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Published / Created:
[1707?]
Call Number:
707.00.00.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Fair in an uproar and Dancing-doggs
Description:
Caption title., Publication date from Foxon., Verse begins: 'Tis well we live in such a fickle place, Where Novelty was ever follow'd more than Grace ... One Foll makes many, if't be really so, Monkies and Monsters are the best to show., "Price 2 d."--Following imprint., "Beware of wretched halfpenny wooden cuts."--Below imprint., and With a large woodcut below the title and preceding the letterpress text: Madamoiselle Javellot is shown on stage flanked on either side by chandeliers wtih her performing dogs in costumes in front and a musician in the background, left, behind the curtain.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Morphew, near Stationers Hall
Subject (Name):
Pinkethman, William, -1725 and Bartholomew Fair.
Subject (Topic):
Opera, Theater, Animals in human situations, Dogs, Fairs, Musicians, Theater curtains, and Trained animals
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The fair in an uproar, or, The dancing-doggs : as they perform in Mr. Pinkeman's new opera in Bartholomew Fair
Published / Created:
[1813]
Call Number:
File 767 P69B B619 1813
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
Playbill advertising a performance at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham which principally takes the form of an apology announcing that the lead of the evening's entertainment, Italian opera singer Angelica Catalani (1780-1849), is unable to attend due to ill health. The soprano's appearance had been much publicised by the local press, hence the need to justify her absence by publishing a communication by the attending doctor
Alternative Title:
Mr. Bartley most respectfully begs leave to inform the public ...
Description:
Caption title. and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
[J]onathan Knott, printer, Birmingham
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Theatre Royal (Birmingham, England), Catalani, Angelica, 1780-1849., Centlivre, Susanna, 1667?-1723., and Birch, Samuel, 1757-1841.
Subject (Topic):
Theater and History
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Theatre Royal, Birmingham. Mr. Bartley most respectfully begs leave to inform the public, that he received on Wednesday morning an intimation from Mr. Elliston, that Madame Catalani laboured under an indisposition of so serious a nature, that it precluded her from performing here on Friday evening ... : This present Friday, October 29, 1813, will be presented the favourite comedy of A bold stroke for a wife ... to conclude with the favourite farce of The adopted child ...
Creator:
Covent Garden Theatre
Published / Created:
[1807]
Call Number:
File 767 P69B C838 1807 6/2a
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Mrs. Mattocks' benefit
Description:
A playbill., At head of title: Mrs. Mattocks' benefit., and For further information, consult library staff. Object File number: 767 P69B (Marr 2015).
Publisher:
Printed by E. Macleish, 2, Bow-Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Morton, Thomas, 1764-1838., Dibdin, Thomas, 1771-1841., and Covent Garden Theatre.
Subject (Topic):
Theater
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, on Tuesday the 2nd of June, 1807, will be presented a comedy, called The way to get married : Captain Faulkner by Mr. Pope, Caustick by Mr. Munden ... End of the play, an address to the audience will be spoken by Mrs. Mattocks. Between the play and farce, an interlude in which Mrs. C. Kemble will perform with singing by Mr. Incledon, Mr. Emery, and Mrs. Liston. To which will be added, for the grand serio-comick romantick melo-drama (in two acts), called Valentine and Orson. The overture, and whole of the musick, composed by Mr. Jouve ... the piece to conclude with a grand pageant ...
Creator:
Covent Garden Theatre
Published / Created:
[1807]
Call Number:
File 767 P69B C838 1807 5/18
Image Count:
1
Description:
A playbill. and For further information, consult library staff. Object File number: 767 P69B (Marr 2015).
Publisher:
Printed by E. Macleish, 2, Bow-Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Dibdin, Thomas, 1771-1841., and Covent Garden Theatre.
Subject (Topic):
Pantomimes and Theater
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, this present Monday, May 18, 1807, will be acted Shakspeare's tragedy called, Coriolanus, or, The Roman matron : Romans. Caius Marcius Coriolanus by Mr. Kemble ... To which will be added, for the 82nd time, a new pantomime, called Harlequin and Mother Goose, or The golden egg. The scenes, musick, machinery, dressses and decroations are entirely new ...
Creator:
Covent Garden Theatre
Published / Created:
[1807]
Call Number:
File 767 P69B C838 1807 5/9
Image Count:
1
Description:
A playbill. and For further information, consult library staff. Object File number: 767 P69B (Marr 2015).
Publisher:
Printed by Macleish, 2, Bow-Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Dudley, H. Bate Sir, 1745-1824. (Henry Bate),, and Covent Garden Theatre.
Subject (Topic):
Theater
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, this present Saturday, May 9, 1807, will be acted Shakspeare's historical play of King Henry the Eighth : Henry, King of England, Mr. Pope ... To which will be added, the musical farce of The flitch of bacon ... The new operatick drama of Peter the Great, or, Wooden Walls, having been received with the most unbounded applause by a brilliant and overflowing audience, will be repeated on Monday ...
Creator:
Covent Garden Theatre
Published / Created:
[1807]
Call Number:
File 767 P69B C838 1807 4/30
Image Count:
1
Description:
A playbill. and For further information, consult library staff. Object File number: 767 P69B (Marr 2015).
Publisher:
E. Macleish, printer, 2 Bow-Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Jephson, Robert, 1736-1803., Dibdin, Thomas, 1771-1841., and Covent Garden Theatre.
Subject (Topic):
Dramatic production, Pantomimes, and Theater
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, this present Thursday, April 30, 1807, will be acted Shakspeare's tragedy of Macbeth : the overture and symphonies between the acts by Mr. W. Ware. ... After which will be produced (for the 9th time), a new grand serio-comick ballet of action, called The ogre and little thumb, or, The seven league boots ... In the course of the pantomime (among others) the following new scenes will be introduced ... with a real cataract. And a sylvan bower ...
Creator:
Covent Garden Theatre
Published / Created:
[1812]
Call Number:
File 767 P69B C838 1812 5/14
Image Count:
1
Description:
A playbill, with cast lists. and For further information, consult library staff. Object File number: 767 P69B (Marr 2015).
Publisher:
E. Macleish, printer, 2, Bow-Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Fawcett, John, 1768 or 1769-1830., and Covent Garden Theatre.
Subject (Topic):
Theater
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, this present Thursday, May 14, 1812, will be acted (15th time) Shakspeare's tragedy of Julius Caesar : Julius Caesar by Mr. Egerton ... After which (for the 15th time) a new grand melo-dramatick spectacle, called The secret mine. The musick composed and selected by Mr. Condell ...
Creator:
Covent Garden Theatre
Published / Created:
[1807]
Call Number:
File 767 P69B C838 1807 6/2
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Mrs. Mattocks' night
Description:
A playbill., At head of title: Mrs. Mattocks' night., and For further information, consult library staff. Object File number: 767 P69B (Marr 2015).
Publisher:
Printed by E. Macleish, 2, Bow-Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Morton, Thomas, 1764-1838., Kemble, Marie Thérèse, 1774-1838., Dibdin, Thomas, 1771-1841., and Covent Garden Theatre.
Subject (Topic):
Theater
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, this present Tuesday, June 2, 1807, will be acted the comedy of The way to get married : Capt. Faulkner, Mr. [P]ope. Caustick, Mr. Munden ... End of the play, an address to the audience will be spoken by Mrs. Mattocks. Between the play and farce, the favourite interlude of Personation, or, Fairly taken in. ...To which will be added, for the grand serio-comick romantick melo-drama (in two acts), called Valentine and Orson. The overture, and whole of the musick, composed by Mr. Jouve ... the piece to conclude with a grand pageant ...
Creator:
Covent Garden Theatre
Published / Created:
[1812]
Call Number:
File 767 P69B C838 1812 5/19
Image Count:
1
Description:
A playbill, with cast lists. and For further information, consult library staff. Object File number: 767 P69B (Marr 2015).
Publisher:
Printed by E. Macleish, 2, Bow-Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Fawcett, John, 1768 or 1769-1830., and Covent Garden Theatre.
Subject (Topic):
Theater
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, this present Tuesday, May 19, 1812, will be acted Shakspeare's historical play of King Henry the Eighth : Henry, King of England, Mr. Egerton ... After which (for the 18th time) a new grand melo-dramatick spectacle, called The secret mine. The principle characters by Mr. Brunton, Mr. Barrymore ...
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