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18752 results for: Keyword - Sir William Sydney Smith
We found 11804 matches on Author, 8375 matches on Performance Comments, 1638 matches on Event Comments, 743 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

18426
07 May 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: G. Berkeley to Sir John Percival: Mr Addison's play has taken wonderfully, they have acted it now almost a month, and would I belive act it a month longer were it not that Mrs Oldfield cannot hold out any longer, having had for several nights past, as I am informed, a midwife behind the scenes (Rand, p. 115)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

18427
31 October 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband Or The Accomplished Fools

Song: As17151028

Dance: Wade, Prince

18428
12 January 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By John Hughes.] A New Musical Masque, perform'd all in English. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Dance: As17151122

18429
10 February 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler of Preston

Dance: As17151029

18430
09 July 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never acted on the British Stage. One of Terence's Comedies. Translated by Mr Echard and Sir Roger L'Estrange

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Eunuch

18431
11 July 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Translated by Mr Echard and Sir Roger L'Estrange

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Eunuch

18432
12 July 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Crown, Author of Sir Courtly Nice. Receipts: #16 10s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Politicks

Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Leigh, Smith, Spiller, Bullock, Bullock Jr, Hall, Mrs Bullock Jr

Dance:

18433
04 June 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Cook and Wilkins, Boxkeepers. Afterpiece: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Tickets for Sir Mannerly Shallow taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

18434
26 March 1719 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: See a letter from John Dennis to Sir Richard Steele for comments upon dl, Dennis' Coriolanus, All for Love, Caesar Borgia, The Masquerade in Dennis, II, 162-65

Performances

18435
02 April 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Knight. Written by Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Wives Confederacy

Dance: As17190209

18436
25 April 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Thurmond Jr. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Tickets for Sir Courtly Nice and She Would and She Would Not taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Dumb Farce

18437
14 March 1721 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Performance Comment: As17201227, but Southampton-Boheme; Queen-Mrs Giffard; Nottingham-Mrs Gulick; Sir Walter Raleigh-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats or The Tavern Bilkers

18438
22 April 1721 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Spiller. Afterpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: money #29 1s.; tickets #38 16s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist Or The Sham Doctor

Dance:

18439
18 October 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Sir Richard Steel, Knight

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral Or Grief A La Mode

Dance: Mrs Booth, Shaw, Denoyer, Mrs Younger

18440
20 December 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Denoye, Miss Tenoe, Mrs Booth, Mrs Younger

18441
16 April 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Horton. Written by Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral Or Grief A La Mode

Dance:

18442
22 October 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral Or Grief A La Mode

Dance:

18443
17 December 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Dance:

18444
01 November 1723 @ Dog Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medley

Performance Comment: Lorenzo, Gomez, Elvira in The Spanish Fryar, Belmour, Fondlewife, Laetitia in The Old Batchelor, Roger in Aesop, Woodcock, Hillaria, Squib in The Yeoman of Kent, Hob in The Country Wake, Sir Toby, the Philosophers in Love's Contrivance-Tony Aston.
Related Works
Related Work: The Triumphant Widow; or, The Medley of Humours Author(s): William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle

18445
26 November 1723 @ Dog Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medley

Performance Comment: Valentine, Jeremy in Love for Love, Riot, Arabella in The Wife's Relief, The Humours of Hob in Country Wake, Ben, Prue in Love for Love, Sir Sampson, Angelica, Foresight in Love for Love, The Gravediggers in Hamlet, Prologue, Epilogue-Tony Aston.
Related Works
Related Work: The Triumphant Widow; or, The Medley of Humours Author(s): William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle

Song:

Music: A fine forced Wind@Instrument-an Anonymous Person

18446
04 December 1723 @ King's Arms Tavern

Event Comment: At the King's Arms Tavern near Temple Bar. At the Desire of several Gentlemen in the Neighbourhood. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medley

Performance Comment: Gomez, Lorenze, Elvira in The Spanish Fryar, Petruchio, Peg in The Taming of a Shrew, Fondlewife, Laetitia, Belamour in The Old Batchelor, Woodcock, Hillaria, Squib in The Yeoman of Kent, Roger, Aesop, Philosophers, Sir Toby in Love's Contrivances, Prologue, Epilogue-Tony Aston.
Related Works
Related Work: The Triumphant Widow; or, The Medley of Humours Author(s): William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle

Entertainment: Comical Songs-; The Drunken Man-

18447
06 December 1723 @ Dog Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medley

Performance Comment: Teague, Careless in The Committee, The Gravediggers in Hamlet, Sir Sampson, Angelica, Foresight in Love for Love, Jeremy, Valentine, Mrs Frail in Love for Love, Humours of Hob in The Country Wake, Prologue, Epilogue-.
Related Works
Related Work: The Triumphant Widow; or, The Medley of Humours Author(s): William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle

Entertainment: The Ever-New Drunken Man-

18448
10 December 1723 @ Castle Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medley

Performance Comment: Sawney, Petruchio, Peg in The Taming of the Shrew, Belmour, Fondlewife, Laetitia in The Old Batchelor, Woodcock, Hillaria, Squib in The Yeoman of Kent, Roger, Aesop, Sir Toby, the Philosophers in Love's Contrivance, Hob in The Country Wake, The Drunken Man-Tony Aston.
Related Works
Related Work: The Triumphant Widow; or, The Medley of Humours Author(s): William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle

18449
31 December 1723 @ Anchor and Vine Tavern

Event Comment: At the earnest Desire of several Ladies and Gentlemen. At the Anchor and Vine Tavern in Chancery Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medley

Performance Comment: Gomez, Lorenzo, Elvira in The Spanish Fryar, Sauney, Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew, Belmour, Fondlewife, Laetitia in The Old Batchelor, Woodcock, Hillaria, Squib in The Yeoman of Kent, Roger, Aesop, Sir Toby, Philosophers in Love's Contrivance, The Drunken Man-Tony Aston.
Related Works
Related Work: The Triumphant Widow; or, The Medley of Humours Author(s): William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle

Song:

18450
13 March 1724 @ Horseshoe Tavern

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Families. At the Horshoe Tavern in Queen's Street by little Tower Hill. At 6 p.m. Admission 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medley

Performance Comment: Gomez, Lorenzo, Elvira in The Spanish Fryar, Sauney, Petruchio, Peg in Sauney the Scot, Fondlewife, Belmour, Laetitia in The Old Batchelor, Woodcock, Hillaria, Squib in The Yeoman of Kent, Roger, Aesop, Sir Toby, the Philosophers in Love's Contrivance, Prologue, Epilogue-Tony Aston.
Related Works
Related Work: The Triumphant Widow; or, The Medley of Humours Author(s): William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle

Entertainment: Comical Songs-; The Drunken Man-