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3376 results for: Keyword - Richard Steele
We found 1991 matches on Author, 696 matches on Performance Title, 682 matches on Performance Comments, 483 matches on Event Comments, and 3 matches on Roles/Actors.

1051
15 October 1794 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Performance Comment: King Richard-Holman; King Henry-Harley; Buckingham-Farren; Stanley-Hull; Tressel-Macready; Prince Edward-Master Curties; Duke of York-Miss Standen; Catesby-Davies; Lieutenant-Claremont; Norfolk-Richardson; Ratcliffe-Thompson; Richmond-Pope; Lady Anne-Miss Chapman; Duchess of York-Mrs Platt; Queen-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: King Richard Actor: Holman
Role: Norfolk Actor: Richardson

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Cast
Role: Glumdalca Actor: Mr Richardson

1052
16 October 1795 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Performance Comment: King Richard-Holman; King Henry-Harley; Buckingham-Macready; Stanley-Hull; Tressel-Toms; Prince Edward-Master Curties; Duke of York-Miss Standen; Catesby-Claremont; Lieutenant-Haymes; Norfolk-Richardson; Ratcliffe-Thompson; Lord Mayor-Powel; Oxford-Farley; Terrel-Davenport; Blunt-Cross; Forrest-Rees; Servant-Abbot; Yeoman-Ledger; Richmond-Pope; Lady Anne-Miss Chapman; Duchess of York-Mrs Platt; Queen-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: King Richard Actor: Holman
Role: Norfolk Actor: Richardson

Afterpiece Title: The Farm House

1053
05 November 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Performance Comment: King Richard-Holman; King Henry-Murray; Buckingham-Macready; Stanley-Hull; Tressel-Toms; Prince Edward-Master Curties; Duke of York-Miss Standen; Catesby-Claremont; Lieutenant-Haymes; Ratcliffe-Thompson; Lord Mayor-Powel; Richmond-Pope; Lady Anne-Miss Chapman; Duchess of York-Mrs Platt; Queen-Mrs Fawcett.
Cast
Role: King Richard Actor: Holman

Afterpiece Title: Olympus in an Uproar; or, The Descent of the Deities

Related Works
Related Work: The Widow of Delphi; or, The Descent of the Deities Author(s): Richard Cumberland

1054
04 May 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Performance Comment: As17971002, but King Richard-Holman; King Henry-Murray; Stanley-Hull; Tressel-Toms; Ratcliffe-Thompson; Oxford-_; Norfolk-_.
Cast
Role: King Richard Actor: Holman

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Mill

1055
06 May 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Performance Comment: King Richard-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance [Lee]); King Henry-Murray; Buckingham-Clarke; Stanley-Hull; Tressel-Mansel; Prince Edward-Miss Sims; Duke of York-Miss Gilbert; Lieutenant-Waddy; Catesby-Claremont; Ratcliffe-Klanert; Lord Mayor-Thompson; Terrel-Abbot; Norfolk-Davenport; Richmond-Pope; Lady Anne-Mrs Litchfield; Duchess of York-Mrs Platt; Queen-Miss Chapman.
Cast
Role: King Richard Actor: A Young Gentleman

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Oak

1056
23 September 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Performance Comment: King Richard-Holman; King Henry-Murray; Buckingham-Betterton; Stanley-Hull; Tressel-Mansel; Prince Edward-Miss Sims; Duke of York-Miss Gilbert; Lieutenant-Waddy; Catesby-Claremont; Ratcliffe-Klanert; Lord Mayor-Thompson; Oxford-Atkins; Terrel-Abbot; Norfolk-Davenport; Richmond-Pope; Lady Anne-Mrs Litchfield; Duchess of York-Mrs Platt; Queen-Miss Chapman.
Cast
Role: King Richard Actor: Holman

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

1057
08 November 1727 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Journal, 9 Nov.: Yesterday the new Opera of King Richard I was in Rehearsal...where was a prodigious Concourse of Nobility

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard I

1058
30 March 1781 @ Crown Inn, Lower Street (now Essex Road), Islington

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Performance Comment: The Parts of King Richard, D. of Buckingham, Earl of Richmond, Tressel, Prince Edward, Duke of York, Lieutenant of the Tower, Lord Mayor, Duke of Norfolk, Queen-Performers from the Theatres Royal London; Lord Stanley-Rivers; Catesby-Jones; Ratcliffe-Farrel; Oxford-Thompson; Sir William Brandon-Clifford; King Henry-Burnet; Dutchess of York-Mrs Fowler; Lady Ann-Mrs Palmer.

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

1059
28 September 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Mrs Wilson, widow of Richard Wilson, lately of the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden and Haymarket [whose 1st appearance on the stage was at Manchester, 26 Feb. 1796]. Tickets to be had of Mrs Wilson, No. 239, Piccadilly, near the Haymarket

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Miser

Related Works
Related Work: The Miser; or, Wagner and Abericock Author(s): Richard Jones

Entertainment: Monologue Mainpiece: The Original Epilogue [by Richard Brinsley Sheridan]-Mrs Wilson

1060
05 May 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wild, prompter, and Mahon. Gazetteer, 26 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Wild, No. 20, Martlet-court, Bow-street, Covent-garden; of Mahon, No. 6, Paradise-street, Marybone. Mainpiece: With the Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylon. Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2, by-Richards]: The Music entirely new, composed by William? Bates. Receipts: #256 13s. 6d. (126.0.6; tickets: 130.13.0) (charge: #72 15s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: The Device; or, The Marriage-Office

Related Works
Related Work: The Device; or, The Marriage-Office Author(s): C. Richards

Dance: End: The Humours of New@Market with the Pony Races, as17770428

Song: End I: A Welcome to the Spring (composed by Dr Arne)-Mrs Farrell

1061
23 January 1721 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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

Dance: As17201125; Two Harlequins and Two Punches-

1062
10 April 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Steele. With proper Scenes, Habits, and Decorations. [Tickets for Mr and Mrs Dunstall taken.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Performance Comment: See17410115, but Paulina-Mrs Steele.
Cast
Role: Paulina Actor: Mrs Steele.

Afterpiece Title: The Lover's Opera

Performance Comment: Lucy-Mrs Steele.
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Steele.

Song: lso the Sheep@shearing Song, the Songs in As You Like It-Mrs Dunstall

1063
26 March 1719 @ no theater listed

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

1064
19 December 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spartan Dame

Song: As17191003

1065
03 March 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

1066
03 November 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

1067
04 April 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece written by Sir Richard Steele. Benefit Yates. Not acted in 40 years [see 8 Dec. 1703]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lying Lover; Or, The Ladies Friendship

Related Works
Related Work: The Lying Lover: or, The Ladies Friendship Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: I: Song-; II: Scotch Dialogue, as17460310 IV: Cantata-Lowe

Dance: III: Italian Peasants, as17460206

1068
16 January 1758 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A Dramatick Piece of Two Acts (taken from Sir Richard Steele's Accomplished Fools)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: Numps's Courtship; or, Love Makes the Painter

Related Works
Related Work: Nump's Courtship; or, Love Makes the Painter Author(s): Richard Steele

Dance: As17580112

1069
30 April 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. Tickets delivered for the 24th of April will be taken. Public Advertiser, 16 Apr.: Tickets [for 24 Apr.] to be had of Mrs Mattocks, No. 7, King-street, Covent Garden. Mainpiece: Written by Richard Steele. 3rd piece [1st time; ENT I, author unknown. Larpent MS 830; not published]. Receipts: #253 17s. 6d. (159.12.0; 8.9.6; tickets: 85.16.0)

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: Annette and Lubin

Afterpiece Title: Saint George's Day; or, Britons Rejoice

Song: End 3rd piece: God save the King-; with Grand Accompaniment [on the organ]-Greatorex [, as performed at the Oratorios see17890320

