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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Robert Dodsley"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Robert Dodsley")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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2190 results for: Keyword - Robert Dodsley
We found 1060 matches on Performance Comments, 924 matches on Author, 316 matches on Event Comments, 93 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2051
29 March 1699 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Post Man, 28 March 1699: For the Benefit of Mr Robert Roades...a Consort, all new Music, both Vocal and Instrumental: There being no Play at either House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

2052
29 January 1700 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: James Brydges, Diary: I went & din'd at ye fountain, after wch I went to ye Playhouse in Lincolns Inn fields, & saw my Cozen Hussys & Coz. Roberts there. I staid an act (Huntington MS St 26)

Performances

2053
26 May 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Ray and Roberts. At the particualr Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the late Mr Otway

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Music: Between the Acts: Select Pieces-

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Mrs Bullock, Miss Tenoe

2054
28 May 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Roberts, Wright, and Nailer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Music: Concerto on Little Flute-Baston

Dance:

2055
01 April 1726 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Robert. Tickets 5s. At 7 p.m. His Excellency the Morocco Ambassador will be there

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the best Masters

2056
18 May 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Performance Comment: King-Mills; Osmyn-Booth; Gonsalez-Thurmond; Garcia-Williams; Heli-Boman; Selim-W. Mills; Alonzo-Watson [Daily Courant or Roberts: Daily Post]; Zara-Mrs Porter; Almeria-Mrs Thurmond.

Dance: SShepherd and Shepherdess-Young Sandham, Young Sandham's Sister; Scaramouch-Young Sandham; Serious Dance-Lally, Mrs Walter

2057
22 May 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Hallam, Robert Williams, and Peplow. Mainpiece: As it was alter'd from Shakespeare by Sir Wm D'Avenant and Mr Dryden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Strolers

Dance: End I: The Muzette-Young Rainton, Miss Robinson; III: Whitson Holidays-Boval, Miss Tenoe

Ballet: End Farce: The Cobler's Jealous Wife. As17270505

2058
12 June 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Roberts, Boxkeeper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Dance: End II: Lads and Lasses-; III: Dutch Skipper-Sandham; IV: Shepherd's Holiday-Burny, Sandham, Eaton, Mrs Haughton, Mrs Mountfort, Miss Sandham

Song: End I: Miss Thornowets; IV: Miss Thornowets

2059
07 May 1731 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Roberts, Boxkeeper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: Sandham

Music: II: Welch Harp-a Gentleman for his Diversion; IV: Solo-Ravenscroft

2060
28 January 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit John Roberts, now Confin'd in the Fleet Prison. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance:

2061
04 March 1732 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: As17311025, but Falstaff-Gentleman who perform'd it in Harry the Fourth; Rugby-Williams; Sir Hugh-Norris; Mrs Ford-Mrs Giffard? (Daily Advertiser) or Mrs Roberts (Daily Post).

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: LLes Amants-Burney, Mrs Wherrit

2062
08 May 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Berry, Roberts, Miss Brett

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wedding

Song:

Dance:

2063
27 September 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Post, 28 Sept.: Yesterday Morning [27 Sept.] between Nine and Ten o'Clock, Robert Wilks, Esq., one of the Patentees and Managers of his Majesty's Company of Comedians, died, at his House in Bow-street, Covent-Garden

Performances

2064
03 December 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Music: Second and Third Musick, as17331201 I as IV on 1 Dec

Dance: I: La Bagatelle by Essex and Miss Latour. III: Les Polichinelles by Janno and F. Tench. V: Watteau by Miss Robinson

Song: II: A Thousand Fairy Scenes (from Rosamond) by Master Arne. IV: An Air in Porus by Roberts

Performance Comment: IV: An Air in Porus by Roberts .

2065
03 April 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Roberts and Perry. At 7 P.M.'Boxes 51. Pit is. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Two Sonatas on the Harp by Perry. Also by the best Performers

2066
26 July 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Election; Or, Court And Country

Performance Comment: Parts by Mrs Roberts, Mrs Charke, Mrs Egerton, Mrs Talbot, Turbutt, Miss Jones, Jones, Hallam, Woodward, Woodburne, and Este .

2067
17 February 1736 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Lady Grace Actor: Mrs Roberts

Afterpiece Title: The Lover His Own Rival

Performance Comment: Parts by Penkethman, Rosco, Kelly, Miss Jones, Mrs Dove, Miss Gerrard, Mrs Roberts, but see17360210.

Dance: II: Dutch Skipper by Vallois and Mrs Bullock. V: Scot's Dance by Haughton, Mrs Bullock, &c

Song: III: Italian Song by Mrs Chambers

2068
02 April 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Song: English Roast Beef by Leveridge. Mock Italian Song by E. Roberts

Performance Comment: Mock Italian Song by E. Roberts .

2069
12 April 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Dance: II: By a Scholar of Nivelon's. III: Two Pierrots by Nivelon and Lalauze. IV: Tambourine by Miss Rogers. V: Sailors (from Orestes) by Glover and others

Song: I: Chanson a Boire, to Musick of Mr Handel's, sung by Leveridge and Laguerre. II: The Confession by Roberts and Miss Norsa. III: The Opinion of the Ancients, set to Musick, by the Famous Mr Henry Purcell, and sung by Leveridge and Beard. IV: A Song in the Anacreontick Stile by Leveridge. V: A new Song in Praise of Old English Brown Beer, being a Sequel to the Roast Beef Song, and fit to be sung by all True Britons, and Lovers of Old England

Performance Comment: II: The Confession by Roberts and Miss Norsa. III: The Opinion of the Ancients, set to Musick, by the Famous Mr Henry Purcell, and sung by Leveridge and Beard. IV: A Song in the Anacreontick Stile by Leveridge. V: A new Song in Praise of Old English Brown Beer, being a Sequel to the Roast Beef Song, and fit to be sung by all True Britons, and Lovers of Old England .

2070
16 April 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: Cleora; or, The Amorous Old Shepherdess

Dance: Hornpipe by Ferguson. Tambourine by Miss Rogers

Song: Cuckoo Solo by Master Oates. Mock Italian Song by E. Roberts

Performance Comment: Mock Italian Song by E. Roberts .

2071
06 May 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Flora's Hol1day; or, The Shepherds Welcome to the Spring

Performance Comment: Parts by Leveridge, Laguerre, Roberts, Stoppelaer, Mrs Wright, Miss Hillyard; with The Faithful Shepherd (a ballet) by Glover, Miss Rogers, Tench, Desse, Dupre, Livier, Mrs Ogden, Mlle De Lormc, Miss Norman, Mrs Kilby .

Music: Select Pieces on several Instruments

Dance: I: Clown by Nivelon. II: Tambourine by Miss Rogers. III: French Peasants by Lalauze, Mlle D'Hervigni, &c. IV: Harlequine by Mlle De L'Isle

2072
11 May 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Music: Overture to Ariadne. Select Pieces between the Acts. V: Handel's Water Musick, in which Benj. Baker will play the Kettle-Drums, accompanied with Trumpets and French Horns

Dance: I: Le Depit Amoureux by Desse and Mlle Delorme. II: Comic Dance by Nivelon and Mlle De L'Isle. IV: French Peasants by Lalauze, Mlle D'Hervigni, &c. V: The Faithful Shepherd by Glover, Miss Rogers, Tench, Desse, Dupre, Livier, Mrs Ogden, Mlle Delorme, Miss Norman, Mrs Kilby

Song: I: Chancon a Boire, as17360504. II: The Confession sung by Roberts and Miss Hillyard. III: The opinion of the Ancients, as17360412

Performance Comment: II: The Confession sung by Roberts and Miss Hillyard. III: The opinion of the Ancients, as17360412.

2073
24 May 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: II: Comic Ballet, as17360417 In: Tambourine by Miss Rogers. V: Glover's Sailors Dance

Song: I: By Leveridge. IV: Mock Italian Song by E. Roberts

Performance Comment: IV: Mock Italian Song by E. Roberts .

2074
18 April 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: EEgmont, Diary, II, 390: To the Haymarket Playhouse, where a farce was acted called Eurydice First Hiss'd?, an allegory on the loss of the Excise Bill. The whole was a satire on Sir Robert Walpole, and I observed that when any strong passages fell, the Prince, who was there, clapped, especially when in favour of liberty. [The Princess of Wales was also present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Historical Register

Afterpiece Title: Eurydice Hiss'd

2075
28 October 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace; or, Merlin's Cave

Performance Comment: Pierot-Lalauze; Endymion-Salway; Chasseurs-Vincent; Roberts; Nymphs-Miss Brunette, Miss Rogers; Diana-Mrs Vincent; Merlin-Leveridge; Cupid-Glover; Graces-Mrs Bullock, Miss Oates, Mrs LeBrun; Hour-Miss Cantrell; Zephyrs-Villeneuve, Desse, Richardson, DuPre; Psyche-Mlle Roland; Jupiter (Harlequin)-Lun; Mercury-Laguerre; Doctor-Penkethman; Doctor's Wife-Mrs Kilby. With Scenes representing the exact Views of The Hermitage and Merlin's Cave, as taken from the Royal Gardens at Richmond.