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7387 results for: Keyword - Weston</i>, has some Requisites, may in Time be a tolerable Actor in <span class=
We found 4446 matches on Event Comments, 3385 matches on Performance Comments, 508 matches on Performance Title, 1 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2751
31 May 1697 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Lady Morley attended this performance. Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 377: Lady Morley and one in the Box att Sham Lawyer 8s. [There is no certainty that this performance was the premiere, but the fact that the play was advertised in the Post Boy, 26-28 June 1697 (Luttrell's copy, Huntington Library, bears his acquisition date of 24 June 1697) suggests that its premiere occured in late May.] Title Page, Edition of 1697: As it was Damnably Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sham Lawyer Or The Lucky Extravagant

2752
01 July 1697 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Post Boy, 29 June-1 July 1697: The New Opera will be Acted this day for the benefit of the Undertaker....The new Opera...is acting with great applause. It is licensed by the Lord Chamberlain's Secretary, and the Master of the Revels; and may be had, with all the songs, at A. Roper's, at the Black-boy in Fleet-street, price 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The World In The Moon

2753
September 1697 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. The date of the first performance is not known. As the play was advertised in the Post Boy, 20-23 Nov. 1697, it was probably first acted not later than October 1697; and, in view of its apparently unsuccessful appearance, may have been a late summer or early fall production. When this play was entered in the Term Catalogues, it had the title, Love's Reward; or, The Unnatural Mother

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unnatural Mother

2754
15 January 1698 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess Or The History Of Dioclesian

Performance Comment: See May 1693.

2755
April 1698 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. The date of the premiere is not known, but the fact that the play was advertised in the London Gazette, 18-20 June 1698, suggests that its first performance occurred in late April or early May 1698. A Comparison Between the Two Stages (1702), p. 20: Damn'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Beauty In Distress

2756
May 1698 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. The date of the premiere is not known, but the fact that the play was advertised in the London Gazette, 4-7 July 1698, suggests that the first performance occurred not later than late May or early June 1698

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Friendship

2757
May 1698 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company. The date of the premiere is not known, but the fact that the play was advertised in the Post Man, 19-21 June 1698, suggests a first performance probably not earlier than the middle of May. Preface, Edition of 1698: I am sufficiently Recompenc'd by the Kind Reception it met with among those whom I design'd to please;...I am blam'd for suffering my Play to be Acted at the Theatre-Royal, accus'd of Foolish Presumption, in setting my weak Shoulders to Prop this Declining Fabrick, and of affronting the Town, in Favouring whom they Discountenance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Victorious Love

2758
03 May 1698 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company was apparently suspended because of its action in allowing John Powell, who had been involved in an altercation with Colonel Stanhope and Charles Davenant, to act before making satisfaction for the incident. See Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 368, and Cibber, Apology, II, 20n. The suspension lasted but a day; on 19 May 1698 Powell was forbidden to be received at either Drury Lane or Dorset Garden

Performances

2759
10 May 1698 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Luttrell, A Brief Relation, IV, 378, 10 May 1698: The justice of Middlesex have presented the playhouses to be nurseries of debauchery and blasphemy

Performances

2760
12 May 1698 @ Drury Lane Theatre and Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: A Brief Relation, IV, 379, 12 May 1698: The justice of Middlesex did not only present the playhouses, but also Mr Congreve, for writing the Double Dealer; Durfey, for Don Quixot; and Tonson and Brisco, booksellers, for printing them: and that women frequenting the playhouses in masks tended much to debauchery and immorality

Performances

2761
13 May 1698 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Post Boy, 14-17 May 1698: On Friday night last there was fine Dancing at Kensington, where his Majesty was present, as also His Excellency the French Ambassador: The Frenchman [l'Abbe], who is lately come over and Dances now at the Play-house, was sent for to dance there, and performed his part very dexterously

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

2762
17 May 1698 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Post Boy, 14-17 May 1698: This Day will be Acted the last new Tragedy, call'd Phaeton, or the Fatal Divorce. For the Benefit of the Author, and for the Entertainment of several French Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phaeton

2763
01 June 1698 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Post Boy, No 479, 28-31 May 1698: At the Request of several Persons of Quality, Mrs Cressea's Entertainment of Vocal and Instrumental Musick will be performed in York Buildings, on Wednesday next, the first of June

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

2764
December 1698 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company. The date of the first performance is not known, but it cannot be later than December 1698, for the play was advertised in the Post Man, 27-29 Dec. 1698. The play may have been produced earlier in the season, but it apparently followed the two operatic works (The Island Princess and Rinaldo and Armida), as the Epilogue alludes to the "late Singers." It also refers to Sigismondo Fideli, as being lately arrived, and he is known to have given a concert on 22 Dec. 1698

