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Event Comment: Never acted before. [By Nicholas Rowe.] Downes (p.48): The Play being all new Cloath'd, and Excellently well perform'd had a Successful run

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ulysses

Performance Comment: Edition of 1706 lists: Ulysses-Betterton; Eurymachus-Verbruggen; Polydamas-Mynns; Yhoon-Knap; Agenor-Weller; Ephialtes-Freeman; Telemachus-Booth; Antinous-Husbands; Cleon-Dickins; Arcas-Cory; Mentor-Bowman; Penelope-Mrs Barry; Semanthe-Mrs Bracegirdle; Prologue-Betterton; Epilogue-Mrs Bracegirdle.
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Role: Semanthe Actor: Mrs Bracegirdle
Event Comment: Benefit Cibber. Mainpiece: several new Additions never performed but once, particularly a Scene of Comical Magickv

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Music: Composed by Henry Purcell

Dance: Proper dances-duRuel, Mrs duRuel, Cherrier

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. All the chief parts being new drest

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Event Comment: Philip Perceval to Sir John Perceval, 1 Feb.: The opera of Camilla has been one of the chief diversions of the town this long time, and business is forgot. Next week we expect a new one, and soon after another. One goes by Mr Addison's name; I think they call it Fair Rosamond, the other is Mr Clayton's undertaking. Great things are expected of them both. (Egmont MS, II, 215.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Event Comment: [Text by Joseph Addison. Music by Thomas Clayton.] A new Opera never yet perform'd. By Subscription. None to be admitted into the Boxes or Pit but by the Subscribers' Tickets. [Both A Critical Discourse upon Operas (1709) and Jacobs (I, 3) refer to the unsatisfactory nature of the music; as a result, according to Jacobs, "It had not the Success due to its Merit."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosamond

Event Comment: [Text by P. A. Motteux. Music adapted by Pepusch.] A new Opera. By Subscription. The Front Boxes and Side Boxes to be laid open into the Pit; where none are to be admitted but by the Subscribers' Tickets. And the Stage Boxes, Balconies, and Galleries are for the Benefit of the House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Thomyris

Event Comment: The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and no Person to be admitted but by Tickets...at half a Guinea each Tickets. The Number of Tickets not to exceed 400. Stage Boxes half a Guinea. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 2s. And by Order, no Person to stand upon the Stage. Receipts: #53 15s. 3d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Performance Comment: See dl 6 Dec. 1707, but Metius (with several new Select Songs added)-Gioseppi Cassani, lately arrived from Italy.

Dance: Cherrier, Debargues, Mrs Debargues, Mrs Santlow, Mrs Evans, others

Event Comment: [Words from the Italian of G. B. Neri. Music by Francesco Conti and others.] A new Opera. By Subscription. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and no Person to admitted but by the Subscribers' Tickets. Stage Boxes 15s. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 2s. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Clotilda

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. With an entire set of new Scenes, Painted by two famous Italian Painters (lately arriv'd from Venice) and all the other Decorations that were represented in the Opera of Clotilda. Admission as 5 Jan., but no benches railed into the boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Event Comment: Benefit Betterton. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and No Person to be admitted but by printed Tickets at half a Guinea each. Note, That the Tickets deliver'd out for the Moor of Venice, and Great Mogul, will be taken at this Play. [Receipts: possibly #154 6s. 7 1!2d., according to Baggs.] For a comment on this occasion, see Tatler, 12 April. Whincop (pp. 175-76) states: But Mr Betterton being new past Seventy Years of Age, and lame with the Gout, seemed but to burlesque the Part of youthful Valentine

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Event Comment: With an addition of a whole new Scene, consisting of Three Songs, compos'd by Signior Scarlatti, and perform'd by the famous Signior Cavaliero Nicolini Grimaldi. The Scenes, as 2 April. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Admission to pit and boxes by Printed tickets only. Stage boxes half a guinea. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Event Comment: Benefit Cave Underhill the old Comedian. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [In Tatler, 26 May, Underhill had announced his benefit, stating that he had losses to the value of nearly #2,500. See also Tatler, 31 May.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Performance Comment: As17090507, but Gravedigger-Underhill; With a new Prologue, Epilogue-.
Event Comment: At Mr Goff's new Playhouse in Hampstead. This Consort will be perform'd with much better Decorum than before. [In Post Boy, 13-15 Sept., it was announced that the Justices for Middlesex had served an order at Hampstead forbidding the players "to act any more there."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Several Celebrated Songs, Comic Dialogues by the late Mr Henry Purcel, other great English Masters, for 1, 2 and 3 voices; the whole, as it will be perform'd, and by whom, in our great Bills to which we refer-

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. And several new Decorations of Scenes and Machines never shewn before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mackbeth

Music: With all the Vocal and Instrumental Musick-

Dance: Dances proper to the Play-

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. And several new Decorations of Scenes and Machines

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mackbeth

Entertainment: Higgins

Music: As17091128

Dance: As17091128

Event Comment: With several new Decorations of Scenes and Machines

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mackbeth

Music: As17091128

Dance: As17091128

Entertainment: Higgins

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrid

Performance Comment: As17100109, but Ordgar-a Young Gentleman, a Friend of the Author's, who is pleas'd to Act it for his own diversion; With a new Prologue, Epilogue-.

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue

Event Comment: A Practice of the new Opera in Form; to begin exactly at Six a Clock. [See also 2 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Practice Of An Opera [hydaspes

Event Comment: Benefit Nicolini. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. With all the Scenes and Decorations of the last new Opera of Almahide. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and no Person to be admitted but by printed Tickets, at a half guinea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Event Comment: Benefit Knapp and Miller. Written by the late Ingenious Mr Shadwell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woman Captain; Or, The Usurer Turned Soldier

Performance Comment: Woman Captain-Mrs Bradshaw; Usurer-Norris; With a new Prologue, Epilogue-.
Event Comment: [In Daily Courant, 15 April, a new play, The Force of Friendship, had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Event Comment: With an entire new Scene, consisting of Four Songs Compos'd by Signior Scarlatti, and Sung by Signior Cavaliero Nicolini Grimaldi. For the Entertainment of the Four Indian Kings [but see dl]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Almahide

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [In Daily Courant, 12 May, but not later, two afterpieces-The Walking Statue and (new) The Twin Venturers-had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caius Marius

Event Comment: Benefit Cibber. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. London in 1710 (p. 96): It was a fine piece, and on that account had a large audience

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Performance Comment: Othello-Wilks; Iago-Cibber [Daily Courant, 20 June, only]; With a new Epilogue (intended to be Humorous) Writ-Mr Cibber[, upon all Mankind's being Actors on the Stage of the World., upon all Mankind's being Actors on the Stage of the World.
Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Wilks
Event Comment: With the Addition of a New Cascade Scenev after the Italian Manner. Receipts: #124 1s. 3d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius