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9971 results for: Keyword - The king
We found 10005 matches on Roles/Actors, 2634 matches on Performance Title, 2610 matches on Performance Comments, 1593 matches on Event Comments, and 25 matches on Author.

1501
05 May 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Macklin, Mr and Mrs Furnival. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Toy Shop

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Performance Comment: Lady Townly-Mrs Furnival; Townly-Mills; Manly-Berry; Lady Grace-Miss Holliday; Basset-Macklin; Sir Francis-Griffin; Richard-Cross; Moody-Miller; Poundage-Turbutt; Lady Wronghead-Mrs Thurmond; Jenny-Mrs Clive; Mrs Motherly-Mrs Cross; Myrtilla-Mrs Villeneuve; Trusty-Miss Bennet.
Cast
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Cibber

Dance: II: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; III: Harlequin-Denoyer's@Prentice; IV: Wooden Shoe Dance-Livier, Villeneuve; V: Minuet-Rector, Mrs Anderson

1502
19 May 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Livier, Ray, Raftor. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Cibber

Music: With theOriginal Musick, carefully reviv'd,-Mrs Clive, Ray, Stoppelaer, Rainton, Este, Raftor, Mrs Pritchard, Mrs Willis, Mrs Marshall

Dance: II: Two Pierrots-Livier, Pelling; III: Punch's Dance-a Child of Six Years old that never performed on the Stage before; V: Wooden Shoe Dance-Livier, Villeneuve

Song: I: The Lady's Lamentation, as17370503

1503
23 May 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit a Person in Distress. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Toy Shop. [Tickets for Janno, Roberts, and Hough also taken.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

Performance Comment: As17370127, but King-Berry.
Cast
Role: King Actor: Berry.

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Cibber

1504
11 June 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. [For an essay on "Kicking in Plays," see Common Sense, 11 June; Daily Gazetteer, 11 June, has another comment on the Licensing Act, and again on 13 June.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Cibber

Dance: II: Harlequin-Denoyer's@Prentice; III: Punch's Dance, as17370519; IV: Wooden Shoe Dance-Livier, Villeneuve; V: Turkish Dance-Muilment

1505
21 January 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By particular Desire. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Wycherley. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Toy Shop

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Cibber

Dance: I: Flanderkins, as17380120 III: Russian Sailor=-Denoyer; V: Ballet, as17380120

1506
23 January 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Toy Shop

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

Cast
Role: King Actor: Mills

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Cibber

Dance: As17380121

1507
02 February 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: As written by Shakespear. [Daily Post, 2 Feb., has a letter from a writer who promises to discuss theatrical affairs in the form of The Domestic Courier; this issue includes four short essays.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of King John

Performance Comment: As17370916, but Arthur-Mrs Vincent; Blanche-Mrs Stevens; With a New Prologue address'd to the Ladies-.
Cast
Role: With a New Prologue address'd to the Ladies Actor: .
Role: King John Actor: Delane
Role: Phillip King of France Actor: Ryan
Role: Lewis the Dauphin Actor: A. Hallam

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: BBallet-Glover, Mlle Roland, Tench, Villeneuve, Desse, Mrs Moreau, Miss Oates, Miss Cantrel

1508
06 February 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Wycherley. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Toy Shop

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Cibber

Dance: I: Flanderkins, as17380120 II: Drunken Peasant-Philips; III: Russian Sailor-Denoyer; V: Ballet-Muilment, Mrs Walter, Livier, Miss Thompson, Pelling

1509
21 February 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 22 Feb.: Since my distant Relation Tomo Chachi was pleas'd, through your Means, to give his Reason for the Town's Condemnation of the Two first licensed Dramatick Performances since the new Act,-I desire to have his Opinion concerning the Fate of the Third-call'd Art and Nature:-I presume he cannot assign for Cause what he did before, for that this Piece did not receive the Indulgence of being heard at all....Adomo Tomo

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Cibber

Dance: I: Grand Ballet-Muilment, Mrs Walter; III: Drunken Peasant-Philips; V: Polonese-Haughton, Mrs Walter

1510
16 March 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Quin. Mainpiece: Written by Dryden, in Imitation of Shakespear. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Toyshop. [Tickets at Quin's Lodgings, The Sun, in Bedford-street, cg.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Cibber

Dance: III: Grand Ballet-Denoyer, Haughton, Mrs Thompson; V: Muilment, Mrs Walter

1511
18 March 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Johnson. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Toy Shop

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Cibber

Dance: As17380316

1512
25 March 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Milward. By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. [Tickets at Milward's in Brownlow Street, dl

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Cibber

Dance: I: French Peasants-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; III: Tambourine-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

Song: BBallad of Mary Scot-Mrs Clive

1513
08 April 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Walker. For the Entertainment of his Excellency Admiral Perez, Ambassador Extraordinary from the Emperor of Morocco. Mainpiece: As written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of King John

Cast
Role: King John Actor: Delane
Role: Phillip King of France Actor: Ryan
Role: Lewis the Dauphin Actor: A. Hallam

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: As17380407

Music: Kettle Drums-John Woodbridge; The celebrated Water Musick of Handel-; with Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Woodbridge

1514
13 April 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Miller (The Miller of Mansfield). At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Cibber

Dance: I: Lilliputian Punch-Master Ferg; II: Drunken Peasant-Phillips; III: Tambourine-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; IV: Turkish Dance, as17380412 V: French Peasants-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

1515
17 January 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Cibber

Dance: II: Grand Dance of Moors-Muilment, Mrs Walter

Music: V: A new Concerto, composyd and performed on the Harpsichord-Mr Henry Burgess Jr; with Accompanyments-

1516
19 January 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By particular Desire, Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Toy Shop

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Cibber

Music: III: As17390117

Dance: V: Grand Dance of Moors, as17390117

1517
20 January 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Cibber

Dance: III: Aethiopian Dance-Muilment, Mrs Walter

1518
01 February 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Cibber

Song: Beard

Related Works
Related Work: Blue-Beard; or, Female Curiosity! Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Dance: Muilment

1519
09 February 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Cibber

Dance: Muilment

1520
07 April 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Poitier. [Tickets at Poitier's Lodgings, the Door before the New Bagnio in Great Suffolk Street, near the Haymarket.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Winstone

Song: TThe Noontide Air (from Comus)-Beard

Music: Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Poitier

Dance: Poitier

1521
09 April 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Winstone

Song: II: The Noontide Air, as17390407

Dance: III: Grand Ballet-Muilment; V: Minuet-Denoyer, Mrs Walter

1522
10 April 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Giffard. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Tickets at Giffard's, No. 4, Craven Buildings, dl

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant Or The Way To Win Him

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Winstone

Dance: I: Punches Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; III: Dutch Dance (new)-Baudoin, Miss Thompson; V: Grand Ballet-Muilment, Mrs Walter

Song: IV: By Desire, Oh Happy Pair (out of Alexander's Feast)-

1523
10 January 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17391204, but With the Original Epilogue-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: With the Original Epilogue Actor: Mrs Clive.
Role: the Dances Actor: Muilment
Role: Elder Brother Actor: Milward
Role: Younger Brother Actor: Wright
Role: With the Dances Actor: Denoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf, Liviez, Baudouin, Rector, Davenport, Cook, Carney, Mrs Walter, Mrs Thompson, Mrs Wright, Mrs Woodward, Mrs Davenport, Mrs Vallois.
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Winstone

1524
11 January 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: As17391222, but Rose-Miss Jenny Hippisley (the first time of her appearance on any stage).

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Winstone

Dance: II: Scots Dance-Master Matthews, Miss Wright; III: Grand Ballet-Muilment; IV: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg; V: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

1525
06 March 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Winstone

Dance: I: Punches-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; II: La Provencale-Mlle Chateauneuf alone; III: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg