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10248 results for: Keyword - Mr Henry Purcell
We found 4550 matches on Event Comments, 3476 matches on Author, 1820 matches on Performance Comments, 1745 matches on Performance Title, and 5 matches on Roles/Actors.

676
07 January 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: [After looking in at the Nursery and at lif] and Henry the Fourth at the King's house; but, not finding them, not liking either of the plays, I took my coach again

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Fourth

677
18 September 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's house, and saw a piece of Henry the Fourth; at the end of the play, thinking to have gone abroad with Knepp, but it was too late, and she to get her part against to-morrow, in The Silent Woman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Fourth

678
14 November 1692 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@151, p. 369: y- Q: a Box & a Box for ye Maids Honr Henry 2. [See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 352.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Second

679
16 January 1693 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. Constatijn Huygens, 16 Jan. 1692@2 O. S. [translation]: In the afternoon I went with Preswitz to the comedy, by Covent Garden, where there was a play about Henry II, but I could not very well understand the comedians, neither what they said. Mrs Barry played the King's wife and Mrs Bracegirdle his mistress, who let the King be poisoned in her presence. Sayer came and sat with us. The best places were for the English crown (Journaal van Constantijn Huygens, Publication of the Dutch Historical Society, New Series, XXV [Utrecht, 1877], 168)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Second

680
17 August 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; co 2, by Henry Bate (later Sir Henry Bate Dudley). Music by William Shield]. Books for both Pieces to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 15 June 1779: This Day is published The Flitch of Bacon (1s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bonduca

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Related Works
Related Work: The Flitch of Bacon Author(s): Henry Bate

681
January 1682 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mr Turbulent; Or, The Melanchollicks

682
08 September 1701 @ Richmond Wells

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Mr Abell; having had the Honour lately, to Sing to the Nobility and Gentry of Richmond and the Neighbouring Towns, thinks himself bound in Gratitude...to return his most Humble Thanks with a Performance of New Musick, in English, Latin, Italian, French-Mr Abell; &c....being Honour'd and Accompany'd-the Greatest Masters of Europe

683
22 February 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Afterpiece Title: Britain's Happiness

Song: Singing in Italian and English-Mrs Tofts

Dance: l'Abbe, duRuel, Cherrier, Mrs Elford, Mrs Campion, Mrs Mayers, Devonshire Girl

684
01 August 1730 @ Tottenham Court

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mad Tom Of Bedlam; Or, The Distress'd Lovers: With The Comical Humours Of squire Numscul

Song: Mr Corse, age 12

Dance: DDutch Skipper-Sandham; Drunken Man-Wilcox; (On 8 Aug. and there after:) Mad Dance, Pierrot-Le Sieur Labisle, from France

685
24 February 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherd

Dance: I: A New Dance call'd The Hunters-Mas. Clinton, Miss Street, Miss Ford; II: The Faggot Binders-Aldridge, Miss Baker; End Opera: A Dance-Grimaldi, Lauchery, Miss Baker

686
15 March 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherd

Dance: I: The Sheep Shearers, as17640308 II: The Shepherdesses, as17640113; End Opera: Dance, as17640301

687
16 February 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Henry Fielding.] Never Acted before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In Several Masques

Related Works
Related Work: Love in Several Masques Author(s): Henry Fielding

688
20 June 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. First Piece. [By Henry Carey.] Not play'd these Fourteen Years. Second Piece: Not play'd these Six Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Contrivances; Or, More Ways Than One

Related Works
Related Work: The Contrivances; or, More Ways Than One Author(s): Henry Carey

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue; or, The Devil in the Wine Cellar

Afterpiece Title: Phebe; or, The Beggar's Wedding

Dance: HHarlequin-Master Lally, Miss Brett; Sultana-Miss Robinson Jr

689
26 January 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: [By Henry Fielding.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Temple Beau

Related Works
Related Work: The Temple Beau; or, The Intriguing Sisters Author(s): Henry Fielding
Related Work: The Temple Beau Author(s): Henry Fielding

690
24 April 1730 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By Henry Fielding.] For a comment on the performance, see Egmont, Diary, I, 97

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Author's Farce

Related Works
Related Work: The Authors Farce; and, The Pleasures of the Town Author(s): Henry Fielding

