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Event Comment: Benefit Richard Elford. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. At 7 p.m. Tickets 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; Several new Songs-Mrs Hudson, Mr Elford accompany'd with the Lute; Also particular Performances-Mr Paisible, Mr Banister; concluding with a Song made upon St. Cecilia's Day, but never yet perform'd-

Cast
Role: never yet perform'd Actor: .
Event Comment: [By Richard Wilkinson. Premiere.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Vice Reclaim'd; Or, The Passionate Mistress

Cast
Role: Sir Feeble Goodwill Actor: Johnson
Role: Wilding Actor: Wilks
Role: Gainlove Actor: Williams
Role: Fondle Actor: Bullock
Role: Apish Actor: Bickerstaff
Role: Ralph Actor: Norris
Role: Widow Purelight Actor: Mrs Kent
Role: Lucia Actor: Mrs Temple
Role: Annabella Actor: Mrs Rogers
Role: Mrs Haughty Actor: Mrs Knight
Role: Malapert Actor: Mrs Lucas
Role: Betty Actor: Mrs Cox
Role: Mrs Rhenish Actor: Mrs Powel
Role: Prologue Actor: Wilks
Role: Epilogue Actor: Norris.
Related Works
Related Work: Vice Reclaim'd: or, The Passionate Mistress Author(s): Richard Wilkinson
Event Comment: Being obliged at the Desire of several Persons of Quality. With some Scenes Reviv'd. [In Daily Courant, 30 March, Richard III had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Song: As17050104

Dance: duRuel, Cherrier, Mrs duRuel, Mrs Bicknell

Event Comment: Benefit Leveridge. Afterpiece: [By Richard Leveridge.] A Comic Masque, compos'd in the high Style of Italy. N.B. The Books of the Masque are just printed for W. Mears...and sold by him, and at Mr Leveridge's in Tavistock-street. Receipts: #37 10s. 6d. and tickets #75 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe, Lyon, Moonshine, and Wall

Cast
Role: Peter Quince Actor: Bullock Sr
Role: Bottom Actor: Spiller
Role: Flute Actor: H. Bullock
Role: Starveling Actor: Cocker
Role: Semibreve Actor: Knap
Role: Crotchet Actor: H. Bullock
Role: Gamut Actor: Cocker
Role: Prologue Actor: Leveridge
Role: Pyramus Actor: Leveridge
Role: Wall Actor: Randal
Role: Lyon Actor: Cook
Role: Moonshine Actor: Reading
Role: Thisbe Actor: Pack
Role: Epilogue Actor: Leveridge, Pack.
Related Works
Related Work: Pyramus and Thisbe Author(s): Richard Leveridge
Related Work: The Comickal Masque of Pyramus and Thisbe Author(s): Richard Leveridge

Music: With all New Musick (for that Night) both Vocal and Instrumental Musick-

Event Comment: Steele wrote a Prologue for the opening, but the Lord Chamberlain had already engaged one by Tickell. For Steele's Prologue, see Blanchard, Occasional Verse of Richard Steele, p. 49: for Tickell's, see R. E. Tickell, pp. 231-32. Original Weekly Journal, 27 Sept.: His Majesty beheld the Performance with much Satisfaction. The young Princesses were present, and a very great Concourse of Nobility and Gentry

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: ThomasTickell Actor: .
Event Comment: See a letter from John Dennis to Sir Richard Steele for comments upon dl, Dennis' Coriolanus, All for Love, Caesar Borgia, The Masquerade in Dennis, II, 162-65

Performances

Event Comment: At Mr Penkethman's and Mr Miller's Booth, at the Horns-Inn at Pye Corner, entering into Smithfield. A Celebrated Droll, Shewing the Pomp and Grandeur she lived in King Edward the IVth's Time, and the Misery she fell into upon Richard Duke of Gloucester's being made Protector. How she was oblig'd to do Penance in a white Sheet, carrying a lighted Torch bare Foot thro' the City, and then turn'd out to Starve; as also how she wandering met with her Husband, and the Tragick End of them Both. With the comical and diverting Humours of Sir Anthony Noodle, a foolish Courtier, and his Man Weezel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Cast
Role: Sir Anthony Noodle Actor: Miller
Role: His Man Weezel Actor: Penkethman
Role: King Actor: Williams
Role: Shore Actor: Wilks Jr
Role: Captain Ayres Actor: Oates
Role: Blunderbuss Actor: Shepherd.

Song:

Dance:

Event Comment: Original Weekly Journal, 21 Nov., announces forthcoming plays: On 26 Nov. Leigh's The Pretenders and on 10 Dec. Theobald's Richard II, Alter'd and Improv'd from Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Woman's A Riddle

Cast
Role: Courtwell Actor: Ryan
Role: Manly Actor: Leigh
Role: Sir Amorous Actor: C. Bullock
Role: Vulture Actor: Bullock
Role: Butler Actor: Ogden
Role: Aspin Actor: Spiller
Role: Lady Outside Actor: Mrs Bullock
Role: Miranda Actor: Mrs Biggs
Role: Clarinda Actor: Mrs Spiller
Role: Betty Actor: Mrs Giffard
Role: Necessary Actor: Mrs Robertson.