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And A Bottle

2765
04 March 1699 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. John Dryden to Mrs Steward, 4 March 1698@9: This Day is playd a reviv'd Comedy of Mr Congreve's called the Double Dealer, which was never very takeing; in the play bill was printed, Written by Mr Congreve; with Severall Expressions omitted: What kind of Expressions those were you may easily ghess; if you have seen the Monday's Gazette, wherein is the King s Order, for the reformation of the Stage: but the printing an Authours name, in a Play bill, is a new manner of proceeding, at least in England (Letters of John Dryden, 112-13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

2766
April 1699 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company. The date of the first production is not known, but the fact that the play was advertised in the Post Boy, 2-4 May 1699, suggests that the premiere occurred not later than early April

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Without Interest Or The Man Too Hard For The Master

2767
April 1699 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. The date of the first production is not know, but the fact that the play was advertised in the Post Boy, 20-23 May 1699, suggests that the premiere was probably not later than April, possibly just after Easter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Princess Of Parma

2768
May 1699 @ May Fair

Event Comment: London Spy, May 1699: Here and there a Poppet-show, where a senceless Dialogue between Punchanello and the Devil was convey'd to the Ears of the listening Rabble thro' a tin Squeaker, being thought by some of them as great a piece of Conjuration as ever was perform'd by Doctor Faustus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

2769
May 1699 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. The date of the premiere is not known, but the fact that the play was entered in the Term Catalogues, June 1699, and advertised in the Post Man, 13-15 June 1699, suggests that it was first given not later than May 1699. In addition, references in the Epilogue to the vogue of Balon and Clementine (see 8, 10, and 15 April 1699) suggest a first production not earlier than April 1699

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Feignd Friendship Or The Mad Reformer

2770
May 1699 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. The date of the first performance is not known, but the fact that the play was advertised in the Post Boy, 6-8 July 1699, suggests a first performance not later than June, probably in May 1699

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend Or The Fate Of Disobedience

2771
12 May 1699 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Post Boy, 11 May 1699: A Consort of New Vocal and Instrumental Musick, for the Benefit of Mr Edward Keene, who was the first Promoter of the Musical Entertainments in Sommerset House Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

2772
09 January 1700 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. This performance was probably the first day of this revival, for Matthew Prior wrote to Abraham Stanyan, 8 Jan. 1699@1700: To-morrow night Betterton acts Falstaff, and to encourage that poor house the Kit Katters have taken one side-box and the Knights of the Toast have taken the other (HMC, Bath MSS. [London, 1908], III, 394). See also 28 Jan. 1699@1700. The play was advertised in the London Gazette, No. 3601, 13-16 May 1700, and the title page states: Reviv'd, with Alterations. Written Originally by Mr Shakespear

Performances

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

2773
March 1700 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company. The date of the premiere is not known, but the second edition (1700) states: The first appearance of this Play was on a Wednesday in Lent; for then (it seems) the Town look for a bad Entertainment. [As the play was advertised in the Flying Post, 2 April 1700, the first performance probably occurred in early March.] A Prologue by Sir Charles Sedley which may have been intended for this play is in Sedley's Works, ed. V. de Sola Pinto (London, 1928), I, 46-47, 288-89. A song in this play, separately printed ca. 1700, indicates that the music was composed by Daniel Purcell and that the song was sung by Mrs Erwin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Reformd Wife

2774
05 March 1700 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. The date of the first performance is not known, but Lucyle Hook, James Brydges Drops in at the Theatre, Huntington Library Bulletin, VIII (1945), 309, speculates that James Brydges' attendance at lif this day may have been prompted by his seeing this new play, as he stayed longer than he often did at a theatrical performance. The comedy was certainly acted before 12 March 1699@1700. James Brydges, Diary: I went to ye play in Lincolns inn fields, where I met Sr G. Coply, who set me down after it was ended (Huntington MS St 26). Downes, Roscius Anglicanus, p. 45: The Way of the World, a Comdey wrote by Mr Congreve, twas curiously Acted; Madam Bracegirdle performance her Part so exactly and just, gain'd the Applause of Court and City; but being too Keen a Satyr, had not the Success the Company Expected

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

2775
08 May 1700 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Post Man, No. 747, 4-7 May 1700: At the desire of several Ladies of Quality, To-morrow being Wednesday, (in the great Room in York Buildings) will be performed a new Mask set to Musick, with an extraordinary entertainment of other Vocal and Instrumental Musick for the Benefit of Mr Gouge [Mr George in Flying Post] and Miss Bradshaw. Prices 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert