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4669 results for: Keyword - The Duke
We found 3568 matches on Roles/Actors, 1162 matches on Performance Comments, 1039 matches on Event Comments, 402 matches on Author, and 331 matches on Performance Title.

2576
28 May 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: As17840415, but Mother-Mrs Pitt; Landlady-Mrs Davenett .
Cast
Role: Mother Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Duke Actor: Davies
Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Cast
Role: Sally Actor: A Very Young Lady, the same that performed it in the Haymarket

Dance: As17840525

2577
10 June 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Extra night] Benefit for Wild. Wild respectfully informs the Public, on account of the Loss he sustained by his former Night [see 17 May], the Managers of Covent Garden and Hay-market Theatres, as well as the several Performers, have granted him their free Assistance. Receipts: none listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Fearon

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17840323but Spirit-L'Estrange; Brothers-Helme, Williames; Sabrina and Pastoral Nymph-Miss Morris .
Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Helme, Williames
Role: The Devil Actor: Bannister
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Bannister
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece Dance by Byrne and Mrs Goodwin; End of Act IV Dance by Harris and Miss Besford

Song: In afterpiece Sweet Echo, as17840323but accompanied by Foster

2578
21 August 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2, by Henry Knapp; music by Samuel Arnold. Author of Prologue unknown. London Chronicle, 24 Aug., states that this was based on a French comedy of the same title.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lord Russel

Cast
Role: Charles the Second Actor: Aickin
Role: Duke of York Actor: Williamson

Afterpiece Title: Hunt the Slipper

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Wilson, Bannister Jun., R. Palmer, Edwin; Miss Morris, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Webb. [Cast from text (Dublin: For the Booksellers, 1792): Old Winterbottom-Wilson; Captain Clement-Bannister Jun.; Glib-R. Palmer; Billy Bristle-Edwin; Maria-Miss Morris; Jenny-Mrs Lloyd; Winterbottom's Sister-Mrs Webb.] New Prologue spoken by Bannister Jun. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.] hathi. New Prologue spoken by Bannister Jun. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.] hathi.

2579
23 August 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Noble Peasant, announced on playbill of 21 Aug.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lord Russel

Cast
Role: Charles the Second Actor: Aickin
Role: Duke of York Actor: Williamson

Afterpiece Title: Hunt the Slipper

Dance: As17840713

2580
27 August 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lord Russel

Cast
Role: Charles the Second Actor: Aickin
Role: Duke of York Actor: Williamson

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

2581
06 September 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2, by John O'Keeffe. Text (ist authorized) in Cumberland's British Theatre, Vol. xxxi]: Written by the Author of The Agreeable Surprise, Son-in-Law, &c. The Overture and new Airs composed by Dr Arnold. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lord Russel

Cast
Role: Charles the Second Actor: Aickin
Role: Duke of York Actor: Williamson

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

2582
24 November 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Cast
Role: Duke's Servant Actor: Palmer

2583
29 November 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Related Works
Related Work: The Fatal Marriage Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Fatal Marriage; or, The Innocent Adultery Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Cast
Role: Duke's Servant Actor: Palmer

2584
04 January 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Chaplin

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

2585
12 January 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Cast
Role: Duke of York Actor: Master Simmons

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Cavern

2586
15 January 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Chances, announced on playbill of 14 Jan.] Receipts: #124 18s. 6d. (80/18/0; 43/18/0; 0/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Cast
Role: Duke's Servant Actor: Palmer

Dance: As17841002

2587
17 January 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 3 years. To conclude with a Grand Representation of a Regatta. Receipts: #226 (183/7/0; 39/10/6; 3/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Chaplin

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

2588
17 January 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Cast
Role: Duke of York Actor: Master Simmons

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Cavern

2589
24 January 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Thompson

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Cavern

2590
28 January 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Thompson

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Cavern

2591
12 February 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Beaumarchais' New Comedy [The Follies of a Day announced on playbill of 10 Feb.] is unavoidably postponed, on Account of Mrs Bates's Indisposition. [Afterpiece in place of The Poor Soldier, similarly announced.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Cubitt

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: Afterpiece to be concluded as17841027

Cast
Role: Chief of the Bostanges Actor: Harris

2592
14 February 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Clarke as Antonio, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Hull.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Fearon

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Cast
Role: Sir Theodore Goodchild Actor: Thompson

Dance: End of Act in of mainpiece, as17840922; End of Act IV, as17840917

2593
17 February 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of The Siege of Damascus; afterpiece of The Critic, both announced on playbill of 15 Feb.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Cubitt

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

Dance: As17841001

2594
12 March 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #291 (283/5/0; 7/12/6; 0/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Kemble
Role: Duke Actor: Chaplin

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

2595
29 March 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Kemble
Role: Duke Actor: Chaplin

Afterpiece Title: Liberty Hall

2596
02 April 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Chaplin

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

2597
05 April 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Kemble
Role: Duke Actor: Chaplin

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

2598
12 April 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

Cast
Role: Duke's Servant Actor: Palmer

2599
13 April 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Thompson

Afterpiece Title: Barataria

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Cubitt
Role: Mary the Buxom Actor: Mrs Wilson.

Dance: As17841116

2600
18 April 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Booth. Mr Booth respectfully hopes his close Attention to the several Departments he occupies in the Theatre will be a sufficient Excuse for his not personally waiting on his Friends. [Public Advertiser, 22 Mar., notes that since Wild's accident [see 11 May] Booth had been acting as prompter.] Public Advertiser, 14 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Booth at his house in Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT I, compiler unknown]: The Music compiled from the most eminent Masters

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: Romeo-Holman; Mercutio-Lewis; Juliet-Miss Younge. No other parts listed, but see17841105 .
Cast
Role: Juliet Actor: Miss Younge. No other parts listed, but see17841105

Afterpiece Title: The Land of Enchantment

Performance Comment: A Select Scene, consisting of Music and Dancing, in which: a Hunting Song [Tantivy, the welkin resounds] by Mrs Martyr; the celebrated Vauxhall Echo Catch [They say there is an echo here (performers not listed)]; a Pastoral Dialogue [Alas! Poor Sue] by Johnstone and Mrs Martyr; Auld Robin Gray by Mrs Kennedy; Poor ThomasDay by Edwin, Brett, Davies. Abdiel, the Genius-Master Farley .
Cast
Role: , the Genius Actor: Master Farley

Afterpiece Title: Barataria

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Cubitt
Role: Mary the Buxom Actor: Mrs Wilson.

Dance: In 2nd piece, by Harris, Miss Besford, Mrs Goodwin, Mrs Ratchford, Miss Matthews

Song: As17841025, but omitted: names of singers