1070
19 March 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Afterpiece [1st time; P 3, author unknown. "Founded on the Tale of Inkle & Yarico" (Kemble Mem.), by Sir Richard Steele, in The Spectator, No. II, 13 March 1710-11. Not in Larpent MS; not published]: The Music by Gluck and Martini [i.e. Martin y Soler]. Morning Herald, 9 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Palmer, No. 3, London-road, St. George's Fields. Receipts: #452 16s. (169.17; 47.13; 2.11; tickets: 232.15) (charge: #169 5s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The American Heroine; or, Ingratitude Punished

Dance: In afterpiece: the Dances (composed by Hamoir,)-Hamoir, Bidotti, Keys, Nicolini, Walker, Whitmill, Mrs Barrett, Mrs Bourk, Mrs Brooker, Mrs Davis, Mrs Harris, Mrs Haskey, Miss Jacobs, Miss DeCamp

1071
18 December 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: "A new Tragedy, called Eloisa [and Richard Coeur de Lion, both announced on playbill of 16 Dec. were] to have been represented last night; but on account of the illness of Farren [were] obliged to be deferred, and Fontainbleau, with Hob in the Well were announced [in playbill of this present night], but on account of the sudden indisposition of Edwin...both pieces were obliged to be changed to Henry IV, with Barataria" (Public Advertiser, 19 Dec.). Receipts: #117 0s. 6d. (115.0.0; 2.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Performance Comment: See17861122, but Sir Richard Vernon-; Francis-Sir Richard Vernon and Francis not acted, respectively, by Farren, Edwin [their substitutes not known].their substitutes not known].
Cast
Role: Sir Richard Vernon Actor:
Role: Francis Actor: Sir Richard Vernon and Francis not acted, respectively, by Farren, Edwin

Afterpiece Title: Barataria

1072
30 August 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer [whose 1st recorded appearance as King Richard was at Canterbury, 8 Mar. 1780]. Morning Herald, 26 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Palmer, No. 39, Great Pultney-street, Golden-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School Of Shakespeare; Or, Humours And Passions

Performance Comment: Given in a regular representation of several of his most favourite and capital Scenes. With Scenery and Dresses suited to the Characters and their situations. The inimitable Scenes of the Poet, selected for the Purpose, and digested into Five Acts, will exemplify in the strongest colours of our immortal Bard, Cruelty, Vanity, Ambition, Rusticity, Tyranny-; [Act I. Cruelty, in The Merchant of Venice [IV. i]. Shylock-Palmer; Anthonio-Aickin; Bassanio-C. Kemble; Gratiano-R. Palmer; Portia-Mrs Kemble; [Act II. Vanity, in the First Part of Henry IV [parts of II. iv]. Sir John Falstaff-Fawcett; Prince of Wales-Palmer Jun.; Francis (for that night only)-Bannister Jun.; [Act III. Ambition, in King Henry the Eighth [parts of III. ii]. Cardinal Wolsey (1st time)-Palmer; King Henry-R. Palmer; [Act IV. Rusticity, in As You Like it [III. iii]. Touchstone-Bannister Jun.; Audrey-Mrs Harlowe; [Act V. Tyranny, in King Richard the Third [parts of I. ii; II. ii; and V]. King Richard (1st time)-Palmer; King Henry-Aickin; Richmond (1st time)-Palmer Jun.; Lady Anne-Miss Logan.
Cast
Role: King Richard Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Hodge Podge; or, A Receipt to make a Benefit

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Song: In 2nd piece: Mad Bess (in character)-Miss Leak; a Welch Song (in character)-Mrs Bland; The Waiter-Fawcett

Entertainment: In 2nd piece: Imitations-Caulfield

1073
13 May 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard III Actor: Cibber

1074
02 November 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Roberts

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

Dance: II: The Maggot by Lally Jr and Mrs Walter. III: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun

1075
26 December 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Ryan

Dance: Hornpipe by Le Brun

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

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