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17452 results for: Keyword - Mr Vernon</i>-much Applause (<i>Hopkins Diary</i>). Benefit for Vernon. Paid $Mr <span class=
We found 15888 matches on Event Comments, 2621 matches on Performance Comments, 638 matches on Performance Title, 34 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

14001
06 November 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Ryder, Diary, pp. 359-60: Went to see the tragedy of Tamerlane which was acted with a new prologue in honour of King William and in memory of what he did for us. The play itself is good....Mills who acted the part of Bajazet did it mighty well and expressed that furiousness and rage and malice and ambition admirably well in his gesture at the end, but, which is his distinguishing character, very well kept up throughout. I observed in the general that the manner of speaking in our theatres in tragedy is not natural. There is something that would be very shocking and disagreeable and very unnatural in real life. Persons would call it theatrical, meaning by that something stiff and affected

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

14002
15 November 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. See also The Diary of Dudley Ryder, p. 364

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

14003
24 August 1717 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: Gibson, ed., Blundell's Diary, p. 143: This being Bartholemew Fair I went to Smithfield and saw a Fars acted which was called Argulus and Parthenia and a Poppy Play called Earl of Essex

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Argulus And Parthenia

Afterpiece Title: The Earl of Essex

14004
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

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

14005
13 October 1730 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: For details, see Egmont, Diary, I, 107-8. Place of performance not known

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

14006
01 November 1731 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: EEgmont, Diary, I, 207: Then went to the practice of the revived opera Tamerlan, where I saw the Duke of Lorain sing a part

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

14007
13 January 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Journal, 14 Jan.: We hear...that...The Modish Couple, which met with great Opposition the two first Nights, but was acted the third with Success, before one of the finest Assemblies of Persons of Quality that has been seen, was last Night again so interrupted, that the Players could not perform but were forced to dismiss the Audience.' The violent Treatment which this Piece has met with, is supposedles those People who made it their Business to raise Disturbances at every new Performance that comes on the Stage. [For another account, see Egmont, Diary, I, 216.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Modish Couple

14008
14 February 1732 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: See Egmont, Diary, I, 222

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sosarmes

14009
22 February 1732 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, and Princesses present. See Egmont, Diary, I, 224.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sosarmes

14010
23 February 1732 @ Crown and Anchor Tavern

Event Comment: A private performance. For details, see Deutsch, Handel, pp. 285-86, Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, pp. 203-204, and Egmont, Diary, I, 225

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Esther

14011
17 April 1732 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: See Egmont, Diary, I, 257. Daily Advertiser, 18 April: Last Night there was a Rehearsal of...Flavius...at which were present a great Number of the Nobility

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Flavius

14012
06 May 1732 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: EEgmont, Diary, I, 271: The Royal Family was there, and the house crowded

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Esther

14013
20 June 1732 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Q$Queen, Prince and three eldest Princesses present. See also Egmont, Diary, I, 281.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

14014
24 June 1732 @ Blackheath

Event Comment: EEgmont, Diary, I, 282: Went with my family, at Lady Dartmouth's desire, to see a play acted by strollers at Blackheath

Performances

14015
20 November 1732 @ Crown Tavern

Event Comment: See Egmont, Diary, I, 296

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

14016
22 November 1732 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: See Egmont, Diary, I, 297

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander

14017
27 March 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 28 March: Their Majesties, together with his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and the Princesses were again...to see Deborah...at which was likewise present one of the most numerous Audiences of Nobility and Persons of Distinction that has been ever seen in any Theatre. Egmont, Diary, I, 345: It was very magnificent, near a hundred performers, among whom about twenty-five singers. [See also Lady A. Irwin to Lord Carlisle, in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 309-10.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deborah

14018
26 December 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction. Egmont, Diary, I, 472: I went... to see the famous moving tragedy, called George Barnwell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Performance Comment: Hob-a Gentleman who never appeared on any stage before; Hob's Father-Harper; Sir Thomas-Shepard; Friendly-Berry; Hob's Mother-Mrs Pritchard; Flora-Miss Oates; Jenny-Mrs Shireburn .
Cast
Role: Hob Actor: a Gentleman who never appeared on any stage before

Dance:

14019
27 December 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire. Mainpiece: Written by Ben. Johnson. Egmont, Diary, I, 474: I went ... to see the Fox represented, a noted play of Benj. Johnson's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fox [volpone]

Afterpiece Title: The Festival

14020
01 January 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire. Written by Ben. Johnson. Egmont, Diary, II, 2: I went ... to see The Silent Woman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Music: Select Pieces

Dance: Clown by Nivelon. La Bagatell by Essex and Miss La Tour. A Dance by Miss Robinson alone

14021
22 February 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Egmont, Diary, II, 33: In the evening went to The Island Princess . . . where was shown [in the afterpiece] the tallest man of all that I have seen. He is seven feet ten inches and half in height, a German by birth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

Afterpiece Title: Cupid and Psyche

14022
24 February 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Egmont, Diary, n, 154: I went to the French play, where the farce that followed it . . . was very diverting and well acted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Fausse Coquette

Afterpiece Title: Le Francois a Londres

Performance Comment: Le Francois-a new Actor, just arrived from Paris, who never appeared in England before; but see17341209 . but see17341209 .
Cast
Role: Le Francois Actor: a new Actor, just arrived from Paris, who never appeared in England before

Dance:

14023
24 March 1735 @ Crown Tavern

Event Comment: A public concert. [See Egmont, Diary, n, 164.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Singing by Farinelli and Cuzzoni

14024
06 May 1735 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: At 7 P.M. Egmont, Diary, II, 174: I went to the opera called Iphigenia, composed by Porpora, and I think the town does not justice in condemning it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Iphigenia

14025
04 December 1735 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #49 19s. 6d. Egmont, Diary, II, 208: acted indifferently

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius

Related Works
Related Work: The Weathercock Author(s): Theodosius Forrest

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine