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We found 1284 matches on Performance Comments, 1194 matches on Event Comments, 429 matches on Roles/Actors, 403 matches on Author, and 349 matches on Performance Title.
Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 117. The King's Company. Andrew Newport to Sir Richard Leveson, 6 Dec. 1660: Plays at court every week (HMC, 5th Report, Part I, 1876, p. 158)

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Mainpiece Title: Rollo Duke Of Normandy

Event Comment: The King's Company. Although the play was not licensed until 16 Oct. 1676 and not published until 1678, the Epilogue refers in detail to the burning of the King's Theatre in Bridges Street, Drury Lane, suggesting that the premiere came not long after that event

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Mainpiece Title: Henry The Third Of France Stabbd By A Fryer With The Fall Of The Duke Of Guise

Performance Comment: Edition of 1678: The Prologue-Mr Hart; Epilogue Intended-a Woman.
Cast
Role: The Prologue Actor: Mr Hart
Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 73: A box for ye Queene. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 345

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rollo Duke Of Normandy

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 215. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 345

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Mainpiece Title: Rollo Duke Of Normandy

Event Comment: The King's Company. Newdigate newsletters, 4 Feb. 1681@2: On Monday morn [the Moorish Ambassador] & ye Comers meet to conclude ye treapy & in ye Afternoon goes to see Rollo D. of Normandy at ye Ks playhouse (Wilson, More Theatre Notes from the Newdigate Newsletters, p. 59)

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Mainpiece Title: Rollo Duke Of Normandy

Event Comment: The United Company. As the play was certainly acted on 1 Dec. 1682, it was probably given also on 29 Nov., in spite of the death of Prince Rupert on that day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duke Of Guise

Event Comment: The United Company. Possibly the play was repeated on this day, unless the report of the Abbe Rouchi--see 28 Nov. 1682--means that the play was given only three times

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Mainpiece Title: The Duke Of Guise

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@145, P. 120: with ye Q: & a box for ye Maides of honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349

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Mainpiece Title: The Duke Of Guise

Event Comment: The United Company. The date of the premiere is not known, but as the play was licensed to be published, 21 May 1688, it was probably first acted early in April 1688, perhaps in late March. In 1688, also was separately printed New Songs Sung in The Fool's Preferment: In I, I sigh'd and pin'd and There's nothing so fatal as Woman, the music composed by Henry Purcell. In III, Fled is my love, the music composed by Henry Purcell, and sung by Mountfort. 'Tis death alone and I'le mount to yon blue coelum, the music composed by Henry Purcell. In IV, I'le sail upon the Dog-star, and A Dialogue by Jockey and Jenny, Jenny, gin you can love, the composer not stated. In V, If thou wilt give me back my love, composed by Henry Purcell and sung by Mountfort. See also Purcell's Works, The Purcell Society, XX (1916), iv-vi. When this play was revived at Drury Lane on 16 July 1703, the bill was headed: Not Acted these Fifteen Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Fools Preferment Or The Three Dukes Of Dunstable

Event Comment: Not Acted these Fifteen Years. [After this performance the dl at Oxford, where Betterton spoke a prologue written by Joseph Trapp. It appeared as a broadside and in The Players Turn'd Academicks and has been reprinted by Wiley. p. 124.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fools Preferment Or The Three Dukes Of Dunstable

Performance Comment: A New Prologue, to introduce the Reading of that-Mr Betterton to the University of Oxford, in which are some Reflections on the Judgments of the Town; a new Epilogue-in answer to it.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rollo Duke Of Normandy Or The Bloody Brother

Dance: As17051112

Event Comment: Not Acted there these Seven Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rollo Duke Of Normandy Or The Bloody Brother

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Mainpiece Title: The Duke Of Guise Or The Massacre Of Paris

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Song: As17161022; The Genius-Turner

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Music by Signior Bononcini-; Words by the late Duke of Buckingham, Vocal Part-Mrs Robinson, Mr Freeman, Mrs Barbeire, Mr Weele, Mrs Clark, Mr Gates, King's Boys; Instrumental Parts-Masters of the best Performers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Humphrey Duke Of Gloucester

Event Comment: Benefit the Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Humphrey Duke Of Gloucester

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Humphrey Duke Of Gloucester

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Humphrey Duke Of Gloucester

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Humphrey Duke Of Gloucester

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Humphrey Duke Of Gloucester

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Humphrey Duke Of Gloucester

Event Comment: Benefit the Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Humphrey Duke Of Gloucester

Event Comment: Benefit Sandham. At the Particular Desire of several Gentlemen and Ladies

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Song: Singing in Italian and English-a Gentlewoman that never appeared on the Stage before; particularly the Famous Mr Henry Purcell's Song, From Rosy Bowers-

Dance: Sandham, Burny, Eaton, Dukes, Mrs Haughton, Miss Sandham

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Turnd Dancing Master

Music: Between the Acts: Select Pieces-

Song: Miss Thornowets; particularly See From the Silent Groves-Miss Thornowets

Dance: PPierrots, Flag Dance-Burny, Dukes, others

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Performance Comment: See17300401 but Townly-Giffard; Lady Townly-Mrs Giffard; Manly-Huddy; Sir Francis-Penkethman; Basset-Bardin; Richard-R. Williams; Moody-Collet; Lady Grace-Mrs Haughton; Lady Wronghead-Mrs Thomas; Jenny-Mrs Mountfort; Mrs Motherly-Mrs Palmer; Myrtilla-Miss Vaughan; Mrs Trusty-Miss M. Vaughan; Epilogue-Penkethman on an ass.
Cast
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Palmer

Dance: End Act I: The White Joke-Eaton; III: -Dukes

Song: II: a Youth, aged 13; IV: Mrs Mountfort