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Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales [who was present]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Modish Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Younger. By Command of His Royal Highness. Receipts: money #50 7s.; tickets #119 4s. [Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Dance: I: Highlander and his Mistress-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; II: The Sicilian (new)-Glover, Mrs Pelling; III: Comic Dance-Nivelon; IV: The Baulk-Salle, Mrs Laguerre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Booth. By Command of His Royal Highness. [Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: MMinuet-Denoyer, Mrs Booth

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Heron. By Command of His Royal Highness. [Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Denoyer, Mrs Booth; Scotch Dance-Miss Robinson

Event Comment: [Q$Queen and Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Event Comment: At Lee-Harper Booth. [The Prince of Wales present on 13 Sept.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Female Innocence; Or, A School For A Wife

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. Daily Advertiser, 12 Oct.: The same Day [11 Oct., the Anniversary of His Majesty's Coronation] Mr Giffard...gave a handsome Entertainment, with a Concert of Musick, to the Company of Comedians, and a large Bonfire and Liquor to the Populace, when the Healths of their Majesties, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; the Duke, and the Princesses, were drank, with the sounding of Kettle Drums and Trumpets, and repeated Acclamations of Joy. Daily Post, 13 Oct.: Mr Fielding the Player (who keeps a Booth...during...Bartholomew Fair) gave to the Populace before his own Door in Hart-street, Bloomsbury, a Butt of the strongest Beer that could be got; also a large Bonfire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Dance: DDutch Skipper-D'Valois, Mrs Bullock; Tambourine-Miss Wherrit; Sailor's Dance-Jones

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the late Mr Congreve. [Prince of Wales and Princess Royal present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Dance: Mrs Booth

Event Comment: Receipts: #64 9s. [Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Event Comment: Formerly Compos'd by Mr Handel, and now again Revis'd by him. With several Additions, to be perform'd by a great Number of the best Voices and Instruments. There will be no Action on the Stage, but the Scenes will represent (in a Picturesque Manner) a Rural Prospect, with Rocks, Groves, Fountains, and Grottos, amongst which will be disposed a Chorus of Nymphs and Shepherds. The Habits and every other Decoration suited to the Subject. [Prince of Wales and Princess Royal present. See letter from Hill to Handel, in Hill, Works, I, 174-75, and in Deutsch, Handel, p. 299.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Event Comment: As 16 Dec. Receipts: #84 11s. 6d. [Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance: As17321219

Event Comment: As 26 Dec. Receipts: #76 12s. 6d. [Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance: As17321226

Event Comment: As 26 Dec. 1732. Receipts: #70 17s. 6d. [Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance: As17321228

Event Comment: [The Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #179 3s. [Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Younger. By Command of His Royal Highness. Part of the Stage (for the better Accommodation of the Ladies) will be form'd into Boxes. Receipts: money #79 9s. 6d; tickets #112 16s. [Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Dance: TTambourine-Miss Rogers; new Comic Dance-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre, Pelling, Mrs Pelling, Newhouse, Miss LaTour, Delagarde, Mrs Ogden, LeSac, Miss Baston; French Peasant-Poitier, Miss LaTour; Scottish Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre, DuPre, Pelling, Delagarde, Mrs Ogden

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

Event Comment: As 4 June. [Prince of Wales and Earl of Egmont present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Opera Of Operas

Dance: As17330604

Event Comment: For a payment of #250 by the Prince of Wales to Opera, see Deutsch, Handel, p. 319

Performances

Event Comment: Benefit John Dennis. Daily Advertiser, 19 Dec: There was an exceeding crowded Audience of Persons of Distinction ... at Mr Dennis's Benefit, and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was pleased to send twenty Guineas as a present to that Gentleman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Festival

Event Comment: [Their Majesties, Prince of Wales, and three eldest Princesses present. Egmont also present. For a satiric pamphlet on opera, see Harmony in an Uproar, dated 12 Feb.; much of it is reprinted in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 344-57.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne [in Creta]

Event Comment: Egmont, II, 68: After dinner I went... to hear Hendel's Serenata composed in honour of the marriage, call'd Apollo and Daphnis. The Royal Family was all there, the Prince of Wales excepted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Parnasso In Festa

Event Comment: Benefit Galliard. [Prince of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Nuptial Masque

Dance: I: Les Characteres de l'Amour by Mlle Salle. II: French Peasant by Maker. III: Pigmalion, as17340114

Event Comment: An Opera, compos'd by Mr Handel. Intermix'd with Chorusses. 6:30 P.M. [Prince of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pastor Fido