's role was presumably read this evening, for he had been silenced by the Lord Chamberlain.]

Song: As17191003

3482
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 Maid's Tragedy

Song: As17191003

3483
02 February 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Robinson. Boxes and Pit by tickets only at half a guinea. Tickets for The Man of Mode taken. [An order of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, 5@157, p. 284, directs the managers not to allow any benefit before those for Mrs Oldfield and Mrs Porter.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Song: Between the Acts: Singing-

3484
16 February 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command. Lord Chamberlain's Office, 5@157, p. 287: I do hereby Order and direct that Mr Gay s Pastorall Tragedy be imediately Acted after Mr Hugh's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Dance: As17200210

3485
14 April 1722 @ Greenwich

Event Comment: London Journal, 21 April: The Scholars of Mr Weston...performed the Play of Tamerlane...before the Lords of the Admiralty, with great Applause

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

3486
19 December 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these Twenty Years. Written by the Lord Lansdowne. With new Scenes and Habits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Heroick Love

3487
20 December 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Written by the Lord Lansdowne. With new Scenes and Habits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Heroick Love

3488
25 February 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: RRich's Register: No Play by reason of a great Fire yesterday at my Lord Cardigans House being next door to the Theatre

Performances

3489
02 May 1729 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: Bajazet-Hulett; Tamerlane-Smith; Moneses-Gillow; Axalla-Williams; Dervise-Machen; Omar-Giffard; Prince of Tanais-Downes; Arpasia-Mrs Purden; Selima-Mrs Seal, lately arrived from Ireland; To which will be added a Whimsical Letter from the Lord Viscount Flame to the Mufti of Terra@Australis@Incognita repeated-Mr Johnson of Chesire, Author of Hurlothrumbo.

Dance:

3490
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

3491
06 November 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. [Prince of Wales, attended by Lord Ashburnham and Colonel Townshend, attended. In Daily Post, 5 Nov., The Conscious Lovers had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

3492
27 December 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [The Prince, attended by Lord Charles Cavendish and Colonel Townshend, and Princess Caroline, attended by the Countess of Suffolk, present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Wedding

3493
28 April 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit R. Williams. Mainpiece: Not Acted these Twenty Years. On this day the Lord Mayor and the Court of Aldermen of the City presented a petition to the King seeking the suppression of the theatre in Goodman's Fields. Thomas Odell, Master of the Theatre, also appeared before His Majesty and sought royal leave to continue acting.--See Grub St. Journal, 7 May, for a summary of the events, but see also Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer and London Journal, 2 May

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man's Bewitch'd; Or, The Devil To Do About Her

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Turn'd Dancing-Master

Dance: TThe White Joke (new)-Eaton

3494
11 December 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [by Charles Johnson.] With New Habits. [See Preface for an account of the noisy reception of the play, and Lord Hervey and his Friends, p. 61, for Hervey's amusing account of the first night.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medea

3495
18 October 1731 @ Hampton Court

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, Duke, Princesses, and Duke of Lorrain present. See Lord Hervey and His Friends, p. 103.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

3496
27 November 1731 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties and the Royal Family present. See also Lord Hervey and his Friends, pp. 114-15.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Porus

3497
30 November 1731 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, Prince William, Princess Royal, the young Princesses, and Duke of Lorrain present. See also Lord Hervey and his Friends, p. 115.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Porus

3498
08 December 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [Prince of Wales, Lord Malpas, Marquis of Caernarvan present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance:

3499
04 January 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For an amusing account of the performance, see Lord Hervey and his Friends, p. 69. Hervey's letter is dated 4 April 1731 by the editor, but 4 January 1732 must almost certainly be the correct date

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

3500
03 June 1732 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For a comment on the season's operas, see See and Seem Blind...In a Letter from Lord B-to A-H-Esq. (London, 1732), part of which is reproduced in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 300-301

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lucius Papirius