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Mainpiece Title: The Injured Lovers; Or, The Ambitious Father

Performance Comment: Edition of 1688. Prologue to the Injur'd Lovers-Mr Mountfort; King of Sicily-Williams; Rheusanes-Betterton; Ghinotto-Griffin; Dorenalus-Mountfort; Old Colonel-Sanford; Soldiers-Lee, Jevon, Underhill; Princess Oryala-Mrs Barry; Antelina-Mrs Bracegirdle; Epilogue-Mr Jevon.
Related Works
Related Work: The Injured Lovers; or, The Ambitious Father Author(s): William Mountfort

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Money; Or, The Boarding School

Performance Comment: Edition of 1691: Prologue-; Epilogue-Mr Mountfort, Mrs Butler; Sir Rowland Rakehell-Underhill; Jack Amorous-Mountfort; Will Merriton-Hodson; Old Merriton-Freeman; Nedd Bragg alias Captain Bouncer-Powel; Old Zachary Bragg-Bright; Deputy Nincompoop-Dogget; Monsieur Le Prate-Bowen; Singing Master-Kirkham; Dancing Master-Bowman; Presbyterian Parson-Peire; Lady Addleplot-Anthony Leigh; Lady Straddle-Mrs Richardson; Mirtilla-Mrs Bracegirdle; Miss Jenny-Mrs Knight; Miss Molly-Mrs Davies; Betty Jiltall-Mrs Butler; Crowstich-Mrs Cory; Teareshift-Mrs Osborn; Oyley-Mrs Leigh.
Cast
Role: Epilogue Actor: Mr Mountfort, Mrs Butler
Role: Jack Amorous Actor: Mountfort

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleomenes, The Spartan Heroe

Performance Comment: Edition of 1692: Prologue-Mr Mountfort; Cleomenes-Betterton; Cleonidas-Lee; Ptolomy-Alexander [Verbruggen]; Sosybius-Sandford; Cleanthes-Mountford; Pantheus-Kynaston; Coenus-Hudson; Cratisiclea-Mrs Betterton; Cleora-Mrs Bracegirdle; Cassandra-Mrs Barry; Epilogue-Mrs Bracegirdle.
Cast
Role: Prologue Actor: Mr Mountfort

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Successful Strangers

Performance Comment: Edition of 1690: Don Carlos-Williams; Silvio-Mountfort; Antonio-Powel; Don Lopez-Nokes; Don Francisco-Lee; Don Pedro-Bright; Guzman-Underhill; Sancho-Bowen; Dorothea-Mrs Knight; Feliciana-Mrs Mountfort; Farmosa-Mrs Corey; Biancha-Mrs Bracegirdle; Niece-Mrs Miles; End Act III: Mrs Butler's Dance; Prologue-Mrs Bracegirdle; Epilogue-Mr Nokes, Mr Lee, Mr Mountfort.
Cast
Role: Silvio Actor: Mountfort
Role: Feliciana Actor: Mrs Mountfort
Role: Epilogue Actor: Mr Nokes, Mr Lee, Mr Mountfort.
Related Works
Related Work: The Successful Strangers Author(s): William Mountfort

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bury Fair

Performance Comment: Edition of 1689: Lord Bellamy-Betterton; Wildish-Mountfort; Oldwit-Underhill; Sir Humph. Noddy-Noakes; Trim-Bowman; Le Roch-Leigh; Valet-Bohen [Bowen?]; Charles-Mrs Butler; Lady Fantast-Mrs Cory; Mrs Fantast-Mrs Boutell; Mrs Gertrude-Mrs Mountfort; Prologue-Mr Mountfort; Epilogue-Mrs Mountfort.
Cast
Role: Wildish Actor: Mountfort
Role: Mrs Gertrude Actor: Mrs Mountfort
Role: Prologue Actor: Mr Mountfort
Role: Epilogue Actor: Mrs Mountfort.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Treacherous Brothers

Performance Comment: Edition of 1690: King of Cyprus-Powell; Meleander-Allexander [Verbruggen]; Ithocles-Williams; Menaphon-Mountfort; Orgillus-Hodgson; Semanthe-Mrs Bowtell; Marcelia-Mrs Bracegirdle; Statilia-Mrs Butler; Armena-Mrs Jourden; Prologue [by Mr Mountfort-Mrs Knight; Epilogue [by Mr Mountfort-Mrs Butler [in Mans apparel.in Mans apparel.
Cast
Role: Menaphon Actor: Mountfort
Role: Mr Mountfort Actor: Mrs Knight
Role: by Mr Mountfort Actor: Mrs Butler

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Performance Comment: Edition of 1688: Prologue to the Squire of Alsatia-Mr Mountfort; Sir William Belfond-Leigh; Sir Edward Belfond-Griffin; Belfond Sr-Jevon; Belfond Jr-Mountfort; Freeman-Bowman; Cheatly-Samford; Shamwell-Powel Jun; Captain Hackum-Bright; Scrapeall-Freeman; Attorney-Powell Sr; Lolpoop-Underhill; Termagant-Alexander [Verbruggen?]; Teresia-Mrs Knight; Isabella-Mrs Mountford; Ruth-Mrs Cory; Lucia-Mrs Bracegirdle; Mrs Termagant-Mrs Bowtell; Epilogue-Mrs Mountfort.

