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8180 results for: Keyword - Sir Wm. Davenant
We found 6114 matches on Performance Comments, 1623 matches on Author, 1000 matches on Event Comments, 462 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3376
17 October 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry IV Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Cast
Role: Sir Jasper Actor: Shepard

Music: new Piece proper to the Occasion by Seedo-

Dance: Houghton, Mrs Walter, Miss Robinson

3377
19 October 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece: Alter'd from Shakespear by Mr Betterton. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Devil of a Duke

Dance: [LLes Bergeries-Essex, Houghton, Miss Robinson, Lally Jr, Tench, Davenport, Mrs Walter, Miss Williams, Miss Mears[; but see17320923

3378
26 October 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Stoppelaer

Song: Miss Raftor

Dance: I: Tambourine-Miss Robinson; IV: Scot's Dance-Houghton, Mrs Walter; End of Farce: Dutchwoman-Miss Robinson

3379
07 November 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Performance Comment: Kitty-Miss Raftor; Roger-Griffin; Sir Humphrey-Shepard; Statute-Berry; Thomas-Stoppelaer; Jonas-Oates; Peter-Charke; Steward-Fielding; Dorcas-Mrs Mullart; Joyce-Miss Brett; Aunt-Miss Shireburn.
Cast
Role: Sir Humphrey Actor: Shepard

Dance: DDutchwoman-Miss Robinson; English Maggot-Houghton, Mrs Walter

3380
11 November 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

Related Works
Related Work: Hamlet Author(s): Sir William Davenant

3381
13 November 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth Viii

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: [Miss Raftor

Dance: [LLes Bergeries, as17321019

3382
11 December 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caelia Or The Perjurd Lover

3383
14 December 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Country Revels

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restord

3384
02 January 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

3385
25 January 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Dance: Essex, Haughton, Mrs Walter, Miss Robinson

3386
08 March 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Booth. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens Or The Death Of Mary Queen Of Scotland

Dance: Denoyer, Haughton, Mrs Walter

3387
15 March 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Scanderbeg

3388
30 April 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Countess

Dance: II: Dutchwoman-Miss Robinson; III: French Gardener and His Mistress-Haughton, Mrs Walter; IV: Saraband, Minuet-Lally Jr, Miss Mears; V: English Maggot-Haughton, Mrs Walter

3389
03 May 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies or The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great

Dance: Essex, Miss Robinson

3390
17 November 1749 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lhomme A Bonne Fortune

Afterpiece Title: La Chercheuse Desprit

3391
14 June 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Dance: End: Peggy's Love (By permission of the Proprietors of the king's Theatre)-Mme Rose, Didelot, Gentili, Mlle Parisot, Mme Hilligsberg; End afterpiece: Cupid and Psyche-the same.Mme Rose, Didelot, Gentili, Mlle Parisot, Mlle Hilligsberg

Entertainment: Monologue. Preceding 1st ballet: [a favorite Epilogue-Mrs Abington (1st appearance on this stage these 8 [recte 7] years)

3392
23 February 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: End I: concerto on the violin-Master Pinto (aged Eleven Years, Grandson to the celebrated Performer of that Name [ThomasPinto])

3393
27 February 1669 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Add. Mss. 36916, folio 128, 2 March 1668@9: The occasion of this [a challenge of the Duke of Buckingham to a duel by Lord Halifax or another friend of Sir William Coventry] there was a new play to be acted on Saturday last called the Country Gentleman, said to be made by the Duke & Sr Robt Howard, wherein tis said that the Earle of Clarendon, Sr Wm Coventry and some other Courtiers are plainly personated, but especially Sr William in the midst of his table of Writings; this he (or some of his relations) would not brooke, but whether he or the Ld Halifax was to fight the Duke is not knowne, but the King hath prevented all; and the play is not acted. [See also Pepys, 4 and 6 March]

Performances

3394
16 April 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bulkley. Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years. [See 19 April 1769.] Afterpiece: A Farce Never acted there [Wm Whitehead]. Tomorrow (for the only Time this Season) The Merchant of Venice with Love-a-la-Mode. Shylock and Sir Archy by Mr Macklin being the only time of his performing this season. For the Benefit of Miss Macklin (playbill). Charges #66. Profit to Mrs Bulkley #43 6s. 6d. plus #103 16s. from tickets (Box 194; Pit 298; Gallery 106). Paid one half year's paving &c. for the Theatre due Lady Day #26 5s. (Account Book). Receipts: #109 6s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens Or The Death Of Mary Queen Of Scots

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Entertainment: Epilogue End: (By Particular Desire) New Occasional Epilogue-Mrs Bulkley

Dance: Minuet-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley (playbill) Fisher, Mrs Bulkley (Public Advertiser)

3395
March 1663 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: In the Prologue to The Cheats (mid-March 1663) are allusions to three plays which apparently were popular on the stage at this time: Jonson's The Silent Woman ("Sir Poll"); Jonson's The Devil is an Ass ("No little Pugge, nor Devil"); and Davenant's The Siege of Rhodes ("No tedious Sieges in the Musick-room")

Performances

3396
02 December 1675 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Bulstrode Papers (I, 324) 3 Dec. 1675: The Earle of Pembroke had another rencounter yesterday at a play house at which he wounded one Davenant, Sir William's son, and got a hurt himself

Performances

3397
12 December 1660 @ Salisbury Court

Event Comment: On this day (L. C. 5@137,p. 343) Davenant was granted a warrant to act the following plays: Tempest, Measures for Measures, Much Adoe About Nothing, Romeo? and Juliet, Twelfe Night, The Life of King Henry the Eyght, The Sophy, Kinge Lear, The Tragedy of Mackbeth, The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark, and The Dutchesse of Malfy. In addition, he was to have exclusive right for two months to The Mad Lover, The Mayde in Ye Mill, The Spanish Curate, The Loyall Subject, Rule a Wife and have a Wife, and [Pericles] Persiles Prince of Tyre. Davenant also received the right to act his own plays

Performances

3398
26 April 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Corey and Wm. Mills. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Cibber

Dance: Boval, Lally, Young Rainton, Miss Tenoe, Miss Robinson

3399
19 April 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Music: Between Acts: Select Pieces-

Dance: Roger, Essex, Boval, Mrs Mills, Miss Robinson

3400
15 March 1731 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benfit Wm. Giffard. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb