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3274 results for: Keyword - the Duke of York
We found 1284 matches on Performance Comments, 1194 matches on Event Comments, 429 matches on Roles/Actors, 402 matches on Author, and 349 matches on Performance Title.

976
07 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies. Benefit Henry Plowman. Receipts: Money #34 14s. 6d.; Tickets #85 7s. (Account Book); #150 (Rylands MS.). [Account Book states that Plowman was charged #80 for his benefit. See a letter by Plowman in Daily Advertiser, 7 Nov., on his acting in this play.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan; Or, The Unhappy Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Tanner of York

Cast
Role: Nancy's Father Actor: Leveridge

Dance: PPeasants-Mechel, Mlle Mechel; Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Drunken Peasant-Phillips

977
11 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. Receipts: #73 2s. 6d. (Account Book); #80 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Cast
Role: Sylvia Actor: Mrs Woffington, the first time of her performing upon that stage.

Afterpiece Title: The Tanner of York

Cast
Role: Nancy's Father Actor: Leveridge

Dance: As17401027

978
06 May 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Tanner of York

Dance: As17410505, but I, III, V: dances

Song: IV: Roast Beef Song (by Desire)-Leveridge

979
21 September 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Tanner of York

980
23 September 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Tanner of York

981
05 April 1756 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Arthur. To prevent any obstruction in the performance, no building on Stage. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Arthur. [Last acted there 23 Sept. 1741.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Tanner of York

Dance: LLes Statues Animees, as17560302

982
14 August 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duke Of Guise

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Ryan

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Song: As17160809

983
21 August 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duke Of Guise

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Ryan

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Song: As17160809

984
06 March 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Frederick, Duke Of Brunswick Lunenberg

Cast
Role: Duke of Wirtemberg Actor: Ryan

985
08 March 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Receipts: money #28 9s. 6d.; tickets #50 14s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Frederick, Duke Of Brunswick Lunenberg

Cast
Role: Duke of Wirtemberg Actor: Ryan

986
06 December 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 117. The King's Company. Andrew Newport to Sir Richard Leveson, 6 Dec. 1660: Plays at court every week (HMC, 5th Report, Part I, 1876, p. 158)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rollo, Duke Of Normandy

987
March 1672 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The King's Company. Although the play was not licensed until 16 Oct. 1676 and not published until 1678, the Epilogue refers in detail to the burning of the King's Theatre in Bridges Street, Drury Lane, suggesting that the premiere came not long after that event

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Third Of France Stabb'd By A Fryer: With The Fall Of The Duke Of Guise

Performance Comment: Edition of 1678: The Prologue-Mr Hart; Epilogue Intended-a Woman.
Cast
Role: The Prologue Actor: Mr Hart

988
09 November 1674 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 73: A box for ye Queene. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 345

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rollo, Duke Of Normandy

989
19 April 1675 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 215. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 345

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rollo, Duke Of Normandy

990
06 February 1682 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Newdigate newsletters, 4 Feb. 1681@2: On Monday morn [the Moorish Ambassador] & ye Comers meet to conclude ye treapy & in ye Afternoon goes to see Rollo D. of Normandy at ye Ks playhouse (Wilson, More Theatre Notes from the Newdigate Newsletters, p. 59)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rollo, Duke Of Normandy

991
29 November 1682 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. As the play was certainly acted on 1 Dec. 1682, it was probably given also on 29 Nov., in spite of the death of Prince Rupert on that day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duke Of Guise

992
30 November 1682 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. Possibly the play was repeated on this day, unless the report of the Abbe Rouchi--see 28 Nov. 1682--means that the play was given only three times

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duke Of Guise

993
01 December 1682 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@145, P. 120: with ye Q: & a box for ye Maides of honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duke Of Guise

994
April 1688 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. The date of the premiere is not known, but as the play was licensed to be published, 21 May 1688, it was probably first acted early in April 1688, perhaps in late March. In 1688, also was separately printed New Songs Sung in The Fool's Preferment: In I, I sigh'd and pin'd and There's nothing so fatal as Woman, the music composed by Henry Purcell. In III, Fled is my love, the music composed by Henry Purcell, and sung by Mountfort. 'Tis death alone and I'le mount to yon blue coelum, the music composed by Henry Purcell. In IV, I'le sail upon the Dog-star, and A Dialogue by Jockey and Jenny, Jenny, gin you can love, the composer not stated. In V, If thou wilt give me back my love, composed by Henry Purcell and sung by Mountfort. See also Purcell's Works, The Purcell Society, XX (1916), iv-vi. When this play was revived at Drury Lane on 16 July 1703, the bill was headed: Not Acted these Fifteen Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Fool's Preferment; Or, The Three Dukes Of Dunstable

995
16 July 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these Fifteen Years. [After this performance the dl at Oxford, where Betterton spoke a prologue written by Joseph Trapp. It appeared as a broadside and in The Players Turn'd Academicks and has been reprinted by Wiley. p. 124.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fool's Preferment; Or, The Three Dukes Of Dunstable

Performance Comment: A New Prologue, to introduce the Reading of that-Mr Betterton to the University of Oxford, in which are some Reflections on the Judgments of the Town; a new Epilogue-in answer to it.
Cast
Role: to introduce the Reading of that Actor: Mr Betterton to the University of Oxford, in which are some Reflections on the Judgments of the Town

996
13 November 1705 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rollo, Duke Of Normandy; Or, The Bloody Brother

Dance: As17051112

997
21 December 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted there these Seven Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rollo, Duke Of Normandy; Or, The Bloody Brother

998
30 October 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duke Of Guise; Or, The Massacre Of Paris

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Song: As17161022; The Genius-Turner

999
11 January 1723 @ Buckingham House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Music by Signior Bononcini-; Words by the late Duke of Buckingham, Vocal Part-Mrs Robinson, Mr Freeman, Mrs Barbeire, Mr Weele, Mrs Clark, Mr Gates, King's Boys; Instrumental Parts-Masters of the best Performers

1000
16 February 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Humphrey, Duke Of Gloucester