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Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Davies. Tickets of Davies at No 16 in New Crown Court, Russel St., Covent Garden; and at the Stage Door. Receipts: #170 (Cross); charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: Mrs Strictland Actor: Mrs Davies
Role: Clarinda Actor: Mrs Pritchard

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performance Comment: By Children (Cross). As17590405.
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@143, p. 162: At the Fond Husband. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 36): [This comedy and Otway's The Soldier's Fortune] took extraordinary well, and being perfectly Acted; got the Company great Reputation and Profit. One song, Under the branches of a spreading tree, set by William? Turner, is in Choice Ayres and Songs, The Second Book, 1679. For Nokes and Leigh in this play, see Cibber, Apology, ed. Lowe, I, 149. According to The Guardian, 15 June 1713, Charles II attended three of the first five nights of this play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Fond Husband Or The Plotting Sisters

Performance Comment: Edition of 1677: Rashley-Smith; Ranger-Harris; Peregrine Bubble-James Nokes; Old Fumble-Anth. Leigh; Sir Roger Petulant-Sandford; Sneak-Jevan; Spatterdash-Richards; Apothecary-Percival; Emillia-Mrs Barrer; Maria-Mrs Marshal; Cordelia-Mrs Hughes; Betty-Mrs Napper; Governess-Mrs Norrice; Prologue-; Epilogue-Fumble; Edition of 1678 adds: Jeremy-Richards.
Cast
Role: Emillia Actor: Mrs Barrer
Role: Maria Actor: Mrs Marshal
Role: Cordelia Actor: Mrs Hughes
Role: Betty Actor: Mrs Napper
Role: Governess Actor: Mrs Norrice
Event Comment: The United Company. The date of the first performance is not known, but Luttrell dated his copy of the separately-printed Prologue and Epilogue 5 April 1684 (J. W. Dodds, Thomas Southerne, p. 48). Very probably the play first appeared during the week of 31 March-5 April, immediately following Easter. The Prologue and Epilogue are reprinted in Wiley, Rare Prologues and Epilogues, pp. 191-94. This may have been the last new role William Smith undertook for some years; see Cibber, Apology, ed. Lowe, 1, 78-79, for the incident which prompted Smith's leaving the stage for awhile. One song, I never saw a face till now, with music by Captain Pack, is in The Theater of Music, the First Book, 1685; and another, O why did e'er my thoughts aspire, the music by R. King, is in the same collection. A third song, See how fair Corinna lies, the music by Captain Pack, is in A Collection of Twenty-Four Songs, 1685

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Disappointment Or The Mother In Fashion

Performance Comment: Edition of 1684: Alphonso-Betterton; Lorenzo-Smith; Alberto-Wilshire; Lesbino-Carlisle; Rogero-Leigh; Erminia-Mrs Cook; Juliana-Mrs Percival; Angelline-Mrs Knight; Her Supposed Mother-Mrs Corey; Clara-Mrs Leigh; The Prologue by Mr John Dryden-Mr Betterton; The Epilogue by the Honourable John Stafford, Esq-.
Cast
Role: Erminia Actor: Mrs Cook
Role: Juliana Actor: Mrs Percival
Role: Angelline Actor: Mrs Knight
Role: Her Supposed Mother Actor: Mrs Corey
Role: Clara Actor: Mrs Leigh
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Yates. Mainpiece: Altered from Corneille [by Colley Cibber?]. Never Performed There. Pit and Boxes laid together (playbill). Charges #66 7s. 6d. Profit to Mrs Yates #39 7s. 6d., plus #179 from tickets (Box and Pit 716). Paid Younger a Bill for writing parts #5 19s. 9d. Paid John Smith for a Blue cloth suit lac'd with gold #9 9s. (Account Book). Receipts: #105 15s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ximena Or The Heroic Daughter

Performance Comment: Don Carlos-Smith; Don Alvarez-Bensley; Don Gormaz-Clarke; Don Ferdinand-Hull; Don Sanchez-Savigny; Don Alonzo-Wroughton; Belzara-Mrs Mattocks; Ximena-Mrs Yates; By Particular Desire an Epilogue-Mrs Yates.
Related Works
Related Work: Ximena, or, The Heroick Daughter Author(s): Colley Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Cast
Role: Cross Actor: Shuter
Role: Mrs Cross Actor: Mrs Green
Role: Charlotte Actor: Mrs Bulkley
Role: Lettice Actor: Mrs Kniveton
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Gardner

Dance: End: The Whim, as17720312 End II Farce: A Comic Dance, as17711031

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber; With Alterations. Not Acted these 12 years [acted 10 May 1784]. With new Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. Receipts: #275 19s. 6d. (194.3.6; 78.19.0; 2.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings Love Makes A Man Or The Fops Fortune

Performance Comment: Antonio-Baddeley; Charino-Hollingsworth; Don Lewis-King; Carlos-Kemble; Clodio-Dodd; Sancho-Suett; Monsieur-Wewitzer; Governor-Packer; Don Duart-Barrymore; Don Manuel-Caulfield; Pedro-Banks; Lopez-Benson; Roberto-Jones; Cook-Burton; Jaques-Phillimore; Guzman-Lyons; Priest-Fawcett; Lawyer-Waldron; Sailor-Cooke; Alguazile-Maddocks; Page-Miss Menage; Bravoes-Alfred, Webb; Angelina-Mrs Goodall; Louisa-Mrs Powell; Elvira-Mrs Kemble; Honoria-Mrs Bramwell; Catalina-Mrs Shaw.
Cast
Role: Angelina Actor: Mrs Goodall
Role: Louisa Actor: Mrs Powell
Role: Elvira Actor: Mrs Kemble
Role: Honoria Actor: Mrs Bramwell
Role: Catalina Actor: Mrs Shaw.
Related Works
Related Work: Love Makes A Man: or, The Fop's Fortune Author(s): Colley Cibber

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Cast
Role: Dorothy Actor: Mrs Bland
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first production is not certain, particularly since an entry in L. C. 5@145, p. 120 (see also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349) lists this play for 8 March, the year uncertain. Since the entry follows one for The Souldier's Fortune which followed the premiere of The Female Prelate, 31 May 1680, the L. C. entry probably is one for 8 March 1680@1. That the premiere occurred near 1 Nov. 1680 is suggested by a letter of Anne Montague to Lady Hatton, 1 Nov. 1680: For I never see the towne fuller, for I was to see the new play, The Spanish Frier, and there was all the world, but the Court is a letell dull yet; the Queen being sick, there is noe drawing room (Hatton Correspondence, Camden Society, XXII [1878], 240). A song, Farewell ungratefull Traytor, with music by Captain Pack and sung by Mrs Crofts, is in Act V. For Leigh's and Nokes' acting, see Cibber, Apology, ed. Lowe, I, 143, 145-46. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 37): 'Twas Admirably Acted, and produc'd vast Profit to the Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar Or The Double Discovery

Performance Comment: Edition of 1681: Prologue-; Torrismond-Betterton; Bertran-Williams; Alphonso-Wiltshire; Lorenzo-Smith; Raymond-Gillo; Pedro-Underhill; Gomez-Nokes; Dominic-Lee; Leonora-Mrs Barry; Teresa-Mrs Crofts; Elvira-Mrs Betterton; Epilogue [by a Friend of the Author's [Robert Wolseley]-.
Cast
Role: Leonora Actor: Mrs Barry
Role: Teresa Actor: Mrs Crofts
Role: Elvira Actor: Mrs Betterton
Event Comment: Betterton's Company. The date of the first performance is not known, but the fact that the play was advertised in the Post Boy, 11-13 May 1697, suggests that it was first acted about mid-April, a month before publication. For an account of the history of the play before its production, see Cibber, Apology, I, 217-18

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Performance Comment: Edition of 1697: Prologue-Mistress Bracegirdle; Epilogue [Written] by another Hand-Lady Brute, Bellinda; Constant-Verbrugen; Heartfree-Hudson; Sir John Brute-Betterton; Treble-Bowman; Rasor-Bowen; Justice of the Peace-Bright; Lady Brute-Mrs Barry; Bellinda-Mrs Bracegirdle; Lady Fancyfull-Mrs Bowman; Mademoiselle-Mrs Willis.
Cast
Role: Lady Brute Actor: Mrs Barry
Role: Bellinda Actor: Mrs Bracegirdle
Role: Lady Fancyfull Actor: Mrs Bowman
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Mrs Willis.
Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality and Distinction. Mainpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh and Mr Cibber. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Carey

