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9283 results for: Keyword - Sir Robert Southwell
We found 6811 matches on Performance Comments, 2100 matches on Author, 1189 matches on Event Comments, 554 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

7451
16 April 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Delicacy

Performance Comment: Col. Rivers-Jefferson, first time; Miss Marchmont-Miss Mansell, first time; Miss Rivers-Miss Jarratt, first time; Sally-Mrs Millidge; Cecil-King; Lord Winworth-Reddish; Sir Harry Newberg-Palmer; Sidney-Cautherly; Lady Betty Lambton-Mrs Abington; Mrs Harley-Mrs Barry; With Original Epilogue (By Desire)-Mrs Barry.
Cast
Role: Sir Harry Newberg Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Dance: End of Play: The Sailors Revels, as17720919

7452
27 April 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part Ii

Performance Comment: King Henry-A Gentleman, first appearance any stage; Prince of Wales (By Particular Desire)-Mrs Lessingham; Achbp York-Clarke; Prince John-Davis; Westmorland-Hull; Chief Justice-Younger; Shallow (that night only)-Woodward; Pistol-Hamilton; Poins-Wroughton; Bullcalf-Dunstall; Hostess-Mrs Pitt; Doll Tearsheet-Mrs Gardner; Falstaff-Shuter.
Related Works
Related Work: The Siege of Rhodes, Part II Author(s): Sir William Davenant

Afterpiece Title: The Man of Quality

Performance Comment: Lord Foppington-Woodward; Sir Tunbelly-Dunstall; Young Fashion-Lewes; Coupler-Quick; Lory-Cushing; Nurse-Mrs Pitt; Miss Hoyden (With an Apology in character to the Town)-Mrs Lessingham.
Cast
Role: Sir Tunbelly Actor: Dunstall

Music: End: A Concerto on the Double Mandoline, Royal Guitar-Sg Mussolini, after which he will accompany a young Gentlewoman in a song, being their first appearance in Public

7453
01 May 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: Smirk, Mrs Cole-King, for that night only; Shift, with a variety of imitations both rhetorical and vocal-Bannister; Minor-J. Aickin; Sir William Wealthy-Baddeley; Transfer-Parsons; Loader-Palmer; Lucy-Miss Ambrose; Richard Wealthy-Wrighten; Dick-Burton.
Cast
Role: Sir William Wealthy Actor: Baddeley

Dance: II: A Comic Dance, as17730325

7454
06 May 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: Valentine-Ross; Tattle-Woodward; Scandal-Hull; Sir Sampson-Dunstall; Foresight-Cushing; Jeremy-Dyer; Trapland-Quick; Ben (with song)-Shuter; Mrs Frail-Mrs Bulkley, first time; Miss Prue-Mrs Kniveton; Mrs Foresignt-Mrs Dyer; Nurse-Mrs Pitt; Angelica-Miss Macklin.
Cast
Role: Sir Sampson Actor: Dunstall

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Song: II: A New Cantata by Hook-DuBellamy; IV: [Duett] Sweet is the Breath of Morn [by Milton-Miss Brown, DuBellamy

Dance: III: The Whim, as17730426

7455
22 May 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Bevil-Bensley, first time; Myrtle-Wroughton; first time; Sealand-Clarke; Cimberton-Shuter; Sir John Bevil-Gardner; Humphrey-Wignell; Tom (with Song)-Dyer; Daniel-Hollingsworth; Phillis-Mrs Bulkley; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Pitt; Isabella-Mrs Ferguson; Lucinda-Mrs Baker; Indiana-A Young Lady; her first appearance any stage. In Act II, Singing-DuBellamy.
Cast
Role: Sir John Bevil Actor: Gardner

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Dance: End: A Hornpipe[, in the character of a Sailor (for first time)-Miss Stede. [See17650510.

7456
24 May 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: Young Philpot-Dodd; Old Philpot-Baddeley; Wilding-Wheeler; Sir Jasper-Griffith; Beaufort-Yates; Dapper-Jacobs; Quildrive-Burton; Corinna-Miss Platt; Maria-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Sir Jasper Actor: Griffith

Entertainment: End: Scrub's Trip to the Jubilee-Jacobs

7457
28 May 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: As17730524, but Wilding-J. Aickin; Sir Jasper-Wright; Beaufort-Wheeler; Quildrive-Griffith.
Cast
Role: Sir Jasper Actor: Wright

Dance: I: A Hornpipe-Master Whitlow, Miss Lings; III: A New Wooden Shoe Dance-Mas. Whitlow, Miss Lings, Miss Wilkins, scholars of Giorgi

7458
01 June 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Performance Comment: As17720919, but Sir James-Davies.
Cast
Role: Sir James Actor: Davies.
Role: Sir James Elliot Actor: J. Aickin

