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2952 results for: Keyword - Prince and Princess of Denmark
We found 1208 matches on Event Comments, 773 matches on Performance Comments, 661 matches on Performance Title, 418 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1601
01 October 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Doors opened (by Partiuclar Desire) at Five. Play to begin at half past Six. The King of Denmark came to the Farce after seeing Jane Shore at Covent Garden,--came in just before the Play was finished (Hopkins Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Lovers

Performance Comment: Dorilant-Holland; Modely-Jefferson, 1st time; Bellmour-Packer; Celia-Mrs Baddeley; Araminta-Mrs Abington; Steward-Castle; Lady Beverley-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Dorilant Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Dance: II: The Wake, as17680929

1602
06 October 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: To begin at 6 o'clock. Doors open at 5 o'clock. Send servants at 4 o'clock. King of Denmark. Ranger-Mr Garrick (Cross Diary). Both pieces By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performance Comment: Ranger-Garrick; Strictland-Love; Frankly-Aickin; Bellamy-Packer; Meggot-Dodd; Tester-J. Burton; Mrs Strictland-Mrs W. Barry; Jacintha-Mrs Jeffries; Lucetta-Mrs Love; Milliner-Mrs Millidge; Clarinda-Miss Pope; to conclude with a Country Dance-.
Cast
Role: Strictland Actor: Love
Role: Mrs Strictland Actor: Mrs W. Barry

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Vernon

1603
12 October 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Doors open at 5. Play to begin exactly at 6. Rec'd from the King of Denmark #40. Receipts: #142 18s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Performance Comment: Barber-Woodward; Quidnunc-Dunstall; Pamphlet-Shuter; Harriet-Mrs DuBellamy; Termagant-Mrs Green. *u§¨cg IInterlude: The Royal Garland. As17681010.
Cast
Role: Termagant Actor: Mrs Green. u§¨cg IInterlude: The Royal Garland. As17681010.
Role: Nymph Actor: _. u§™cg A+A New Occasional Interlude: The Royal Garland.
Role: Mrs Mattocks Genius of England Actor: Mahon
Role: to conclude with a Grand Ballet Actor: Fishar, Sga Manesiere
Role: Chorusses of Shepherds and Shepherdesses Actor: .

1604
14 October 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 9 years. [See 7 Feb. 1757.] Mr J. Aickin hissed.--Mr Holland and Mrs Baddeley played well (Hopkins Diary). Mr Garrick had the honour of being with the King of Denmark Tuesday morning last, and conversed with him for near half an hour on the state of the stage in England and France. The King gave him an elegant gold snuff-box studded with diamonds as a small mark of the great regard he had for his extraordinary talents (London Evening Post, 14 Oct.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Performance Comment: Zanga-Holland, 1st time; Alonzo-Reddish, 1st time; Carlos-J. Aickin; Don Manuel-Hurst; Alvarez-Burton; Lenora-Mrs Baddeley, 1st time; Isabella-Mrs Reddish.
Cast
Role: Zanga Actor: Holland, 1st time

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Vernon

1605
09 November 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Aickin hissed for being imperfect.--This night was introduced at the end of the Pantomime a Grand Masquerade in imitation of that given by the King of Denmark at the Opera House, and lighted up after the same manner--Every performer belonging to the House was on, even Mr Garrick and his brother.--The dresses were very elegant, and the whole very striking,--and gave pleasure to the Audience (Hopkins Diary). [The masquerade remained a part of Queen Mab and was also attached to Fortunatus. It evoked the following verse in Lloyd's Evening Post, Nov. 21-23]: One night last week a merry blade,@Who'd seen the Royal Masquerade,@And paid ten guineas for admission,@Began to damn the imposition;@His friend reply'd, "You may complain,@For I last Night at Drury Lane,@Saw full as much for eighteen pence,@As you got at such vast expence."-- G.S. C y

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Cast
Role: Earl of Warwick Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

1606
19 November 1660 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Edward Gower to Sir R. Leveson, 20 Nov. 1660: Yesternight the King, Queen, Princess, &c. supped at the Duke of Albemarle's, where they had the Silent Woman acted in the cockpit (HMC, 5th Report, 1876, p. 200). The King's Company. Pepys, Diary, 20 Nov. 1660: This morning I found my Lord in bed late, he having been with the King, Queen, and Princess, at the cockpit all night, where General Monk treated them; and after supper a play, where the King did put a great affront upon John? Singleton's musique, he bidding them stop and bade the French musique play, which, my Lord says, do much outdo all ours. The prologue was printed in 1660: The Prologue to His Majesty at the first Play presented at the cock-pit in Whitehall, Being part of that Noble Entertainment which Their Majesties received Novemb. 19. from his Grace the Duke of Albemarle. [The Prologue has been reprinted by Wiley, Rare Prologues and Epilogues, pp. 11-12. Bodleian Wood 398 has a MS note: By Sir Jo. Denham.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

1607
06 July 1668 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: Here comes Harris, and first told us how Betterton is come again upon the stage: whereupon my wife and company to the [Duke's] house to see Henry the Fifth.... Thence I to the playhouse, and saw a piece of the play, and glad to see Betterton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Fifth

Performance Comment: Owen Tudor?-Betterton; Henry V-Harris?; Princess Katherine-Mrs Betterton?. See also 13 Aug. 1664.
Cast
Role: Princess Katherine Actor: Mrs Betterton?. See also 13 Aug. 1664.

1608
February 1688 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. The date of the first performance is not known, but Luttrell's date of acquistion of the separately-printed Prologue and Epilogue is 6 Feb. 1687@8 (see A. S. Borgman, The Life and Death of William Mountford [Cambridge, Mass., 1935], p. 26n). Very probably the play had its premiere early in February. The Prologue and Epilogue are reprinted in Wiley, Rare Prologues and Epilogues, pp. 256-58. A song, Lucinda close or veil those eyes, with music by J. B. Draghi, is in The Banquet of Musick, The Second Book, 1688. Charles Gildon, The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (London, 1698 (?), p. 102: [It] did not succeed as the Author wish'd

Performances

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.
Cast
Role: Princess Oryala Actor: Mrs Barry

1609
28 September 1703 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Mannerly Or The Country Wit

Performance Comment: with the last new Epilogue concerning the Life and Morals of the Observator, which was -Mr Powell on the first day of the Injur'd Princess, or the false Wager; Also a Dialogue between Heraclitus Ridens and the Observator by way of Prologue-.
Cast
Role: which was Actor: Mr Powell on the first day of the Injur'd Princess, or the false Wager

1610
27 March 1706 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Vertue Betrayd Or Anna Bullen

Performance Comment: Henry VIII-Estcourt; Princess Elizabeth-the Child [identified by Genest, II, 340, as Miss Younger]; a new Epilogue-the Child.
Cast
Role: Princess Elizabeth Actor: the Child

Song: Leveridge, Ramondon, Mrs Lindsey, the Boy

Dance: As17051227

1611
03 December 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Vertue Betrayd Or Anna Bullen

Performance Comment: Anna Bullen-Mrs Oldfield; Henry VIII-Powell; Wolsey-Cibber; Northumberland-Keene; Piercy-Wilks; Rochford-Mills; Lady Diana-Mrs Rogers; Lady Elizabeth-Mrs Porter; Princess Elizabeth-Miss Smith.
Cast
Role: Northumberland Actor: Keene
Role: Princess Elizabeth Actor: Miss Smith.

1612
19 February 1715 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command, and for the Entertainment of their Highnesses, the Princess Royal and the Princess Amelia

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

Related Works
Related Work: L'Honorata Poverta di Rinaldo: viz, The honourable Poverty of Rinaldo, false accused by the Maganzesians: With Harlequing Guardian to his Master's Family and Defender of his Castle Author(s): Giacinto Andrea Cicognini

1613
28 March 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Vertue Betrayd Or Anna Bullen

Performance Comment: Harry the 8th-Evans; Wolsey-Cibber; Piercy-Wilks; Rochford-Mills; Anna Bullen-Mrs Oldfield; Lady Blunt-Mrs Porter; Princess Elizabeth-the Little Child.
Cast
Role: Princess Elizabeth Actor: the Little Child.

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

1614
12 February 1719 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command. For the Entertainment of the Princesses. [The King, the Three Young Princesses, and a great Number of Nobility and Gentry also there.] Pit and Boxes 5s. Stage Boxes 7s. 6d. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Esprit Follet

Performance Comment: A new Prologue between Harlequin and Colombine-.
Cast
Role: A new Prologue between Harlequin and Colombine Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: Le Divorce

Entertainment: Dancing and Tumbling-; particularly Dancing-Mr Glover being the first Time of his Performance in publick since his return from the Court of Paris; Salle, Mlle Salle

1615
05 March 1719 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of The Princesses. [The Young Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Laron Grand Provost Et Juge

Entertainment: Tumbling-; Leap over Man on large Coach Horse-; Italian Postures-

1616
24 March 1720 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For The Entertainment of their Royal Highnesses the Young Princesses. [The Princesses present.] For comment on the current theatrical scene, see The Letters of the Late Thomas Rundle, pp. 18-22

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Harlequin A Sham Astrologer A Parrot A Child A Statue And A Chimney Sweeper

Dance: Danjeville

1617
26 May 1720 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 14 May. To be admitted on the Stage One Guinea. [The Princess of Wales and Princess Anne present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Numitor

1618
05 December 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Aaron Hill.] On Shakespear's Foundation. With several Sets of Scenes entirely new and properWto the Play. [In an advance notice in Daily Journal, 6 Nov., the scenes are reported to be designed by Signior Angelo, an Italian.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Vth Or The Conquest Of France By The English

Performance Comment: Edition of 1723 lists: King Henry-Booth; Dauphin-Wilks; King of France-Thurmond; Princess Catherine-Mrs Oldfield; Harriet-Mrs Thurmond; Charlot-Mrs Campbell; Duke of Exeter-Mills; Duke of York-Cory; Lord Scroop-Williams; Duke of Bourbon-Bridgwater; Duke of Orleans-Watson; Earl of Cambridge-Mills Jr; Sir Thomas Grey-Oates; French Officer-Roberts; Prologue-Wilks; Epilogue-Mrs Oldfield.
Cast
Role: Princess Catherine Actor: Mrs Oldfield

1619
09 January 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virtue Betrayd Or Anna Bullen

Performance Comment: Henry VIII-Booth; Wolsey-Cibber; Northumberland-Thurmond; Piercy-Wilks; Rochford-Will. Mills; Anna Bullen-Mrs Oldfield; Diana-Mrs Johnson; Elizabeth-Mrs Horton; Young Princess Elizabeth-Miss Robinson Jr.
Cast
Role: Northumberland Actor: Thurmond
Role: Young Princess Elizabeth Actor: Miss Robinson Jr.

1620
28 December 1725 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: PPrince and Princess of Wales, Princesses Anne, Caroline and Amelia present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rodelinda

1621
24 April 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virtue Betrayd Or Anna Bullen

Performance Comment: Henry VIII-Booth; Piercy-Wilks; Wolsey-Cibber; Anna Bullen-Mrs Oldfield; Northumberland-Thurmond; Rochford-Wm. Mills; Lady Blunt-Mrs Horton; Lady Diana-Mrs Cibber; Princess Elizabeth-Miss Robinson Jr.
Cast
Role: Northumberland Actor: Thurmond
Role: Princess Elizabeth Actor: Miss Robinson Jr.

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: TThe Fawns-; La Pieraite-Roger, Mrs Brett; Polonese-Young Rainton, Miss Robinson; Drunken Man-Harper

1622
07 November 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Their Majesties' Command. [The King, Queen, Princess Royal, and Princess Carolina present.] Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Viiith

1623
22 November 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virtue Betrayd Or Anna Bullen

Performance Comment: King Henry-Booth; Anna Bullen-Mrs Oldfield; Wolsey-Cibber; Northumberland-Bridgwater; Piercy-Wilks; Rochford-Wm. Mills; Lady Elizabeth-Mrs Horton; Lady Diana-Mrs Cibber; Young Princess Elizabeth-Miss Robinson.
Cast
Role: Northumberland Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Young Princess Elizabeth Actor: Miss Robinson.

1624
27 January 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: TThe King, Queen, Princess Royal, and Princess Carolina present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

1625
17 February 1728 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Music by Handel. Text by Haym.] The King, Queen, Princess Amelia, and Princess Carolina present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe