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15918 results for: Keyword - William Henry Ireland
We found 13652 matches on Author, 2294 matches on Performance Comments, 1275 matches on Performance Title, 848 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

13701
08 January 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virtue Betrayed Or Anna Bullen

Performance Comment: Henry VIII-Hulett; Anne Bullen-Mrs Thurmond; Piercy-Delane; Wolsey-W. Giffard; Northumberland-Huddy; Rochford-Rosco; Lady Diana-Mrs Purden; Lady Elizabeth-Mrs Williamson; Princess Elizabeth-Miss Cole, a Child of four Years of Age, who never appeared on any stage before.
Cast
Role: Henry VIII Actor: Hulett
Role: Lady Elizabeth Actor: Mrs Williamson

13702
24 September 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virtue Betrayd Or Anna Bullen

Performance Comment: Henry VIII-Hulett; Anna Bullen-Mrs Thurmond; Piercy-Delane; Wolsey-Lyon; Northumberland-Huddy; Rochford-Rosco; Lady Diana-Mrs Hamilton; Lady Elizabeth-Mrs Haughton; Princess Elizabeth-Miss Cole, a Child of five Years of Age. A new Epilogue by Miss Cole .
Cast
Role: Henry VIII Actor: Hulett

Afterpiece Title: The Tavern Bilkers

13703
29 December 1746 @ James Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Anna Bullen Or Virtue Betrayd

Performance Comment: Henry VIII-Wilmott; Piercy-Edwards; Rochford-White; Anna Bullen-Mrs Clarke; Elizabeth-Miss Cole.
Cast
Role: Henry VIII Actor: Wilmott

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

13704
10 April 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Anna Bullen Or Virtue Betrayed

Performance Comment: Henry VIII-Clarke, 1st time; Piercy-Smith, 1st time; Wolsey-Ryan; Rochford-Ridout; Northumberland-Sparks; Lady Diana Talbot-Miss Condill; Lady Elizabeth Blunt-Mrs Vincent; Anna Bullen-Mrs Bellamy, 1st time.
Cast
Role: Henry VIII Actor: Clarke, 1st time

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Ballet: JJudgment of Paris. As17580407

Dance: JJovial Coopers, as17571107

Music: By Desire, a piece onthe Welch Harp-Roberts

13705
01 April 1766 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virtue Betrayed Or Anna Bullen

Performance Comment: Henry VIII-Clarke; Piercy-Smith; Wolsey-Gibson; Rochford-Dyer; Northumberland-Walker; Lady Diana Talbot-Miss Macklin; Lady Elizabeth Blunt-Mrs Vincent; Princess Elizabeth-Miss Besford; Anna Bullen-Mrs Bellamy.
Cast
Role: Henry VIII Actor: Clarke

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

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

13706
10 October 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: Royal Clemency or The Deserter of Naples

Performance Comment: Henry-Barrymore; Russet-Wewitzer; Simkin-Suett; King-Palmer Jun.; Officers-Cooke, Caulfield; Jailor-Benson; Turnkeys-Stageldoir, Comerford; Bridemen-Maddocks, Lyons; Soldiers-Welsh, Hobler, Brown, Dorion Sen., Dorion Jun., Saunders, Horsfall, Walker, Willoughby, Burden; Skirmish-Delpini; Jenny-Miss DeCamp; Mother-Mrs Booth; Bridemaids-Mrs Bramwell, Mrs Gaudry, Mrs Edwin, Mrs Haskey; Louisa-Mrs Gibbs.
Cast
Role: Henry Actor: Barrymore
Related Works
Related Work: The Deserter Author(s): William Reeve

13707
29 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Lovers Quarrels

Related Works
Related Work: Every Body Mistaken Author(s): William Taverner
Related Work: Cephalus and Procris: With The Mistakes Author(s): Henry Carey

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter of Naples

Performance Comment: Henry (the Deserter)-H. Johnston; [Simpkin-$Bologna Jun. (see18000527)] Louisa's Father-Lewiss; Jailer-Hawtin; Country Lads-Platt, Blurton, Wilde, L. Bologna, Curties, Lee; Skirmish-Delpini; Jenny-Mrs Mills (1st appearance in that character); Louisa's Mother-Mrs Whitmore; Lasses-Ms Watts, Ms Follett, Ms Bologna, Ms Cox, Ms L. Bologna, Ms Norton, Ms Carne; Louisa-Mrs H. Johnston (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Henry Actor: H. Johnston
Related Works
Related Work: The Deserter Author(s): William Reeve

Entertainment: Vaudeville In course Evening: an entire New Song, The Seaman's Lamentation for the Loss of the Royal Charlotte (The Words by G. S. Carey, and composed by Mazzinghi)-Incledon; Dancing-Mr and Master Michell (from the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh; 1st appearance)

13708
29 November 1666 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Henry Muddiman, 29 Nov. 1666: The Players have upon great proffers of disposing a large share to charitable uses prevailed to have liberty to act at Both Houses, which they begin this day (CSPD, Charles II, clxxcii, 6, in Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 250). A manuscript prologue for the opening of the theatre in Bridges Street is in J. Payne Collier's MS Restoration Stage History, Part I, p. 106, in the Houghton Library, Harvard. The Diary of John Milward, Esq., ed. Caroline Robbins (Cambridge, 1938), p. 49: This day at my coming to the House [of Commons] it moved that plays might be tolerated and acted in the common theatres, and whether any members of the House of Commons should be admitted to go to acts of the playhouses, but it was not resolved

Performances

13709
17 December 1677 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Henry Savile to the Earl of Rochester, 17 Dec. 1677: I had allmost forgott for another argument to bring you to towne that a French troop of comaedians bound for Nimeguen were by adverse winds cast into this hospitable port and doe act at Whitehall soe very well that it is a thousand pittyes they should not stay, especially a young wench of fifteen, who has more beauty and sweetnesse than ever was seen upon the stage since a friend of our left it (HMC, Bath MSS., 1907, II, 161). W. J. Lawrence (Early French Players in England, pp. 148-49) identifies the French actress as Francoise Pitel, later Mlle Raisin

Performances

13710
20 November 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Henry Cromwell to Alexander Pope, 7 Dec.: We have had a poor comedy of Johnson's (not Ben) which held seven nights, and has got him three hundred pounds, for the town is sharpset on new plays (Pope, I, 136)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wifes Relief

13711
17 October 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Henry II oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of Clarke's Illness. [Bensley took his part in Alexander the Great.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs

13712
01 April 1786 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Perseo

Dance: End of Act I New Divertissement, as17860311End of Opera a new Ballet (composed by D'Egville) L'Amour Jardinier by Vestris, Fabiani, Sga Carolina Pitrot, Mlle Mozon, the two Mlles Simonet, Duquesney Jun., Henry, Michel, Mlle Baccelli

Performance Comment: , Henry, Michel, Mlle Baccelli .

13713
10 December 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Resolution

Performance Comment: William-Baker; Mary-Mrs Beaumont.
Cast
Role: William Actor: Baker

Dance: A new Ballad Dance-Leppi

13714
24 September 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: New Brooms

Afterpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: May Day or The Little Gipsy

Performance Comment: William-Vernon; Clod-Bannister; Dozey-Waldron; Cryer-Wrighten; Furrow-Parsons; Dolly-Mrs Wrighten; The Little Gipsy-Miss Abrams.
Cast
Role: William Actor: Vernon

13715
01 May 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theyve Bit The Old One Or The Scheming Butler

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: May Day or The Little Gipsey

Performance Comment: William-Incledon; Old Towler-Incledon; Sally in our Alley-Incledon; Clod-Farley; Furrow-Powel; Cryer-Rees; Dozey-Munden; Dolly-Mrs Martyr; The Little Gipsey-Mrs Clendining.
Cast
Role: William Actor: Incledon

Entertainment: Monologue. End 2nd piece: an Epilogue Address portraying the Characteristic Jealousies of the Spaniard, the Italian, the Dutchman, the Frenchman, & the Englishman,-Mrs Mattocks

13716
09 November 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Management

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost

Afterpiece Title: The Mouth of the Nile

Performance Comment: William-Emery; Jack Junk-Townsend; Michael-Hill; Old Peasant-Simmons; Pat-Macartney; French Officer-Wilde; Peasants-Linton, Street, Thompson; Adela-Mrs Sydney; Susan-Miss Sims.
Cast
Role: William Actor: Emery

