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3571 results for: Keyword - Richard Ford
We found 2033 matches on Author, 818 matches on Performance Comments, 706 matches on Performance Title, 492 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2501
09 January 1747 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: Ford-Furnival; Page-Wignell; Shallow-Dove; Slender-Cushing; Falstaff-Paget; Host-W. Hallam; Fenton-Lee; Evans-L. Hallam; Pistol-Brett; Robin-Master Morgan; Simple-Miles; Rugby-Baker; Ann Page-Mrs Moreau; Mrs Quickly-Mrs Bambridge; Dr Caius-Shuter; Mrs Page-Mrs Hallam; Bardolph-Hallam Sen (Daily Advertiser: G. Hallam); Mrs Ford-Mrs Cushing.
Cast
Role: Ford Actor: Furnival
Role: Mrs Ford Actor: Mrs Cushing.

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

2502
10 May 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benfit for Master Moor, Berrisford, Palmer, Broad (Cross). Mainpiece: Not acted this season. Receipts: #260 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: Ford-Havard; Mistress Page-Mrs Cowper; Sir Hugh-Yates; Falstaff-Berry; Slender-H. Vaughan; Shallow-Taswell; Dr Caius-Blakes; Page-Burton; Fenton-Scrape; Host-W. Vaughan; Robin-Mas. Simson; Ann Page-Miss Minors; Mrs Quickly-Mrs Macklin; Mrs Ford-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Ford Actor: Havard
Role: Mrs Ford Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Harrison

2503
04 October 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: Ford-Powell, 1st time; Slender-Woodward; Sir High-Yates; Shallow-Lewis; Host-Dunstall; Pistol-Cushing; Bardolph-Wignell; Page-Hull; Falstaff-Shuter; Doctor Caius-Quick; Fenton-Lewes; Simple-Morgan; Nym-Stoplaer; Robin-Mas. Harris; Mrs Page-Mrs Baker; Ann Page-Miss Ward; Mrs Ford-Mrs Bulkley.
Cast
Role: Ford Actor: Powell, 1st time
Role: Mrs Ford Actor: Mrs Bulkley.

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: End: The Tartars-Fishar, Sga Manesiere. [See17680505.

2504
16 December 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: Ford-Aickin, first time; Slender-Cautherly, first time; Fenton-Wheeler; Simple-W. Palmer; Bardolph-Clough; Falstaff-Love; Sir Hugh Evans-Parsons; Justice Shallow-Hartry; Dr Caius-Baddeley; Page-Packer; Host-Bransby; Pistol-Ackman; Mrs Ford-Mrs Abington, first time; Mrs Page-Mrs Stephens; Anne Page-Miss Platt; Robin-Miss Collett; Mrs Quickly-Mrs Bradshaw.
Cast
Role: Ford Actor: Aickin, first time
Role: Mrs Ford Actor: Mrs Abington, first time

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Cast
Role: Richard III Actor: Holland

2505
27 May 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: Ford-Davies, first time; Simple-Jacobs; Pistol-Booth; Bardolph-Kear; Nym-Watkins; Mistress Page-Mrs Jeffries; Anne Page-Mrs Hayward; Falstaff-Love; Sir Hugh-Parsons; Justice Shallow-Hartry; Doctor Caius-Baddeley; Robin-Mrs Collett; Fenton-Wheeler; Mistress Ford-Mrs Abington; Page-Packer; Host-Bransby; Slender-Cautherly; Mrs Quickly-Mrs Bradshaw.
Cast
Role: Ford Actor: Davies, first time
Role: Mistress Ford Actor: Mrs Abington

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Dance: II: The Allemande-Miss Ross, Miss Armstrong

Song: End of Play: A Song-Kear

2506
15 January 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: Ford-Aickin; Slender-Dodd; Simple-W. Palmer; Dr Caius-Baddeley; Pistol-Ackman; Bardolph-Wright; Mistress Page-Miss Ambrose; Anne Page-Miss Platt; Falstaff-Love; Sir Hugh Evans-Parsons; Justice Shallow-Hartry; Page-Packer; Host-Bransby; Fenton-Wheeler; Nym-Watkins; Mistress Quickly-Mrs Bradshaw; Mistress Ford-Mrs Abington.
Cast
Role: Ford Actor: Aickin
Role: Mistress Ford Actor: Mrs Abington.

