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107 results for: Keyword - MMrs Cowper
We found 82 matches on Event Comments, 28 matches on Performance Comments, 1 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

101
28 February 1704 @

Event Comment: Elizabeth Coke to Thomas Coke: They say the Queen and Prince was both extremely diverted with it. There was a great deal of Company, but no finery, the Court being in mourning. [Cowper MS, III, 163.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Solomon Single

Cast
Role: Sir Solomon Actor: Betterton
Role: Peregrine Actor: Wilks
Role: Young Single Actor: Booth
Role: Sir Arthur Addle Actor: Dogget
Role: Justice Wary Actor: Johnson
Role: Ralph Actor: Penkethman
Role: Timothy Actor: Underhill
Role: Julia Actor: Mrs Bracegirdle
Role: Betty Actor: Mrs Mountfort

102
26 June 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Evans and Miss Mountfort. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [In Cowper MS, III, 79, James Cragg enclosed in a letter to Thomas Coke "Three small playing cards having on the back of each 'June 26th The Amorous Widow or the Wanton Wife. The Box. For the Benefitt of Miss Mountfort and Miss Evans."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Cast
Role: Damaris Actor: Miss Mountfort
Role: a new Epilogue Actor: Miss Evans.

Dance: A New Dance by Four Scaramouches to Faranoll's Ground never perform'd but once-; A Scotch and Irish Dance-Miss Evans; Firbank, Firbank's Scholar

103
15 February 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command. [For the Princess' attendance at this play, see Diary of Mary Countess Cowper, pp. 46-47.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Cast
Role: Merryman Actor: Penkethman
Role: Sir Peter Actor: Johnson
Role: Barnaby Actor: Bowen
Role: Lovemore Actor: Wilks
Role: Cunningham Actor: Mills
Role: Lady Pride Actor: Mrs Willis
Role: Lady Laycock Actor: Mrs Saunders
Role: Damaris Actor: Mrs Bicknell
Role: Philadelphia Actor: Miss Younger.
Role: Wanton Wife Actor: Mrs Oldfield.

Dance:

104
09 April 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Johnson. The Diary of Mary Countess Cowper, pp. 103-4; She [Mrs Clayton] and Lady W. Powlett, and I went to the Play together, for the Benefit of Johnson, who is the best Comedian this Day upon the Stage, and I believe as true and good a Player as ever was in any Age, for the Parts that he plays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge; Or, Love In A Tub

Cast
Role: Palmer Actor: Johnson who never perform'd it before.

Song: As17151028

Dance: Dupre, Boval, Dupre Jr, Prince, Birkhead, Mrs Santlow, Mrs Bicknell; particularly The Original Dance of Linkmen-

105
26 April 1720 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. The Diary of Mary Countess Cowper, p. 153: At Night at the French Play with the Duchess of Shrewsbury. Everybody took Notice of the Scene of the Drawing-room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Fille Capitaine

Cast
Role: Several Extraordinary Things with a Pair of Colour Actor: Signora Violenta.

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Galerien; ou, Le Port de Mer

Cast
Role: Part Actor: Mlle Delisle.

Entertainment: Dancing-D'Angeville, Mlle Deschaliers, others; And several New Performances-the Tumblers; Particularly the Extraordinary Tumbling, call'd Le Saut de la Panche-Mr Debroc , who with Links in his Hands will run up to the Top of a Board 16 Foot high, and with a most surprising Activity will tumble from thence

106
27 April 1720 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by N. F. Haym. Music by G. F. Handel.] By Command Pit and Boxes at half a guinea. Gallery 5s. At 6:30 p.m. When the Tickets are dispos'd of, No Persons will be admitted for Money. The Diary of Mary Countess Cowper, p. 154: At Night, Radamistus, a fine Opera of Handel's Making. The King there with his Ladies. The Prince in the Stage-box. Great Crowd. Mainwaring, Handel, pp. 98-99: If the persons who are now living, and who were present at that performance may be credited, the applause it received was almost as extravagant as his Agrippina had excited; the crowds and tumults of the house at Venice were hardly equal to those at London. In so splendid and fashionable an assembly of Ladies (to the excellence of their taste we must impute it) there was no shadow of form, or ceremony, scarce inoeed any appearance of order or regularity, politeness, or decency. Many, who had forc'd their way into the house with an impetuosity but ill-suited to their rank and sex, actually Fainted through the heat and closeness of it. Several Gentlemen were turned back, who had offered forty shillings for a seat in the gallery, after having despaired of getting any in the pit or boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Radamistus

Cast
Role: Radamisto Actor: Signora Margherita Durastanti
Role: Zenobia Actor: Mrs Anastasia Robinson
Role: Farasmane Actor: Lagarde
Role: Tiridate Actor: Gordon
Role: Polissena Actor: Mrs Ann Turner Robinson
Role: Tigrane Actor: Signora Catterina Galerati
Role: Fraarte Actor: Benedetto Baldassari.

107
31 May 1720 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Francisque. By Their Royal Highness's Command. The Diary of Mary Countess Cowper, p. 172: In the Afternoon the Prince and Princess went to the French Play. A most dismal Performance. No Wonder People are Slaves who can entertain themselves with such Stuff

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Les Deux Arlequins

Afterpiece Title: La Baron de la Crasse

Dance: Dangeville

Entertainment: Tumbling=-Francisque