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Mainpiece Title: The Massacre Of Paris

Performance Comment: Edition of 1690: Prologue-Mr Mountfort; King Charles IX-Mountfort; Duke of Guise-Williams; Cardinal of Lorrain-Kynaston; Duke of Anjou-Pruet; Alberto Gondi-Harris; Lignoroles-Bowen; Admiral of France-Betterton; Cavagnes-Freeman; Langoiran-Alexander [Verbruggen (?)]; Queen Mother-Mrs Betterton; Marguerite-Mrs Barry; Queen of Navarre-Mrs Knight; Antramont-Mrs Jorden; Genius-Bowman; Epilogue-Mr Powell.
Cast
Role: Prologue Actor: Mr Mountfort
Role: King Charles IX Actor: Mountfort

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Entertainment: Divine Musick in Praise of Religion and Vertue-; both Vocal and instrumental, with new Anthems compos'd by Mr Blow; an Oration by Mr Collier; Pieces by Mr Tate, her Majesty's Poet Laureat. The edition of 1702 lists: The Introductory Poem Upon the Reformation of Poetry-Mr Tate Poet-Laureat to her Majesty; The First Anthem-, Compos'd by Dr Blow, and Sung in Westminster-Abbey, at Her Majesty's Coronation; The Oration-J. Collier/M.A.; The Second Anthem, Compos'd by Dr Blow: Te Deum Laudamus-; A Poem in Praise of Virtue- , Written by Mr Tate

Event Comment: The United Company. The date of the first performance is not known, but it followed The Gordian Knot Unty'd, which is mentioned in the Prologue. Edward III was advertised in the London Gazette, No. 2629, 19-22 Jan. 1690@1, and entered in the Term Catalogues, February 1690@1. The authorship is uncertain. The title page bears no author's name, but the Dedication is signed by Will. Mountfort. In addition, on 10 Oct. 1691 Mountfort received a grant of #10 when Edward III was played before the Queen (L. C. 5@150, p. 306, in Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 357). On tne other hand, the Gentleman's Journal, October 1692, stated that it was written by the author of Henry the Second, which has been attributed to John Bancroft. See Nicoll, Restoration Drama, pp. 388-89, for a summation of the evidence on this problem. Alfred Harbage, Elizabethan-Restoration Palimpsest, Modern Language Review, XXXV (1940), 319, thinks that this is a revision of Robert Davenport's The Politic Queen

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Mainpiece Title: King Edward The Third; With The Fall Of Mortimer, Earl Of March

Performance Comment: [The author is not certain, but possibly the play was written by John Bancroft and William Mountfort.] Edition of 1691: Prologue-Mr Powell; Epilogue-Mrs Bracegirdle; King Edward the Third-Powell; Mortimer Earl of March-Williams; Lord Mountacute-Mountfort; Sir Tho. Delamore-Kynaston; Sir Robert Holland-Hodgson; Tarleton, Bishop of Hereford-Lee; Serjeant Eitherside-Nokes; Turrington-Bridges; Nevill-Freeman; Sly-Bright; Secret-Trafuse; Earl of Leicester-Bowman; Earl of Exeter-Sandford; Isabella-Mrs Barry; Maria-Mrs Bracegirdle.
Cast
Role: Lord Mountacute Actor: Mountfort
Related Works
Related Work: King Edward the Third: With the Fall of Mortimer, Earl of March Author(s): William Mountfort
Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Mountfort

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Mainpiece Title: Greenwich Park

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Related Work: Greenwich Park Author(s): William Mountfort
Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Moore. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Mountfort

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Mainpiece Title: The Successful Strangers

Related Works
Related Work: The Successful Strangers Author(s): William Mountfort

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue

Dance: Miss Santlow; particularly a French Peasant-; Scaramouch-Layfield

Event Comment: Not Acted these Six Years. Written by the late Mr Mountfort

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Greenwich Park

Related Works
Related Work: Greenwich Park Author(s): William Mountfort

Song:

Dance: Particularly A Drunken Swiss-Noaseman

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Mountfort

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Greenwich Park

Related Works
Related Work: Greenwich Park Author(s): William Mountfort

Song:

Dance: Drunken Swiss-Noaseman; French Peasant-James

Event Comment: Not Acted these Two Years. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 2 Aug.: Some Days ago [23 July] Mr Keene, and eminent Tragedian, and one of the Masters of the Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, riding in the Country, his Horse being unruly, threw him, and so bruised him that he died in two Days [on 25 July]. He was decently buried last Wednesday [30 July] in the Vault under St. Clement's Church, where lie the Bodies of Mr Mountfort, Mr Harden, Mr Powell, and others of his Fraternity

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bonduca; Or, The British General

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Music: Mainpiece: With the Original Musick by the late Mr Henry Purcell-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: A Solo and several Pieces on the French Horn by Mr Charles. And several Songs and Duets by the two Miss Youngs. The German Flute by Mr Pelicour [Balicourt in Daily Advertiser], lately arrived from abroad; Being the first Time of his Performing in England

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mr Anthony

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mr Turbulent; Or, The Melanchollicks

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

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

Performances

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

Performance Comment: Numscul-Penkethman; Mad Tom-Wm. Giffard; Isabella-Mrs Haughton; Sir William Friendly-Huddy; Jeremy-R. Williams; Cook-Pearce; Butler-Machen; Gardener-W. Williams; Robin-Eaton; Lady Numscul-Mrs Thomas; Lady Friendly-Mrs Mountfort; Betty-Mrs Palmer; Justice Gripeall-Collett.
Cast
Role: Lady Friendly Actor: Mrs Mountfort

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

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherd

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Afterpiece Title: La Guinquette; or, Harlequin Turned Tapster

Dance: An Entertainment of Mimick Dancing, call'd, La Caprice-Harlequin (in Imitation of Mlle Provost, the Famous Dancer in the Opera at Paris)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Connoisseur; Or, Every Man In His Folly