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

2507
15 October 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: Ford-Giffard; Falstaff-Paget; Sir Hugh-Yates.
Cast
Role: Ford Actor: Giffard

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment with The Triumphs of Love

2508
21 September 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: K

Performance Comment: Richard III. King Richard-Henderson; King Henry-Clarke; Richmond-Wroughton; Buckingham-Hull; Stanley-Fearon; Tressel-Farren; Prince Edward-Master Farley; Duke of York-Master Simmons; Norfolk-Booth; Lieutenant-Cubitt; Catesby-Davies; Ratcliffe-Thompson; Lord Mayor-Gardner; Oxford-Helme; Lady Anne-Miss Ranoe; Duchess of York-Miss Platt; Queen-Mrs Bates .
Cast
Role: . King Richard Actor: Henderson
Role: Oxford Actor: Helme

Afterpiece Title: Rosin a

2509
08 August 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: K

Performance Comment: Richard III. As17770807.
Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Henderson
Role: Oxford Actor: Stevens

Afterpiece Title: The Recruiting Serjeant

2510
11 August 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: K

Performance Comment: Richard III. As17770807.
Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Henderson
Role: Oxford Actor: Stevens

Afterpiece Title: The Portrait

2511
12 January 1669 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Richard ye Third. Coriolanus. Andronicus. Julius Ceaser. The Moore of Venice [Othello]. Anthony & Clopatra. Cymbelyne. The Doubtfull Heire [Rosania; or, Love's Victory, by James Shirley]. The Impostor. The Brothers. The Sisters. The Cardinall. The Duke of Lerma. The Duke of Millan. Alphonso. The vnnaturall Cumbat. The Gardian. Aglaura. Arviragus & Philitia 1st pt. Arviragus & Philitia 2d pt. The Spartan Ladyes. The Bashfull Lover. Bussy D'Amboys. Brenoralt [or, The Discountented Colonel]. Country Captaine. The Variety. The Emperour of ye East. The Deserveing ffavorett. The Goblins. The ffatall Dowry. The Lost Lady. The Devell of Edmonton. More Desemblers then Weomen. The Mayor of Quinborough. The Northen Lasse. The Novella. Osmond ye Great Turke [or, The Noble Servant]. The Roman Actor. The Widdow. The Widdows Teares

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comment Continued

2512
August 1681 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: Richard Shore paid #5 for space at Bartholomew Fair. See Rosenfeld, Theatre of the London Fairs, p. 6

Performances

2513
08 August 1691 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: Richard Lapthorne, 8 Aug. 1691: Bartholomew faire by order of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen is to bee kept but for 3 days this yeare because its a season of great debauchery and therefore they think a fortnight to bee too long a space and it seemes according to the originall Institution it was to continue no longer then three dayes (R. J. Kerr and I. C. Duncan, The Portledge Papers [London, 1928], p. 118.

Performances

2514
02 April 1696 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Richard Pope to Thomas Coke, 2 April 1696:...play-house, where there has been two or three intolerable plays acted that had nothing to recommend them but their newness (HMC, 12th Report, Cowper MSS., Voluee II [London, 1888], p. 360)

Performances

2515
25 January 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Richard Coeur de Lion [announced on playbill of 24 Jan.] isis deferred, on Account of the Indisposition of a principal Performer. Receipts: #225 9s. 6d. (177.11.0; 46.13.0; 1.5.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Cast
Role: Clifford Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Cast
Role: Monford Actor: Whitfield

2516
25 March 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Richard Coeur de Lion [advertised on playbill of 24 Mar.] is obliged to be deferred, on Account of the Indisposition of a principal Performer. Receipts: #80 10s. (65.17.0; 13.7.6; 1.5.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Cast
Role: Fairy Actor: Miss Cranford

2517
21 March 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

Cast
Role: Fairies Actor: Miss Rogers, Miss Ford, Mas. Cape, Mas. Raworth, Miss Wright
Role: To Conclude with a Fairy Dance Actor: Miss Rogers, Miss Ford, others.

Dance: I: A New Dance call'd The Irish Milkmaids-Miss Ford; End: The Medley, as17641120

2518
09 December 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: End: The Milk Maids-Miss Ford

2519
05 May 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part 2

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Cast
Role: Major Belford Actor: Packer

Dance: II: Irish Milkmaids-Miss Ford; III: A New Comic Dance call'd the Venetian Travellers-Sg Giorgi, Sga Giorgi, Miss Collet; End: By Particular Desire, a Minuet-Noverre, Miss Rogers his scholar

2520
25 January 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Miss Ford, 1st time; IV: The Merry Sailors, as17671009; V: A New Comic Dance, as17671021

2521
28 January 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Miss Ford, 2nd time ; IV: The Irish Lilt, as17670921

2522
25 February 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Dance: End: a Hornpipe-Miss Ford, for 3rd time

2523
15 April 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Miss Ford

2524
23 November 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: Oxonian in Town

Dance: II: The Provenzales-Mrs Burton, Miss Besford, Miss Ford. [See17680301]

2525
09 September 1661 @ Salisbury Court

Performances

Mainpiece Title: tis A Pity Shes A Whore