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Performance Comment: As17350718 but Manly-a Citizen of London, the first Time of his Appearance on any Stage; Poundage-Gray; Mrs Motherly-Mrs Egerton; Mrs Trusty-Miss Jones; Myrtillo-Miss J. Jones .
Cast
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Egerton
Role: Mrs Trusty Actor: Miss Jones
Role: Townly Actor: Cross
Role: Lady Townly Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Lady Grace Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Lady Wronghead Actor: Mrs Cantrell
Role: Myrtilla Actor: Mrs Davenport

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Cast
Role: Arbella Actor: Mrs Cantrell
Role: Combrush Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Event Comment: Last Tuesday Signior Pasquali, Master of the Band of Music at the Theatre Royal, Mr Cibber and some other prominent players arriv'd from England to act the ensuing season [in Dublin]. Mrs Bland arriv'd [in Dublin] last Sunday from England and will appear tomorrow night in the character of Miranda in the Busy Body. Receipts: #180

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: Hamlet-Garrick; Horatio-Havard; Guildenstern-Scrase; Ghost-Berry; Ophelia-Mrs Clive; Polonius-Taswell; King-Bridges; Gravediggers-Yates, Ray; Lucianus-James; Ostrick-Woodward; Queen-Mrs Pritchard; Player King-Winstone; Player Queen-Mrs Yates; Rosencraus-Simpson; Laertes-Blakes; Bernardo-Marr.
Cast
Role: Ophelia Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Player Queen Actor: Mrs Yates

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Beatrice Actor: Mrs Bennet.
Event Comment: Benefit for Dunstall. Afterpiece: A Burlesque traged)'by Colley Cibber. Not acted in 20 years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17650321 but Lucy-Mrs Baker; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Pitt.
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Pitt.
Role: Diana Trapes Actor: Mrs Copin
Role: Mrs Slammekin Actor: Mrs Green

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Queens or Death of Alexander the Little

Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Queans Author(s): Colley Cibber

Dance: II: Blind Man's Buff, as17641003

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night Or What You Will

Performance Comment: Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 23): Sir Toby Belch-Betterton; Sir Andrew Ague@Cheek-Harris; Fool-Underhill; Malvolio-Lovel; Olivia-Mrs Ann Gibbs. See also 11 Sept. 1661.
Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, where two acts were almost done when I come in; and there I sat with my cloak about my face, and saw the remainder of The Mayd's Tragedy; a good play, and well acted, especially by the younger Marshall, who is become a pretty good actor, and is the first play I have seen in either of the houses since before the great plague, they having acted now about fourteen days publickly. But I was in Mighty pain lest I should be seen by any body to be at a play. Elegy on that Worthy and Famous Actor, Mr Charles Hart, who departed this Life Thursday August the 18th., 1683: @Such Pow'r He had o'r the Spectators gain'd,@As forc'd a Real passion from a Feign'd.@For when they saw Amintor bleed, straight all@The House, for every Drop, a Tear let fall;@And when Arbaces wept by sympathy,@A glowing Tide of Wo gush'd from each Eye.@ [Reprinted in Thorn-Drury, A Little Ark, pp. 47ff; Sprague, Beaumont and Fletcher, p.38.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maids Tragedy

Performance Comment: Pepys: Evadne?-Rebecca Marshall; [Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 5): King-Wintersel; Melantius-Mohun; Amintor-Hart; Calianas-Shatterel; Aspatia-Mrs Boutel? [but she probably did not come on the stage until 1670]. [See also 17 Nov. 1660.but she probably did not come on the stage until 1670]. [See also 17 Nov. 1660.
Cast
Role: Aspatia Actor: Mrs Boutel?

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Performance Comment: Gomez-Dogget; Elvira-Mrs Harcourt.
Cast
Role: Elvira Actor: Mrs Harcourt.

Dance: Layfield; particulary a new Italian Scaramouch-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

Performance Comment: King-Keen; Hamlet-Betterton; Horatio-Verbruggen; Laertes-Booth; Ophelia-Mrs Bracegirdle.
Cast
Role: Ophelia Actor: Mrs Bracegirdle.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fond Husband

Performance Comment: As17100810, but Emilia-Mrs Powell.
Cast
Role: Emilia Actor: Mrs Powell.
Role: Emelia Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: Maria Actor: Mrs Spillar
Role: Cordelia Actor: Mrs Sapsford
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Pollet.

Entertainment: 1st: turns upon one Foot 300 times-A Young Gentlewoman, who never appear'd on a publick Stage, and as she is turning fixes 12 Swords points about her, 2 to her Eyes, 2 to her Eye-lashes, 2 to her Eye-brows, 2 to her Nose, 2 to her Lips, and 2 to her Breasts

Dance: French Peasant-; Scaramouch-; Wooden Shoe-; Dance by Harlequin Scaramouch Cooper and his Wife-; Ladder Dance-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

Performance Comment: As at queen's, 11 Nov. 1710, but Ghost-Bowman; Laertes-_; Fop-_; Queen-Mrs Knight.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Knight.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant Or The Beggars Bush

Performance Comment: Florez-Leigh; Clause-Quin; Woolfort-Smith; Hubert-Ogden; Hemskirk-Egleton; Vandunck-Bullock; Higgen-Pack; Prig-C. Bullock; Snap-Griffin; 1st Boor-Spiller; 2d Boor-Harper; Gertrude-Mrs Spiller; Epilogue-Spiller riding on an Ass.
Cast
Role: Gertrude Actor: Mrs Spiller

Song: In the play a new ballad, The Weaver's Complaint Against The Calico Madams-

Dance:

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: Polly-Mrs Clive; Macheath-Stoppelaer; but see DL, 28 Jan. hathi. but see DL, 28 Jan. hathi.
Cast
Role: Polly Actor: Mrs Clive

Afterpiece Title: Love Is the Doctor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Performance Comment: Trapwit-by the Proprietor of the Benefit, Being the first Time of his attempting it to little Purpose. With Variety of Prologues and Epilogues, in particular The Comedy Prologue by Mrs Charke, from Drury-Lane, And the Original Epilogue by Common Sense; but see17360319. but see17360319.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Phillips; Spaniard-Hemskirk; Clown-Scollough; Colombine-Mrs Phillips.
Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Phillips.

Entertainment: A Grand Scene of Cupid and Psyche-; A Scaramouch Dance-Phillips; which he performed at the Opera House at Paris upwards of Forty successive Nights with universal Applause. A Dialogue between Punch and Colombine-; Drunken Peasant-Phillips

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Davids Lamentation Over Saul And Jonathan

Performance Comment: Vocal Parts-Mrs Arne, Beard, Russel, Rheinhold.

Music: Violin-Festing; Violoncello-Caporale; Several Concertos-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Friar

Performance Comment: As17411216, but Elvira-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Elvira Actor: Mrs Clive.
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Roberts.

Song: I: Happy Pair-Beard; III: Bright Author of my Present Flame-Lowe

Dance: II: Le Boufon, as17411030; V: Le Genereux Corsaire, as17411214

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alzira Or Spanish Insult Repented

Performance Comment: Gamor (by Particular Desire)-Johnson, who has not appeared on any stage these 5 years; Alvarez-Giffard; Carlos-W. Giffard; Famont-Havard; Spanish Captain-Turbutt; American Captain-Winstone; Emira-Miss Budgell; Cephania-Miss Cole; Alzira-Mrs Giffard; With a New Prologue-Johnson.
Cast
Role: Alzira Actor: Mrs Giffard

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Angelica Actor: Mrs Ridout
Role: Beatrice Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Doctor's Wife Actor: Mrs Egerton

Dance: III: Mlle Auguste

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: AS 2 Feb., but Serina-Mrs Ridout; Ernesto-Simpson; Chamont-Mills; Acasto-Berry.
Cast
Role: Serina Actor: Mrs Ridout
Related Works
Related Work: The Fair Orphan Author(s): Colley Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Tragedy of Tragedies

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Bennet.

Dance: I: Sga Bettini; III: Muilment

Song: II, IV: Lowe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prodigal Son With The Comical Humours Of Sir John Oldcastle And A Pert Chambermaid

Performance Comment: Lettice-Mrs Phillips; Drunken Colonel-Phillips (Daily Advertiser, 3 May).
Cast
Role: Lettice Actor: Mrs Phillips

Afterpiece Title: The Harlots Progress

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Phillips his first appearance on that stage in England in three years; Beau Mordecai the Jew-Bennett; Miss Kitty-Mrs Phillips.
Cast
Role: Miss Kitty Actor: Mrs Phillips.
Related Works
Related Work: The Harlot's Progress; or, The Ridotto Al' Fresco: With a Grand Masque call'd, The Judgment of Paris; or, The Triumph of Beauty Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: NNew Hornpipe, Drunken Peasant-Phillips; Sailor's Dance called the Jovial Crew-Phillips

Song: Grand Chorus in Honor of his Royal Highness the Duke on his brave Defeat of the Rebels-