Toggle Sphinx Query
SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Richard Duke of Gloucester"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Richard Duke of Gloucester")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

Result Options

Download:
JSON XML CSV

Search Filters

Event

Date Range
Start
End

Performance

?
Filter by Performance Type










Cast

?
+
+

Keyword

?
New Search
5856 results for: Keyword - Richard Duke of Gloucester
We found 2389 matches on Author, 1707 matches on Performance Comments, 1495 matches on Event Comments, 1026 matches on Performance Title, and 1 matches on Roles/Actors.

126
23 April 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By Richard Steele. In Daily Courant, 21 March, the title had been given as The City Nymphs; or, The Accomplished Fools.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband; Or, The Accomplish'd Fools

Related Works
Related Work: The Tender Husband; or, The Accomplish'd Fools Author(s): Richard Steele

127
12 February 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [by Richard Estcourt]: Mr Bayes's Practice of an Interlude, call'd, Prunella, done from the Italian. Benefit Estcourt. And at the Request of many of the Nobility (who have taken Tickets) 2 Benches of the Pit will be Rail'd in, for more Conveniency. And to prevent any Disappointment, by coming late, 'tis desire'd that their Servants may be sent by 2 a Clock with the Tickets to keep Places

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Afterpiece Title: Prunella

Related Works
Related Work: Prunella Author(s): Richard Estcourt

128
31 October 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband; Or, The Accomplished Fools

Related Works
Related Work: The Tender Husband; or, The Accomplish'd Fools Author(s): Richard Steele
Related Work: Nump's Courtship; or, Love Makes the Painter Author(s): Richard Steele
Related Work: Accomplished Fools Author(s): Richard Steele

Song: As17151028

Dance: Wade, Prince

129
12 January 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By John Hughes.] A New Musical Masque, perform'd all in English. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Related Works
Related Work: The Tender Husband; or, The Accomplish'd Fools Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, Harlequin Mercury Author(s): Richard Jones

Dance: As17151122

130
10 February 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Related Works
Related Work: The Tender Husband; or, The Accomplish'd Fools Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler of Preston

Dance: As17151029

131
17 June 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Richard Savage.] Never Acted before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Vail

Related Works
Related Work: Love in a Veil Author(s): Richard Savage

132
31 May 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Ray. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Related Works
Related Work: The Tender Husband; or, The Accomplish'd Fools Author(s): Richard Steele

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Lally, Miss Smith, Miss Tenoe

133
17 October 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Sir Richard Steele, Knight

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband; Or, The Accomplish'd Fools

Related Works
Related Work: The Tender Husband; or, The Accomplish'd Fools Author(s): Richard Steele

Dance:

134
18 October 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Sir Richard Steel, Knight

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A La Mode

Related Works
Related Work: The Funeral, or, Grief a la Mode Author(s): Richard Steele

Dance: Mrs Booth, Shaw, Denoyer, Mrs Younger

135
17 November 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Sir Richard Brome

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Northern Lass; Or, The Nest Of Fools

Related Works
Related Work: The Northern Lass Author(s): Richard Brome

Dance:

136
20 December 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Related Works
Related Work: The Funeral, or, Grief a la Mode Author(s): Richard Steele

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Denoye, Miss Tenoe, Mrs Booth, Mrs Younger

137
08 January 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Sir Richard Steele. Letter of complaint in Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 20 Jan.: That filthy Brute, Mr Penkethman, who by his Part, was obliged to dance, [took] in the Galleries with an idle Jest, by pretending that his Activity had shuffled down his Breeches. In short, Mr Mist, this Indecorum fill'd me with such gross Ideas, that the Thoughts of them hinder'd me from sleeping all that Night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Related Works
Related Work: The Tender Husband; or, The Accomplish'd Fools Author(s): Richard Steele

Dance: Shaw, Denoye, Mrs Booth, Mrs Younger; Hussars-

138
16 April 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Horton. Written by Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A La Mode

Related Works
Related Work: The Funeral, or, Grief a la Mode Author(s): Richard Steele

Dance:

139
22 October 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A La Mode

Related Works
Related Work: The Funeral, or, Grief a la Mode Author(s): Richard Steele

Dance:

140
25 October 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband; Or, The Accomplish'd Fools

Related Works
Related Work: The Tender Husband; or, The Accomplish'd Fools Author(s): Richard Steele

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Booth; especially The Hussar-

141
07 November 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Sir Richard Steele.] With new Scenes, and all the Characters new drest. Daily Journal, 8 Nov.: Where a greater Concourse of People was never known to be assembled. [See also Cibber, Apology, II, 206; Dennis, Remarks on a Play call'd The Conscious Lovers; and British Journal, 10 Nov. and 8 Dec.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Related Works
Related Work: The Conscious Lovers Author(s): Richard Steele

142
17 December 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Related Works
Related Work: The Funeral, or, Grief a la Mode Author(s): Richard Steele

Dance:

143
26 March 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Related Works
Related Work: The Tender Husband; or, The Accomplish'd Fools Author(s): Richard Steele

Dance: As17221012

144
12 June 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Richard Savage.] Edition of 1724: I think it my Duty also, to return Thanks to the Town, for their favourable Reception of this Play; and for the Applause their Indulgence bestow'd on the Performance of the Young Actors: Particularly for my own Success, in a double Capacity, as Actor and Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Thomas Overbury

Related Works
Related Work: Sir Thomas Overbury Author(s): Richard Savage

145
03 April 1728 @ Mrs Defenne's School

Event Comment: Wrote by Sir Richard Steele...acted by the young Ladies educated at Mrs Defenne's@French@Boarding-School, at Wansworth in Surrey, with such Vivacity, Exactness, ad Justice, as charmed the Audience

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Related Works
Related Work: The Conscious Lovers Author(s): Richard Steele

146
07 December 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By Richard Barford.] Never Acted before. Receipts: #67 10s. Probable attendance: boxes, 90 paid and 14 orders; pit, 243 paid and 10 orders; slips, 12 paid and 5 orders; first gallery, 158 paid and 10 orders; second gallery, 96 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Virgin Queen; Or, The Captive Princess

Related Works
Related Work: The Virgin Queen; or, The Captive Princess Author(s): Richard Barford

147
10 November 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by the late Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Related Works
Related Work: The Conscious Lovers Author(s): Richard Steele

148
17 April 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Miller. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Related Works
Related Work: The Funeral, or, Grief a la Mode Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

149
25 November 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir Richard Steele. Afterpiece: [By Theophilus Cibber.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A La Mode

Related Works
Related Work: The Funeral, or, Grief a la Mode Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: Patie and Peggy; or, The Fair Foundling

150
12 May 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Buchanan. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the late Sir Richard Steele. Receipts: money #24 6s. 6d,; tickets #104 18s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Related Works
Related Work: The Conscious Lovers Author(s): Richard Steele

Music: Solo on Violin-Eversman

Song: Dialogue of Ballad Tunes-Leveridge, Mrs Wright

Dance: PPeasant-Nivelon; Fingalian-Newhouse, Ogden; Highlander and His Mistress-Salle, Mrs Laguerre