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14686 results for: Keyword - Lord John Butler
We found 11077 matches on Author, 3692 matches on Performance Comments, 1707 matches on Event Comments, 451 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

11226
18 October 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: In Act I The Cardinal's Banquetv. In Act II The Court for the Trial of Queen Katharinev. In Act V a Grand Processionv to the Christening of Princess Elizabeth. Afterpiece: Representation of the Engagementv, as 14 Oct. [In mainpiece the playbill omits Lord Sands, but "Sands Hollingsworth, Baddeley ill" (Powell).] Powell, 17 Oct.: Chaplet rehearsed at 10 [see under 16 Oct.]; Drummer at 11; Roman Actor at 12 (order to be dismissed by Mr Kemble); 18 Oct.: Haunted Tower rehearsed at 10; Wedding Day at 12. Receipts: #307 6s. (227.18; 77.6; 2.2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Performance Comment: King Henry-Palmer; Cardinal Wolsey-Bensley; Cranmer-Aickin; D. of Norfolk-Whitfield; D. of Buckingham-Wroughton; Earl of Surry-Barrymore; Gardiner-Suett; Lord Sands-Hollingsworth; Cromwell-C. Kemble; Queen Katharine-Mrs Siddons; Anne Bullen-Miss DeCamp; Patience (with a song)-Mrs Bland.
Cast
Role: Lord Sands Actor: Hollingsworth

Afterpiece Title: The Glorious First of June

11227
27 April 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for a Widow. Tickets delivered for the 25th will be admitted. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Performance Comment: Earl of Southampton-Adcock; Lord Burleigh-Martin; Sir Walter Raleigh-Maffet; Essex-Wilkinson; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs Sidney; Countess of Nottingham-Mrs Sincock; Rutland-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]).unidentified]).
Cast
Role: Lord Burleigh Actor: Martin
Related Works
Related Work: The Unhappy Favourite; or, The Earl of Essex Author(s): John Banks

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Entertainment: Monologue.End: Collins's Ode on the Passions-Wilkinson

11228
29 October 1662 @ The City, London

Event Comment: The Lord Mayor's show. Evelyn, Diary: Was my L. Majors shew with a number of sumptuous pageantry, speeches & Verses: I was standing in an house in Cheape side, against the place prepared for their Majesties. The Prince & heire of Denmark was there, but not our King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Londons Triumph Presented In Severall Delightfull Scaenes

Performance Comment: And Celebrated in Honour of the truly Loyal, and known deserver of Honour, Sir John Robinson. The edition of 1662 has no actors' names, no prologue, no epilogue.

11229
23 February 1663 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: So resolved to take my wife to a play at court to-night, and the rather because it is my birthday....While my wife dressed herself, Creed and I walked out to see what play was acted to-day, and we find it The Slighted Mayde. But, Lord! to see that though I did know myself to be out of danger, yet I durst not go through the street, but round by the garden into Tower Street. By and by took coach, and to the Duke's house, where we saw it well acted, thought the play hath little good in it, being most pleased to see the little girl [Moll Davis] dance in boy's apparel, she having very fine legs, only bends in the hams, as I perceive all women do

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Slighted Maid

Performance Comment: Edition of 1663: Salerno-Harris; Iberio-Betterton; Filomarini-Metborn; Lugo-Smith; Arviedo-Cadiman; Corbulo-Young; Peralta-Underhill; Gioseppe-the Elder Noke; Vindex-Sandford; Decio-Mrs Gibbs; Pyramena-Mrs Betterton; Diacelia-Mrs Long; Leandra-Mrs Williams; Menanthe-the Younger Noke; Joan-Turner; Instrumental Vocal and Recitative Musick by Mr John? Banister-; the Prologue to the King-; the Prologue to the House-; the Epilogue-The Slighted Maid; Epilogue to the King-.

11230
29 October 1695 @ The City, London

Event Comment: London. By Elkanah Settle. The Lord Mayor's Show

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

Performance Comment: Performed on Tuesday, Octob. 29. 1695 for the Entertainment of...Sir John Houblon, Kt...Containing a True Description of the several Pageants; with the Speeches spoken on each Pageant. All prepared, at the proper Costs and Charges of the...Grocers. To which is added a New Song upon His Majesty's Return.

11231
30 October 1671 @ The City, London

Event Comment: The Lord Mayor's Day pageant

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Londons Resurrection To Joy And Triumph

Performance Comment: Celebrious to the much meriting Magistrate Sir George Waterman Knight, Lord Mayor of the City of London. At the Peculiar and Proper Expences of the Worshipful Company of Skinners. Jacob Hall (the rope dancer).

11232
29 October 1672 @ The City, London

Event Comment: The Lord Mayor's Pageant

Performances

Mainpiece Title: London Triumphant Or The City In Jollity And Splendour

Performance Comment: ...Invented and performed for Congratulation and Delight of the well deserving Governour, Sir Robert Hanson Knight, Lord Mayor of the City of London. At the Cost and Charges of the Worshipful Company of Grocers.

11233
29 October 1673 @ The City, London

Event Comment: The Lord Mayor's Show

Performances

Mainpiece Title: London In Its Splendor

Performance Comment: Consisting of Triumphant Pageants, whereon are Represented many Persons Richly Arrayed, Properly Habited, and significant to the Design. With several Speeches, and a Song, Suitable to the Solemnity. All prepared for the Honour of the Prudent Magistrate, Sir William Hooker Kt. Lord Mayor of the City of London. As also, a Description of His Majesties Royal Entertainment at Guildhall, by the City, in a plentiful Feast, and a glorious Banquet. At the Peculiar Expences of the Worshipful Company of Grocers.

11234
29 October 1674 @ The City, London

Event Comment: The Lord Mayor's Pageant. For an account of the dinner, see Spectator, No. 462, 30 Aug. 1712

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Goldsmiths Jubilee Or Londons Triumph

Performance Comment: Containing, A Description of the several Pageants: On which are Represented, Emblematical Figures, Artful Pieces of Architecture, and Rural Dancing: with the Speeches Spoken on each Pageant. Performed Octob. 29, 1674 for the Entertainment of the Right Honourable and truly Noble Pattern of prudence and Loyalty, Sir Robert Vyner, Kt & Bart, Lord Mayor of the City of London: At the proper Costs and Charges of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. The King's Most Sacred Majesty and his Royal Consort, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Dutchess of York, Prince Rupert, The Duke of Monmouth, several Foreign Embassadors, Chief Nobility, and Secretaries of State, honouring the City with their Presence.
Related Works
Related Work: London's Triumphs: Celebrated the 29th of October, 1664. Author(s): John Tatham

11235
29 October 1675 @ The City, London

Event Comment: The Lord Mayor's Show

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

Performance Comment: Performed on Friday, Octob. 29. 1675 for the Entertainment of the Right Honourable and truly Noble Pattern of Prudence and Loyalty, Sir Joseph Sheldon Kt, Lord Mayor of the City of London. Containing a true description of the several Pageants with the Speeches spoken on each Pageant. Together with the several Songs sung at this Solemnity. All set forth at the proper Costs and Charges of the Worshipful Company of Drapers. Design'd and Composed by Tho. Jordan, Gent.

11236
29 October 1678 @ The City, London

Event Comment: The Lord Mayor's Show

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

Performance Comment: Performed on Tuesday, October XXIX. 1678. For the Entertainment of the Right Honourable, and truly Noble Pattern of Prudence and Loyalty, Sir James Edwards Knight, Lord Mayor of the City of London. Containing a true Description of the several Pageants, with the Speeches spoken on each Pageant. Together with the Songs sung in this Solemnity. All set forth at the proper Costs and Charges of the Worshipful Company of Grocers. Designed and Composed by Tho. Jordan, Gent.

11237
29 October 1679 @ The City, London

Event Comment: The Lord Mayor's Show. For brief accounts, see Luttrell, A Brief Relation, I, 25, and Domestick Intelligence, No. 34, 31 Oct. 1679

Performances

Mainpiece Title: London In Luster

Performance Comment: [Projecting Many bright beams of Triumph: Disposed with Several Representations of Scenes and Pageants. Performed with great Splendor on Wednesday, October XXIX. 1679] At the Initiation and Instalment of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Clayton, Knight, Lord Mayor of the City of London. Dignified with divers delightfull Varieties of Presentors, with Speeches, Songs, and Actions, properly and punctually described. All set forth at the proper Cost and Charges of the Worshipful Company of Drapers. Devised and Composed by Tho. Jordan, Gent.

11238
29 October 1685 @ The City, London

Event Comment: See also Luttrell, A Brief Relation, I, 362. The cost of the Pageants was #175; the total cost of the Lord Mayor's Show came to #473 4d. See Robert Withington, English Pageantry (Cambridge, Mass., 1920), II, 62

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Londons Annual Triumph Performed On Thursday Octob

Performance Comment: 29. 1685. For the Entertainment of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Jeffreys, Kt Lord Mayor of the City of London. With a Description of the several Pageants, Speeches, and Songs made proper for the Occasion. All set forth at the proper Costs and Charges of the Worshipful Company of Iron@Mongers. Composed by Matt. Taubman.

11239
29 October 1698 @ The City, London

Event Comment: The Lord Mayor's Day Festivities

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Glorys Resurrection

Performance Comment: Being the Triumphs of London Reviv'd for the Inauguration of the Right Honourable Sir Francis Child, Kt. Lord Mayor of London. Containing the Description (and also the Sculptures) of the Pageants, and the whole Solemnity of the Day: All set forth at the proper cost and charge of the Honourable Company of Goldsmiths. By Elkanah Settle.

11240
30 October 1699 @ The City, London

Event Comment: The Lord Mayor's Day pageants

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

Performance Comment: For the Inauguration of the Right Honourable Sir Richard Levett, Kt. Lord Mayor of the City of London. Containing a Description of the Pageants, together with the Publick Speaches, and the whole Solemnity of the Day. Perform'd on Monday the 30th day of October, Anno 1699. All set forth at the proper cost and charges of the Honourable Company of Haberdashers. [By Elkanah Settle.]

11241
26 November 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Which Is The Man

Related Works
Related Work: Lingo’s Opinions on Men and Manners (A Comical, Whimsical, Operatical, Farcical Rhapsody) Author(s): John Edwin

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayors Day

11242
27 November 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayors Day

11243
28 November 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayors Day

11244
30 November 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Performance Comment: Sir John Falstaff-Henderson; King Henry-Clarke; Prince of Wales-Lewis; Sir Richard Vernon-Whitfield; Worcester-Fearon; Poins-Davies; Francis-W. Bates; Sir Walter Blunt-Booth; Bardolph-Jones; Douglas-Mahon; Gadshill-Ledger; Peto-Stevens; Hotspur-Wroughton; Hostess-Mrs Pitt; Lady Percy-Mrs Lewis .
Cast
Role: Sir John Falstaff Actor: Henderson

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayors Day

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece, as17821009

11245
02 December 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayors Day

11246
04 December 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Discovery

Cast
Role: Lord Medway Actor: Aickin
Related Works
Related Work: The Spanish Fryar; or, The Double Discovery Author(s): John Dryden
Related Work: The Lucky Discovery; or, The Tanner of York Author(s): John Arthur
Related Work: The Fatal Discovery Author(s): John Home

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayors Day

11247
05 December 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayors Day

11248
09 December 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayors Day

11249
10 December 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayors Day

Song: As17821206

11250
12 December 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Related Works
Related Work: Measure for Measure Author(s): John Philip Kemble

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayors Day