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2474 results for: Keyword - his Mae Author. The Spartan Dame
We found 1929 matches on Event Comments, 356 matches on Performance Title, 264 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

76
20 February 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, author unknown. Not published]. Receipts: #172 10s. 6d. (125.1.0; 46.5.0; 1.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Law Of Lombardy

Afterpiece Title: Jehu

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Farren, Lamash, R. Palmer, Miss Sherry, Miss Farren; Town and Country Magazine, Feb. 1779, p. 62, assigns Lord Jehu-King; Larpent MS 467 lists this part, as well as the other parts: Whiffle, Fenton, Groom, Mrs Gules, Lucy. Prologue , not listed on playbill, printed in Public Advertiser, 24 Feb., written by the author, and spoken by-King.

77
29 January 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Samuel Jackson Pratt. Prologue and Epilogue probably by the author]. Receipts: #210 7s. (190/11; 19/11; 0/5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Vanity

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by King, Palmer, Dodd, Brereton, Baddeley, R. Palmer, Parsons; Mrs Bulkley, Mrs Hopkins, Mrs Wrighten, Miss Phillips, Miss Farren. [Cast from text in the author's Miscellanies (T. Becket, 1785), Vol. n: Sir Hercules Caustic-King; Sighwell-Palmer; Lord Frolic-Dodd; Valentine Onslow-Brereton; Secondhand-Baddeley; Scrape-R. Palmer; Alderman Ingot-Parsons; Scurry-Phillimore; Servants-Chaplin, Kenny, Alfred, Spencer; Widow Wherret-Mrs Bulkley; Lady Blaze-Mrs Hopkins; Pucker-Mrs Wrighten; Helena Caustic-Miss Phillips; Ophelia Wyndham-Miss Farren.] Prologue spoken by Palmer. Epilogue spoken by Miss Farren . Prologue spoken by Palmer. Epilogue spoken by Miss Farren .

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

78
10 November 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 1st piece: 1st Time [at this theatre; see dl, 7 Nov.]. "Mr Hayley's Marcella, which was anticipated on Saturday evening at Drury Lane, and was received with considerable marks of disapprobation...was brought forward [at Covent Garden] under the auspices of the Author" (Public Advertiser, 11 Nov.). "[The performers all acted well at Covent Garden; and Kemble was the only one at Drury Lane who even knew his part" (Prompter, 11 Nov.). Receipts: #201 17s. (197.13.6; 4.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marcella

Performance Comment: Characters-Holman, Farren, Aickin, Egan, Harley, Mrs Pope. [Cast from European Magazine, Nov. 1789, p. 378: Alphonso [Mendoza]-Holman; Lupercio-Farren; Governor of Barcelona-Aickin; Lopez-Egan; Hernandez-Harley; Marcella-Mrs Pope; ["Holman's part was unluckily ycleped Mendoza (i.e. the name of a pugilist who, at this time, was enjoying great popularity); it is now mended into Alphonso' (World, 22 Oct). At dl, on 7 Nov., it was changed to Alonzo.] [New Occasional Prologue by the Author of the Piece [William Hayley]-Holman.

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Cast
Role: His Lieutenant Actor: Evatt
Role: Lieutenant of the Marines Actor: Ratchford
Role: Emai Actor: Miss Francis. Part I. A Nuptial Procession, with the Performance of the Marriage Ceremony according to the Custom observed at O'Whyee. The Manner of Combat between two Natives. Part II. The Arrival of the Resolution. The Disembarkation of the English, with the Ceremonies observed at entering into a Treaty of Peace with the Natives. A Preparation for a Human Sacrifice. The Assassination of Captain Cook. Part III. A Representation of the Naval and Military Honours observed on erecting a Pile to the Memory of Capt. Cook, by the Officers of the Resolution. The Ceremony performed on the same Occasion, according to the Manner of the Natives of O'Whyee. To conclude with a Representation of a Burning Mountain.

79
18 January 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time in London; T 5, by Hannah Brand, 1st acted at Norwich, 7 Apr. 1791. Again acted at king's on 2 Feb. as Agmunda; text 1st published in Miss Brand's@Plays@and@Poems (Norwich: Beatniffe and Payne, 1798) as Huniades; or, The Siege of Belgrade. Prologue and Epilogue by the author (London Chronicle, 19 Jan. 1792)]: The Dresses, Decorations, &c. entirely new. Receipts: #367 1s. 6d. (314.2.6; 51.8.0; 1.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Huniades

Performance Comment: The Christian Characters by Kemble, R. Palmer, Wroughton, Barrymore, Aickin, Dignum, Whitfield, Maddocks, Packer, Bland, Jones, Cooke, Lyons, A Young Lady (Author of the Tragedy; 1st appearance on any stage), Miss Collins. The Mahometan Characters by Palmer, Benson, Webb, Sedgwick, Caulfield. Cast from London Chronicle, 21 Jan.: Hungarians: Huniades-Kemble; Vilach-R. Palmer; Corvinus-Wroughton; Count of Cilley-Barrymore; Campestran-Aickin; Zilugo-Whitfield; Old Officer-Packer; Agmunda-Miss Brand; Ella-Miss Collins; Turks: Mahomet II-Palmer; Mustapha-Benson; Zoganus-Webb; Aga-Sedgwick; Chusanes-Caulfield; Dignum, Maddocks, Bland, Jones, Cooke, Lyons; Prologue-Miss Farren; Epilogue-Bannister Jun.

