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12308 results for: Keyword - Rob. Williams
We found 10791 matches on Author, 1665 matches on Performance Comments, 443 matches on Event Comments, 51 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

12076
18 December 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Catiline's Conspiracy

12077
16 January 1669 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Horace

12078
09 November 1671 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Feign'd Innocence; Or, Sir Martin Marall

12079
January 1672 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 8) gives a cast for Julius Caesar [by William Shakespeare] which includes Richard Bell, who died in the Drury Lane fire at the end of this month. It is not known when a performance of this play occurred, but a Prologue to Julius Caesar is in Covent Garden Drollery, 1672. Downes lists: Julius Caesar-$Bell; Cassius-$Major Mohun; Brutus-$Hart; Anthony-$Kynaston; Calphurnia-$Mrs Marshal. [Downes adds Portia-$Mrs Corbet, but this probably refers to a later performance.

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12080
09 March 1672 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hannibal

Related Works
Related Work: Hannibal Author(s): Robert Wilson

12081
28 October 1673 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Herod And Mariamne

12082
29 October 1673 @ The City, London

Performances

Mainpiece Title: London In Its Splendor

12083
12 June 1675 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: [The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407. There is no certainty that this performance is the premiere, btt an additional known performance on 15 June suggests that early June probably saw the initial run. The music for two songs, Thou joy of all hearts and When you dispense your influence, both set by Dr William Turner, is in Choice Ayres and Songs, Second Book, 1679. Preface, Edition of 1676: I have no reason to complain of the success of this Play, since it pleased those, whom, of all the World, I would please most: Nor was the Town unkind to it....[There] being no Act in it, which cost me above Five days writing: and the last Two (the Play-house having great occasion for a Play) were both written in Four Days. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 37): The Libertine and Virtuoso: Both Wrote by Mr Shadwell; they were both very well Acted, and got the Company great Reputation. The Libertine perform'd by Mr Betterton Crown'd the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Libertine

12084
24 July 1675 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

12085
02 December 1675 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

12086
25 May 1676 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@142, p. 81: At the Virtuoso. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 348. Nell Gwyn also attended this performance; see VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407. The Diary of Robert Hooke, 25 May 1676: Mr Abraham Hill gave J. Hoskins, Aubery and I an account of Vertuoso play. A song, How retched is the slave to love, the music by Francis Forcer, is in Choice Ayres and Songs, The Second Book, 1679. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 37): The Libertine and Virtuoso: Both Wrote by Mr Shadwell; they were both very well Acted, and got the company great Reputation

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Virtuoso

12087
09 September 1676 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

12088
04 November 1676 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Madam Fickle; Or, The Witty False One

12089
December 1676 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pastor Fido; Or, The Faithful Shepherd

12090
31 May 1677 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Fond Husband; Or, The Plotting Sisters

12091
May 1681 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite; Or, The Earl Of Essex

12092
11 May 1681 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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12093
01 June 1681 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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12094
30 October 1682 @ The City, London

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lord Mayor's Show

12095
11 April 1683 @ no theater listed

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12096
31 May 1683 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dame Dobson; Or, The Cunning Woman

12097
12 November 1683 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. The date of the first performance is not known, but Luttrell's copy of the separately printed Prologue and Epilogue bears the date 12 Nov. 1683 (item 87, Sotheby's sale, 12 June 1939), and the premiere probably occurred shortly before that date. A revised version of the Epilogue, correcting errors, appeared almost immediately after the one first published; it bears Luttrell's date of 14 Nov. 1683. The Epilogue, in the revised version, bears the note: Written by Mr Dryden. The Prologue and both versions of the Epilogue are reprinted in Wiley, Rare Prologues and Epilogues, pp. 183-87. In addition, a song, Awake O Constantine awake, with music by Thomas Farmer, is in The Theater of Music, 1865; it also appeared in A Collection of the Newest and Choicest Songs, 1864 (which bears Luttrell's date, 10 March 1683@4, Bindley Collection, William Andrews Clark@Jr@Library)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Constantine The Great

12098
11 February 1684 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Valentinian

12099
March 1684 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Northern Lass

12100
27 March 1684 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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