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3977 results for: Title - The Wheel of Life; or, Harlequin's Death

1
21 August 1727 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore: Containing The Death Of King Edward Iv, The Penance Of Jane Shore, And Her Miserable Fall Under Richard The Protector

Afterpiece Title: With The Comical Humours of Anthony Noodle, His Man Weazle, and Captain Blunderbuss

Afterpiece Title: The Wheel of Life; or, Harlequin's Death

2
31 January 1724 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of Doctor Faustus: With The Humours Of Harlequin And Scaramouch

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances; or, More Ways Than One

3
21 October 1726 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Enchanted Island Of Arcadia; Or, The Magician Doctor, With Harlequin King Of The Woods; Flights, Decorations And Transformations Of Harlequin, Cupid, Pantalon, Venus, And Brighella, Jupiter, And The Sacrifice Of Harlequin

Dance: Furies, Nymphs, Shepherds, Statues-; , the latter performing the Labours of Hercules-Statues , after the Manner of the Venetian Gondaliers at Venice: The whole full of Variety

4
17 August 1732 @ Tottenham Court

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Wife Well Manag'd; Or, Cuckoldom Prevented

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Harlequin; or, The Life and Death of Dr Faustus

5
14 October 1776 @ China Hall, Lower Road, Rotherhithe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Life and Death of Harlequin

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Song: As17760925

Entertainment: Monologue.End 3rd piece: Bucks have at ye all-Master Russell

6
31 May 1680 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Prelate; Being The History Of The Life And Death Of Pope Joan

7
13 March 1697 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of Doctor Faustus

8
25 August 1701 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

Dance: [By] 6 Companies of Rope Dancers; who] [are joyned in one, they being the greatest Performers of Men, Women, and Children, that could be found beyond the Seas, where will be performed such wonderful variety of Dancing, Vaulting, Walking on the Slack Rope, the Sloaping Rope-; [you will see a wonderful Girl of 10 years of Age, who walk backward up the sloaping Rope-Girl of 10 years[, driving a Wheel-barrow behind her; [also you will see the Great Italian Master, who not only passes all that has yet been seen upon the low Rope, [but he Dances[ without a Pole upon the Head of a Mast [as high as the Booth will permit, and afterwards stands upon his Head on the same-Great Italian Master; [You will also be entertained with the many Conceits of an Italian Scaramouch, who Dances on the Rope [with 2 Children and a Dog in a Wheel-barrow, and a Duck on his Head-Italian Scaramouch

Dance: Such variety of Dancing, Vaulting, Walking on the Slack/Rope, Tumbling, as has never been seen in this Fair before-

9
07 August 1710 @ Greenwich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue; or, The Devil in the Wine Cellar

Dance: Irish Trot-; Harlequin Dance-; French Peasant-; Dutch Skipper-; Flemming in Wooden Shoes-; Dance between a Miller his Wife and a Town Miss-; Ladder Dance-a famous Master; Night Scene between a Harlequin, a Cooper, his Wife, and others-

10
04 April 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Whimsical Death of Harlequin

11
06 April 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler of Preston

Afterpiece Title: The Whimsical Death of Harlequin

12
18 April 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Afterpiece Title: The Whimsical Death of Harlequin

Dance: As17151119

13
25 April 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Whimsical Death of Harlequin

Afterpiece Title: Dido and Aeneas

14
27 April 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Afterpiece Title: The Whimsical Death of Harlequin

15
02 May 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Greenwich Park

Afterpiece Title: The Whimsical Death of Harlequin

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis (First Interlude)

Dance: As17151119

16
10 May 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Whimsical Death of Harlequin

Dance: Harlequin Mezzetin and Colombine-; La Caprice, as17160411

17
12 May 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Whimsical Death of Harlequin

Dance: As17160510 [but Sorin and Baxter not mentioned]

18
15 May 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Whimsical Death of Harlequin

Afterpiece Title: Dido and Aeneas

Dance: Harlequin Mezzetin and Colombine-

19
18 October 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Dance: Serious and Comic Dancing-two Children Scholars of M Ballon, lately arriv'd from the Opera at Paris [M and Mlle Salle]; [particularly Two Punchanellos, Two Harlequins and a Dame Ragonde-; The Harlequins-the two Children

20
01 February 1724 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of Doctor Faustus

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

21
04 February 1724 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of Doctor Faustus

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

22
18 February 1724 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marplot

Afterpiece Title: The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus

Music: Between the Acts: Select Pieces-

23
18 April 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

Dance: SShepherds and Shepherdesses-Dupre, Salle, Lally, Pelling, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Wall, Mrs Anderson; A new Dance in the Characters of Harlequin , Punch , Harlequin Woman called The Rivals-Salle, Nivelon, Mlle Salle; Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Salle; Les Characters de la Dance-Mlle Salle

Song: TThe Enthusiastick Song-Leveridge

24
28 March 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Song: End I: Si Caro, Lass of Patie's Mill-Miss Warren; III: Plain Truth, Wheel of Life-Leveridge; IV: Ballad written, set to music by Leveridge-Miss Fenton; V: Merry Cobler's Tragical End At Last-

Dance: II: Peasant-Nivelon; III: Scots Dance-Mrs Bullock

25
24 March 1731 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tragedy Of Tragedies; Or, The Life And Death Of Tom Thumb The Great

Afterpiece Title: The Letter Writers; or, A New Way to Keep a Wife at Home