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12706 results for: Keyword - William Shakespear
We found 11030 matches on Author, 1683 matches on Performance Comments, 1329 matches on Event Comments, 57 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

11251
19 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: Julius Caesar With The Deaths Of Brutus And Cassius

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: A new Ballet-Muilment, Mrs Walter, Livier, Mrs Thompson, Pelling, Rector, Mrs Woodward, Miss Brett

Music: Select Pieces-

11252
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

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

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

11253
20 February 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth Part Ii

Related Works
Related Work: Henry ye Fourth, Part II Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

11254
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

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

11255
16 September 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth Part Ii

Related Works
Related Work: Henry ye Fourth, Part II Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

11256
21 September 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. With Scenes and Decorations proper to the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar With The Death Of Brutus And Cassius

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

11257
13 October 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. N.B. The Boxes, not being equal to the great Demand for Places, by particular Desire, two Rowes of the Pit will be Rail'd into the Boxes; and two large Side-Boxes will be form'd on the Stage for the Accommodation of Ladies only

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth Part Ii

Related Works
Related Work: Henry ye Fourth, Part II Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

11258
04 December 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth Part Ii

Related Works
Related Work: Henry ye Fourth, Part II Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

11259
26 September 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 26 Sept.: We hear, that Mr Theobald has given the last Hand to his Tragedy, called, The Death of Hannibal, attempted in Imitation of Shakespear's Manner, and that it is designed to appear on the Stage this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Walter Raleigh

Afterpiece Title: The Harlots Progress or The Ridotto Al Fresco

Dance: As17390920

11260
23 October 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of King Richard The Second

Related Works
Related Work: Richard II Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: SScots Dance-Glover, Miss Roland Ynger

11261
06 December 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Hyde. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth Part Ii

Related Works
Related Work: Henry ye Fourth, Part II Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Related Works
Related Work: The Shepherd's Lottery Author(s): William Boyce

Dance: I: Faithful Lovers-Desse, Miss Oates; III: Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; V: La Badinage de Provence-Poitier, the Elder Mlle Roland

11262
09 May 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Havard, the Author. Mainpiece: Written in Imitation of Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Historical Play king Charles I

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: II: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Muilment; IV: Pierots-Lalauze, Livier; D: Muilment

Song: I: The Noon Tide Air (Comus)-Miss Edwards

11263
14 October 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Admission: 5s. 3s., 2s., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth Part Ii

Related Works
Related Work: Henry ye Fourth, Part II Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Robin Goodfellow or The Rival Sisters

Dance: III: Peasant Dance-Nivelon

11264
13 December 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written Originally by Shakespear, and revised and adapted to the Stage by Mr Theobald. Receipts: #129 19s. 6d. (Account Book); #130 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Double Falshood Or The Distrest Lovers

Dance: MMars and Venus-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini; The Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Italian Peasants-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini

11265
27 January 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth Part Ii

Related Works
Related Work: Henry ye Fourth, Part II Author(s): William Shakespeare

Dance: LLes Matelotes-Fausan, Signora Fausan

Ballet: TThe Enchanted Garden. As17410108

11266
25 February 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosamond

Performance Comment: End Act I will be introduced (by way of Interlude) the Solemn Invocation Scene in Oedipus-; with the Choruses-; After the Opera, the Songs and Choruses in As You Like It written by Shakespear, and by Mr Arne as intended originally to be performed-.

11267
25 February 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 26 Feb.: We are inform'd that last Night a new Entertainment, call'd Harlequin Student...was rehears'd at the late Theatre in Goodman's Fields, when several Persons who were present generally concurr'd in Opinion it had the Preference of any yet perform'd there, and more particularly that Part of it in which the Monument of Shakespear is introduc'd

Performances

11268
03 March 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Student or The Fall of Pantomime With the Restoration of the Drama

Performance Comment: Harlequin Student-Yates; Colombine-Miss Hippisley; Mons Venterbleau-Peterson; Mynheer Van Grub-Julian; Tenebroso-Touchbury; Old Shepherd-Marr; Nurse-Olbeldiston; 1st Watchman-Dunstall; 2d Watchman-Charles; 1st Countryman-Dunstall; 2d Countryman-Crofts; 3d Countryman-Nelson; 4th Countryman-Naylor; Pierot-Shawford; John Trott-Dove; with a Grotesque Dance between Punch, Pierot and Scaramouch-Shawford, Vaughan, Olbeldiston; the whole to Conclude with a Representation of Shakespear's Monument-, as lately Erected; Jupiter-Crispe; Mars-Touchbury; Mercury-Brett; Cupid-Master Nanfan; Minerva-Miss Jones; Melpomene-Mrs Lamball; Thalia-Miss Medina; Ganymede-Mrs Dunstall.

11269
09 October 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: RRylands MS: (Bad) [i.e., Pinchbeck gave a bad performance]. Written by Shakespear. Receipts: #82

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv

Related Works
Related Work: Henry the Fourth, Part I Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Henry ye Fourth, Part II Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: II: The Swiss, as17410926

11270
20 October 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

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

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

11271
19 April 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Yates and Miss Medina. Tickets at Yates's, No. 6, near the Playhouse in Ayliff St., Goodman's Fields. Garrick to Peter Garrick: Mr Littleton...said I was only born to act what Shakespear writ--Little, Pineapples, pp. 30-31

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: Miss Medina

Dance: David and Winifred apShenkin

11272
20 November 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar With The Deaths Of Brutus And Cassius

Dance: Sg and Sga Grimaldi; her 1st appearance on the English Stage. Les Boufons du Cour-Grimaldi, Sga Grimaldi; Les Jardiniers Suedois-Grimaldi, Sga Grimaldi

11273
27 January 1743 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Theatre-Royal in Lincoln's Inn Fields. The Company being oblig'd, by Particular Desire, to get up the Play of All's Well that Ends Well, Written by Shakespear, by Wednesday next (and being employed in reviving several other Plays) are under a Necessity of deferring acting till then

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

11274
10 February 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: 1 Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Song: 1 As17430120

Music: 1 As17430205

11275
23 August 1743 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: FFawkes and Pinchbeck's Great Theatrical Booth, facing the Hospital Gate, West Smithfield. Taken from Shakespear. [Possibly a puppet show.] The occasion is the Retaking the English Standard belonging to Sir Robert Rich's Regiment of Horse by George Darraugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ephesian Duke Or Blunder Upon Blunder Yet Alls Right At Last

Afterpiece Title: The Battle of Dettingen

Dance: WWooden@Shoe Dance-LaPierre, never performed by any but himself; Le Paisans Leger-LaPierre, Mlle Mariette

Song: Blogg, Miss Atherton; The Whole to conclude with a Song made upon that Occasion, set to Musick, and-Mr Blogg