13717
22 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Good natured Man

Performance Comment: Lofty-Lewis; Honeywood-Pope; Old Croaker-Munden; The Bailiff-Knight; Leontine-H. Johnston; Sir William Honeywood-Murray; Little Flannagan-Emery; Postboy-Simmons; Jarvis-Thompson; Butler-Abbot; Mrs Croaker-Mrs Mattocks; Olivia-Miss Murray; Garnet-Mrs Mills; Miss Richland-the Late Miss Betterton [i.e. now Mrs Glover].i.e. now Mrs Glover].
Cast
Role: Sir William Honeywood Actor: Murray
Related Works
Related Work: The Fathers; or, The Good Natur'd Man Author(s): Henry Fielding

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Performance Comment: William-Incledon; Gage-Munden; O'Daub-Johnstone; Serjeant Drill-Townsend; Sir Harry Bouquet-Betterton; Monsieur Bluard-Farley; Recruits-Emery, Simmons; Nell-Mrs Chapman; Nancy (with the Manual Exercise)-Mrs Mills.
Cast
Role: William Actor: Incledon
Related Works
Related Work: Love in a Camp; or, Patrick in Prussia Author(s): William Shield
Related Work: Hartford Bridge; or, The Skirts of the Camp Author(s): William Pearce

Afterpiece Title: The Hermione

Song: End: A Chapter of Fashions (never performed; written by T. Dibdin Jun.)-Munden; The Tight Little Lads of the Ocean (never performed; written by the Author of The Bundle of Proverbs)-Fawcett

13718
03 September 1679 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: William Blaythwaite to Sir Robert Southwell, 4 Sept. 1679 [describing a visit made on 3 Sept. 1679 by Sir Edward Dering, Mrs Helena Percival, Miss Helena, Miss Betty, and himself]: What we saw was the dancing on the ropes performed first by Jacob Hall and his company, then by a Dutch dancer, who did wonderful feats. From thence we went to the Elephant, who I think was more terrible than pleasant to the young spectators (Morley, Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair, p. 192)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

13719
02 April 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady Or Harlequins Opera In The Manner Of A Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Part-Penkethman, Bullock, Lacy, W. Giffard, W. Williams, Huddy, Smith, Collet, Bardin, Mrs Thomas, Mrs Mountfort, Mrs Giffard, Mrs Palmer; but edition of 1730 lists: Ballad-Penkethman; Meanwell-W. Giffard; Modely-Bullock; Drama-Lacey; Mrs Foible-Mrs Mountford; Mrs Sprightly-Mrs Giffard; Prattle-Mrs Palmer; Merit-W. Williams; Smooth-Mrs Thomas; Hackum-Huddy; Whim-Smith; Trifle-Collet; Voice-Bardin; Harlequin-Burney.
Cast
Role: Part Actor: Penkethman, Bullock, Lacy, W. Giffard, W. Williams, Huddy, Smith, Collet, Bardin, Mrs Thomas, Mrs Mountfort, Mrs Giffard, Mrs Palmer
Role: Merit Actor: W. Williams

Dance: Burny, Sandham, Eaton, R. Williams as Harlequin, Scaramouch, Punch, Pantalon

Performance Comment: Williams as Harlequin, Scaramouch, Punch, Pantalon.

13720
22 November 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: William and Nanny [announced on playbill of 20 Nov.] is unavoidably postponed on account of Moody's Indisposition. Receipts: #117 16s. 6d. (116.13.0; 1.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Related Works
Related Work: Hamlet Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

13721
19 November 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unfortunate Lovers

Related Works
Related Work: The Unfortunate Lovers Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Related Work: The Ungrateful [Unfortunate] Lovers Author(s): Sir William Davenant

13722
29 June 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Rhodes Part Ii

Related Works
Related Work: The Siege of Rhodes, Part II Author(s): Sir William Davenant

13723
01 July 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Rhodes Part I

Related Works
Related Work: The Siege of Rhodes, Part I Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Related Work: The Siege of Rhodes, Part II Author(s): Sir William Davenant

13724
03 July 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Rhodes Part I

Related Works
Related Work: The Siege of Rhodes, Part I Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Related Work: The Siege of Rhodes, Part II Author(s): Sir William Davenant

13725
04 July 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Rhodes Part Ii

Related Works
Related Work: The Siege of Rhodes, Part II Author(s): Sir William Davenant