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5373 results for: Keyword - Robert and James Adam
We found 3039 matches on Author, 2103 matches on Performance Comments, 628 matches on Event Comments, 128 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

676
11 December 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julia; Or, The Italian Lover

Related Works
Related Work: Julia; or, The Italian Lover Author(s): Robert Jephson

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Related Works
Related Work: The Humourist; or, Who's Who? Author(s): James Cobb

677
19 April 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: Love and War

Related Works
Related Work: Love and War Author(s): Robert Jephson

Dance: End II: As17870926; End: The Piping Pedlar, as17871129

678
02 May 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Cast
Role: Faulkland Actor: Lewis
Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Sisters; or, The Violence of Love Author(s): Robert Gould
Related Work: The Rival Modes Author(s): James Moore Smythe
Related Work: The Rival Milleners; or, The Humours of Covent-Garden Author(s): Robert Drury

Afterpiece Title: Love and War

Related Works
Related Work: Love and War Author(s): Robert Jephson

Dance: As17871029

Entertainment: Monologue. End I afterpiece: Virtue its own Rewardexemplified in a Moral Tale, and founded on a Real Event,-Hull

Performance Comment: End I afterpiece: Virtue its own Rewardexemplified in a Moral Tale, and founded on a Real Event,-Hull.
Cast
Role: and founded on a Real Event, Actor: Hull.

679
30 May 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Anselmo, Mrs Brandon, Byrn, Evatt, Hall [box-keeper], Ledger, Marks, Ratchford, Rye will be admitted. Receipts: #295 18s. (39.8.6; 4.7.6; tickets: 252.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Related Works
Related Work: The Brothers Author(s): James Shirley
Related Work: Fatal Love; or, The Degenerate Brother Author(s): Osborne Sidney Wandesford

Afterpiece Title: Love and War

Related Works
Related Work: Love and War Author(s): Robert Jephson

Dance: End: a new dance, The Cobler of Castle Dormot-Ratchford, Miller, Mrs Ratchford

Related Works
Related Work: The King and the Miller of Mansfield Author(s): Robert Dodsley
Related Work: The Humours of Oxford Author(s): James Miller
Related Work: The Mother-in-Law; or, The Doctor the Disease Author(s): James Miller
Related Work: The Man of Taste; or, The Guardian Author(s): James Miller
Related Work: The Universal Passion Author(s): James Miller
Related Work: The Coffee House Author(s): James Miller
Related Work: Art and Nature Author(s): James Miller
Related Work: An Hospital for Fools Author(s): James Miller
Related Work: Mahomet the Imposter Author(s): James Miller
Related Work: The Picture; or, Cuckold in Conceit Author(s): James Miller
Related Work: The Man of Taste Author(s): James Miller
Related Work: Alexander the Great; or, The Conquest of Persia Author(s): James D'Egville

680
13 August 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: Love and War

Performance Comment: Love: Goldsmith's poem of Edwin and Angelina. Scene, A Hermit's Cell. Edwin-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage unidentified); Angelina-Mrs Plomer; War: Scene I. A Sea-port. Officers carousing. O say Bonny Lass-; Scene II. A Village. Serjeant-Davies; Country Lasses-Mrs Gaudry; Milkmaid-Miss Collett; Admiral Benbow-Bannister; A new dance, The British Soldier Triumphant-Byrn, Ratchford, Miss DeCamp, Mrs Goodwin.
Related Works
Related Work: Love and War Author(s): Robert Jephson

Afterpiece Title: Gretna Green

Performance Comment: Captain Gorget-Bannister; Tipperary-R. Palmer; Anvil-Barrett; Crack-Milbourn; Landlord-Ledger; Rorey-Moss; Signora Figurante-Mrs Plomer; Miss Plumb-Miss Collett; Lady Pedigree-Mrs Edwin; Maria-Mrs Forster.
Cast
Role: Landlord Actor: Ledger

681
17 October 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Which Is The Man

Related Works
Related Work: The Man of Taste Author(s): James Miller
Related Work: The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Related Work: The Poor Man's Comfort Author(s): Robert Daborne
Related Work: The Man of Taste; or, The Guardian Author(s): James Miller

Afterpiece Title: Love and War

Related Works
Related Work: Love and War Author(s): Robert Jephson

Dance: End: Fortune's Favour-[see17881010]

682
02 February 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And War

Related Works
Related Work: Love and War Author(s): Robert Jephson

Afterpiece Title: The Child of Nature

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Cast
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Platt

683
09 February 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And War

Related Works
Related Work: Love and War Author(s): Robert Jephson

Afterpiece Title: The Child of Nature

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Cast
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Platt

684
19 May 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wrighten, prompter. 3rd piece [1st time; M I, author unknown. Music selected from Dr Arne. MS: Larpent 833 (which notes, "The words partly new and partly compiled. In Commemoration of the Restoration of His Majesty's Health"); not published]. Public Advertiser, 18 May: Tickets to be had of Wrighten, No. 6, Little Russel Street. Tickets delivered for the 20th will be admitted. Receipts: #278 17s. 6d. (48.2.0; 13.17.0; 0.17.6; tickets: 216.1.0) (charge: #106 13s. 7d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Related Works
Related Work: The Toy-Shop Author(s): Robert Dodsley

Afterpiece Title: Laoeudaimonos; or, A People Made Happy

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Kelly, Dignum, Sedgwick, Miss Romanzini, Mrs Edwards, Mrs Crouch. [Larpent MS lists the parts: Britannia, Genius of England, Hope, Hygeia, Britons.] SCENE I. Cavern of Despairv. SCENE II. White Cliffs of Albionv. SCENE III. Grove of Hygeiav. SCENE IV. Temple of Gratitudev. In which will be displayed those Superb Transparencies which were exhibited at the Opera House, at the Grand Gala given [on 21 Apr.] in Commemoration of his Majesty's Recovery. The Capitals of the Transparencies will be ornamented with rich Festoons of different coloured Lamps, and the intervening Columns beautifully illuminated with variegated Fire. [There were three transparencies: the 1st representing George I, II and III, the 2nd King William, the 3rd the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Gloucester (World, 22 Apr.).]Larpent MS lists the parts: Britannia, Genius of England, Hope, Hygeia, Britons.] SCENE I. Cavern of Despairv. SCENE II. White Cliffs of Albionv. SCENE III. Grove of Hygeiav. SCENE IV. Temple of Gratitudev. In which will be displayed those Superb Transparencies which were exhibited at the Opera House, at the Grand Gala given [on 21 Apr.] in Commemoration of his Majesty's Recovery. The Capitals of the Transparencies will be ornamented with rich Festoons of different coloured Lamps, and the intervening Columns beautifully illuminated with variegated Fire. [There were three transparencies: the 1st representing George I, II and III, the 2nd King William, the 3rd the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Gloucester (World, 22 Apr.).]

Dance: End II: The Russian Minuet-the young D'Egvilles, Miss DeCamp; End: a new dance, The Irish Bird@Catchers-the young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp

685
21 October 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Afterpiece Title: Love and War

Related Works
Related Work: Love and War Author(s): Robert Jephson

Dance: End: a new Tamborine Dance-Byrne, Mrs Goodwin

686
22 March 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Related Works
Related Work: The Count of Narbonne Author(s): Robert Jephson

Afterpiece Title: Cymon

Performance Comment: Cymon-Blanchard (1st appearance in that character); Dorus-Quick; Merlin-Bannister; Daemon of Revenge-Darley; Shepherds-Egan, Evatt; Linco-Edwin; Urganda-Mrs Martyr; Fatima-Mrs Pope (1st appearance in that character [in London]); Dorcas-Mrs Pitt; Shepherdesses-Miss Rowson, Miss Stuart; Sylvia-Mrs Mountain.
Cast
Role: Urganda Actor: Mrs Martyr

Dance: End: Tamborine Dance- [See17891021]; Afterpiece conclude: Dance-Byrne, Mrs Goodwin

687
26 April 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Related Works
Related Work: The Count of Narbonne Author(s): Robert Jephson

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Cast
Role: Emai Actor: Miss Francis. Part I. A Nuptial Procession, with the Performance of the Marriage Ceremony according to the Custom observed at O'Whyee. The Manner of Combat between two Natives. Part II. The Arrival of the Resolution. The Disembarkation of the English, with the Ceremonies observed at entering into a Treaty of Peace with the Natives. A Preparation for a Human Sacrifice. The Assassination of Captain Cook. Part III. A Representation of the Naval and Military Honours observed on erecting a Pile to the Memory of Capt. Cook, by the Officers of the Resolution. The Ceremony performed on the same Occasion, according to the Manner of the Natives of O'Whyee. To conclude with a Representation of a Burning Mountain.

Afterpiece Title: Love and War

Related Works
Related Work: Love and War Author(s): Robert Jephson

688
07 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Cast
Role: Madame Le Rouge Actor: Mrs Heard

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Related Works
Related Work: The Toy-Shop Author(s): Robert Dodsley

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Song: As17900323

689
08 June 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets delivered for King Lear will be admitted. Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Mrs Lampe, Clarke, Plank, Linton, Mrs Booth, Brandon, Longley, Dalby, Furkins, Pilbrow, Anselmo, Byrne, Copland, Rye, Jealous, Pugh, Berecloth, the Band will be admitted. Receipts: #405 5s. (69.12; 6.7; tickets: 329.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: Strickland Actor: Farren
Role: Mrs Strickland Actor: Miss Brunton
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Platt

Afterpiece Title: Love and War

Related Works
Related Work: Love and War Author(s): Robert Jephson

690
21 December 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Cast
Role: Miranda Actor: Mrs Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris

Related Works
Related Work: The Picture of Paris Author(s): Robert Merry

691
22 December 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: Strickland Actor: Farren
Role: Mrs Strickland Actor: Miss Brunton

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris

Related Works
Related Work: The Picture of Paris Author(s): Robert Merry

692
23 December 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris

Related Works
Related Work: The Picture of Paris Author(s): Robert Merry

693
27 December 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris

Performance Comment: As17901222, but Prologue-_[and thereafter].and thereafter].
Related Works
Related Work: The Picture of Paris Author(s): Robert Merry

694
28 December 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beaux Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris

Related Works
Related Work: The Picture of Paris Author(s): Robert Merry

695
29 December 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #393 4s. (391.5; 1.19)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris

Related Works
Related Work: The Picture of Paris Author(s): Robert Merry

696
30 December 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris

Related Works
Related Work: The Picture of Paris Author(s): Robert Merry

697
31 December 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

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

Performance Comment: Essex-Holman; Burleigh-Harley; Raleigh-Macready; Lieutenant-Thompson; Officer-Evatt; Southampton-Farren; Rutland-Mrs Esten; Nottingham-Mrs Bernard; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: Rutland Actor: Mrs Esten
Related Works
Related Work: The Fall of the Earl of Essex Author(s): James Ralph

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris

Related Works
Related Work: The Picture of Paris Author(s): Robert Merry

698
01 January 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Cast
Role: Miranda Actor: Mrs Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris

Related Works
Related Work: The Picture of Paris Author(s): Robert Merry

699
03 January 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris

Related Works
Related Work: The Picture of Paris Author(s): Robert Merry

700
05 January 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris

Related Works
Related Work: The Picture of Paris Author(s): Robert Merry