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3413 results for: Keyword - Richard Steele
We found 2031 matches on Author, 696 matches on Performance Title, 682 matches on Performance Comments, 483 matches on Event Comments, and 3 matches on Roles/Actors.

3201
30 October 1699 @ The City, London

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

Performance Comment: For the Inauguration of the Right Honourable Sir Richard Levett, Kt. Lord Mayor of the City of London. Containing a Description of the Pageants, together with the Publick Speaches, and the whole Solemnity of the Day. Perform'd on Monday the 30th day of October, Anno 1699. All set forth at the proper cost and charges of the Honourable Company of Haberdashers. [By Elkanah Settle.]

3202
19 March 1703 @ York Buildings

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-

3203
31 March 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

3204
11 April 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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

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

3205
24 August 1719 @ Bartholomew Fair

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

Song:

Dance:

3206
21 November 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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: Womans A Riddle

Dance:

3207
23 December 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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

3208
09 February 1722 @ Stationer's Hall

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

3209
20 October 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Afterpiece Title: The Escapes of Harlequin

Music: Between the Acts: Select Piece-

3210
15 April 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: Scaramouch-a Boy of Nine Years of Age

3211
20 February 1724 @ Haymarket Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Afterpiece Title: The Adventures of Half an Hour

Afterpiece Title: The Plots of Harlequin

3212
10 May 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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.
Cast
Role: Epilogue Actor: 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-

3213
02 February 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Related Works
Related Work: Hecuba Author(s): Richard West

3214
08 March 1728 @ York Buildings

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

3215
10 April 1728 @ York Buildings

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

3216
16 November 1732 @ Haymarket Theatre

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

3217
12 May 1735 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Richard Neale. Tickets at Neale's House in Nottinghamstreet near Plumbtree-street, Bloomsbury

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

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

3218
10 May 1737 @ Covent Garden

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Lawyer

Dance: Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Benj. Baker

3219
11 December 1738 @ Covent Garden

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

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

Song: Roberts

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

3220
31 January 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: As 10 Dec. 1740. [For a discussion of recent Shakespearean performances, see Thomas Edwards to Richard Owen Cambridge, 31 January 1740@41 in Bodleian MS. 1009, pp. 140-41.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Dance: LLes Masons & Les Sabotiers-Fausan, Signora Fausan; Les Matelotes-Fausan, Signora Fausan

3221
05 February 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Willaim Richards, Teacher of the Mathematics

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: The Gentlewoman who performed Polly [probably Miss Medina]

Dance: HHornpipe-Yates

3222
06 November 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: Chamont-the Gentleman who performed King Richard (Garrick); Castalio-W. Giffard; Polydore-Giffard; Acasto-Paget; Chaplain-Vaughan; Ernesto-Julian; Serina-Miss Hippisley; Florella-Mrs Yates; Monimia-Mrs Giffard.
Cast
Role: Chamont Actor: the Gentleman who performed King Richard

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

3223
30 November 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Richard Neale

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: LLe Matelot-Master Mathews; Scotch Dance-Master Mathews; scholar to Davenport

Music: Between the acts: Select Pieces-; Handel's Water Music-; with a preamble on the Kettle Drums-Woodbridge

3224
02 December 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Garrick, who perform'd King Richard. Pit and Boxes 4s. Gallery 1s. 6d. Tickets to be had at Garrick's Lodgings in Mansfield Street, Goodman's Fields, Bedford's, Tom's, Carey's, and Fleece Tavern. The Stage will be built after the Manner of an Amphitheatre, where Servants will be allow'd to keep Places, and likewise in the First Boxes, but not in the Pit, who are desire'd to be at the House by Three o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Cast
Role: Mrs Trippit Actor: Mrs Steele

3225
04 December 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The play of Richard III is by desire deferr'd till Monday

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Dance: LLes Boufons du Cour, as17421120; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Les Jardiniers Suedois, as17421120