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8044 results for: Keyword - Mr Duke Watson
We found 5157 matches on Event Comments, 2395 matches on Performance Comments, 861 matches on Performance Title, 430 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3851
16 February 1682 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The Loyal Protestant, 18 Feb. 1681@2: On the 16th instant his Excellency the Morocco Embassador was pleased to divert himself at thi R. Highness's Theatre, where, to the satisfaction of his Excellency, was acted the Tragedy of Mackbeth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

3852
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

3853
04 May 1682 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: On this date the officers of the Duke's Company and the King's Company entered into agreements to merge the two companies. For details, see Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 271; Fitzgerald, A New History, I, 154-58; and Nicoll, Restoration Drama, pp. 296-97. See also Langhans, New Restoration Theatre Accounts, p. 122, for evidence that the union had been effectively made by 13 May 1682. See page 123 for evidence that the company probably acted continuously to 7 August 1682, then closed until early October. But see 10 August 1682

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Omment

3854
17 May 1682 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The Loyal Protestant, 20 May 1682: May 18. Yesterday his Excellency the Morocco Embassador was entertain'd at His Royal Highness's Theatre with a Play, called, Sir Timothy Treat all. [See also True Protestant Mercury, 17-20 May 1682; Luttrell, A Brief Relation, I, 187; Wilson, More Theatre Notes from the Newdigate Newsletters," p. 59.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Heiress Or Sir Timothy Treatall

3855
29 May 1682 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: A poem--To the Duke on His Return. Written by Nat. Lee--was separately printed in 1682, and Luttrell's copy (Huntington Library) is dated 29 May 1682. A note on the Folger Shakespeare Library copy states that the lines were spoken at the King's Theatre, but the date on which it was recited is uncertain. The poem has been reprinted in Wiley, Rare Prologues and Epilogues, pp. 113-15

Performances

3856
17 June 1682 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Newdigate newsletters, 17 June 1682: And the Mor. Embr...this day...took his leave of ye Playhouse having seen Epsom Wells (Wilson, Theatre Notes from the Newdigate Newsletters, pp. 80-81)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Epsom Wells

3857
08 July 1682 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Newdigate newsletters, 8 July 1682: The Bantam Embrs...this afternoon took yr leave of ye playhouse the Empresse of Morocco being acted (Wilson, Theatre Notes from the Newdigate Newsletters, p. 81)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Empress Of Morocco

3858
24 October 1682 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke of York: I have been at a play this day (CSPD, Charles II, 1682, p. 497)

Performances

3859
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

3860
09 November 1682 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This play was also reprintdd in 1683. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@145, p. 120: Wth ye Q: & a box for ye Maides of honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349. On this day Drury Lane was leased for nineteen years to Charles Davenant and his associates in furthering the union of the two companies. See Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 277

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Souldiers Fortune

3861
29 October 1683 @ The City, London

Event Comment: The Lord Mayor's Show. By Thomas Jordan. Luttrell (A Brief Relation, I, 285-86): The 29th, sir Henry Tulse...was sworn before the barons of the exchequer at Westminster, whither he went by water, accompanied by the late lord mayor, the new recorder, aldermen, and sheriffs, and attended by diverse of the companies in their barges; their majesties and the duke of York being upon the leads at Whitehall when they passed by: being come back, they passed from the place where they landed, with the usual solemnity, to Grocers Hall, where the lords of the councill, severall of the nobility, judges, and other persons of quality dined

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

3862
17 December 1691 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Luttrell, A Brief Relation, II, 315: The duke of Norfolke was abused in the fray at the playhouse: the house of lords examined the same, and sent for captain Primrose, who commanded the party of soldiers there, who excused himselfe therefrom: one of the bishops moved to suppresse the playhouse, it being a nursery of lewdness, but the temporall lords were against it, but directed the lord chamberlain to send his warrant to suspend them from acting till further order: which was accordingly done

Performances

3863
28 June 1694 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: Luttrell, A Brief Relation, III, 336, 30 June 1694: A quarrel hapned at the play house on Thursday night between the duke of Richmond and one Mrs Leonard, whereupon they challenged each other

Performances

3864
22 January 1697 @ Drury Lane Theatre and Dorset Garden Theatre and Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: From 16 Jan. 1696@7 to 18 May 1702 James Brydges, afterwards first Duke of Chandos, kept a diary in which he recorded, among other events, his attendance at the theatre. Unfortunately, his first entry dealing with the playhouses, like many other similar entries, does not name the play he saw; on 22 Jan. 1696@7 he wrote: my Uncle Warwick Lake? carried me to ye Playhouse. [For an account of his theatrical entries, see Lucyle Hook, James Brydges Drops in at the Theatre, Huntington Library Bulletin, VIII (1945), 306-11.

Performances

3865
06 August 1700 @ Drury Lane Theatre and Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Luttrell, A Brief Relation, IV, 674: The lord chamberlain has ordered that no playes be acted for 6 weeks while the mourning [for the Duke of Gloucester] continues

Performances

3866
20 December 1706 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and instrumental Music-; particularly a new piece by Jer. Clark on her Majesty's happy Success under his Grace the Duke of Marlborough in the last Campaign-

Performance Comment: Clark= on her Majesty's happy Success under his Grace the Duke of Marlborough in the last Campaign-.

3867
07 October 1710 @ Queen's 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): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

3868
06 October 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As it was alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham. Afterpiece: Revis'd with Alterations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wake

3869
23 September 1712 @ 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): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wake

3870
15 May 1713 @ Stationer's Hall

Event Comment: Benefit Eccles, Musician to his Grace. For the Entertainment of His Excellency, the Duke d'Aumont, Ambassador extraordinary from France. Tickets 5s. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the best Masters; With several new Foreign Pieces- chose out from the greatest Authors; Also a Sonata on the Violin-; a single Piece on the Bass Viol-

3871
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

Afterpiece Title: A Woman Will Have Her Will

3872
24 September 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For theEntertainment of his Excellency the Duke d'Aumont, Ambassador extraordinary from the Court of France. By Her Majesty's Command, no Persons are to be admitted behind the Scenes, nor any Money to be return'd after the Curtain is drawn up

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

3873
15 October 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of Duke d'Aumont

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow Or The Wanton Wife

3874
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): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wake

3875
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): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach