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Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Heron and Miss Seale

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Cast
Role: Lady Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Martha Actor: Mrs Heron
Role: Abigail Actor: Mrs Willis.
Related Works
Related Work: The Scornful Lady Author(s): Francis Beaumont
Related Work: The Capricious Lady Author(s): Francis Beaumont

Dance: Shaw, Thurmond, Boval, Mrs Younger, Mrs Bullock, Miss Tenoe

Event Comment: Benefit Boman and Mrs Moore. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid's Tragedy

Cast
Role: Evadne Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Aspatia Actor: Mrs Thurmond.
Related Works
Related Work: The Maid's Tragedy Author(s): Francis Beaumont

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Younger; Topham, Miss Tenoe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Performance Comment: See17241021, but Valentine-Wilks; Widow-Mrs Oldfield.
Cast
Role: Widow Actor: Mrs Oldfield.
Related Works
Related Work: Wit Without Money Author(s): Francis Beaumont

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Performance Comment: Valentine-Wilks; Widow-Mrs Oldfield.
Cast
Role: Widow Actor: Mrs Oldfield.
Related Works
Related Work: Wit Without Money Author(s): Francis Beaumont

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Attendants on Andromeda Actor: Mrs _Mills, Mrs Houghton
Role: Hours of Sleep Actor: Mrs _Mills, Mrs +Houghton.
Role: Andromeda Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Cassiopea Actor: Mrs Shireburn
Role: Juno Actor: Mrs Shireburn
Role: Mopsophil Actor: Mrs Walter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Performance Comment: Scornful Lady-Mrs Oldfield.
Cast
Role: Scornful Lady Actor: Mrs Oldfield.
Related Works
Related Work: The Scornful Lady Author(s): Francis Beaumont
Related Work: The Capricious Lady Author(s): Francis Beaumont

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Attendants on Andromeda Actor: Mrs _Mills, Mrs Houghton
Role: Hours of Sleep Actor: Mrs _Mills, Mrs +Houghton.
Role: Andromeda Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Cassiopea Actor: Mrs Shireburn
Role: Juno Actor: Mrs Shireburn
Role: Mopsophil Actor: Mrs Walter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Performance Comment: As17290122, but Widow-Mrs Butler; Poet-_; Captain-_.
Cast
Role: Widow Actor: Mrs Butler
Role: Martha Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Abigail Actor: Mrs Willis.
Role: Scornful Lady Actor: Mrs Oldfield.
Related Works
Related Work: The Scornful Lady Author(s): Francis Beaumont
Related Work: The Capricious Lady Author(s): Francis Beaumont

Afterpiece Title: The Strollers

Dance: CClown-Weaver; Drunken Peasant-Roger

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Performance Comment: Valentine-Wilks; Widow-Mrs Oldfield.
Cast
Role: Widow Actor: Mrs Oldfield.
Related Works
Related Work: Wit Without Money Author(s): Francis Beaumont

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Distresses of Pierot

Performance Comment: Pierot (Husband)-Roger; Pieret (his Wanton Wife)-Mrs Thurmond; Colombine (her Servant)-Mrs Heron; Countryman (Pierot's Friend)-Charke; Harlequin-Rainton; Harlequin's Sprite (Lawyer's Clerk)-Miss Robinson; Courtier-Roscoe; Lawyer-Oates; Squire-Miller; Trainband Officer-Berry; Judge-Harper; Wives-Mrs Shireburn, Mrs Grace.
Cast
Role: Pieret Actor: Mrs Thurmond
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Heron
Role: Wives Actor: Mrs Shireburn, Mrs Grace.

Afterpiece Title: With the Scene of Apollo and Daphne

Performance Comment: Apollo-Thurmond; Daphne-Mrs Booth; Night-Miss Raftor.
Cast
Role: Daphne Actor: Mrs Booth
Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Duke, and Their Highnesses the Princesses. Mainpiece: Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. [Duke and three Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Cast
Role: Estifania Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Margarita Actor: Mrs Butler
Role: Altea Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Clara Actor: Mrs Villeneuve

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Lady Loverule Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Nell Actor: Mrs Clive

Dance: I: Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c. III: Tambourine by Mlle Roland. V: Venetian Gondolier and Courtezan by Denoyer, Mlle Anne Roland, &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Performance Comment: As17370428 but Isabella-Mrs Bellamy; Lucy-Miss Bincks.
Cast
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Bellamy
Role: Widow Actor: Mrs Morton.
Related Works
Related Work: Wit Without Money Author(s): Francis Beaumont

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Lawyer

Dance: Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Benj. Baker

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Beaumont and Fletcher

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Performance Comment: Leon-Milward; Captain-Mills; Margarita-Mrs Butler; Estifania-Mrs Clive; Cacafogo-Harper; Old Woman-Griffin; Duke-Havard; Juan-Winstone; Sanchio-Cross; Alonzo-Ray; Altea-Mrs Grace; Clara-Mrs Chetwood.
Cast
Role: Margarita Actor: Mrs Butler
Role: Estifania Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Altea Actor: Mrs Grace
Role: Clara Actor: Mrs Chetwood.

Dance: I: Black Joak-Philips, Miss Mann; III: A new dance-Baudouin, Mrs Walter; V: Drunken Peasant-Philips

Event Comment: Benefit Castelman, the Treasurer. Mainpiece: Alter'd from Beaumont and Fletcher by Sir John Vanbrugh and Mr Dryden. [Tickets at Castelman's Lodgings, at Mr Watford's, Upholder, over-against the Sun Tavern, Russel Street, Bloomsbury.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Cast
Role: Alinda Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Juletta Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Purcell Actor: Beard, Mrs Clive.
Related Works
Related Work: The Pilgrim Author(s): Francis Beaumont

Afterpiece Title: Mars and Venus

Cast
Role: Venus Actor: Mrs Walter
Role: Graces Actor: Miss Thompson, Mrs Chetwood, Miss Kilby
Role: Diana Actor: Mrs Chetwood

Dance: I: Punches Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; III: Pierots-Leviez, Pelling; IV: Moors Dance-Muilment, Mrs Walter

Music: V: A Concerto-Henry Burgess Jr

Event Comment: Benefit Villeneuve, Delagarde, and Mrs Kilby

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Cast
Role: Bertha Actor: Mrs Walter
Role: Jaqueline Actor: Mrs Vincent
Related Works
Related Work: The Royal Merchant Author(s): Francis Beaumont

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Kilby

Dance: I: a Serious Dance-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde; II: New Comic Dance-Mr and Mrs Delagarde; III: Peasants, as17421230; IV: Louvre, Minuet-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Performance Comment: As17451016, but Jaqueline-Mrs Bland.
Cast
Role: Jaqueline Actor: Mrs Bland.
Role: Gertrude Actor: Mrs Hale
Related Works
Related Work: The Royal Merchant Author(s): Francis Beaumont

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Cast
Role: Country Lasses Actor: Mrs Vaughn, Mrs +Villeneuve, Miss _Vandersluys, Mrs _Phillips.
Role: Rhodope Actor: Mrs Lampe
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Havard
Role: Mrs Mannerly Actor: Mrs Martin
Event Comment: Benefit Picq, Bibby and Mrs Mann, Brownlow St., Long Ave

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Cast
Role: Lady Actor: Mrs Woffington
Role: Abigail Actor: Mrs Macklin
Role: Widow Actor: Mrs Cross
Related Works
Related Work: The Scornful Lady Author(s): Francis Beaumont
Related Work: The Capricious Lady Author(s): Francis Beaumont

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Goddess

Performance Comment: Harlequin's Wife-Mrs Mann; Harlequin-Yates; Swiss-Blakes; Pierot-Leviez; Harlequin's Child-Miss Yates; Harlico-Collins; Goddess Hecate-Miss Edwards; Spright-Bibby; Shepherds, Shepherdesses-Desse, Shawford, Mrs Pritchard, Picq.

Song: Bibby

Dance: Picq, Miss Hilliard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: Zara Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Leonora Actor: Mrs Bennet.

Afterpiece Title: The Tamer Tam'd

Performance Comment: Parts-Palmer, Burton, Yates, Packer, Vaughan, Ackman, Mrs Bennet, Miss Pritchard; with a New Epilogue address'd to the Ladies and spoken in character-Miss Pritchard.
Related Works
Related Work: The Tamer Tam'd Author(s): Francis Beaumont

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Performance Comment: As17610107, but Woolfort-Anderson; Bertha-Mrs Lee; Hemskirk-Gibson; Merchants-Wignel, Holtom, R. Smith.
Cast
Role: Bertha Actor: Mrs Lee
Role: Jaqueline Actor: Mrs Dyer
Related Works
Related Work: The Royal Merchant Author(s): Francis Beaumont

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: As17610424 but Nell-Mrs Green.
Cast
Role: Nell Actor: Mrs Green.
Role: Lady Loverule Actor: Mrs Pitt

Dance: The Last New Comic Dance-Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Performance Comment: As17611109, but Jaqueline-Mrs Burden.
Cast
Role: Jaqueline Actor: Mrs Burden.
Related Works
Related Work: The Royal Merchant Author(s): Francis Beaumont

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Cast
Role: Fine Lady Actor: Mrs Green.

Dance: TThe Pedlar Trick'd, as17611001

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Philaster

Performance Comment: As17641019, but Arathusa-Mrs Palmer, 1st time.
Cast
Role: Arathusa Actor: Mrs Palmer, 1st time.
Role: Lady Actor: Mrs Hippisley
Role: Megra Actor: Mrs Lee
Role: Bellario Actor: Mrs Yates.
Related Works
Related Work: Philaster; or, Love Lies a Bleeding Author(s): Francis Beaumont
Related Work: Philaster Author(s): Francis Beaumont
Related Work: The Restoration; or, Right Will Take Place Author(s): Francis Beaumont

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Performance Comment: Thomas-Fox; Sally-Miss Wright; Dorcas-Mrs Dorman; Squire-Vernon; to conclude with a Double Hornpipe-Walker, Miss Tetley.
Cast
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Dorman

Song: II: A Song from the Opera Almena-Miss Wright

Dance: End: New Tambourine, as17640929

Event Comment: The Fifth Performance of the Mainpiece. The Music by Mr Linley of Bath. Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid James Abbott for Flowers etc. for the Garland Dance #5 11d. and paid Mrs Winter for flowers etc. for the same #2 13s. 4d. (Account Book). [See 14 Dec.] Receipts: #211 2s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Cast
Role: Gertrude Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Jaquelin Actor: Mrs Pinto
Related Works
Related Work: The Royal Merchant Author(s): Francis Beaumont

Dance: End of Opera: The Dutch Milkmaid, as17671114

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Philaster

Performance Comment: As17671209, but Megra-Mrs Gardner.
Cast
Role: Megra Actor: Mrs Gardner.
Role: Arethusa Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Bellario Actor: Mrs Yates
Role: Lady Actor: Mrs Green.
Related Works
Related Work: Philaster; or, Love Lies a Bleeding Author(s): Francis Beaumont
Related Work: Philaster Author(s): Francis Beaumont
Related Work: The Restoration; or, Right Will Take Place Author(s): Francis Beaumont

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Cast
Role: Nysa Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Juno Actor: Mrs Stephens
Role: Daphne Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: Mysis Actor: Mrs Thompson.

Dance: III: A New Comic Dance, as17671021; IV: The Merry Sailors, as17671009

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Philaster

Performance Comment: As17680102, but Megra-Mrs Stephens; Cleremont-_; Thrassaline-_.
Cast
Role: Megra Actor: Mrs Stephens
Role: Arethusa Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Bellario Actor: Mrs Yates
Role: Lady Actor: Mrs Green.
Related Works
Related Work: Philaster; or, Love Lies a Bleeding Author(s): Francis Beaumont
Related Work: Philaster Author(s): Francis Beaumont
Related Work: The Restoration; or, Right Will Take Place Author(s): Francis Beaumont

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

Cast
Role: Mauxalinda Actor: Mrs Thompson
Role: Margery Actor: Mrs Pinto.

Dance: II: The Sicilian Peasants, as17671123; End: The Irish Lilt, as17670921

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick. Public Advertiser, 8 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Quick, No. 99, High Holbourn. Mainpiece: Written by Beaumont [recte Massinger] and Fletcher. With Alterations [by Leonard Macnally (Not. Dram.)]. To conclude with a Representation of the Ceremony of receiving a Knight of the Order of Malta. The Music by Dr Arne. Afterpiece: Never performed here. Receipts: #292 13s. (197/1; tickets: 95/12) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Knight Of Malta; Or, The Humourous Dane

Performance Comment: Mirando-Lewis; Mountferrat-Whitfield; Valetta-Hull; Colonna-Davies; Rollo-Fearon; Godfreno-Wroughton; Astorious-Thompson; Sailor-Bates; Captain Norandine-Quick [European Magazine, May 1783, p. 386 adds: Surgeon-Webb; Castriot-Helme]; Turkish Captive-Miss Satchell; Oriana-Mrs Robinson .
Cast
Role: Oriana Actor: Mrs Robinson

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost, or, The Devil to do about Her

Performance Comment: Farmer Harrow-Quick; Trusty-Edwin; Clinch-Wilson; Sir Jeffery-Fearon; Captain Constant-Davies; Belinda-Miss Morris; Dolly-Mrs Wilson .
Cast
Role: Dolly Actor: Mrs Wilson

Dance: As17821231

Song: In the Ceremony, by Reinhold, Mrs Martyr, and others

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bulkley. 2nd piece [1st time; c 2, by James Brown Williamson. MS: Larpent 630; not published. Prologue probably by the author; Epilogue by the author; speakers' names (Public Advertiser, 3 Sept.)]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumph Of Honour

Cast
Role: Wife Actor: Mrs Edwin
Role: Dorigen Actor: Mrs Bulkley
Related Works
Related Work: The Triumph of Honour Author(s): Francis Beaumont

Afterpiece Title: The Lawyer

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Palmer, Williamson, Wewitzer, R. Palmer, Egan; Mrs Inchbald, Mrs Lloyd, Miss Langrish, Mrs Bulkley. [Cast from European Magazine, Aug. 1783, p. 151: Hammond-Palmer; Charles Powys-Williamson; Carbon-Wewitzer; Simon-R. Palmer; Patrick-Egan; Emily-Mrs Inchbald; Fidget-Mrs Lloyd; Honoria-Miss Langrish; Belinda-Mrs Bulkley (misprinted Mrs Wrighten).] New Prologue [spoken by Williamson] and Epilogue [spoken by Mrs Bulkley] . New Prologue [spoken by Williamson] and Epilogue [spoken by Mrs Bulkley] .
Cast
Role: Emily Actor: Mrs Inchbald
Role: Fidget Actor: Mrs Lloyd
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Bulkley
Related Works
Related Work: The Lawyer's Feast Author(s): Francis Beaumont

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Afterpiece Title: Chrononhotonthologos

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin. Public Advertiser, 29 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Edwin, No. 19, Piazza, Covent Garden. Mainpiece: Altered from Beaumont and Fletcher [i.e. from Fletcher alone]. Afterpiece: Not acted these 6 years [acted 28 May 1782]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Women Pleas'd

Performance Comment: Silvio-Wroughton; Soto-Quick; Claudio-Farren; Duke-Davies; Lopez-Booth; Bartello-Fearon; Penurio-Edwin; Duchess-Mrs Inchbald; Isabella-Mrs T. Kennedy; Rodophe-Mrs Webb; Belvidere-Mrs Bates .
Cast
Role: Duchess Actor: Mrs Inchbald
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs T. Kennedy
Role: Rodophe Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Belvidere Actor: Mrs Bates

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: Sir John Loverule-Johnstone; Jobson (with The Cook in the Coal Hole)-Edwin; Lady Loverule-Miss Platt; Nell-Mrs Wilson .
Cast
Role: Nell Actor: Mrs Wilson

Song: In Act IV of mainpiece a song by Mrs Martyr; End of Mainpiece Four and Twenty Fidlers all on a Row by Edwin

Monologue: 1785 04 11 End of Act II of mainpiece A Description of the Curiosities of the Tower of London by Edwin

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350. On this date the Stationers' Register has a reference to a play called Love's Martyr; or, Witt Above Crownes, apparently by Mrs Anne Wharton, forbidding anyone from entering this play in the Stationers' Register

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Related Works
Related Work: The Scornful Lady Author(s): Francis Beaumont
Related Work: The Capricious Lady Author(s): Francis Beaumont