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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Performance Comment: Gamester-Hale; Angelica-Mrs Vincent; Sir Thomas-Rosco; Dorante-Hippisley; Hector-James; Lovewell-Gibson; Marquis-Woodward; Cogdie-Bencraft; Galloon-Clarke; Favourite-Mrs Hale; Mrs Security-Mrs Martin; Mrs Topknot-Mrs James; Betty-Miss Dodson; Lady Wealthy-Mrs Horton.
Cast
Role: Hector Actor: James
Role: Mrs Topknot Actor: Mrs James
Related Works
Related Work: The Gamesters Author(s): James Shirley
Related Work: The Gamester Author(s): James Shirley

Dance: Entertainments, as17420220; Peasants, as17420220; Grand Ballet call'd Mars and Venus-Mars-Desnoyer, +Venus- Sga Barbarina, +Their followers- Villeneuve, Richardson, Delegarde, Dupre, Destrade, Davenport, Mrs Wright, Mlle Fabrez, Mrs LeBrun, Mlle Rhenos, Mlle Maudet, Mrs LeFont

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Related Work: Pamela Author(s): James Dance

Ballet: RRural Assembly. As17420121

Event Comment: Benefit James, Eyre, and Mrs Ratcliff

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Dance: James, Mrs Ratcliff

Related Works
Related Work: The Traytor Author(s): James Shirley
Related Work: Love Will Find Out The Way Author(s): James Shirley
Related Work: The Traitor Author(s): James Shirley
Related Work: Love's Cruelty Author(s): James Shirley
Related Work: The Opportunity Author(s): James Shirley
Related Work: The Wedding Author(s): James Shirley
Related Work: Love in a Maze Author(s): James Shirley
Related Work: The Brothers Author(s): James Shirley
Related Work: The Cardinal Author(s): James Shirley
Related Work: The Young Admiral Author(s): James Shirley
Related Work: The Court Secret Author(s): James Shirley
Related Work: The Night Walker; or, The Little Thief Author(s): James Shirley
Related Work: The Changes; or, Love in a Maze Author(s): James Shirley
Related Work: The Constant Maid Author(s): James Shirley
Related Work: The Grateful Servant Author(s): James Shirley
Related Work: The Witty Fair One Author(s): James Shirley
Related Work: Love Tricks; or, The School of Compliments Author(s): James Shirley
Related Work: The School of Compliments Author(s): James Shirley
Related Work: Hyde Park Author(s): James Shirley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Performance Comment: Gamester-Chapman; Sir Thomas-Mullart; Dorante-Hippisley; Lovewell-Hale; Marquis-Neale; Cogdie-Aston; Hector-Morgan; Galloon-James; Angelica-Miss Bincks; Lady Wealthy-Mrs Bullock; Favourite-Mrs Stevens; Mrs Security-Mrs Martin; Betty-Miss Horsington .
Cast
Role: Galloon Actor: James
Related Works
Related Work: The Gamesters Author(s): James Shirley
Related Work: The Gamester Author(s): James Shirley

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Dance: Scot's Dance, as17350311 Shepherd and Shepherdess by Lally and Mlle Salle

Song: Scotch Ballad by Miss Hillyard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Performance Comment: See17410207, but Young Valere-Hale; Angelica-Mrs Woffington; Sir Thomas-Rosco; Dorante-Hippisley; Hector-James; Lady Wealthy-Mrs Horton.
Cast
Role: Hector Actor: James
Related Works
Related Work: The Gamesters Author(s): James Shirley
Related Work: The Gamester Author(s): James Shirley

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of the Grand, the Vice-Grand, and the Brethren of the Ancient and Honourable Order of Gregorians. Benefit James. Receipts: #150 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Cast
Role: Hector Actor: James
Related Works
Related Work: The Gamesters Author(s): James Shirley
Related Work: The Gamester Author(s): James Shirley

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Song: I: Blow Blow-Roberts; IV: Britons Strike Home (by Desire of the Brethren)-Leveridge, Salway; V: The Gregorian Song-

Dance: III: Comic Dance-Richardson, Mlle Ozanne

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mountain. 2nd piece [1st time: CO 2, by James Hook Jun. Larpent MS 1172; not published]: With appropriate Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations. The Overture and Music by James Hook? Sen.. True Briton, 16 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Mountain, No. 28, Maiden-lane, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #287 3s. (86.4.6; 14.6.0; tickets: 186.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: Diamond Cut Diamond; or, Venetian Revels

Related Works
Related Work: Diamond Cut Diamond; or, Venetian Revels Author(s): James Hook Jr.James Hook Sr.

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Song: In: Ma chere Amie-Incledon; End Act I 2nd piece: to conclude with a Grand Serenade-, by Moonlight, on the Water, representing a View in the Bay of Venice, with distant Illuminations; A Madrigal-Incledon, Gray, Linton, which is echoed from various Gondolas, as they pass and repass, sounding their Oars to the Time of the Singers; The Storm-Incledon

Related Works
Related Work: Auld Robin Gray Author(s): Samuel James Arnold

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mr Anthony

Event Comment: The King's Company, presumably. For a version of this play, see R. G. Howarth, "A Manuscript of James Shirley's Court Secret," Review of English Studies, VII (1931), 302-13. The manuscript is in the Worcester College Library (Plays 9. 21). Pepys, Diary: My wife going to-day to dine with Mrs Pierce, and thence with her and Mrs Clerke to see a new play, The Court Secret. [The play had not been acted before the Restoration.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Court Secret

Related Works
Related Work: The Court Secret Author(s): James Shirley
Event Comment: [By James Moore Smythe.]All the Characters new dress'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Modes

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Related Work: The Rival Modes Author(s): James Moore Smythe
Event Comment: [By James Miller.] All the Characters new drest

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humours Of Oxford

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Related Work: The Humours of Oxford Author(s): James Miller
Event Comment: [Written by James Thomson.] With New Habits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sophonisba

Related Works
Related Work: Sophonisba Author(s): James Thomson
Event Comment: A New Tragedy. [By James Ralph.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of The Earl Of Essex

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Related Work: The Fall of the Earl of Essex Author(s): James Ralph
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these thirty Years. Taken from the French of Moliere by Sir John Vanbrugh. [This version by James Ralph.] The Songs new set by John Frederick Lampe, and a new Grand Dance, in Grotesque Characters, proper to the Play. Afterpiece: a Farce of two Acts. Alter'd from Beaumont and Fletcher. [Author unknown. Apparently not published.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cornish Squire

Related Works
Related Work: The Cornish Squire Author(s): James Ralph

Afterpiece Title: The Sham Pilgrims

Event Comment: A new Comedy [By James Miller.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mother-in-law; Or, The Doctor The Disease

Related Works
Related Work: The Mother-in-Law; or, The Doctor the Disease Author(s): James Miller
Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Afterpiece: A New Farce of Two Acts. Taken from Shakespear: Intermix'd with Songs. [By James Worsdale.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex [the Unhappy Favourite]

Afterpiece Title: A Cure for A Scold

Related Works
Related Work: A Cure for a Scold Author(s): James Worsdale

Dance: As17350222

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never Acted before. [By James Miller.] Daily Advertiser, 6 March: We hear that Sir John Barnard has offerM a Proposal limiting the Number of Playhouses, and for putting them under the Regulation of Parliament

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Taste; Or, The Guardian

Related Works
Related Work: The Man of Taste Author(s): James Miller
Related Work: The Man of Taste; or, The Guardian Author(s): James Miller

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Orpheus

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never Acted before. [By James Sterling.] Afterpiece: a Ballad Opera. [Author unknown. Apparently not published.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Parracide

Related Works
Related Work: The Parracide Author(s): James Sterling

Afterpiece Title: The Ch1mney Sweeper

Event Comment: [By James Miller. An adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Universal Passion

Related Works
Related Work: The Universal Passion Author(s): James Miller
Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Afterpiece: a new Dramatick Piece: Intermix'd with Songs in Character. [By James Miller.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: The Coffee House

Related Works
Related Work: The Coffee House Author(s): James Miller

Dance: V: Ballet, as17380120

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By James Miller.] Preface to edition of 1738: Ill-fated Scenes....It was said...by a Gentleman at the Time of this Comedy's being Represented, That he never knew a Play Destroy'd with so much Art; its Enemies suffering those Things to pass without Disturbance which were of an indifferent Nature...but giving no Quarter to the Parts which they thought would entertain

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Art And Nature

Related Works
Related Work: Art and Nature Author(s): James Miller
Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By James Thomson.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Agamemnon

Related Works
Related Work: Agamemnon Author(s): James Thomson
Event Comment: Never perform'd before. All the Characters new dressed. [By James Dance, adapted from Richardson's novel.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pamela

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Related Work: Pamela Author(s): James Dance
Event Comment: The farce never acted before [by James Ralph]. Two acts taken from The Spanish Curate, by Beaumont and Fletcher. Macklin's Reply to Garrick's Answer published

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Lawyer's Feast

Related Works
Related Work: The Lawyer's Feast Author(s): James Ralph

Song: II: Song-Morland (his 1st appearance)

Dance: V: Italian Masquerade, as17431126

Event Comment: Never acted before. After the manner of Ben Johnson [by James Ralph]. The Receipts...upon the First Night were but Twenty-One Pounds...and...when the Manager had the Generosity to Risque a Second...he was oblig'd to shut up his Doors for want of an Audience [from Preface to printed edition]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Astrologer; Or, The Pretended Transformation

Related Works
Related Work: The Astrologer; or, The Pretended Transformation Author(s): James Ralph
Event Comment: Never acted before...From the French of Voltaire [By James Miller]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet The Imposter

Related Works
Related Work: Mahomet the Imposter Author(s): James Miller