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10996 results for: Keyword - Sir Richard Steele, Knight
We found 6760 matches on Performance Comments, 3635 matches on Author, 1389 matches on Event Comments, 1303 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

776
11 February 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Cast
Role: Sir Harry Actor: Turbutt
Related Works
Related Work: The Tender Husband; or, The Accomplish'd Fools Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Dance: II: La Provencale-Mlle Chateauneuf alone; III: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg; IV: Scots Dance-Master Matthews, Miss Wright

Ballet: A Voyage to the Land of Cytherea. As17400115

777
21 February 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Related Works
Related Work: The Tender Husband; or, The Accomplish'd Fools Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Cast
Role: Daemons Actor: Villeneuve, Delagarde, Richardson
Role: Country Lads Actor: Desse, Villeneuve, Richardson, Dupre
Role: Swains Actor: Desse, Villeneuve, Richardson, Delegarde, Fromont, Dupre

778
19 April 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Wright
Related Works
Related Work: The Conscious Lovers Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: I: Muilment; III: Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; V: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg

Song: II: Beard; IV: The Noon Tide Air (Comus)-Miss Edwards; V: English Captain (as17400325-Beard

779
22 April 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Mills. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [Part of the Stage will be formed into Side-Boxes.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Related Works
Related Work: The Funeral, or, Grief a la Mode Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: See17400416 but Sir John (with The Early Horn)-Beard; Nell-Mrs Pritchard; Jobson-Berry; Lady Loverule-Mrs Bennet; Butler-Raftor.
Cast
Role: 7400416 but Sir John Actor: Beard

Music: I: Preamble on Kettle Drums-Master Ferg; with Handel's Water Musick-

Dance: II: La Jalouzie-Desnoyer, Lalauze, Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Muilment; V: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

Song: IV: English Captain (as17400325-Beard

780
30 April 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Related Works
Related Work: The Funeral, or, Grief a la Mode Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: The Opera of Operas; or, Tom Thumb the Great

Dance: In Afterpiece: A new dance-the French Boy and Girl; Scotch Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

781
15 May 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Master Cooke. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Part of the Stage will be formed into Side-Boxes. [Tickets at Cooke's House, Blue Flower-pot in Devonshire Street, near Red-Lyon Square. Tickets for Tully also taken.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Wright
Related Works
Related Work: The Conscious Lovers Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Stoppelaer

Dance: I: Two Pierots-Lalauze, Liviez; II: Maggot-Cooke, Mrs Walter; III: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: Muilment; V: The Louvre, with a Minuet-Master Cook, Mrs Walter

782
11 October 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband; Or, The Accomplish'd Fools

Related Works
Related Work: The Tender Husband; or, The Accomplish'd Fools Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Cast
Role: Followers of Eurydice Actor: French Girl, Miss Oates, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve, Delagarde, Richardson
Role: Country Lads Actor: Delagarde, Villeneuve, Richardson, Dupre
Role: Swains Actor: Destrade, Villeneuve, Richardson, Delagarde, Oates Jr, Dupre

783
10 November 1740 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Related Works
Related Work: The Conscious Lovers Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: The Chymical Counterfeits

Dance: CComic Dance-Miss Naylor; A new dance-Master Matthews

784
14 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

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: Orpheus and Eurydice

Cast
Role: Country Lads Actor: Delagarde, Villeneuve, Richardson, Dupre
Role: Swains Actor: Destrade, Villeneuve, Richardson, Delagarde, Oates Jr, Dupre

785
23 January 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Related Works
Related Work: The Funeral, or, Grief a la Mode Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Pan Actor: Richardson

Dance: As17410121

786
02 April 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Related Works
Related Work: The Conscious Lovers Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: The Life and Death of Master ThomasThumb

Music: Solo on the Violin-Mrs Bush

Dance: I: Miss Naylor; II: Drunken Peasant-Chettle; IV: Hornpipe-Yates

Song: III: Miss Medina; V: Dialogue-Stitchbury, Mrs Jones

787
07 April 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Bridgwater
Related Works
Related Work: The Conscious Lovers Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies

Dance: I: The Swiss-Mechel, Mlle Mechel; IV: Comic Dance-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde; V: French Peasants-Mechel, Mlle Mechel

Song: In II: Roberts

788
08 April 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By partiuclar Desire. Benefit Chapman. Tickets at Chapman's House, Corner of Bow Street. [in the London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 7 April, Chapman published a letter regretting that this benefit will be on the night Handel has a performance at lif. Chapman states that he owes much to Handel and wishes him success. Because, he states, some 20,000 will want to attend lif, which cannot hold above twenty hundred, Chapman remarks that, if those who cannot get into lif will go to dl, he will be happy.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Wright
Related Works
Related Work: The Conscious Lovers Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Song: In II: Lowe; III: Was Ever Nymph Like Rosamond-Lowe

Dance: III: Maltere, Mlle Maltere; V: Peasants-Muilment

789
23 April 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Rosco, Richardson, Delagarde. Receipts: #160 (Rylands)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Related Works
Related Work: The Funeral, or, Grief a la Mode Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: As17410330 but Mock Doctor-(by Desire) Rosco.
Cast
Role: Sir Jasper Actor: Arthur

Dance: III: Comic Dance-Richardson, Mlle Ozanne; IV: Two Pierots-Richardson, Delagarde

790
02 May 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Bridgwater
Related Works
Related Work: The Conscious Lovers Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Song: In II: Roberts

Dance: III: Comic Dance-Richardson, Mlle Ozanne; IV: Tambourine-Mlle Mechel

791
14 May 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Related Works
Related Work: The Funeral, or, Grief a la Mode Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: II: Roberts

Dance: III: Pierots-Richardson, Delagarde; IV: The Swiss-Mechel, Mlle Mechel

Music: V: Handel's Water@Musick, Preamble on the Kettle Drum-Jo. Woodbridge

792
05 January 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Bridgwater
Related Works
Related Work: The Conscious Lovers Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine; with the Birth and Adventures of Harlequin

793
15 January 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Related Works
Related Work: The Funeral, or, Grief a la Mode Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Demons Actor: Villeneuve, Richardson, Delagarde
Role: Elements Earth Actor: Richardson, Mrs Wright

794
29 January 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Cast
Role: Sir Harry Gubbin Actor: Turbutt
Related Works
Related Work: The Tender Husband; or, The Accomplish'd Fools Author(s): Richard Steele

Song: I: Was Ever Nymph like Rosamond-Beard; IV: Bright Author of my Present Flame-Lowe

Dance: II : Les Masons et Les Sabotiers, as17411218; V: Le Genereux Corsaire, as17420120

795
08 February 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Related Works
Related Work: The Funeral, or, Grief a la Mode Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Demons Actor: Villeneuve, Richardson, Delagarde
Role: Elements Earth Actor: Richardson, Mrs Wright

796
18 February 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Cast
Role: Sir Harry Gubbin Actor: Turbutt
Related Works
Related Work: The Tender Husband; or, The Accomplish'd Fools Author(s): Richard Steele

Song: I: Was Ever Nymph like Rosamond-Beard; IV: Happy Pair-Beard

Dance: II: Les Arlequins, as17420212; V: Le Genereux Corsaire, as17420120, but Desse, +Baudoin, _Delemain, Miss _Rayner, Miss _Wright

797
23 February 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Bridgwater
Related Works
Related Work: The Conscious Lovers Author(s): Richard Steele

Dance: TTambourine, as17411230; Chacone, as17411230; La Provencale, as17420212

798
11 March 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Bridgwater
Related Works
Related Work: The Conscious Lovers Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Demons Actor: Villeneuve, Richardson, Delagarde
Role: Elements Earth Actor: Richardson, Mrs Wright

799
30 April 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Lampe and Miss Young. Mainpiece: At the Particular desire of several Ladies of Quality. Afterpiece: By Desire. [Margery; or, A Worse Plague than the Dragon, by H. Carey, a sequel to Dragon of Wantley.] Tickets at stage door and at Mrs Lampe's and Miss Young's Lodgings, at the Golden Ball, in Brownlow St. Tickets deliver'd out for She Wou'd and She wou'd not will be taken for this play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Bridgwater
Related Works
Related Work: The Conscious Lovers Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: The Dragoness

Dance: New Comic Dance-Richardson, Delagarde, Mrs LeBrun; Sailor's Dance, as17420427 Pantaloon and Enamorata, as17420420

800
08 May 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece at the particular desire of several persons of quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Related Works
Related Work: The Funeral, or, Grief a la Mode Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Demons Actor: Villeneuve, Richardson, Delagarde
Role: Elements Earth Actor: Richardson, Mrs Wright

Dance: NNew Scots Dance, as17420401

Ballet: RRural Assembly. As17420121, but Shepherdesses-Mlle _Rhenos, Mlle _Maudet

Cast
Role: Pastors Actor: Richardson, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade, Bencraft