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

80
16 December 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Author's Night. @Receipt #126 4s.@House charges #84@Candles #1 5s.@Kettle Drum 5s.@Chorus Singers #2@Total #87 10s.@Balance due the author #38 14s.@Tickets 14 48 #10 14s.@Money #126 4s.@Total #136 18s. (Account Book).@ [The #136 18s. represents the total value of the house, from two sources: money at the door and tickets given to the author to dispose of. Since the #10 14s. value of the tickets is not added into the Account Book as a receipt for the company, it is presumed that the author received this as a bonus in addition to the #38 14s. which was taken in over and above the house charges, etc.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Dance: I: The Female Archer, as17671029; II: The Merry Sailors, as17671009

81
27 April 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Author's Night. The Author labouring under a severe and dangerous illness, hopes his friends will excuse his personal Application, and send for tickets to Mr Watts, at the Printing Office in Wild Court; or to Hobson at the Stage door of the theatre at Drury Lane Mahomet translated from the French of Voltaire; but I have no great opinion of the subject, or the original author as a poet; and my diffidence is rather improved by the testimony of those who have seen it.-Letters of William Shenstone, p. 89

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Goddess

Cast
Role: Shepherdesses Actor: Mrs Walter, Mrs Thomson, The Miss Scotts, Mlle Auguste.
Role: the Swiss Actor: Blakes

82
11 January 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Author's Day. [Publication of the play announced in the Public Advertiser this day, along with the following "puff" by Censor Dramaticus: "Sir: I have just given the new comedy, the Double Mistake, its first reading, and must confess I never was better pleased at a first reading than at present: It is chaste, sententious and genteel in its dialogue, interesting in its plot, the characters all of consequence, strongly marked and happily kept up, and even the virtuoso entertaining without being tiresome. I heartily wish it success, and congratulate the author on such a production, which shows that virtuous principles in high life render the persons that possess them doubly charming, and add real grace and dignity to their appearance in public life....I hope I may be believed when I say I have not the most distant knowledge of the author, and that impartiality shall ever be, and ever was my constant plan in observations of this kind."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Mistake

Cast
Role: Southerne Actor: Dunstall

83
26 November 1719 @ Coignand's Great Room

Event Comment: [Author unknown. Apparently not published.] Benefit the Author. A new Comedy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Benefit Ticket; Or The Self Rival

84
31 December 1722 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Author unknown. Apparently not published.] Benefit the Author. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tyrant

Song:

Dance:

85
23 September 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Author unknown. Apparently not pubhished.] Benefit a Young Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Town Airs

Performance Comment: All the Parts-young Gentlemen , who never appear'd on any Stage before; With a Prologue-; Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: All the Parts Actor: young Gentlemen , who never appear'd on any Stage before

Music: Between the Acts: Select Pieces-

86
24 February 1724 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Author unknown. Apparently not printed.] Benefit the Author. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. No Persons to be admitted into the Boxes, Pit, or Gallery, But by printed Tickets

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of Milan

87
29 January 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Author's Day. Books of the Comedy to be had at the Theatre. N.B. The Author has generously given the profits of this day to a Fund, lately establish'd, by the Performers of the above Theatre, for the Maintenance of Decayed Actors and their Families. Public Advertiser, 3 Feb. 1766: The Performers of Covent Garden Theatre return their sincere thanks to Mr Cumberland for his generous donation of the profits of the 9th performance of The Summer's Tale, amounting to #74, for use of the newly established Theatrical Fund

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Summer's Tale

Cast
Role: Sir Anthony Withers Actor: Shuter

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: I: Rural Love, as17651115; II: The Garland, as17651003

88
13 December 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Author's 2nd Night. House Charges #64 12s. Balance due author #94 3s. plus income from 89 Box tickets #22 15s. (Account Book). Receipts: #158 15s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Cast
Role: lists Mirza Actor: Davis, but Davis does not appear on the playbill, which lists Mrs Lessingham, though no part appears for her in the 1768 edn.. Mrs Lessingham played Aspasia according to the listing in Lloyd's Evening Post, 2 thru 5 Dec.

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Cast
Role: the Hornpipe Actor: Miss Twist.

89
19 December 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Author's 3rd Night. Charges #64 12s. Balance due author #114 12s. 6d. plus income from 38 Box tickets #9 10s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Cast
Role: lists Mirza Actor: Davis, but Davis does not appear on the playbill, which lists Mrs Lessingham, though no part appears for her in the 1768 edn.. Mrs Lessingham played Aspasia according to the listing in Lloyd's Evening Post, 2 thru 5 Dec.

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: End: The Garland, as17681028

90
12 December 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Author's Night [for Mainpiece]. Charges #64 9s. Balance to Author #92 6s. 6d. Paid Mrs Lessingham on acct #100 (Account Book). Receipts: #156 15s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Related Works
Related Work: The Loyal Brother; or, The Persian Prince Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Perfidious Brother Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: The Twins; or, Is It He, or his Brother? Author(s): Matthew Gregory Lewis

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Lady

Cast
Role: The principal parts Actor: Mattocks, Lewes, Fox, R. Smith, The Young Lady who perform'd in Man and Wife

Dance: End: The Whim, as17691123

91
27 February 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Author's night. Charges #70 6s. 6d. Balance due author #147 18s. (Account Book). Receipts: #218 4s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timanthes

Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Smith, Bensley, Clarke, Wroughton, Gardner, Davis, R. Smith, Mrs Bulkley, Mrs Yates. Prologue and Epilogue in Act III a Procession. The Vocal parts-Reinhold, Mrs Baker, Mrs DuBellamy, Baker, Fox. Timanthes-Smith
Role: The Vocal parts Actor: Reinhold, Mrs Baker, Mrs DuBellamy, Baker, Fox. Timanthes-Smith
Role: Timanthes Actor: Smith
Role: Cephisa Actor: Mrs Bulkley
Role: the Vocal Parts Actor: Reinhold, Mrs Baker, DuBellamy, Baker, Fox

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Lady

Cast
Role: the principal Parts Actor: _Mattocks, _Lewes, _Fox, R. _Smith, The Young Lady who performed in Man and _Wife.
Role: The principal parts Actor: Mattocks, Lewes, Fox, R. Smith, The Young Lady who perform'd in Man and Wife

Entertainment: As17700224

92
09 February 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Author's Night. Charges #64 10S. Profit to author #47 16s. (Account Book). [Yet according to note in Account Book for 11 March 1773 the managers gave Mr O'Hara the clear receipts of this night: #112 6s.] Receipts: #112 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

Cast
Role: The Dragon Actor: Burton

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Cast
Role: Sally Actor: Miss Brown, who performed last season in the Fairy Prince and in Man and Wife.

Dance: As17730208; End II Comedy: The Dutch Milkmaid, as17720925

93
10 January 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Author's 3rd Night. Paid properties 16s. 8d.; Housekeeper's Bill #9 16s.; Chorus 2 nights (8th incl.) #18 15s. Receipts: #212 3s. 6d. Charges: #73 10s. Profits to Author: #138 13s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

94
17 January 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Author's 3rd Night. Paid Mr G. Garrick per Fosbrook, on acct #50. Receipts: #171 6s. 6d.; Charges: #73 10s.; Profit to author: #97 11s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Choleric Man

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Newphew Actor: Cautherly

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17740917

95
24 January 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Author's Night. Paid Sga Hidou for lace per Mr Johnston #31 18s. 10d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #186 3s.; Charges: #73 10s.; Profit to author: #112 11s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Matilda

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Newphew Actor: Cautherly

96
06 May 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Author of Prologue unknown. Epilogue by the author of mainpiece (Town and Country Magazine, May 1779, p.269).] Receipts: #146 17s. (110.19.0; 34.15.6; 1.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Deception

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Dance: As17790417

97
March 1703 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [Author and date of premiere unknown.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fickle Shepherdess

Performance Comment: Edition of 1703 lists: Clorinda-Mrs Barry; Amintas-Mrs Bracegirdle; Damon-Mrs Bowman; Alexis-Mrs Prince; Menalchas-Mrs Willis; Adrastus-Mrs Lee; Amaryllis-Mrs Porter; Urania-Mrs Alison; Claius-Mrs Lawson; Flavia-Mrs Martin; Shepherd-Miss Parsons; Dorylas-the little Boy; Prologue-Mrs Porter; Epilogue written by Burnaby-Mrs Barry.
Cast
Role: Dorylas Actor: the little Boy

98
26 January 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Author unknown: "By G. B." Premiere.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love The Leveller; Or, The Pretty Purchase

99
April 1706 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Author and date of premiere unknown.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lover; Or, Wit In Necessity

100
07 April 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Author unknown.] Never Acted before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Injur'd Love; Or, The Lady's Satisfaction