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A Tutor For The Beaus
''A Tutor for the Beaus: Or Love in a Labyrinth'' is a 1737 comedy play by the British writer John Hewitt.Nicoll p.438 It drew inspiration from an earlier one-act play '' Le Français à Londres'' by the French writer Louis de Boissy. The original cast included James Rosco as Lord Manly, Benjamin Johnson as Sir Charles Freelove, Thomas Wright as Belville, William Giffard as Heatly, Henry Woodward as Young Manly and Anna Marcella Giffard Anna Marcella Giffard (1707-1777) was an Irish stage actress. She was a member of the Lyddal acting family of Dublin, and began appearing herself at the Smock Alley Theatre under the name of Nancy Lyddal in the 1720s. In around 1728 she married ... as Pinup. References Bibliography * Burling, William J. ''A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737''. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1992. * Nicoll, Allardyce. ''A History of Early Eighteenth Century Drama: 1700-1750''. CUP Archive, 1927. 1737 plays British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre
Lisle's Tennis Court was a building off Portugal Street in Lincoln's Inn Fields in London. Originally built as a real tennis court, it was used as a playhouse during two periods, 1661–1674 and 1695–1705. During the early period, the theatre was called Lincoln's Inn Fields Playhouse, also known as The Duke's Playhouse, The New Theatre or The Opera. The building was demolished and replaced by a purpose-built theatre for a third period, 1714–1728. The tennis court theatre was the first public playhouse in London to feature the moveable scenery that would become a standard feature of Restoration theatres. Historical background The period beginning in England in 1642 and lasting until 1660 is known as the Interregnum, meaning "between kings." At this time, there was no monarch on the throne, and theatre was against the law. Spanning from 1642 to 1649, the English Civil War occurred. This war was an uprising against the current King of England, King Charles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy Play
Comedy is a genre of dramatic performance having a light or humorous tone that depicts amusing incidents and in which the characters ultimately triumph over adversity. For ancient Greeks and Romans, a comedy was a stage-play with a happy ending. In the Middle Ages, the term expanded to include narrative poems with happy endings and a lighter tone. In this sense Dante used the term in the title of his poem, the ''Divine Comedy'' (Italian: ''Divina Commedia''). The phenomena connected with laughter and that which provokes it have been carefully investigated by psychologists. The predominating characteristics are incongruity or contrast in the object, and shock or emotional seizure on the part of the subject. It has also been held that the feeling of superiority is an essential factor: thus Thomas Hobbes speaks of laughter as a "sudden glory." Modern investigators have paid much attention to the origin both of laughter and of smiling, as well as the development of the "play insti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis De Boissy
Louis de Boissy (26 November 1694, Vic-sur-Cère – 19 April 1758, Paris) was an 18th-century French poet and playwright. He was elected to seat 6 of the Académie française on 12 August 1754. He wrote satires and several comedies, of which the best is ''Les Dehors trompeurs ou l'Homme du jour'' (The False Appearances, or the Man of the Moment), the great success of the 1740 season, with a cast including Quinault-Dufresne and Jeanne Quinault. Boissy had the concession to print the ''Mercure de France''. His son was Louis Michel de Boissy. The historian Louis Michel de Boissy was his son. Works His works were published in 9 volumes in-8 in Paris in 1766.His plays and their productions on CESAR This site mentions sixty plays by Boissy. Not all were produced or published. ;Theatre *1721: ''L'Amant de sa femme, ou la Rivale d'elle-même'', one-act comedy in prose, Théâtre-Français, 19 September *1724: ''L'Impatient'', five-act comedy in verse, preceded by a prologue, Théà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Rosco
James Rosco (died 1761) was a British stage actor. His name is also written as James Roscoe. From 1722 to 1729 he acted at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin. Moving to London he appeared at a variety of venues, including the Drury Lane and Haymarket Theatres before spending several years as a member of Henry Giffard's company at the Goodman's Fields Theatre near the Tower of London. After Giffard's attempt to challenge the patent theatres was ended by the Licensing Act he joined Covent Garden where he performed regularly between 1737 and 1748. He was generally a secondary performer at the company, scarcely playing leading roles. In 1739 he was accidentally stabbed during a performance of ''Mariamne''. While at Covent Garden, he appeared during the summer at the Jacobs Well Theatre in Bristol playing leading roles. He eventually settled in the city and established an academy there with his wife Anne Barbara Roscoe. Their daughter briefly appeared at Drury Lane in 1757 before acting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Johnson (actor)
Benjamin Johnson (1742) was an English actor. Bibliography Johnson was first a scene painter, then acted in the provinces, and appeared in London in 1695 at Drury Lane after Thomas Betterton's defection. He was the original Captain Driver in ''Oronooko'' (1696), Captain Fireball in George Farquhar's ''Sir Harry Wildair'' (1701) and Sable in Richard Steele's ''The Funeral'' (1702); he was particularly well regarded as the First Gravedigger in ''Hamlet'' and as several characters in the plays of Ben Jonson. He also succeeded to Thomas Doggett's roles. In 1715 he starred in John Gay's hit comedy ''The What D'Ye Call It ''The What D'Ye Call It'' is a 1715 farce by the British writer John Gay. It was written as a parody of tragic plays, with particular reference to Thomas Otway's ''Venice Preserv'd''. It was originally performed as an afterpiece with Nicholas ...'' at Drury Lane. References 1665 births 1742 deaths 17th-century English male actors 18th-century Englis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Giffard (actor)
William Giffard (died 23 January 1129), was the Lord Chancellor of England of William II and Henry I, from 1093 to 1101, and Bishop of Winchester (1100–1129). Family and early life Giffard was the son of Walter Giffard, Lord of Longueville and Ermengarde, daughter of Gerard Flaitel. He also held the office of Dean of Rouen prior to his election as bishop. Bishop of Winchester On 3 August 1100 he became bishop of Winchester by nomination of Henry I. Henry nominated him probably in an attempt to win the support of the clergy in Henry's bid to claim the throne directly after the death of William Rufus. He was one of the bishops elect whom Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury refused to consecrate in 1101 as having been nominated and invested by the lay power. During the investitures dispute Giffard was on friendly terms with Anselm and was banished for declining to accept consecration from Gerard Archbishop of York in 1103. He was, however, one of the bishops who pressed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Woodward (English Actor)
Henry Woodward (2 October 1714 – 17 April 1777) was an English actor, among the most famous in his day for comedy roles. Early life and career Woodward was the eldest son of a tallow chandler in the borough of Southwark, London, and intended for his father's occupation. He attended Merchant Taylors' school from 1724 to 1728. After his father's failure in business, Woodward joined the troupe of John Rich, whose stage name was "Lun", at Lincoln's Inn Fields, playing in January 1729 in ''The Beggar's Opera'' as the Beggar and Ben Budge. During the season the performance was repeated fifteen times, and Woodward, thoroughly stage-struck, remained with Rich, who instructed him in harlequin and other characters. From October 1730 he appeared at Goodman's Fields Theatre, where he remained until 1736. After the company moved to Lincoln's Inn Fields, Woodward appeared in January 1737 as Harlequin Macheath in ''The Beggars' Pantomime, or the Contending Columbines''. The authorship of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Marcella Giffard
Anna Marcella Giffard (1707-1777) was an Irish stage actress. She was a member of the Lyddal acting family of Dublin, and began appearing herself at the Smock Alley Theatre under the name of Nancy Lyddal in the 1720s. In around 1728 she married the English actor Henry Giffard who had been acting at Smock Alley for some years. He had previously been married to Mary Lyddal, probably Anna Marcella's sister, with whom he had two children including William Giffard. After the marriage she was generally styled Mrs Giffard on playbills. She accompanied her husband to London in 1729 and frequently appeared alongside him over the coming years. She made her British debut at the Goodman's Fields Theatre, and this became a base for the couple after Henry took over management of the company and attempted to turn it into the third major London theatre, despite operation without a patent. The Licensing Act 1737 largely ended this attempt, and in subsequent years they played in many theatres aro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1737 Plays
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British Plays
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Comedy Plays
Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term originated in ancient Greece: in Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a dramatic performance pitting two groups, ages, genders, or societies against each other in an amusing '' agon'' or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old". A revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions posing obstacles to his hopes. In this struggle, the youth then becomes constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to resort to ruses wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
