Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. This present Thursday, February 7, 1822

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  • Title: Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. This present Thursday, February 7, 1822, (4th time) Shakspeare’s play of The tempest. (Altered and adapted by Dryden and Davenant … Prospero … by Mr. Young … Ariel by Miss M. Tree … : After which will be produced, for the 37th time, a new pantomime, called Harlequin and Mother Bunch; or, The yellow dwarf … Guinea Pig, (Captain of the Yeomen, afterwards Harlequin’s Lacquey) Mr. I.S. Grimaldi … Yellow Dwarf, (afterwards Clown,) Mr. Grimaldi …
  • Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], [1822]

Catalog Record

File 767 P69B C838 1822 2/7

Acquired August 2021

Acting magistrates committing themselves being their first appearance

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“The stage of Covent Garden Theatre is seen from the right with a small part of the pit in the left foreground; the boxes and galleries adjoining the stage form the background on the left. The pittites are standing and blow trumpets, spring rattles, ring bells, and shout. Those in the crowded boxes behave in the same way; with one exception all are men. Two men occupy each of the two boxes over the stage-door; they watch passively. The musicians’ seats are empty, but candles burn beside their open music-books, and one of the orchestra stands facing the audience, threatening them with fist and baton. On the stage three men stand together addressing the audience. The man in the centre holds out a paper: ‘Riot Act’; he says: “We shall Read the riot act”. Behind them stands Kemble wearing a tail-coat and white trousers, appealing to the audience with his hands meekly together as if in prayer. Large notices and placards hang from the galleries and boxes: ‘Old Prices’ [five times]; ‘Harris will but Kemble won,t’; ‘No Kembles No more insults’; ‘Kemble remember the Dublin Tin Man’; ‘No Foreign Sofas’; ‘Iohn Bull against Iohn Kemble’; ‘No Catalani’; ‘Old Prices’ [three times]; ‘No Italian Private Boxes’; ‘£6000 for Caterwauling’; ‘Catalani’, below a print of a cat dressed as a woman, and singing ‘Me Yo’ from a music-book; ‘No Catalani!! Mountain– Billington, and Dickons for ever’; ‘Ol Price for ever No caterwauling’; ‘Old Prices No Catalani’; a gigantic placard: ‘Statement– £ Subscribed — £80-000 Fire Office — 50-000 Old Materials — 25-000 155-000 New Theatre —- 150-000 Managers of it —- 5-000′ Held up by a ‘John Bull’ in the pit who blows a trumpet: ‘No Catalani No Pigeon Holes Old Prices No Private Boxes’. A man shouts from a box: “Off Off Off Off”; he springs a rattle.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811?, printmaker.
  • Title: Acting magistrates committing themselves being their first appearance on this stage, as performed at the National Theatre Covent Garden, Sepr. 18, 1809 [graphic]
  • Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], [ca. September 1809]

Catalog Record

809.09.00.06++

Acquired January 2020

For the benefit of Mr. Clarke, at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden

  • Author: Covent Garden Theatre.
  • Title: For the benefit of Mr. Clarke, at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden, on Thursday next, being the 29th of April, will be reviv’d a tragedy, call’d Alzira. : Zamor by Mr. Clarke, … Alvarez by Mr. Sparks, Carlos by Mr. Dyer … To which will be added a farce (not acted these ten years) called Duke and no Duke. …
  • Publication: [London] : [The Theatre], [1756]

Catalog Record 

File 767 P69B C838 1756 4/29

Acquired June 2019

 

Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden, this present Thursday

  • Author: Covent Garden Theatre.
  • Title: Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden, this present Thursday, being the 24th of April, will be presented a comedy, call’d Love for love : Valentine by Mr. Smith … To which will be added a burlesque opera, call’d The dragon of Wantley. The part of Moore of Moore-hall by Mr. Lowe …
  • Publication: [London] : [The Theatre], [1755]

Catalog Record 

File 767 P69B C838 1755 4/24

Acquired June 2019

 

Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, this present Wednesday, January 13, 1796…

Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, this present Wednesday, January 13, 1796...

  • Title: Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, this present Wednesday, January 13, 1796 will be presented a new drama, in three acts, called The days of yore … : before the new play will be performed an opera, in one act, called Arrived at Portsmouth … with (19th time) an entire new operatic pantomime (in two parts) called Merry Sherwood, or, Harlequin Forester …
  • Published: [London : s.n., 1796].

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Acquired November, 2010 by the Lewis Walpole Library.