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4447 results for: Keyword - Richard Wilson
We found 2071 matches on Author, 1813 matches on Performance Comments, 723 matches on Performance Title, 636 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

526
02 September 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Farren. Mainpiece: With Permission of the Author [Richard Brinsley Sheridan]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Gretna Green

Performance Comment: As17850802, but Wilson in place of Booth .

527
21 June 1731 @ Windmill Hill

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Wilson. At the particular Desire of several Gentlemen and Ladies. At the New Theatre on Wind-mill Hill. Pit and Boxes laid together by Desire at 2s. each

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Performance Comment: Calista-Mrs Wilson; Lothario-a young Gentleman of Exchange Alley for his Diversion.
Cast
Role: Calista Actor: Mrs Wilson

528
25 April 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Brown. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Midas [announced on playbill ff 24 Apr.] cannot be performed on account of Wilson's sudden illness. Tickets delivered for Love Finds the Way will be admitted, that Opera being unavoidably postponed on account of Mrs Farrell's Indisposition. Public Advertiser, 3 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Brown, No. 10, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #150 18s. 6d. (89.17.6; tickets: 61.1.0) (charge: #67 7s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Performance Comment: Don Felix-Wroughton; Col. Briton-Whitfield; Lissardo-Lee Lewes (their 1st appearance in those characters); Don Lopez-Dunstall; Don Pedro-Quick; Frederick-Booth; Gibby (1st time)-Fearon; Isabella-Miss Leeson; Flora-Mrs Pitt; Inis (1st time)-Mrs Wilson; Violante-Mrs Mattocks (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Inis Actor: Mrs Wilson

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17780424

529
19 May 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Prosser, Simpkinson, Jackson, J. Wilson, Smith, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Hamilton, Miss Willis, the Widow Wise, the Widow of the late Dr Arne will be admitted this Evening. Receipts: #169 (50.14.6; 5.2.6; tickets: 113.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performance Comment: As17801006, but Strickland-Thompson; Buckle-J. Wilson; Jacintha-Mrs Lewis; Simon-_.
Cast
Role: Buckle Actor: J. Wilson

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

Cast
Role: They say there is an echo here Actor: Davies, Robson, J. Wilson, Doyle
Role: Clodpole Actor: Wilson
Role: Damaris Actor: Mrs Wilson

Dance: End II: The Rakes of Mallow, as17810501; End IV: Hornpipe-Prosser

Ballet: End: St. David's Day. As17810501

530
02 October 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Diana to Mrs Martyr, but "News of Mrs Martyr's husband's death having reached her the day before, an apology was made for her not playing Diana; Miss Wheeler, however, from the other house proved a very agreeable substitute" (.European Magazine, Oct. 1783, p. 310). In afterpiece the playbill assigns Lucy to Mrs Wilson, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Mrs Davenett.] Receipts: #134 19s. 6d. (133/9/0; 1/10/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Performance Comment: Lionel-Johnstone (from the Theatre Royal, Dublin; 1st appearance in this Kingdom); Col. Oldboy-Wilson; Sir John Flowerdale-Hull; Jenkins-Bannister; Harman-Davies; Jessamy-Sga Sestini (1st appearance in that character); Diana-Miss Wheeler (of DL); Jenny-Mrs Chalmers; Lady Mary Oldboy-Mrs Webb; Clarissa-Mrs Bannister .
Cast
Role: Oldboy Actor: Wilson

Afterpiece Title: Retaliation

531
04 May 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wilson. Public Advertiser, 30 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Wilson, No. 20, Tavistock-street, Covent Garden. 3rd piece [1st time; F 1, author unknown. MS: Larpent 656; not published. Author of Prologue unknown]. Receipts: #177 4s. 6d. (113/15/6; tickets: 63/9/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rose And Colin

Afterpiece Title: The Merry Wives of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Bribery on both Sides

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Quick, Edwin, Whitfield, Thompson, Fearon; Mrs Bates, Mrs Wilson. [Larpent MS lists the parts: Worthly, Sir Venal Pelf, Brisk;-Edwin (so Morning Chronicle, 6 May, which assigns no other parts), Spigot, Sly, Waiter; Julia, Patty.] New Prologue spoken by Kemble . Julia, Patty.] New Prologue spoken by Kemble .

Dance: End of mainpiece The Poney Races (performers not listed; see17840428)

532
21 May 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Chaplin, Wilson, Walker & Mrs Booth. Receipts: #176 6s. (19/2/0; 6/12/6; 0/14/6; tickets: 149/17/0) (charge: #106 16s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Performance Comment: scene I. Hornpipe, as17840517; Poor ThomasDay by Chapman, Wilson, Barry more, scene III. Thou hast gone awa' from me Mary by Miss Phillips. scene III. As scene III, 26 Apr., but added: Wilson. scene IV. An Italian Air, as17840412 To conclude with a Dance [probably The Sportsmen's Return] by Mr and Miss Hamoir .
Related Works
Related Work: The Village Fete Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

533
01 May 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wilson. Afterpiece: Not acted these 8 years. Receipts: #170 1s. (31.15; 14.16; 0.14; tickets: 122.16) (charge: #109 18s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winters Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Performance Comment: Major Sturgeon (for that night only)-A Gentleman [unidentified]; Sir Jacob-Waldron; Bruin-Phillimore; Lint-Hollingsworth; Heeltap-Burton; Jerry Sneak-Dodd; Mrs Sneak-Mrs Wilson.
Cast
Role: Mrs Sneak Actor: Mrs Wilson.

Entertainment: Monologue. End afterpiece: An Ode on Shakespeare [written by Garrick, and performed by him at the Stratford Jubilee [on 7 Sept. 1769], recited-Kemble; Music [by Dr Arne-; Vocal Parts-Kelly, Dignum, Williames, Danby, Miss Romanzini, Mrs Crouch

534
22 May 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett and Wilson. Receipts: #179 7s. (17.15; 6.17; 0.19; tickets: 153.16) (charge: #107 1s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Performance Comment: Brass-King; Gripe-Moody; Money@Trap-Suett; Clip-Wilson; Jessamy-Burton; Dick-Palmer; Flippanta-Miss Pope; Corinna-Miss Barnes; Araminta-Mrs Ward; Mrs Amlet-Mrs Hopkins; Mrs Clogget-Mrs Love; Clarissa-Miss Farren.
Cast
Role: Clip Actor: Wilson

Afterpiece Title: The Stone Eater

Cast
Role: Barbarino Actor: Wilson

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke

Cast
Role: Barbarino Actor: Wilson

535
20 March 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Mrs Ward, but "An apology was made for Mrs Wilson's reading the part of Angelica, vice Mrs Ward, who was suddenly taken ill" (Diary, 22 Mar.). Afterpiece in place of The Pannel, advertised on playbill of 18 Mar.] Receipts: #234 3s. 6d. (188.12.0; 44.1.6. 1.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In Many Masks

Performance Comment: As17900308but Angelica-read by Mrs Wilson.
Cast
Role: 900308but Angelica Actor: read by Mrs Wilson.

Afterpiece Title: The Adventurers

536
06 May 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Martyr. 3rd piece [1st time: F 2, by Edmund John Eyre. Text (Shrewsbury: P. Sandford, 1791) correctly assigns Prolix to Wilson. Prologue by John Wolcot (see text)]. Morning Chronicle, 29 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Martyr, No. 16, Martlett-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #318 4s. (153.3; 2.5; tickets: 162.16)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Malabar

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performance Comment: The Principal Characters (positively for that night only) will be revers'd. Apollo-Mrs Martyr; Sileno-Davies; Damaetus-Rock; Pan-Cubitt; Jupiter-Williamson; Midas-Wilson; Daphne-Mr Munden; Mysis-Mr Johnstone; Nysa-Mr Blanchard.
Cast
Role: Midas Actor: Wilson

Afterpiece Title: The Dreamer Awake or The Pugilist Matched

Performance Comment: Prolix-Bernard [recte Wilson]; Sir David Drowsy-Munden; Bob Sparwell-Bernard; Lexicon-Marshall; Ormond-Macready; John-Rock; Standfast-Blanchard; Lady Drowsy-Mrs Webb; Jenny-Miss Stuart; Emma-Miss Chapman; New Prologue-Bernard (see text).

Song: End I 1st piece: Say Bonny Lass: Highland Lad-Mrs Martyr, Highland Lassie- Mrs Mountain; End I 3rd piece: The Musical Courtship-Incledon, Mrs Martyr

537
05 June 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Carleton, Wilson, J. Shade & Gibson. Tickets delivered for Tit for Tat will be admitted. Account-Book, July [et seq.]: Paid 209 Renters #20 6s. apiece. The Last Time of the Company's Performing this Season. Receipts: #253 2s. (20.1.0; 6.10.6; 0.14.6; tickets: 225.16.0) (charge: #106 0s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Performance Comment: As17900213, but Widow Brady (with the Epilogue Song)-Mrs Williames (late Mrs Wilson).

Dance: End I afterpiece: The Irish Bird Catchers, as17900123

538
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

539
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

540
13 May 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard III Actor: Cibber

541
02 November 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Roberts

Afterpiece Title: The Harlots Progress

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

542
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

543
22 January 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Roberts

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: English Maggot by Lally Jr and Mrs Walter. Scot's Dance by Mr and Mrs Davenport

544
16 May 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Ryan

Afterpiece Title: The Strollers

Dance: Tambourine, as17340504. Saraband by Miss Baston. Swedish Dal Karl by Delagarde and Mrs Ogden. Les Amans Consentants, as17340508

545
14 October 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Ryan

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Cast
Role: 1st Fury Actor: Richardson

546
20 October 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Cast
Role: The Part of King Richard Actor: a Gentleman

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: two Mwo Masters and Miss Granier

547
21 October 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Cast
Role: The Part of King Richard Actor: a Gentleman

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: As17411020

548
22 October 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Cast
Role: The Part of King Richard Actor: a Gentleman

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: As17411020

549
24 October 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Cast
Role: The Part of King Richard Actor: a Gentleman

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment with The Triumphs of Love

550
26 October 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Cast
Role: The Part of King Richard Actor: a Gentleman

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment with Triumphs of Love