Dance: V: The Sailors Revels, as17720919

7459
04 June 1773 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nabob

Afterpiece Title: Cupid's Revenge

Performance Comment: Amaranthus-DuBellamy; Sir Gregory-Moss; Dorilas-Fearon; Register-Lloyd; Ninny-Jacobs; Cupid-Mas. Tasnett; Frisketta-a Young Lady, first appearance any stage; Hyema-Miss Atkinson; Culina-Miss Platt; Julippa-Mrs Jewell.
Cast
Role: Sir Gregory Actor: Moss

Dance: End: As17730602

7460
11 June 1773 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: As17730602 but Minor-Aickin; Sir William-Lloyd; Loader-Davis; Transfer-Moss.
Cast
Role: Sir William Actor: Lloyd
Role: Sir Richard Actor: Lewis

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Cast
Role: Sir Jacob Actor: Lloyd

Dance: I: The Haymakers, as17730526; End: The Medley, as17730517

7461
30 June 1773 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: As17730611 but Shift-Bannister; Sir Richard-Howard.
Cast
Role: Sir Richard Actor: Howard.
Role: Sir William Actor: Lloyd

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Cast
Role: Sir Jacob Actor: Lloyd

Dance: I: Double Hornpipe-; End: A New Tambourine Dance-Giorgi's scholars

7462
04 August 1773 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bankrupt

Cast
Role: Sir Robert Riscounter Actor: Foote
Role: Sir James Actor: J. Aickin

Afterpiece Title: The Tobacconist

Performance Comment: Abel Drugger-Weston; Subtle-Aickin; Face-Fearon; Sir Epicure-Lloyd; Knowlife-Courtney; Headlong-Ward; Doll-Miss Platt.
Cast
Role: Sir Epicure Actor: Lloyd

Dance: End: A Tambourine Dance-Giorgi's Scholars

7463
03 September 1773 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orators

Afterpiece Title: The Pantheonites

Performance Comment: Daniel Drugger(great grandson to Abel Drugger)-Weston; Sir Francis-Ward; Skinflint-Lloyd; Tillwell-Bannister; Frisseau-Jacobs; Dicky Drugger-Miss Francis; Tim Tillwell-Fearon; Anna-Miss Platt; Lissni-Miss Craven; Mrs Drugger-Mrs Williams.
Cast
Role: Sir Francis Actor: Ward

Entertainment: I: A Variety of Imitations-Hutton; II: O What a Charming Thing's a Battle-Bannister; Between Play and Farce: Dancing of The Tambourine-Giorgi's Scholars; End of Interlude: A New Tambourine-Giorgi's Scholars

Monologue: 1773 9 3 Also the Interlude, Piety in Pattens. As 23 Aug

7464
08 September 1773 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of Bath

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Performance Comment: As17730602 but Sir Jacob-Howard.
Cast
Role: Sir Jacob Actor: Howard.

Dance: As17730526

7465
17 September 1773 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: Hawthorn-Bannister, first time; Sir William-Follett; Young Meadows-DuBellamy; Eustace-Fearon; Hodge-Hamilton; Justice Woodcock-Weston, first time; Deborah-Miss Platt; Lucinda-Miss Wilde; Rosetta-Mrs Jewell.
Cast
Role: Sir William Actor: Follett

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Portsmouth

Cast
Role: Sir Flimsey Actor: Castle
Related Works
Related Work: Britain's Glory; or, A Trip to Portsmouth Author(s): Robert Benson

Dance: II: As17730914

Entertainment: A Variety ofImitations-Hutton

7466
24 September 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Performance Comment: Ogleby-Kniveton; Lovewell-Mattocks; Sterling-Dunstall; Sir John-Bensley; Brush-Dyer; Canton-Quick; Flower-Younger; Miss Sterling-Mrs Gardner; Fanny-Miss Miller, first time; Betty-Miss Pearce; Chambermaid-Mrs Kniveton; Mrs Heidleberg-Mrs Green (playbill); Flower-Wignell (Public Advertiser); With the New Occasional Prologue spoken for the third time-Woodward.
Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Bensley

Afterpiece Title: Midas

7467
28 September 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Performance Comment: Lord Aimworth-Davis; Sir Harry Sycamore-Hartry; Ralph-Dibdin; Giles-Bannister; Fairfield-Jefferson; Mervin-J. Bannister; Theodosia-Miss Jarratt; Patty-Mrs Smith; Lady Sycamore-Mrs Bradshaw; Fanny-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Sir Harry Sycamore Actor: Hartry

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Dance: I: The Sailors Revels-Atkins

7468
05 October 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Performance Comment: Major Sturgeon-Bannister; Jerry Sneak-Weston; Bruin-Wright; Lint-Castle; Heel@Tap-Bransby; Sir Jacob Jollup-Waldron; Mrs Bruin-Miss Platt; Mrs Sneak-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Sir Jacob Jollup Actor: Waldron

7469
06 October 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Performance Comment: Old Wilding-Bannister; Papilion-Parsons; Sir James Eliot-J. Aickin; Young Wilding-Palmer; Miss Godfrey-Miss Platt; Kitty-Mrs Millidge; Miss Grantham-Mrs Jefferson, first appearance on this stage.
Cast
Role: Sir James Eliot Actor: J. Aickin

Dance: End: The Mountaineers, as17730930

7470
09 October 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Performance Comment: Doctor Cantwell-Kniveton; Darnley-Bensley; Sir John Lambert-Hull; Col. Lambert-Lewes; Seyward-Wroughton; Maw@Worm-Quick; Lady Lambert-Miss Sherman, first appearance; Old Lady Lambert-Mrs Green; Charlotte-a Young Lady[, who never appeared on any Stage [Miss Wilde]., who never appeared on any Stage [Miss Wilde].
Cast
Role: Sir John Lambert Actor: Hull

Afterpiece Title: Midas

7471
14 October 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Performance Comment: Abel Drugger-Garrick; Subtle-J. Aickin; Face-Palmer; Sir Epicure-Love; Kastril-Burton; Tribulation-Hartry; Ananias-Parsons; Dapper-W. Palmer; Mob-Ackman, Jacobs, Wright, Keen; Surly-Baddeley; Lovewit-Packer; Doll Common-Mrs Hopkins; Dame Pliant-Mrs Johnston.
Cast
Role: Sir Epicure Actor: Love

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

7472
22 October 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer; Or, The Mistakes Of A Night

Performance Comment: Hardcastle-Shuter; Tony-Quick; Marlow-Lewes; Hastings-DuBellamy; Sir Charles Marlow-Gardner; Mrs Hardcastle-Mrs Green; Miss Neville-Mrs Kniveton; Miss Hardcastle-Miss Wilde, first time.
Cast
Role: Sir Charles Marlow Actor: Gardner

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: End: A New Dance-. [See17731021]

7473
01 November 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alfred

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Performance Comment: Whittle-Parsons; Kecksy-Dodd; Sir Patrick O'Neale-Moody; Bates-Baddeley; Nephew-Cautherly; Thomas-Weston; Widow Brady (with Epilogue Song)-A Gentlewoman, first appearance on that stage.
Cast
Role: Sir Patrick O'Neale Actor: Moody

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17730918

7474
09 November 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker; Or, Humours Of The Navy

Performance Comment: Commodore Flip-Moody; Capt. Mizen-Dodd; Capt. Worthy-Jefferson; Sir Charles Peasant-Brereton; Rovewell-Diamond; Cribbage-Davies; Lt. Easy-Norris; a New Sea Character-Weston; Cockswain-Ackman; Purser Indent-Griffith; Sailors-Wright, W. Palmer, Fawcett, Kear, Jacobs, Master Cape; Hatchway (with song)-Bannister; Arabelia Zeal-Mrs Greville (The gentlewoman who performed the Irish Widow); Belinda-Miss Hopkins; Jiltup-Mrs Bradshaw; Jenny Private-Miss Platt; Bar@maid-Mrs Davies; Dorcas Zeal-Miss Pope; Concluding with Grand Naval Review-; in which is introduced a Dance of Sailors-Atkins, Mrs Sutton; the favourite song Rule Britannia-Vernon, others.
Cast
Role: Sir Charles Peasant Actor: Brereton

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Cast
Role: Sir James Eliot Actor: J. Aickin

7475
20 November 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duellist

Performance Comment: Parts by: Woodward, Smith, Shuter, Lewis, Wroughton, Kniverton, Quick, Cushing, Miss Miller, Miss Barsanti, Miss Wilde, Miss Pearce, Mrs Kniveton, Miss Valosi, and Mrs Green. With a Prologue and an Epilogue. General Gantlet-Woodward; Capt. Boothby-Smith; Sir Soloman Bauble-Shuter; Counsellor Witmore-Lewis; Lord Lovemore-Wroughton; Governor Mammon-Kniveton; Serjant Nonplus-Quick; Lady Lovemore-Miss Barsanti; Mrs Boothby-Miss Miller; Lady Bauble-Mrs Green; Emelia-Miss Wilde; Mrs Goodwill-Mrs Kniveton; Echo-Miss Valois; Combrush-Miss Pearce; Mactotum-Cushing; With Prologue-Smith; Epilogue-Miss Barsanti (Edition of 1773).
Cast
Role: Sir Soloman Bauble Actor: Shuter

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally