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7790 results for: Keyword - Mr Ben Johnson
We found 4589 matches on Event Comments, 2635 matches on Performance Comments, 974 matches on Author, 542 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

276
29 November 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Related Works
Related Work: Every Man In His Humour Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

277
06 February 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Related Works
Related Work: The Alchymist Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

278
24 May 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Theatrical Fund. Kitely-Mr Garrick (Cross Diary). Pit and Boxes laid together. Ad[mission] to Boxes only through Boxes (Winston MS 10). Mainpiece: By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Related Works
Related Work: Every Man In His Humour Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: V: The Butterfly-Daigville, Sga Vidini

279
06 December 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Related Works
Related Work: The Alchymist Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

280
03 December 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Related Works
Related Work: The Alchymist Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

281
31 December 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Mr J. B. Rich balance for Benefit for Westminster Lying In Hospital #19 10s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #176 13s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fox

Cast
Role: Mosca Actor: Bensley
Related Works
Related Work: Volpone; or, The Fox Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

282
18 February 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fox

Cast
Role: Mosca Actor: Bensley
Related Works
Related Work: Volpone; or, The Fox Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

283
29 October 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Related Works
Related Work: Every Man In His Humour Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

284
20 November 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Related Works
Related Work: The Alchymist Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: The Author

285
15 December 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Related Works
Related Work: Every Man In His Humour Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: Comus

286
13 February 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Related Works
Related Work: The Alchymist Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: The Author

287
17 April 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Weston. Mainpiece: By Desire. Tickets deliver'd for A Comedy will be taken. Paid 6 days salary list at #86 14s. 7d. per diem, #520 7s. 6d.; Mr G. Garrick on acct #50; Rec'd from Sinking Fund #45; Stopages #15 17s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #149 9s. Charges: #64 12s. Profits to Weston: #84 17s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Tobacconist

Related Works
Related Work: The Tobacconist Author(s): Ben Jonson

Dance: V: The Sailors Revels, as17720919

288
24 October 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Related Works
Related Work: The Alchymist Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: II: The Irish Fair, as17740917

289
11 April 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Related Works
Related Work: The Alchymist Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: The Spleen

Dance: V: The Irish Fair, as17751003

290
25 April 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Related Works
Related Work: Every Man In His Humour Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: V: The Irish Fair, as17751003

291
25 May 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Townsend. Times, 22 May: Tickets to be had of Townsend, at Mr Kilvington's, Drury-lane. Receipts: #229 17s. 6d. (71.10.0; 3.16.6; tickets: 154.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Related Works
Related Work: Every Man In His Humour Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: Reformed in Time

Song: In course of Evening: The Bells of Aberdovy-Townsend; accompanied on the harp-Weippert; The Mid Watch-Incledon; The Beggar, in character,-Townsend; The Pledge of Love, as17980515; a favorite Comic Song-Fawcett

Entertainment: Imitations.An Exhibition of Theatrical Portraits-Townsend

292
December 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The Prologue, extant in a broadside in the Worcester College Library, appears to represent a performance occuring before the end of 1660. It has been reprinted by Noyes, Ben Jonson, pp. 105-6, and by Wiley, Rare Prologues and Epilogues, pp. 16-17. The King's Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Related Works
Related Work: The Alchemist Author(s): Ben Jonson
Related Work: The Tobacconist Author(s): Ben Jonson

293
16 October 1662 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: This play was probably given by the King's Company, which presented it a number of times later. See Noyes, Ben Jonson, pp. 42-43. Evelyn, Diary: I saw Vulpone acted at court before their Majesties &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone

Related Works
Related Work: Volpone; or, The Fox Author(s): Ben Jonson

294
19 December 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, and there, the pit being full, sat in a box above, and saw Catiline's Conspiracy, yesterday being the first day: a play of much good sense and words to read, but that do appear the worst upon the stage, I mean, the least diverting, that ever I saw any, though most fine in clothes; and a fine scene of the Senate, and of a fight, that ever I saw in my life. But the play is only to be read, and therefore home, with no pleasure at all, but only in sitting next to Betty Hall, that did belong to this house, and was Sir Philip Howard's mistress, a mighty pretty wench. Evelyn, Diary: I went to see the old play Cataline acted, having ben now forgotten 40 years almost

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Catiline

Related Works
Related Work: Catiline's Conspiracy Author(s): Ben Jonson

295
March 1670 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. The Epilogue, which was printed in A Collection of Poems Written upon several Occasions by several Persons, 1673, pp. 29-32, and reprinted by Noyes, Ben Jonson on the English Stage, pp. 247-48, by its references to Lent seems to indicate a Lenten revival. As this play was allotted to the King's Company ca. 12 Jan. 1668@9, it has been assigned to that company. The revival may have occurred in March 1670, perhaps not until later

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Related Works
Related Work: Every Man In His Humour Author(s): Ben Jonson

296
07 March 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Ben Jonson. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Performance Comment: Abel Drugger-Garrick; Subtle-Woodward; Farce-Palmer; Doll Common-Mrs Pritchard; Ananias-Philips; Dapper-Vaughan; Lovewit-Bransby; Dame Pliant-Mrs Bennet; Sir Epicure-Berry; Kastril-Yates; Surly-Blakes; Tribulation-Taswell.
Cast
Role: Dame Pliant Actor: Mrs Bennet
Related Works
Related Work: The Alchemist Author(s): Ben Jonson
Related Work: The Tobacconist Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Lady Loverule Actor: Mrs Bennet

297
26 November 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Ben Jonson, not acted these 20 years. [See 7 Oct. 1754.] Paid Bellamy & Settree (mercers) #300 7s.; Paid Scott (copper lace man) #265 7s. (Account Book). Receipts: #191 9s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fox

Performance Comment: Volpone-Smith; Mosca-Bensley; Voltore-Hull; Corbino-Clarke; Corbachio-Shuter; Sir P. Wou'dbe-Kniveton; Peregrine-R. Smith; Bonario-Wroughton; Lady Wou'dbe-Mrs Gardner; Caelia-Miss Miller.
Cast
Role: Mosca Actor: Bensley
Related Works
Related Work: Volpone; or, The Fox Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince

Related Works
Related Work: The Fairy Prince, with the Installation of the Knights of the Garter Author(s): Ben Jonson
Related Work: Oberon, The Fairy Prince Author(s): Ben Jonson

298
21 April 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Weston. [See Comment 24 April.] Afterpiece: A Comedy of Two Acts altered from Ben Jonson's Alchemist, by Francis Gentleman. Receipts: #242 12s. 6d. Charges: #64 13s. Profits to Weston: #177 19s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Tobacconist

Related Works
Related Work: The Tobacconist Author(s): Ben Jonson

Entertainment: Interlude. All up at Stockwell; or, The Ghost no Conjuror, a New Interlude-Characters-Weston, Bannister

Dance: After Interlude: The Sailors Revels, as17711008

299
26 April 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin. Public Advertiser, 9 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Edwin, No. 19, Piazza, Covent Garden. Mainpiece: Written by Ben Jonson, and altered by George Colman, Esq. Receipts: #349 15s. 6d. (250/15/6; tickets: 99/0/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman

Related Works
Related Work: Epicœne; or, The Silent Woman Author(s): Ben Jonson
Related Work: Epicene Author(s): Ben Jonson
Related Work: Epicoene; or, The Silent Woman Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: M id as

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece A Description of the Curiosities of the Tower of London; End of mainpiece Four and Twenty Fiddlers all on a Row, both by Edwin

300
31 May 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Ben Jonson. Afterpiece: With a New Overture by Dr Arnold. With Italian, French, Irish, Scotch, Welsh and English

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fox

Performance Comment: Volpone-Palmer; Mosca-Bensley; Voltore-Bannister Jun.; Corvino-Aickin; Bonario-R. Palmer; Corbachio-Parsons; Caelia-Mrs Inchbald .
Cast
Role: Mosca Actor: Bensley
Related Works
Related Work: Volpone; or, The Fox Author(s): Ben Jonson

Afterpiece Title: Gretna Green

Music: [Prologue by George Colman, the elder.]

Related Works
Related Work: Epicœne; or, The Silent Woman Author(s): Ben Jonson
Related Work: The Fairy Prince, with the Installation of the Knights of the Garter Author(s): Ben Jonson

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece, as17840528