...machines, and cloaths ; the vocal and inftrumental mufick done by Mr. Purcell; and dances by Mr. Prieft ; it gratify'd the expectation of Court and City ; and got the Author great reputation. The Fairy Queen, made into an Opera, from a Comedy of Mr. Shakefpear's-f : This in ornaments was fuperior...

...cloaths, the vocal and instrumental musick done by Mr. Purcell, and dances by Mr. Priest, it gratifyM the expectation of Court and City, and got the Author great reputation." Roscius Anglic. p. 57. ed. Waldron. The author of this alteration was Betterton, the celebrated tragedian...

...; produced at the Queen's Theatre in 1690, Downes, in his Eoscius Anglicanus, says, " It gratify 'd the expectation of Court and City ; and got the author great reputation." One of the airs in the piece, " What shall I do to show how much I love her," was afterwards adapted...

...Machines and Cloaths : The Vocal and Inftrumental Mufick, done by Mr. Purcel ; and Dances by Mr. Prieft ; it gratify'd the Expectation of Court and City ; and got the Author great Reputation. The Fairy Queen, made into an Opera, from a Comedy of Mr. Shake/pears : This in Ornaments was Superior...

..." was produced at the Queen's Theatre in 1690, and we are told by a contemporary chronicler that " it gratify'd the expectation of Court and city ; and got the author great reputation." In 1692 the music for no less than six plays saw the light, time having selected the " Indian Queen...

...late the Subscription money would scarcely amount to the Expense of compleating this Edition," but " it gratify'd the expectation of Court and City ; and got the author great reputation." The great poet, Dryden, began now to recognize that Purcell was " an Englishman equal with the best...

...late the Subscription money would scarcely amount to the Expense of compleating this Edition," but "it gratify'd the expectation of Court and City; and got the author great reputation." The great poet, Dryden, began now to recognize that Purcell was "an Englishman equal with the best...

...approbation, though it had 80 not been a financial success. Dowries was to say of it later that this work " gratify'd the expectation of Court and City, and got the author great reputation." Mortified by the failure of the opera with the libretto of which he had furnished Louis Grabu, Dryden...

...out with Coastly Scenes, Machines and Cloaths: The Vocal and Instrumental Musick, done by Mr. Purcel; and Dances by Mr. Priest; it gratify'd the Expectation...Court and City; and got the Author great Reputation" (p. 42). We have no information about lead time for this opera, nor do we have any specific figures...

...out with Costly Scenes, Machines and Cloaths; the Vocal and Instrumental Musick, done by Mr Purcel; and Dances by Mr Priest; it gratify'd the Expectation...Court and City; and got the Author great Reputation'. The dramatic organism we loosely refer to nowadays as 'Beaumont-and-Fletcher' - that is to say, the...