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360 results for: Title - An Historical Play

201
17 April 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Entertainment: Between Play and Farce: Shuter's Dish of All Sorts, As17590322, for that night only

Dance: As17581016

202
12 October 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: CCountry Dance-characters of the play; by Desire, a Hornpipe-Miss Dawson

203
08 January 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: HHornpipe-Miss Dawson; Country Dance-Characters in the Play; End II: A Comic Dance-Granier, Miss Hilliard

204
03 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: Incident to the play and The Plowman-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville

205
13 March 1760 @ The Great Room, Dean Street, Soho

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isola Disabitata; Or, The Deserted Island

Entertainment: S$Sg Cordoni, virtuoso on the violin, lately arrived from Italy, who never yet appeared in public, will direct the orchestra and perform a solo and Miss Frederick will play a Concerto on the harpsichord, the compsoition of Sg Paradies

206
10 April 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: CCountry Dance-characters of the play; Hornpipe-Miss Dawson; I: Fingalian Dance-Miss Hilliard; II: Dutch Skipper-Poitier

207
19 April 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Dance: II: By Particular Desire, Mr Parry will play on the Harp

Entertainment: Several New Equilibres on the Wire-Saunders Particularly he will balance two straws, one across the other with an egg in the center; he will Ring 6 Bells on the Wire, and play on Divers Instruments of Music, particularly, (by Desire) the Guitar, while balancing the Straw

208
27 March 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

Dance: End Play: The Italian Gardener, as17601203

209
30 March 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The English Tars in America; or, The Good Woman Without a Head

Dance: III: A Comic Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville; After Play: An Epilogue on the Humours of tne Age in Imitation of Shakespeare's Stage-Cresswick

210
01 April 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The New Hippocrates; or, A Lesson for Quacks

Entertainment: After the Play: by Desire, for that night only The Picture of a Playhouse or, Bucks Have at Ye All-Mr King; a Mimic Comic opera song-Mrs Clive

211
30 September 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: In the Play will be introduc'dThe Coronation

212
29 March 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Merry Counterfeit; or, Viscount a-la-Mode

Dance: TThe French Country Gentleman, as17611210

Entertainment: Between play and Farce:(For this night only) A Dish of All Sorts-Shuter. As17590322

213
21 April 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Entertainment: II: Hearts of Oak-Mrs Vincent, Mrs Baker; End Play: By particular Desire, and for that night only, Bucks Have at Ye All-King as17620330

Dance: After Entertainments: the Louvre and Minuet-Settree, Miss Blagdon (his scholar)

214
11 May 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Dance: TTwo Comic Dances-Mas. Roger, Miss Capitani; End I Farce: Hornpipe-Miss Capitani

Song: I: The Lark's Shrill Note-Mrs Vincent

Entertainment: fter the play, By Particular Desire, the Scene of Lady Pentweazle from Foote's Taste. Lady Pentweazle-King, first time

215
21 May 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: III: The Pleasures of Spring, as17620212; End Play: The Taylors, as17620107

216
15 March 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

Dance: End of Play: The Cow@Keepers-Grimaldi, Miss Dawson

217
21 March 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Sketch of a Fine Lady's Return from a Rout

Song: End of Farce: A Mimic Comic Italian Song from the Opera of Il Filosopho di Campagna-Mrs Clive

Dance: End of Play: The Cow@Keepers, as17630315

218
17 May 1763 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: End of Play: The French Gardeners, as17630407

219
10 November 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Dance: IV: The Cuckoo-Grimaldi, Miss Baker; End of Play: A New Comic Dance call'd The Venetian Gardiners-Mas. Clinton, Miss Street

220
12 November 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Dance: End of Play: The Cuckoo-Grimaldi, Miss Baker

221
14 April 1764 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; Between Play and Farce: Venus Reveng'd, as17631222

Entertainment: After play: Shuter (for Positively this night only) will entertain the audience with his serious, comic, post-haste Journey to Paris, with alterations and additions-Shuter

222
12 May 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

Entertainment: End of play, for that night only, The Cries of London-Vernon

223
30 March 1765 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: End of Play: The Jealous Woodcutter, as17641101

224
06 May 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Dance: End: Tambourine, as17650427

Song: End: By Particular Desire the Favorite song in the Play Love a-la-Mode,-Moody

225
07 May 1765 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; End of Play: Rural Love, as17641212