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6334 results for: Keyword - Thomas Middleton
We found 5448 matches on Author, 727 matches on Performance Comments, 384 matches on Event Comments, 67 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

101
03 May 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Thomas D'Urfey.] Never Acted before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Modern Prophets; Or, New Wit For A Husband

Related Works
Related Work: The Modern Prophets: or New Wit For a Husband Author(s): Thomas D'Urfey

102
18 January 1712 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Request of seveal Persons of Quality. The Spectator, 18 Jan., has a letter from Thomas Clayton, Nicolino Haym, and Charlies Dieupart, who deny the rumor that their purpose in presenting concerts is to destroy opera. Rather they wish to improve the art of music, which they feel is utterly destroyed at the moment; however, there will be no performances at York Buildings until after that of the Subscription

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Related Works
Related Work: The Amorous Widow; or, The Wanton Wife Author(s): Thomas Betterton

Entertainment: With several additional Entertainments-

103
30 May 1720 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Music by Dominico Scarlatti, with additional numbers by Thomas Roseingrave. Text by P. A. Rolli.] A new Opera. Pit and Boxes together at half a guinea. Gallery 5s. Stage one Guinea. N.B. When the Tickets are disposed of, no Person will be admitted for Money; places will be kept in the Boxes only

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Narcissus

Related Works
Related Work: Narcissus Author(s): Thomas Roseingrave

104
19 January 1721 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: [By Thomas Odell.] A new Farce of one Act. Benefit J. and Ch. Rich. Receipts: money #112 5s.; tickets #14 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chimera; Or, An Hue And Cry To Change Alley

Related Works
Related Work: The Chimera; or, An Hue and Cry to Change Alley Author(s): Thomas Odell

Afterpiece Title: The Emperor of the Moon

Afterpiece Title: Amadis

105
19 February 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By Thomas Southerne.] Receipts: #93 10s. 6d. Victor, History of the Theatres, II, 152: I happened to be behind the Scenes the first Night of this Comedy, and was very sorry to find that the Audience did not take the Age, as well as the great Merit of this Author, into their Consideration, and quietly dismiss this last weak Effort to please them. When they were hissing dreadfully in fifth Act, Mr Rich, who was standing by Mr Southern, asked him, if he heard what the Audience were doifg? His Answer was, No, Sir, I am very deaf.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Money The Mistress

Related Works
Related Work: Money the Mistress Author(s): Thomas Southerne

106
24 February 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: [By Thomas Walker.] With Rich New Habits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Villainy

Related Works
Related Work: The Fatal Villainy Author(s): Thomas Walker

107
18 August 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Mainpiece: a New Play of Three Acts. [By Thomas Cooke.] At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of Love And Honour

Related Works
Related Work: The Triumphs of Love and Honour Author(s): Thomas Cooke

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Music: Select Pieces-

Dance:

108
16 November 1732 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: A New English Opera. [Text by Thomas Lediard.] Set to Musick after the Italian Manner by Mr John Frederick Lampe. The Scenes and Cloaths are entirely New. With the Representation of a Transparent Theatre. Curiously Illuminated, and adorn'd with a great Number of Emblems, Mottos, Devices, and Inscriptions; and embellish'd with Machines, in a Manner entirely new. N.B. The Illuminations and other Preparations for this Opera are such, that no Person whatever can be admitted to the Stage. Pit and Boxes put together at 6s. Gallery 3s. 6 p.m. [For a discussion of Lediard and this work, see a series of articles by Ifan Kyrle Fletcher, Sybil Rosenfeld, and Richard Southern in Theatre Notebook, II (1948), 42-54.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Britannia

Related Works
Related Work: Britannia Author(s): Thomas Lediard
Related Work: Britannia Author(s): Thomas Arne

109
14 May 1735 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Daniel Boyes and Thomas Lascells, who have been for many Years under Confinement for Debt

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Related Works
Related Work: The Royal Merchant Author(s): Thomas Hull

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

110
26 May 1736 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of the Farce. Mainpiece: The Sixtieth Day. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of Bacchus one Day Gaily Striding: When Fanny, Blooming Fair [Thomas Phillips.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Captains; or, The Impostor Unmask'd

Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Captains; or, The Impostor Unmask'd Author(s): Thomas Phillips

111
26 July 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Acted but Once these Twenty Years. [As lif acted on Tuesdays and Fridays, possibly these plays were given earlier on 22 June.] By a Company of Comedians, acting under Letters-Patent. Mainpiece: Written by Thomas Shadwell, Esq; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woman Captain

Related Works
Related Work: The Woman Captain; or, A Usurer Turned Soldier Author(s): Thomas Shadwell
Related Work: The Woman Captain Author(s): Thomas Shadwell
Related Work: The Prodigal; or, Recruits for the Queen of Hungary Author(s): Thomas ShadwellThomas Odell

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: TThe Ladies' Lamentation, as17370414 A Dialogue set by Henry Purcell-the Masters Hamilton

Dance: JJe ne scai quoi-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates

112
31 January 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: As 10 Dec. 1740. [For a discussion of recent Shakespearean performances, see Thomas Edwards to Richard Owen Cambridge, 31 January 1740@41 in Bodleian MS. 1009, pp. 140-41.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): Thomas Arne

Dance: LLes Masons & Les Sabotiers-Fausan, Signora Fausan; Les Matelotes-Fausan, Signora Fausan

113
19 December 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: never acted [a tragedy by Thomas Cooke]. Macklin's Reply to Garrick published

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love The Cause And Cure Of Grief; Or, The Innocent Murderer

Related Works
Related Work: Love the Cause and Cure of Grief; or, The Innocent Murderer Author(s): Thomas Cooke

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

114
11 October 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Prices 5s., 3s., 2s. Never acted before, a new Comedy. [By Thomas Odell. From Shadwell's The Woman Captain (preface to 1st ed.).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prodigal; Or, Recruits For The Queen Of Hungary

Related Works
Related Work: The Prodigal; or, Recruits for the Queen of Hungary Author(s): Thomas ShadwellThomas Odell
Related Work: The Woman Captain; or, A Usurer Turned Soldier Author(s): Thomas Shadwell

115
25 August 1746 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: YYeates senior and Bennet's Booth, facing the Hospital Gate, West Smithfield. Wrote by Thomas Sheridan, The Player. Noon to 10 p.m. [Notice repeated 26, 27 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Captain O'blunder; Or, The Brave Irishman

Related Works
Related Work: Captain O'Blunder; or, The Brave Irishman Author(s): Thomas Sheridan

Dance: JJockey Dance-Adams; Hornpipe-Banberry

Entertainment: A Machine showing the capture of Cape Breton-

116
08 March 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Giffard and Mrs Giffard. Mainpiece [by Thomas Baker]: Not acted these 15 years. [See 11 July 1738.] At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Afterpiece: A Farce of Two Acts never performed before, taken from a Comedy of the Celebrated Mr Otway. Tickets to be had of Giffard at No. 11 in Craven's Buildings, Drury Lane, and at the stage door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks; Or, The Yeoman Of Kent

Related Works
Related Work: Tunbridge-Walks: or, The Yeoman of Kent Author(s): Thomas Baker

Afterpiece Title: The Soldier's Fortune

Related Works
Related Work: The Touchstone of Invention; or, The Soldier's Fortune Author(s): Thomas Otway
Related Work: The Soldier's Fortune Author(s): Thomas Otway
Related Work: The Soldiers' Fortune Author(s): Thomas Otway

Song: III: O Beauteous Queen Enclose those eyes, Come Ever Smiling Liberty-Mrs Storer; V: the 4th Cantata of Mr Stanly (in the character of Anacreon)-Beard

117
14 March 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sowdon. Ladies send servant by three. Tickets at Will's Coffee House in Cornhill; at Mr Thomas Sowdon's in Blackman St., Southwark, and of Hobson at the stage door. Receipts: #230 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Related Works
Related Work: The Orphan; or, The Unhappy Marriage Author(s): Thomas Otway

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: Devisse, Mad Auretti

118
10 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sowdon. No building on the stage on account of the Coronation. [With] The Death of the Duke of Buckinghamv; the Tryal and Divorce of Queen Catherinev; The Death of Cardinal Wolseyv; the Christening of Princess Elizabethv; and many other historical passages. Tickets to be had of Sowdon, next door to the Black Lyon, in Little Russel-St., Covent Garden; at Will's Coffee House in Cornhill; at Mr Thomas Sowdon's in Blackman St., Southwark, and at the stage door. Mainpiece: Not acted in 6 years [see 1 Jan. 1746]. Receipts: #230 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: Don Quixote

