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3195 results for: Keyword - R. and J. Dodsley
We found 2551 matches on Performance Comments, 655 matches on Event Comments, 256 matches on Author, 115 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1801
14 October 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Recruiting Officer, announced on playbill of 12 Oct.] Afterpiece [1st time; P 2(?), by James Messink. Not in Larpent MS; synopsis of action in London Chronicle, 15 Oct.]: The Scenes partly new and partly compiled from Rich's Pantomimes [i.e. The Rape of Proserpine, Perseus and Andromeda, Apollo and Daphne, all three written by Lewis Theobald (Morning Chronicle, 15 Oct.)]. The new Music by Dibdin. The new Scenes painted by Carver

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: The Medley; or, Harlequin At-All

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Garland, Rayner, Delpini, Messink, Cushing, Thompson, Stevens, Ledger, Brunsdon, Wewitzer, Jones, Mahon, Baker, Painter, R.? Smith, Miss Matthews, Miss Ross, Mrs White, Sga Tinte.
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Garland, Rayner, Delpini, Messink, Cushing, Thompson, Stevens, Ledger, Brunsdon, Wewitzer, Jones, Mahon, Baker, Painter, R.? Smith, Miss Matthews, Miss Ross, Mrs White, Sga Tinte.

Dance: Afterpiece: The dances-Aldridge, Dagueville, Miss Valois. [These were danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent Performances.

1802
15 October 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; M. ENT 2, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (also attributed to Richard Tickell). Prologue by Richard Tickell (London Chronicle, 23 Oct.). Text 1st published probably by T. Lowndes, 1795]: To conclude with a perspective Representation of the Grand Camp at Cox-Heathv [near Maidstone, Kent, where a military encampment had been in existence for several months], from a View taken by DeLoutherbourg and executed under his direction. [This was included in all subsequent performances.] With a New Overture and other Music [by Thomas Linley Sen.]. New Scenery, Dresses and Decorations. Account-Book, 16 Oct.: Paid Supernumeraries & Soldiers for Camp #35 5s. 6d. Receipts: #266 0s. 6d. (258.16.0; 6.18.0; 0.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Braganza

Performance Comment: Velasquez-Smith; Almada-Aickin; Ribiro-Palmer; Mendoza-Farren; Lemos-Chaplin; Corea-Hurst; Roderic-Wright; Mello-R. Palmer; Pizarro-Davies; Ramirez-Packer; Antonio-Wrighten; Ferdinand-Griffiths; Duke of Braganza-Brereton; Ines-Mrs Johnston; Dutchess of Braganza-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Ferdinand Actor: Griffiths

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Webster, Moody, Parsons, Bannister, Baddeley, Carpenter, Wrighten, Burton, Fawcett, Dodd; Mrs Robinson, Mrs Cuyler, Miss Farren, Mrs Love, Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Booth, Miss Kirby, Mrs Wrighten, Miss Walpole. Prologue-Palmer; [This was spoken, as here assigned, at the first 46 performances, except on 9, 10, 17, 18 Nov. (see17790209).] [Cast from Morning Chronicle, 16 Oct.: Corporal [later called William]-Webster; O'Daub-Moody; Gage-Parsons; Serjeant-Bannister; Mons Bluard-Baddeley; Recruits-Carpenter, Fawcett, Holcroft, Chaplin; Countrymen-Wrighten, Burton, Waldron; Sir Charles Plume [later called Sir Harry Bouquet]-Dodd; Commander@in@Chief at the Camp-Farren; Officers of Regiments-R. Palmer, Lamash, Kenny; Lady Plume-Mrs Robinson; Lady Gorget-Mrs Cuyler; Lady Sash-Miss Farren; Countrywomen-Mrs Love, Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Booth, Miss Kirby; Nell-Mrs Wrighten; Nancy-Miss Walpole.
Cast
Role: Commander@in@Chief at the Camp Actor: Farren

1803
16 October 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Romeo and Juliet, announced on playbill of 15 Oct.] The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15 [see 7 May 1779]. Receipts: #224 7s. 6d. (190.17.0; 33.2.6; 0.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Cast
Role: Commander@in@Chief at the Camp Actor: Farren

1804
16 October 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Performance Comment: King Henry-Clarke; Buckingham-Wroughton; Crammer-Hull; Lord Chamberlain-Lee Lewes; Cromwell-Farren; Gardiner-Wilson; Lord Sands-Quick; Norfolk-Peile; Suffolk-Booth; Abergavenny-R.? Smith; Cardinal Wolsey-Digges; Anne Bullen-Mrs Morton; Patience (with a song)-Mrs Farrell; Queen Catherine-Miss Younge (of dl).
Cast
Role: Lord Sands Actor: Quick

Afterpiece Title: The Medley

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Garland, Rayner, Delpini, Messink, Cushing, Thompson, Stevens, Ledger, Brunsdon, Wewitzer, Jones, Mahon, Baker, Painter, R.? Smith, Miss Matthews, Miss Ross, Mrs White, Sga Tinte.

Dance: I: The Banquet, with Dancing-Dagueville, Sga Tinte

1805
26 October 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Cast
Role: Commander@in@Chief at the Camp Actor: Farren

1806
28 October 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Cast
Role: Commander@in@Chief at the Camp Actor: Farren

1807
08 December 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fathers

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

1808
10 December 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Mrs Candour Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Cast
Role: Commander@in@Chief at the Camp Actor: Farren

Song: As17781029

1809
11 December 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End I afterpiece: As17780919; End IV: new dance, The Coopers-Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Henry, Miss Armstrong, Sga Crespi

1810
21 December 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Performance Comment: Loveless-Smith; Young Fashion-Palmer; Sir Tunbelly Clumsey-Moody; Col. Townly-Brereton; Probe-Parsons; Lory-Baddeley; Lord Foppington-Dodd; Berinthia-Miss Farren (1st appearance in that character); Amanda-Mrs Robinson; Nurse-Mrs Bradshaw; Mrs Coupler-Mrs Booth; Miss Hoyden-Mrs Abington; Edition of 1781 (G. Wilkie) adds: La Varole-Burton; Shoemaker-Carpenter; Hosier-Norris; Jeweller-Lamash.
Cast
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Robinson

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

1811
26 December 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With the Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylonv

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Performance Comment: Alexander-Wroughton; Clytus-Clarke; Lysimachus-Whitfield; Hephestion-Robson; Cassander-Fearon; Polyperchon-Booth; Aristander-L'Estrange; Perdiccas-Thompson; Thessalus-R.? Smith; Eumenes-Egan; Roxana-Mrs Jackson; Sysigambis-Mrs Poussin; Parisatis-Mrs Morton; Statira-Mrs Hartley.
Cast
Role: Alexander Actor: Wroughton
Role: Cassander Actor: Fearon
Role: Aristander Actor: L'Estrange

Afterpiece Title: The Invasion

1812
08 January 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; P 2, attributed to Richard Brinsley Sheridan (see G. W. Williams in Studies in Philology, XLVII, 1950, 619-28). Synopsis of action (W. Randall, 1779) lists no parts]: The Overture and Music entirely new. With new Scenes, Machines, Dresses and Decorations. All the Scenery, Machinery, &c. designed by DeLoutherbourg and executed under his direction. Nothing under Full Price will be taken. [For a discussion of this pantomime see Theatre Survey, II, 54-66.] Public Advertiser, 24 Feb. 1779: This Day is published an Account of The Wonders of Derbyshire and the Songs (6d.). Receipts: #225 19s. (223.18.0; 2.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Wonders of Derbyshire; or, Harlequin in the Peak

1813
13 January 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Last Stake

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: Landlord Actor:

1814
01 February 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Cast
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Bradshaw

Afterpiece Title: The Wonders of Derbyshire

1815
09 February 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Law Of Lombardy

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Performance Comment: As17781029, but Prologue-_[and thereafter].and thereafter].
Cast
Role: Commander@in@Chief at the Camp Actor: Farren

1816
20 February 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Law Of Lombardy

Afterpiece Title: Jehu

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Farren, Lamash, R. Palmer, Miss Sherry, Miss Farren; Town and Country Magazine, Feb. 1779, p. 62, assigns Lord Jehu-King; Larpent MS 467 lists this part, as well as the other parts: Whiffle, Fenton, Groom, Mrs Gules, Lucy. Prologue , not listed on playbill, printed in Public Advertiser, 24 Feb., written by the author, and spoken by-King.
Cast
Role: and spoken by Actor: King.

1817
13 March 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamesters

Afterpiece Title: A Monody

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Related Works
Related Work: The King and the Miller of Mansfield Author(s): Robert Dodsley

Song: II: a song-Gaudry

1818
22 March 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

1819
11 May 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wright and Butler, carpenter. Afterpiece: To conclude with the Scene of the Waterfallv, as it was originally performed. Public Advertiser, 5 May: Tickets to be had of Wright, No. 24, Bennet-street, Westminster; of Butler, next door to the Theatre. Receipts: #267 9s. 6d. (37.11.0; 13.8.6; 0.4.0; tickets: 216.6.0) (charge: #74 14s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Dance: End II: Hornpipe-Wright

Song: As17790503

1820
17 May 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett and Sga Crespi. Morning Chronicle, 12 May: Tickets to be had of Fawcett, Craven Buildings, Drury-Lane; of Sga Crespi, No. 26, Poland-street, Oxford-street. Receipts: #194 3s. 6d. (32.8.0; 14.5.6; 0.10.0; tickets: 147.0.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End I: Grand Dance, Chaconne (composed by Zuchelli)-Henry, Miss Armstrong, Sga Crespi; and a Minuet-Zuchelli, Sga Crespi; End I afterpiece: As17780919

1821
01 June 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Percey, Shade & Cameron. Tickets delivered by Lewis, Hodges, Gardner, and for Monday, the 31st of May, will be taken. MS annotation on Kemble playbill: "I believe this was the last time of Mr Henderson's acting at Drury Lane, except when he played Jaques in As You Like It for Mrs Robinson's Benefit, April 7, 1780. See October 18, 1779, Covent Garden Bills." Receipts: #301 6s. 6d. (19.14.0; 2.14.6; 0.14.0; tickets: 278.4.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Second Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Cast
Role: Westmoreland Actor: Farren

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Dance: End IV: As17780919

1822
04 June 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bonduca

Afterpiece Title: The Tailors; A Tragedy for Warm Weather

Dance: As17790531

1823
05 July 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Related Works
Related Work: Summer Amusement; or, An Adventure at Margate Author(s): Miles Peter Andrews

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Dance: WithTwo New Dances-Master and Miss Byrn. [These were danced, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.

1824
15 July 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: As17790531

1825
20 July 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Related Works
Related Work: Summer Amusement; or, An Adventure at Margate Author(s): Miles Peter Andrews

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton