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13964 results for: Keyword - William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle
We found 11072 matches on Author, 2715 matches on Performance Comments, 1460 matches on Event Comments, 383 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

12326
12 February 1677 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@142, p. 81. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 348. The play has a musical setting by Jeremiah Clarke. There is no certainty that this date represents the premiere, but a certain performance on 14 Feb. 1676@7 suggests that this performance on 12 Feb. 1676@7 is part of the initial run. Very probably the play was repeated on 13 Feb. 1676@7

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antony And Cleopatra

Related Works
Related Work: All for Love; or, The World Well Lost Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Antony and Cleopatra Author(s): William Shakespeare

12327
14 February 1677 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The Diary of Robert Hooke: Grace and Tom at Play Antony and Cleopatra

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antony And Cleopatra

Related Works
Related Work: All for Love; or, The World Well Lost Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Antony and Cleopatra Author(s): William Shakespeare

12328
24 March 1677 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@142, p. 81. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 348. There is no indication as to whether this is the premiere. The play was advertised in the London Gazette, 6-9 Aug. 1677

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover; Or, The Banish't Cavaliers

Related Works
Related Work: The Lady’s Revenge; or, The Rover Reclaim'd Author(s): William Popple

12329
June 1677 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. There is considerable uncertainty as to the date of production of this play. Because it was licensed for printing on 2 Aug. 1677, it was probably first acted not later than July 1677. Because some of the names in the cast represent younger actors, it has been thought to be a Lenten production (see Gray, Lenten Casts, pp. 789-90). It seems, however, that the play, because of its reference to performances by the French comedians (the Epilogue refers to "de French Troop at toder end o'Town ") and the offering of Rare en Tout on29 May 1677, probably was acted in June 1677. The Prologue also refers to the comedy as The Women's Play," suggesting that it was produced for the actresses' annual benefit

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The French Conjuror

12330
08 June 1677 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@143, p. 162. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349. It is likely that this comedy was played on each acting day from 31 May to 8 June 1677

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Fond Husband

12331
July 1677 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first production is not known, but the licensing of the play on 13 Aug. 1677 suggests a production not later than July 1677. Dedication to edition of 1678: But having...suffer'd so much through the defects of setting off, when it came on the Stage, it dares not now reject any Accomdation the Press cane give it. For (with the Theatres good leave to speak Truth,) it cannot receive greater Disadvantage in the Reading, than it met in the Presenting, The chief Parts Acted by Women; and, for their Ease, and somewhat of decorum, as was pretended, whole scenes left out, and scarcely any one Speech unmangled and entire. As for Adornments, in Habit, Musick, and Scene-Work it was Vacation-time, and the Company would not venture the Charge

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Nymph; Or, The Rambling Shepheard

12332
28 July 1677 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@143, p. 162. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sullen Lovers; Or, The Impertinents

12333
September 1677 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first production is not known. As the play was licensed for printing on 2 Nov. 1677, it may have had its First performance in October rather than September

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Babylon

12334
01 November 1677 @ Middle Temple

Event Comment: The Duke's Company acted an unnamed play on this day. See A Calendar of Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood, p. 177. Although the payment is dated 13 Feb., it may be a delayed payment for a play on this date

Performances

12335
17 November 1677 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The play was not printed. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@145, p. 120. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349. Andrew Marvell to Sir Edw. Harley, 17 Nov. 1677: To-day is acted the first time Sir Popular Wisdom or the Politician, where my Lord Shaftesbury and all his gang are sufficiently personated. I conceive the King will be there (HMC, 14th Report, Appendix, Part II, 1894, Portland MSS., Volume III, p. 357)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Popular Wisdom; Or, The Politician

12336
17 January 1678 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@145, p. 120. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349. There is no certainty that this is the first performance, but a licensing date of 28 Jan. 1677@8 and Mrs Behn's statement in the Preface that she hurried the play into print suggest a premiere not far from this date. Edition of 1678: To the Reader: I Printed this Play with all the impatient haste one ought to do, who would be vindicated from the most unjust and silly aspersion, Woman could invent to cast on Woman; and which only my being a Woman has procured me, That it was Bawdy, the least and most Excusable fault in the Men Writers, to whose Plays they all crowd, as if they came to no other end then to hear what they condemn in this: but from a Woman it was unnaturall. One song, Sitting by yonder river side, with music by Thomas? Farmer, is in Choice Ayres and Songs, The Second Book, 1679

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Patient Fancy

12337
02 February 1678 @ Middle Temple

Event Comment: Although the records are somewhat ambiguous, the Duke's Company possibly acted an unnamed play on this date. See A Calendar of the Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood, p. 177

Performances

12338
11 March 1678 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C., 5@145, p. 120: Mr Lymberham. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, P. 349. There is no indication as to whether this performance was the premiere, but it probably was part of its initial run, which was limited to three days. Langbaine (English Dramatick Poets): In this Play (which I take to be the best Comedy of his) he so much expos'd the keeping part of the Town, that the Play was stopt, when it had but thrice appear'd on the Stage (p. 164). [In the Dedication to the play, Dryden also refers to its being stopped.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Kind Keeper; Or, Mr Limberham

12339
21 March 1678 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date for this performance is based upon Lump's remark in Act I: "Upon the one and twentieth of March..." Since the dedication bears a date of 16 Feb. 1678@9, the assumption is that the play was first acted on 21 March 1677@8. References in the Prologue also fit the public events of March 1678. Dedication, Edition of 1679: This Play...met not with that Success from the generality of the Audience, which I hop'd for, and you thought, and still think, it deserved

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A True Widow

12340
05 April 1678 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@143, p. 162. An entry for the same play on L. C. list, 5@144, p. 120, with the date 25 April, is possibly an error. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, pp. 348-49. There is no indication that this performance is the premiere, but a licensing date of 31 May 1678 suggests a premiere in April 1678

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Friendship In Fashion

12341
June 1678 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first performance is not known, but a licensing date of 28 June 1678 suggests June as the latest probable date of the premiere. Two songs, Close in a hollow silent cave and How frail is old age to believe, with music by Louis Grabu, are in (the first first) Choice Songs and Ayres, The Third Book, 1681, and (the second) A New Collection of Songs and Poems, 1683

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Squire Oldsapp; Or, The Night-adventurers

12342
June 1678 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. There is no indication of the date of the first production, but a licensing date of 15 July 1678 suggests a June or very early July production

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Brutus Of Alba; Or, The Enchanted Lovers

12343
November 1678 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: In November 1678 the Duke of Modena sent his troupe of comedians to London. They remained there until mid-February 1678@9 but apparently played only six times in three months. For an account of this troupe, see A. L. Bader, The Modena Troupe in England, Modern Language Notes, L (1935), 367-69, and I. K. Fletcher, Italian Comedians in England in the 17th Century, Theatre Notebook, VIII (1954), 86-91. See also Calendar of Treasury Books, 1676-1679, pp. 1160, 1230, and Boswell, Restoration Court Stage, p. 124

Performances

12344
March 1679 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first production is not known, but as the play was licensed for printing on 27 March 1679, the premiere must have been no later than March 1679. It is possible that Midnight's Intrigue--see introductory note to the 1676-77 season-is an earlier version of this play. The Epilogue suggests that the players faced thin audiences during the spring and that Drury Lane had been closed for some time: So hard the Times are, and so thin the Town, @Though but one Playhouse, that must too lie down. It is possible that Mrs Behn's The Young King may have been acted at this time. See September 1679

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feign'd Curtizans; Or, A Night's Intrigue

12345
15 May 1679 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Memoirs of Sir John Reresby (p.181): The Duke of Albemarle carryed me this afternoon to the play, which I had not leisure to take the diversion of for some time

Performances

12346
September 1679 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the premiere is not known, but the fact that the play the play was entered in the Term Catalogues in November 1679 suggests that it was first acted not much later than September 1679

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woman Captain

12347
September 1679 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. There is no certainty as to the date of the first production; but as this play was entered in the Term Catalogues November 1679, it was certainly first acted by October 1679, possibly in September 1679. A musical number, The Loyal Protestant, the music by Thomas Farmer, is in Choice Ayres and Songs, The Third Book, 1681

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Virtuous Wife; Or, Good Luck At Last

Related Works
Related Work: Richmond Wells; or, Good Luck at Last Author(s): John Williams

12348
03 October 1679 @ Brussels, Belgium

Event Comment: Apparently The Man of Mode had an amateur revival in Brussels in the autumn, possibly before the Duke and Duchess of York, when they were away from London. Princess Anne to Frances Apsley, 3 Oct. 1679: The play is practisde to night Miss Watts is to be Lady townly which part I beleeve wont much become her. [See Benjamin Bathurst, Letters of Two Queens (London, 1924), pp. 111-12]

Performances

12349
09 February 1680 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Newdigate newsletters (Folger Shakespeare Library), 9 Feb. 1679@80: The late disorders at the Playhouse hath soe much incenst his Matye that tis said he hath commanded the persons to be proceeded Agt as Ryotters (Wilson, Theatre Notes, p. 80). [In Domestick Intelligence, 8-10 Feb. 1679@80, is a reference to an information in the King's Bench brought against those who participated in the disorders in the Duke's playhouse.

Performances

12350
13 February 1680 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@145, p. 120: The Wanton Wife. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350. For difficulties in dating this performance, see 11 Feb. 1679@80

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife