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Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@139, p. 125: The Schoole of Complements at Court. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346. The edition of 1667 was licensed 24 May 1667. Gildon, Life of Betterton (1710), states that Betterton had a role in it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Schoole Of Complements

Performance Comment: [Love Tricks, by James Shirley.] Edition of 1667: The Prologue-; [No actors' names. Epilogue-. [As it is now Acted by His Royal Highnesse the Duke of York's Servants at the Theatre in Little Lincolns Inn Fields.As it is now Acted by His Royal Highnesse the Duke of York's Servants at the Theatre in Little Lincolns Inn Fields.
Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command. With Magnificent New Scenes, Particularly one in Perspective of a Royal Palacev, which exceeds any that has been seen in England, containing about One Thousand Yards of Painting by Sig Roberto Clerici, and to be seen again this Year. Admission as 1 Feb. [The Prince and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Music: As17160502

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Foire De St

Performance Comment: Germain. Parts-the French Company of Comedians , lately arriv'd from the Theatre Royal in Paris.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Performance Comment: Angelina-Miss Purdon; Louiza-Miss Seal; Elvira-Miss Ben; other Parts-Persons from Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane.

Dance: A Gentleman for his Diversion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: Parts-Actors from the Theatre Royal.

Song:

Dance:

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highness's Command. Written by Ben. Johnson. Daily Journal, 11 Oct.: Wednesday their Royal Highnesses...were very much pleas'd with the inimitable Performance of Mr Wilks

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone Or The Fox

Dance: Shaw, Thurmond Jr, Boval, Topham, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Bullock, Miss Teno

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. The King, Queen, Prince, Princess Royal, Princess Amelia, and Princess Carolina present. Universal Spectator, 14 Dec.: On Wednesday in the Afternoon there was a Riot at Drury-Lane Playhouse. The Mob hearing that their Majesties and the rest of the Royal Family were to be at the Play in the Evening, several disorderly People forced into the House pretending to keep Places, broke and did a good deal of Damage before they could be dislodg'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Viiith

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: Castalio-Giffard; Acasto-W. Williams; Polydore-Collet; Chamont-W. Giffard; Chaplain-R. Williams; Serina-Mrs Thomas; Page-Mrs Mountfort; Monimia-Mrs Giffard from the Theatre Royal in Dublin, being the first Time of her Appearance on the English Stage.
Event Comment: By Command of the Princess Royal. [Prince of Wales and Princess Royal present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 14 June: The Managers of...Drury-Lane, have Orders to get Things in Readiness for the Royal Theatre at Hampton-Court, where Plays are to be acted for the Diversion of the Royal Family

Performances

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. [The Royal Family present.] Daily Post, 23 Nov.: We hear the King and all the Royal Family remove from Richmond...and are to be at ...Drury Lane [Friday] Evening; a List of Plays, &c. having been sent to Richmond by his Majesty's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant Or The Sick Ladys Cure

Afterpiece Title: The Country Revels

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gardeners Wedd1ng Or The Waterman Defeated

Performance Comment: Peartree-Julian; Rako-Warner; Ply-Yeates Jr; Bridemen-Williams, Bird; Razor (French Barber)-Dodson; Margery-Mrs Martin; Margery's Mother-Mrs Choca; Bridemaids-Miss Yeates, Miss Nancy Yeates. Concluding with the Entertainment of Britannia; or the Royal Nuptials of the Prince of Orange . or the Royal Nuptials of the Prince of Orange .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi Being the Comic Interlude of Cephalus and Procris

Performance Comment: Gardeners-Pelling, Davenport; Gardeners' Wives-Mrs Davenport, Mrs Villeneuve; Noble Venetian-Este; Italian Bravo-Harper; Miller-Oates; Colombine-Miss Mann; Harlequin-Le Brun; Pierot-Davenport; Mandarin Gormogons-Thurmond, Villeneuve, Pelling, De la Magre; Chinese Guards-Wright, Taylor, Gray, Leigh. Concluding with Le Chasseur Royal by Denoyer, Mlle Roland, &c .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Chymical Counterfeits

Performance Comment: As17401106, but in which will be introduced a Song in Honour of Admiral Vernon's Victories in the West-Indies, as it was performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane-.

Dance: As17401110

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Merchant Or The Happy Pair Interspersd With The Comical Humours Of The intriguing Chambermaid sir John Oldcastle And The drunken Colonel

Performance Comment: A Comedy of two Acts. Merchant-Dove; Oldcastle-Smith; Colonel-Phillips; Rakert-Yeates; Valentine-Wallis; Pride-Powell; Puff-Davis; Security-Johnson; Trick-Evenel; Constable-Wood; Slap-Archer; Mrs Highman-Mrs Tucker; Charlotte-Miss Ferguson; Lady Pride-Mrs Habito; Lady Ruff-Mrs Simmons; Lettice-Mrs Phillips, from Theatre Royal in Drury Lane.

Afterpiece Title: The Miser Bit or Harlequin Reveller

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Phillips, from Theatre Royal in Drury Lane; Miser-Smith; Colombine-Mrs Dove; Clown-Dove.

Song: I: Bumper Squire Jones-Phillips

Dance: LLa Mason and Sabotiers-Phillips, Mrs Dove

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: Scrub-Cibber; Archer-Giffard; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Giffard; Aimwell-W. Giffard; Sullen-Peterson; Freeman-Mozeen; Foigard-Julian; Gibbet-Clough; Boniface-Dunstall; Lady Bountiful-Mrs Bambridge; Dorinda-Mrs E. Giffard; Gipsey-Mrs Dunstall; Cherry-Mrs Chetwood, from the Theatre Royal in Dublin.

Afterpiece Title: Imprisonment of Harlequin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: Nell (by Desire)-Miss Bradshaw, her first attempt on any Stage; Jobson-Dunstall; Loverule-Hemskirk; Lady Loverule-Mrs Bambridge; Doctor-Naylor; Butler-Julian; Cook-Clough; Coachman-Freeman; Lucy-Mrs Vallois; Lettice-Miss Royal [Royar].Royar].
Cast
Role: Lettice Actor: Miss Royal

Dance: I: The English Sailor-Taylor; II: Two Millers and Courtesan-Three Graniers; III: The Sabatiers-LaPierre; IV: The Welch Buffoon-two Masters Granier; V: Comic Ballet-Mr Carney, Mrs Roland, Mr Pelling, Mr Granier, Mrs Vallois, Miss Scott

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Performance Comment: As17430121, but Lothario-the late Pantentee of the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane [Highmore]; Lucilla-Miss Hippisley.

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: II: Welch Buffoons-two Masters Granier; IV: A Scotch Dance-three Graniers; End of Farce: a Grand Ballet-Mr Carney, Mrs Roland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: Pinchwife-a Gentleman from Theatre Royal Dublin; Sir Jasper Fidget-Macklin; Sparkish-Neale; Harcourt-Blakes; Mrs Pinchwife-Mrs Clive; Lady Fidget-Mrs Pritchard; Horner-Mills; Dorilant-Cross; Quack-Turbutt; Alithea-Mrs Ridout; Lucy-Mrs Bennet.

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Song: II: Stella and Flavia-Beard; IV: (By Particular Desire) Bumper Squire Jones-Beard

Music: IV: a Concerto-Piantanida

Dance: III: A Comic Dance-Boromeo, Mlle Bonneval

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: As17430217, but Prue-Miss Hippisley, from the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden; Snap-Freeman; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Bambridge; Nurse-Mrs Haughton; Jeremy-Miss Royer; Epilogue [kindly sent to his [Milward's] Widow the Night before by the Gentleman who wrote The Man of Taste [James Miller]-Cibber. (Theatrical Clippings, Folger Library.)

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Performances

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

Performance Comment: The Parts-the best Actors; the Songs-the best Singers; the Dances-the best Dancers, to and from the Theatres-Royal.

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

Event Comment: Benefit Arne. Tickets to be had of Arne next door to the Crown in Great Queen St., by Lincoln's Inn Fields; at St. James's Coffee House; at Nando's Coffee House, Temple Bar; and at Mr Simpson's Music Shop in Sweeting's Alley near the Royal Exchange, and places taken of Hobson at the Stage Door where tickets may also be had. -General Advertiser. Last night, at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane was perform'd King Pepin's Campaign, with great applause. The Music is said to be inimitable in its way. -Daily Advertiser, 17 April

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: King Pepins Campaign

Song: I: Gentle Shepherd-Mrs Arne

Dance: II: Muilment

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: Captain OBlunder or the Brave Irishman

Performance Comment: Captian O'Blunder-Banberry; Schemewell-L. Hallam; in which will be introduced an Irish Song called Arra my Judy-Barrington at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane.

Dance: The two Masters Granier, Miss Granier; Wooden Shoe Dance, Hornpipe-Banberry

Event Comment: Last Thursday morning, Mr Harrington, Prompter to the Theatre Royal, being delerious and in a high fever, in the absence of his Nurse-keeper, threw himself out of his lodging window, and was killed by the fall. [See A Full and true Account of the woeful and wonderftl apparition of Hurloe Harrington, late prompter to the Theatre Royal in Dublin (London, 1750).] Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Song: IV: Master Mattocks

Event Comment: Paid to Sun Fire Office Insurance #15; Paid for a poker and shovel 5s. (Treasurer's Book). [This policy was doubltless similar to No 109085 dated 29 July 1747 issued to James Lacy and David Garrick Esq. Patentees of His Majesties Company of Comedians of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, for #4,000: "On the Goods and Furniture, Wardrobe Apparel, Machines and Scenes, not valued as pictures, in the House, Dressing Rooms, Wardrobe, and Scene Rooms, of the said Theatre Royal, adjoining togethe r and situate in Drury Lane aforesaid and not elsewhere, not exceeding #4,000...Note: Except such Loss and Damage as may happen by any Fire occasioned by means of any representation in any Play or Farce or in any Rehearsal of the same." (From copy of original policy, by courtesy J. A. Miller, Esq. General Manager, Sun Insurance Office Ltd., sent me in ltr. dated 5 July 1951.)] Receipts: #110 (Cross). #104 5s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Dance: As17491220

Song: III: Master Mattocks