Dance:

Event Comment: For the order silencing Cibber, see Blanchard, Correspondence of Richard Steele, p.146

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spartan Dame

Song: As17191003

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. Post Boy, 5 March: On Thursday Morning the King's Company of Comedians, belonging to the Play-House in Drury-Lane, were sworn at the Lord Chamberlain's Office in Whitehall, pursuant to an Order occasion'd by their Acting in Obedience to his Majesty's Licence, lately granted Exclusive of a Patent formerly obtained by Sir Richard Steele Kt. The Tenor of the Oath was, That as his Majesty's Servants, they should act Subservient to the Lord Chamberlain, Vice-Chamberlain, and Gentleman Usher in Waiting

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode; Or, Sir Fopling Flutter

Cast
Role: Sir Fopling Actor: Cibber
Role: Dorimant Actor: Wilks
Role: Old Bellair Actor: Penkethman
Role: Medley Actor: Mills
Role: Loveit Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Harriet Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Emilia Actor: Mrs Younger
Role: Pert Actor: Mrs Bicknell.
Event Comment: Benefit Richard Neale. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Pit and Boxes 5s. Gallery Box 4s. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. At 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; Singing-Mrs Manina; Hautboy-Keitch; Sixth Flute-John Baston

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: money #27 1s. 6d.; tickets #26 5s. 6d. [Welstead wrote a Prologue and Steele an Epilogue for this occasion, but they were not spoken. Both were printed in 1712. See also Blanchard, Correspondence of Richard Steele, pp. 51, 96.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Quin
Role: Angelo Actor: Boheme
Role: Claudio Actor: Ryan
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Seymour
Role: Escalus Actor: Diggs
Role: Lucio Actor: C. Bullock
Role: Provost Actor: Egleton
Role: Friar Thomas Actor: Orfeur
Role: Elbow Actor: Hall
Role: Clown Actor: Spiller
Role: Abhorson Actor: Morgan
Role: Barnardina Actor: H. Bullock
Role: Mariana Actor: Mrs Spiller
Role: Juliet Actor: Miss Stone
Role: Mrs Overdone Actor: Mrs Gulick.

Dance: As17201125; Two Harlequins and Two Punches-

Event Comment: Benefit Richard Neale. For the Entertainment of several Persons of Quality. Tickets 3s. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; particularly Mr Handel's Water@Musick-; Singing-Mrs Fitzgerald

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. London Journal, 20 Oct.: The Beginning of November will be acted Sir Richard Steel's new Play, which has been some Time in Rehearsal;...it is thought by some excellent Judges to be the best Comedy that ever appear'd on the English Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice; Or, It Cannot Be

Cast
Role: Sir Courtly Actor: Cibber
Role: Belguard Actor: Mills
Role: Surly Actor: Harper
Role: Hothead Actor: Miller
Role: Testimony Actor: Johnson
Role: Crack Actor: Penkethman
Role: Leonora Actor: Mrs Thurmond
Role: Violante Actor: Mrs Bicknell.

Afterpiece Title: The Escapes of Harlequin

Music: Between the Acts: Select Piece-

Event Comment: Benefit Richard Patrick and John Tomkins, Doorkeepers to the Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Cast
Role: Plume Actor: Orfeur
Role: Ballance Actor: Kemp
Role: Worthy Actor: Jones
Role: Brazen Actor: Mew
Role: Kite Actor: Banks
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Taylor
Role: Silvia Actor: Mrs Orfeur
Role: Rose Actor: Mrs Ratcliff
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Pritchett
Role: Bullock Actor: Drew.

Dance: Scaramouch-a Boy of Nine Years of Age

Event Comment: Benefit Brown, Buchanan, Richards, Sparkling. [The Prologue was printed in British Journal, 29 Feb.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Cast
Role: With a new Prologue Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: The Adventures of Half an Hour

Afterpiece Title: The Plots of Harlequin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Performance Comment: As17241113, but Pedro-Thurmond; With a new Prologue, Epilogue-Miss Robinson Jr , who acted the Part of Princess Elizabeth by Anna Bullen , and the Duke of York in Richard the Third.

Dance: End I: Polonese-Miss Robinson, Rainton; III: A new Passacaille-Miss Robinson; V: A New Comic Dance-Miss Robinson, Rainton

Music: II: 2d Concerto of Corelli-; IV: Select Piece with Hautboys and Flutes-

Event Comment: [By Richard West.] Preface: I shall offer but one Reason more...why this Tragedy did not succeed; and that is, It was not heard. A Rout of Vandals in the Galleries intimidated the young Actresses, disturb'd the Audience, and prevented all Attention

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hecuba

Cast
Role: Polymnestor Actor: Booth
Role: Agamemnon Actor: Mills
Role: Ulysses Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Talthybius Actor: Roberts
Role: Aegon Actor: W. Mills
Role: Maelaines Actor: Thurmond
Role: Hecuba Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Polyxena Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Iphis Actor: Mrs Brett
Role: Prologue Actor: Booth.
Related Works
Related Work: Hecuba Author(s): Richard West
Event Comment: Benefit Scappettini. At Sir Richard Steel's Great Room. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: At Sir Richard Steel's Great Room. 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: several Cseveral Concertos and Solos of his own Composition-Castrucci; First and Eighth Concertos of the famous Corelli-Castrucci

Event Comment: DDaily Journal, 3 Nov.: We are assured that a Patent for the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, is order'd to pass the Seals in Favour of Mr Wilks, Mr Booth, and Mr Cibber, The Patent for the said Theatre was granted to Mrs Oldfield, deceas'd, upon the Death of the late Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

Event Comment: A New English Opera. [Text by Thomas Lediard.] Set to Musick after the Italian Manner by Mr John Frederick Lampe. The Scenes and Cloaths are entirely New. With the Representation of a Transparent Theatre. Curiously Illuminated, and adorn'd with a great Number of Emblems, Mottos, Devices, and Inscriptions; and embellish'd with Machines, in a Manner entirely new. N.B. The Illuminations and other Preparations for this Opera are such, that no Person whatever can be admitted to the Stage. Pit and Boxes put together at 6s. Gallery 3s. 6 p.m. [For a discussion of Lediard and this work, see a series of articles by Ifan Kyrle Fletcher, Sybil Rosenfeld, and Richard Southern in Theatre Notebook, II (1948), 42-54.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Britannia

Cast
Role: Britannia Actor: Miss Cecilia Young
Role: Jupiter Actor: Barret
Role: Neptune Actor: Snider
Role: Mars Actor: Waltz
Role: Phoebus Actor: Mountier
Role: Honour Actor: Waltz
Role: Valour Actor: Baker
Role: Liberty Actor: Snyder
Role: Britannia Actor: Miss Cecilia Young
Role: Publick Virtue Actor: Miss Susanna Mason
Role: Peace Actor: Mrs Seedo
Role: Discord Actor: Comano
Role: Faction Actor: Mynet
Role: a note adds that later it was Phoebus Actor: Barret
Role: Neptune Actor: Mountier
Event Comment: Benefit Richard Neale. Tickets at Neale's House in Nottinghamstreet near Plumbtree-street, Bloomsbury

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Cast
Role: Honoria Actor: Miss Horsington
Role: Antonio Actor: Mullart
Role: Charino Actor: Morgan. A new Prologue proper to the Occasion
Role: Choleric Actor: Hippisley
Role: Clodio Actor: Chapman
Role: Carlos Actor: Walker
Role: Duart Actor: Ryan
Role: Manuel Actor: Hale
Role: Governor Actor: Houghton
Role: Sancho Actor: James
Role: Elvira Actor: Mrs Hallam
Role: Louisa Actor: Mrs Bullock
Role: Angelina Actor: Miss Norsa

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Music: V: Handel's Water Musick, in which a Preamble will be beat on the Kettle Drums by Ben. Baker

Dance: I: Flanderkins by Dukes and Mrs Ogden. II: Tambourine by Miss Rogers. IV: Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Miss Rogers

Song: III: As17350422

Event Comment: Benefit Richard Neale. Tickets at Neale's in Plumtree Street, Bloomsbury

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Cast
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Bellamy
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Bincks.
Role: Valentine Actor: Ryan
Role: Francisco Actor: Delane
Role: Lance Actor: Chapman
Role: Shorthose Actor: Hippisley
Role: Humphrey Actor: Mullart
Role: Roger Actor: Neale
Role: Ralph Actor: James
Role: Widow Actor: Mrs Morton.

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Lawyer

Cast
Role: Lawyer Actor: Chapman.

Dance: Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Benj. Baker

Event Comment: Benefit Richard Neale. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Cast
Role: Loveless Actor: Ryan
Role: Sir Novelty Actor: Chapman
Role: Sir William Actor: Hippisley
Role: Elder Worthy Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Young Worthy Actor: Hale
Role: Sly Actor: Mullart
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Hallam
Role: Hillaria Actor: Mrs Stevens
Role: Narcissa Actor: Mrs Bellamy
Role: Flareit Actor: Mrs Kilby
Role: Snap Actor: Penkethman.

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Cast
Role: Clara Actor: Miss Norman
Role: Shift Actor: James.
Role: Scapin Actor: Hippisley
Role: Thrifty Actor: Rosco
Role: Gripe Actor: Arthur
Role: Leander Actor: Hill
Role: Octavian Actor: A. Ryan
Role: Lucia Actor: Miss Brunette

Dance: CComic Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Scots Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

Song: Roberts

Music: Select Pieces-; Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Joseph Woodbridge