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1007 results for: Keyword - Princess of Saxe-Gotha
We found 777 matches on Event Comments, 156 matches on Performance Title, 88 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

176
10 December 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness. King, Queen, Prince of Wales, Princess Royal, Princess Emilia, and Princess Caroline present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage; Or, The Innocent Adultery

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

177
13 March 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A Serenata. Being an Essay of several different Sorts of Harmony.[Music by Handel. Done into English by George Oldmixon.] Daily Advertiser, 14 March: Last Night Mr Handell's new Serenata, in Honour of the Princess Royal's Nuptials with the Prince of Orange, was perform'd before their Majesties, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, the Prince of Orange, and all the Royal Family, and was received with the greatest Applause; the Piece containing the most exquisite Harmony ever furnish'd from the Stage, and the Disposition of the Performers being contriv'd in a very grand and magnificent Manner. [The marriage of the Prince of Orange and Royal Princess occurred on Thursday, 14 March.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Parnasso In Festa; Or, Apollo And The Muses Celebrating The Nuptials Of Thetis And Peleus

178
06 November 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Princess Amelia and Princess Caroline. [King, Duke, and all the Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Le Misantrope

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Hulla

Song:

Dance:

179
07 January 1749 @ Leicester House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Performance Comment: Portius-Prince George; Juba-Prince Edward; Cato-Master Nugent; Sempronius-Master Evelyn; Lucius-Master Montague; Decius-Viscount Milsintown; Syphax-Lord North's son; Marcus-Master Madden; Marcia-Princess Augusta; Lucia-Princess Elizabeth; King George III (then Prince George) spoke the Prologue-Prince George.
Cast
Role: Marcia Actor: Princess Augusta
Role: Lucia Actor: Princess Elizabeth

180
28 January 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales. Present the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince Edward, Lady Augusta, and Princess Elizabeth. Receipts: #219 1s. 6d. Paid Barry his one third of the surplus above #80 House Charges: #46 7s. 2d. Gave the yeoman of the Prince and Princess #1 1s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Ballet: The Judgment of Paris. As17571217

Dance: As17571217

181
02 May 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Afterpiece Title: Alexander the Little; or, The Rival Queans

Performance Comment: Alexander-Quick; Clytus-Wilson; Cassander-Munden; Polyperchon-Bernard; Philip-Reeve; Meleager-Williamson; Hibernian Fortune Teller-Rock; Hephestion and Lysimachus (a la Pugilistique)-Cubitt, Marshall; Second to Lysimachus-Follett; Second to Hephestion-Milburne; The Princess Statira-Mrs Webb; Sysigambis (Mother to the Princess)-Mrs Pitt; Roxana-Mrs Martyr.
Cast
Role: The Princess Statira Actor: Mrs Webb

Dance: End: The Jockies-Ratchford, Platt, Jackson, Mrs Goodwin

Song: End II: song-Incledon; Afterpiece: The Tragedy will be interspersed with Airs, Duets, Glees, composed by Arne, Arnold, Fischer, Dibdin, with a Grand Overture(A Finale, composed by Shield), Triumphal Entry of Alexander-

182
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

183
06 July 1668 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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.

184
10 November 1677 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Sir Charles Lyttleton, 10 Nov. 1677: [The Princess of Orange] is gone to ye play to-night in these and all ye Duchesses jewells (Hatton Correspondence, Camden Society, 1878, XXII, 155). The Prince and Princess had been married on 4 Nov. 1677

Performances

185
February 1688 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

186
December 1695 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Agnes De Castro

Performance Comment: Edition of 1696: Prologue by Mr Wycherley at the Author's Request, Design'd to be spoke-; Prologue-Mr Powell; Epilogue-Mrs Verbruggen in Men's Cloaths; King-Sympson; Prince-Powell; Alvaro-Verbruggen; Lorenzo-Cibber; Diego-Hill; Pedro-Mills; Princess-Mrs Temple; Agnes de Castro-Mrs Rogers; Elvira-Mrs Knight; Bianca-Mrs Kent.
Cast
Role: Princess Actor: Mrs Temple

187
06 February 1697 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Post Boy, 2-4 Feb. 1696@7: On Monday the King visited the Princess of Denmark and invited her to Whitehall on Saturday next, it being her Royal Highnesses Birth Day, and his Majesty has been pleased to give the Right Honourable the Lord Chamberlaine Orders to have the Play called Love for Love, written by Mr Congreve, Acted there the better to Celebrate the Day. Post Boy, 6-9 Feb. 1696@7: Last Saturday being the Anniversary of her Royal Highness the Princess Ann of Denmark's birth...at night the King was pleased to Entertain her with a fine Comedy, call'd Love for Love, Written by Mr Congreve, Acted by his Majesty's servants at Whitehall, where the Court appeared very gay and splendid, suitable to the occasion. [Somewhat similar references appear also in Luttrell, A Brief Relation, IV, 180, and The Flying Post, 6-9 Feb. 1696@7.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

188
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

189
27 March 1706 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Vertue Betray'd; 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

190
03 December 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Vertue Betray'd; 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: Princess Elizabeth Actor: Miss Smith.

191
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

192
28 March 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Vertue Betray'd; 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 D'ye Call It

193
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

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

194
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-

195
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

196
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

197
26 November 1720 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 19 Nov. Prince, Princess, and the young Princesses present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Astartus

198
02 September 1723 @ Richmond

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. At Penkethman's Theatre. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Afterpiece: a diverting Droll. Box Tickets at Penkethman's House in Richmond. Daily Post, 5 Sept.: Mr Penkethman...had the Honour to divert their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, with Entertainments of Acting and Tumbling perform'd to Admiration; Likewise with his Picture of the Royal Family, down from the King of Bohemia to the young Princesses, in which is seen the Nine Muses playing on their several Instruments, in Honour of that August Family. There were present Nobility, Gentry and Ladies upwards of 200

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyramus And Thisbe

Afterpiece Title: The Blind Beggar of Bednal Green; or, The Woman Never Vex'd

Music: Concerto on small Flute-John Baston

Dance: Several surprizing Entertainments of Rope Dancing-a Young Lad lately come from France, who flourishes the Colours, plays on the Violin, and turns several Times on the Rope without a Pole; Ladder Dancing-the greatest Performer in the World, who stands on the Top Round of the Ladder, drinks a Glass of Wine, with his other Hand above his Head in the Middle of the Stage; Dancing , both Serious and Comic,-Monsieur De Long Dents, Monsieur De Long Dents'@two@children , just arrived from Paris; To which will be added, Variety of Tumbling-Mons Tollard, others, just arrived from Madrid

199
05 December 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

200
09 January 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virtue Betray'd; 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: Young Princess Elizabeth Actor: Miss Robinson Jr.