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2790 results for: Keyword - The Prince of Wales
We found 913 matches on Event Comments, 716 matches on Performance Comments, 558 matches on Roles/Actors, 514 matches on Performance Title, and 402 matches on Author.

276
21 January 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #278 19s. 6d. (269.7.0; 9.12.6; 0.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Cast
Role: Prince John Actor: Lamash
Role: Prince of Wales Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Dance: As17771009

277
21 March 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Cast
Role: Prince John Actor: Lamash
Role: Prince of Wales Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: Belphegor

Dance: As17771009

278
24 October 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Second Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Cast
Role: Prince of Wales Actor: Palmer
Role: Prince John Actor: Lamash

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Cast
Role: Commander@in@Chief at the Camp Actor: Farren
Related Works
Related Work: First Faults Author(s): Maria Theresa De Camp

Dance: End IV: The Force of Love, as17781003

279
30 October 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Chances, announced on playbill of 29 Oct.] Receipts: #195 9s. (166.0.0; 29.2.6; 0.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv

Cast
Role: Prince John Actor: Lamash
Role: Prince of Wales Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Cast
Role: Commander@in@Chief at the Camp Actor: Farren
Related Works
Related Work: First Faults Author(s): Maria Theresa De Camp

Dance: As17780922

280
28 December 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv

Cast
Role: Prince John Actor: Lamash
Role: Prince of Wales Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Dance: End II: The Coopers, as17781211

281
22 January 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv

Cast
Role: Prince John Actor: Lamash
Role: Prince of Wales Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Wonders of Derbyshire

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Wright, Grimaldi, Waldron, R. Palmer, Burton, Griffiths, Holcroft, Philimore, Kenny, Fawcett, Chaplin, Nash, Bannister, Miss Simson, Miss Abrams, Miss G. Abrams, Mrs Love, Mrs Gaudry, Miss Kirby, the Miss Stageldoirs, Miss Collett.

Dance: End II: The Coopers, as17781211

282
19 May 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Colles, the Widow Legg & Miss Kirby. Morning Post, 17 May: Tickets to be had of Miss Kirby, No. 70, Long-acre [others not listed]. Receipts: #225 15s. (37.9.0; 11.11.6; 1.2.6; tickets: 175.120) )charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv

Cast
Role: Prince John Actor: Lamash
Role: Prince of Wales Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

283
01 June 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Percey, Shade & Cameron. Tickets delivered by Lewis, Hodges, Gardner, and for Monday, the 31st of May, will be taken. MS annotation on Kemble playbill: "I believe this was the last time of Mr Henderson's acting at Drury Lane, except when he played Jaques in As You Like It for Mrs Robinson's Benefit, April 7, 1780. See October 18, 1779, Covent Garden Bills." Receipts: #301 6s. 6d. (19.14.0; 2.14.6; 0.14.0; tickets: 278.4.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Second Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Cast
Role: Prince of Wales Actor: Palmer
Role: Prince John Actor: Lamash

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Dance: End IV: As17780919

284
24 November 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth, With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Cast
Role: Prince of Wales Actor: Lewis
Related Works
Related Work: The Humours of Sir John Falstaff, Justice Shallow, and Ancient Pistol Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Afterpiece Title: William And Nanny

285
14 January 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv

Cast
Role: Prince of Wales Actor: Brereton

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: As17791220

286
12 February 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv

Cast
Role: Prince of Wales Actor: Brereton

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Dance: As17791220

287
23 May 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mortimer, Tomlinson, Carleton Sen., Woollams & Bayne. Tickets delivered by Devoto, Page, Finney and Barthrope will be taken. [Afterpiece in place of Who's the Dupe?, announced on playbill of 22 May.] Receipts: #24 13s. 6d. (19.1.0; 5.2.6; 0.10.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv

Cast
Role: Prince of Wales Actor: Brereton

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

288
02 April 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. 1st piece: With a Representation of the Trial at Westminster Hall. Public Advertiser, 22 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Lewis, Broad-court, Bow-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #205 19s. (183.13; tickets: 22.6) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Charles The First

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Cast
Role: Prince of Wales Actor: Lewis
Role: Clown's Wife] Actor: Miss Matthews

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: 2nd piece: a Dance of Sailors Sailor's Dance-Aldridge

289
23 April 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Cast
Role: The Death of the Stag Actor:
Role: Give round the word Actor: Doyle
Role: They say there is an echo here Actor: Davies, Robson, J. Wilson, Doyle
Role: whom she complains of the loss of her son She t Actor:
Role: The soldier tired of war's alarms Actor: Miss Catley.

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Cast
Role: Prince of Wales Actor: Lewis
Role: Clown's Wife] Actor: Miss Matthews

290
22 May 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Green and Ansell, box-keepers. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. Receipts: #292 11s. (33.9; tickets: 259.2) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comedy Of Errors

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Cast
Role: Prince of Wales Actor: Lewis
Role: Clown's Wife] Actor: Miss Matthews

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

Cast
Role: The Death of the Stag Actor:
Role: Give round the word Actor: Doyle
Role: They say there is an echo here Actor: Davies, Robson, J. Wilson, Doyle
Role: whom she complains of the loss of her son She t Actor:
Role: The soldier tired of war's alarms Actor: Miss Catley.

Dance: As17810402

291
24 May 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Cast
Role: The Death of the Stag Actor:
Role: Give round the word Actor: Doyle
Role: They say there is an echo here Actor: Davies, Robson, J. Wilson, Doyle
Role: whom she complains of the loss of her son She t Actor:
Role: The soldier tired of war's alarms Actor: Miss Catley.
Role: Prince of Wales Actor: Lewis
Role: Clown's Wife] Actor: Miss Matthews

292
17 August 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School Of Shakespeare

Performance Comment: ACT I. Filial Piety, as17810807 ACT II. Parental Tenderness, as17810807, but Gloster-Miss Francis; [ACT III. Ambition, as17810807 ACT IV. Love, in the Tomb Scenev in Romeo and Juliet [parts of V. i and iii]. Romeo-Bannister Jun.; Friar Lawrence-Gardner; Capulet-Webb; Apothecary-Barrett; Paris-R. Palmer; Montague-Massey; Juliet-Mrs Cargill (1st appearance in Tragedy).
Cast
Role: Apothecary Actor: Barrett
Role: Prince of Wales Actor: Palmer
Role: Prince John Actor: Miss Francis
Role: Prince of Wales Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Young Actor

Related Works
Related Work: The Young Actor Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Entertainment: Cento, as17810807

Song: End I of 1st piece: Admiral Benbow (in the character of a Sailor)-Bannister; End III: Moderation and Alteration-Edwin

293
24 August 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: Falstaff-Henderson (1st appearance here these 4 years); Sir Hugh Evans-Edwin; Justice Shallow-Wilson; Doctor Caius-Baddeley; Host-Bannister; Page-Staunton; Slender-R. Palmer; Fenton-Wood; Bardolph-Massey; Pistol-Egan; Simple-Blissett; Robin-Master Edwin; Ford-Palmer; Mrs Quickly-Mrs Edwin; Mrs Page-Mrs Hitchcock; Ann Page-Miss Wewitzer; Mrs Ford-Miss Farren (1st appearance in that character).

Afterpiece Title: Kensington Gardens

Cast
Role: Prince of Wales Actor: Palmer
Role: Princess Huncamunca Actor: A Young Lady

Afterpiece Title: Ripe Fruit

Cast
Role: Prince of Wales Actor: Palmer
Role: Princess Huncamunca Actor: A Young Lady

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Performance Comment: As17810822, but Princess Huncamunca-A Young Lady (2nd appearance on any stage [see17810822]); Plumante-_.
Cast
Role: Princess Huncamunca Actor: A Young Lady
Role: Prince of Wales Actor: Palmer

Song: In 2nd piece: As17810822; End of 3rd piece: Moderation and Alteration, as17810817

294
29 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Jackson, Prosser, Helme, Lloyd, Real, Rowson, R. Ledger, Mrs Hamilton, Mrs Lampe, and the Performers in the Orchestra will be admitted this Evening. Receipts: #276 12s. 6d. (83/7/0; 2/7/6; tickets: 190/18/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Cast
Role: Prince of Wales Actor: Lewis

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: End of mainpiece Rural Merriment by Jackson and Mrs Ratchford; End of mainpiece Hornpipe by Prosser

295
17 November 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Cast
Role: Prince of Wales Actor: Lewis

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day

296
12 January 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth

Cast
Role: Prince of Wales Actor: Lewis

Afterpiece Title: Friar Bacon

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Chalmers. Other parts from Larpent MS and from Morning Chronicle, 24 Dec.: Head, Councillors in Lilliput, Cryer, Lord Mayor, Alderman, Clerk, Lawyer, Judge, Sailor, Country Squire, Watchman, Clown, Father

297
25 May 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Cast
Role: Prince of Wales Actor: Lewis

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: End of mainpiece The Charms of a Camp, as17840521

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece Tally Ho! by Mrs Martyr; End of Act iv Poor ThomasDay by Edwin, Davies, Brett

298
29 October 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Frederick Pilon. Prologue probably by the author]. Public Advertiser, 11 Nov. 1784: This Day is published Aerostation (1s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Cast
Role: Prince of Wales Actor: Lewis

Afterpiece Title: Aerostation; or, The Templar's Stratagem

Performance Comment: Characters by Quick, Wewitzer, Bonnor, Davies, Wilson; Miss Ranoe, Mrs Morton, Mrs Webb. [Cast from text (G. Kearsley, 1784): Quarto-Quick; Dawson-Wewitzer; Mineall-Bonnor; George Gordon-Davies; Scrip-Wilson; Mineall's Servant-Newton; Sophia Harland-Miss Ranoe; Kitty-Mrs Morton; Widow Grampus-Mrs Webb; Milliner-Mrs Poussin.] Prologue spoken by Wilson. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 6 performances only (see17841117).] hathi. Prologue spoken by Wilson. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 6 performances only (see17841117).] hathi.

299
22 October 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Elizabeth Inchbald. Prologue by Edward Topham (London Chronicle, 26 Aug. 1786)]. Account-Book, 5 June 1786: Paid Mrs Inchbald in full for Appearance is against Them #50. Public Advertiser, 11 Nov. 1785: This Day is published Appearance is against Them (1s.). Receipts: #207 2s. (204/10/6; 2/11/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Cast
Role: Prince of Wales Actor: Lewis

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Quick, Palmer, Thompson, Kennedy, Edwin; Mrs Webb, Mrs Bates, Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Wilson. [Cast from text (G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1785): Mr Walmsley-Quick; Lord Lighthead-Palmer; Thompson-Thompson [sic]; Clownly-Kennedy; Humphry-Edwin; Servant to Lord Lighthead-Swords; Servant to Lady Mary-Ledger; Lady Mary Magpie-Mrs Webb; Lady Loveall-Mrs Bates; Miss Angle-Mrs Morton; Miss Audley-Miss Stuart; Fish-Mrs Wilson; Betty-Mrs Davenett.] Prologue spoken by Wroughton. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 8 performances only (see17851115).] hathi. Prologue spoken by Wroughton. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 8 performances only (see17851115).] hathi.
Cast
Role: Lord Lighthead Actor: Palmer
Role: Servant to Lord Lighthead Actor: Swords

300
31 December 1787 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Cast
Role: Prince of Wales Actor: Lewis

Afterpiece Title: The Dumb Cake

Cast
Role: English Father Actor: Fearon
Role: English Father's Wife Actor: Mrs Pitt