Related Works
Related Work: The Comical History of Don Quixote, Part I Author(s): Thomas D'Urfey
Related Work: The Comical History of Don Quixote, Part II Author(s): Thomas D'Urfey
Related Work: The Comical History of Don Quixote Author(s): Thomas D'Urfey
Related Work: The Comical History of Don Quixote, The Third Part: With the Marriage of Mary the Buxome Author(s): Thomas D'Urfey
Related Work: Barataria; or, Sancho Turn'd Governor Author(s): Thomas D'Urfey
Related Work: Squire Badger Author(s): Thomas Arne

119
11 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Britannia

Performance Comment: [See17550509, but without Miss Thomas.] With a Prologue-Garrick [in the character of a Sailor; Epilogue-[suitable to the Occasion, to be spoken at the head of a Number of Boys clothed in Sailors Habits given them by the Society.suitable to the Occasion, to be spoken at the head of a Number of Boys clothed in Sailors Habits given them by the Society.
Related Works
Related Work: Britannia Author(s): Thomas Lediard
Related Work: Britannia Author(s): Thomas Arne

120
06 March 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #103 18s. [The following Renters came in at 1 share each: Antony Henry Bousing, Mrs Antony Henry Bousing, Robert Jennings Esq, Thomas Repley (Account Book).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

Related Works
Related Work: The Prophetess; or, The History of Dioclesian Author(s): Thomas Betterton

121
21 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Scrase, Mozeen, Ackman, Harrison. Afterpiece: A new farce written by Mr Mozeen (Indiff) (Cross). Ellis Ackman, Henry Scrase, Harrison, Thomas Mozeen advertised the above new piece for their benefit performance being founded on fact (Winston MS 8). Receipts: #170 Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Heiress; or, The Antigallican

Related Works
Related Work: The Heiress; or, the Antigallican Author(s): Thomas Mozeen
Related Work: The Richmond Heiress; or, A Woman Once in the Right Author(s): Thomas D'Urfey
Related Work: The Stolen Heiress or the Salamanca Doctor Outplotted Author(s): Thomas May

Dance: I: Hornpipe-Harrison, a Young Gentleman Harrison's Scholar; End: A Minuet-Two of Harrison's Scholars

122
26 April 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Hull. Afterpiece: Translated (with alterations) from Detouches. Never perform'd before. Translation by Thomas Hull (Biographia Dramatica)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: All in the Right

Related Works
Related Work: The Richmond Heiress; or, A Woman Once in the Right Author(s): Thomas D'Urfey
Related Work: All in the Right Author(s): Thomas Hull
Related Work: The Lord Mayor's Show: Being a Description of the Solemnity at the Inauguration of the truly Loyal and Right Honourable Sir William Prichard, Kt. Author(s): Thomas Jordan

Entertainment: II: The Cries of London-Shuter

Dance: IV: The Venetian Gardeners, as17650925; End: Rural Love, as17651115

123
06 February 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Sixth Day. For the Author. Charges #85 5s. Balance due to author #41 14s. (Account Book). [This balance was paid to Thomas Hull on 9 Feb.] Receipts: #126 19s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Perplexities

Related Works
Related Work: The Perplexities Author(s): Thomas Hull

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Favour

Related Works
Related Work: The Fairy Favour Author(s): Thomas Hull

Dance: End: The Gallant Peasants, as17670113

124
16 September 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission. Benefit for Thomas Barry. Neville MS Diary: Mr Barry having obtained permission to play 3 nights after the time at which Foote by his patent is obliged to shut his house

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan; Or, The Unhappy Marriage

Related Works
Related Work: The Orphan; or, The Unhappy Marriage Author(s): Thomas Otway

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: End: The Fingalian-Miss Froment; End I Farce: Hornpipe-Miss Froment

125
12 April 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Reddish. Mainpiece: By Desire. Farce (adapted by Thomas Ryder from Vanbrugh's Mistake) never acted there

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Like Master Like Man

Related Works
Related Work: Like Master Like Man Author(s): Thomas Ryder

Dance: End: The Wake, as17680220