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Related Works
Related Work: Tom Thumb Author(s): Henry Fielding
Related Work: The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): Henry Fielding

691
23 June 1730 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. Written by the Author of Tom Thumb [Henry Fielding]. With New Scenes and other Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rape Upon Rape; Or, The Justice Caught In His Own Trap

Related Works
Related Work: Rape Upon Rape; or, The Justice Caught in his own Trap Author(s): Henry Fielding

692
30 November 1730 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Third piece: an entire New Act [introduced into Tom Thumb, By T. Cooke]. Daily Journal, 30 Nov.: Whereas it hath been advertised, that an entire New Act, called, The Battle of the Poets, is introduced into the Tragedy of Tom Thumb; This is to assure the Town, that I have never seen this additional Act, nor in any ways concerned therein. Henry Fielding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Coffee-house Politician; Or, The Justice Caught In His Own Trap

Related Works
Related Work: Rape Upon Rape; or, The Justice Caught in his own Trap Author(s): Henry Fielding
Related Work: The Coffee House Politician Author(s): Henry Fielding

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Related Works
Related Work: Tom Thumb Author(s): Henry Fielding
Related Work: The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): Henry Fielding

Afterpiece Title: The Battle of the Poets; or, The Contention for the Laureat

693
22 April 1731 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Afterpiece: Never perform'd before. [By Henry Fielding.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tragedy Of Tragedies

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): Henry Fielding

Afterpiece Title: The Welch Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Welch Opera Author(s): Henry Fielding

694
14 February 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By Henry Fielding.]5s., 3s., 2s., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Modern Husband

Related Works
Related Work: The Modern Husband Author(s): Henry Fielding

695
01 June 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [Both plays by Henry Fielding. For a discussion of recent plays, see The Comedian, No. 3, June 1731.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Debauchees

Related Works
Related Work: The Old Debauchees Author(s): Henry Fielding

Afterpiece Title: The Covent Garden Tragedy

Related Works
Related Work: The Covent Garden Tragedy Author(s): Henry Fielding
Related Work: The Rival Queens; or, Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden Author(s): Henry Fielding
Related Work: The Covent Garden Tragedy Author(s): Henry Fielding

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696
23 June 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: A New Farce. [By Henry Fielding.] Alter'd from the French of Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Debauchees

Related Works
Related Work: The Old Debauchees Author(s): Henry Fielding

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor; or, The Dumb Lady Cur'd

Related Works
Related Work: The Mock Doctor; or, The Dumb Lady Cur'd Author(s): Henry Fielding

Dance: I: The Pieraite-Holt, Mrs Walter; II: Harlequin-Miss Brett; III: English Maggot-Lally Jr, Mrs Walter; End Afterpiece: Midsummer Whim, as17320606

697
01 December 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By Henry Carey. Not printed.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: Betty; or, The Country Bumpkins

Related Works
Related Work: Betty; or, The Country Bumpkins Author(s): Henry Carey

698
06 April 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Raftor. At the desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: A Farce of one Act. [By Henry Fielding. Apparently not published.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Related Works
Related Work: The Miser Author(s): Henry Fielding
Related Work: The Miser Author(s): Henry Fielding

Afterpiece Title: Deborah; or, A Wife For You All

Related Works
Related Work: Deborah; or, A Wife For You All Author(s): Henry Fielding

699
12 November 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several eminent Merchants and Persons of Distinction. Afterpiece: a new Pastoral Epithalamium. [Edition of 1733 lists no cast, states that it was written by a Gentleman, and prints the Prologue, which was written by Havard. A song, The Wedding Day, written by Henry Carcy, was sung in it by Master Osborne.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Happy Nuptials: With The Amorous Sportsman

Related Works
Related Work: The Happy Nuptials: With The Amorous Sportsman Author(s): Henry Carey

700
15 January 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: In it The Pleasures of the Town. With great Additions. Afterpiece: a new Farce of two Acts. [By Henry Fielding.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Author's Farce

Related Works
Related Work: The Authors Farce; and, The Pleasures of the Town Author(s): Henry Fielding

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Related Works
Related Work: The Intriguing Chambermaid Author(s): Henry Fielding