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1.
At the New Theatre in Portsmouth, this present Tuesday, being the 28th of July, will be presented a

Creator:
Portsmouth Theatre (Portsmouth, England)
Published / Created:
[1761]
Call Number:
Folio 767 P69B W65
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
(Never acted here) by the Bath Company of Comedians and This present Tuesday, being the 28th of July, will be presented a comedy ...
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., Date from manuscript notation., From a bound collection of playbills: [Collection of playbills assembled by Tate Wilkinson]. [England], [between 1748 and 1778]. Mounted on page 76., and Dated in ms.
Publisher:
New Theatre in Portsmouth
Subject (Name):
Fletcher, John, 1579-1625. and Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > At the New Theatre in Portsmouth, this present Tuesday, being the 28th of July, will be presented a comedy, call'd The pilgrim ... : to which will be added a farce, call'd, The author ... tickets to be had at the Fountain ... and at the India Arms in Gosport

2.
At the concert-hall, this present Saturday April the 16th, will be a concert of music. Between the

Published / Created:
[1763]
Call Number:
Folio 767 P69B W65
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
First line of text after theatre name or other text not chosen as title
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., Date from manuscript notation., From a bound collection of playbills: [Collection of playbills assembled by Tate Wilkinson]. [England], [between 1748 and 1778]. Mounted on page 146., and "This is either Liverpool, Birmingham, Chester, or Bristol. Memoirs, III, 248." -- On mounted typed note, page 146.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Fletcher, John, 1579-1625. and Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > At the concert-hall, this present Saturday April the 16th, will be a concert of music. Between the several parts of the concert will be given gratis, a comedy, called, Rule a wife and have a wife ... : to which will be added a farce, (performed here but once,) called The knights ...

3.
At the new theatre in Portsmouth, on Wednesday evening, September 9th, will be presented a comedy

Creator:
Portsmouth Theatre (Portsmouth, England)
Published / Created:
[1761]
Call Number:
Folio 767 P69B W65
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
For the benefit of Mrs. Baker and on Wednesday evening, September 9th, will be presented a comedy, call'd, Rule a wife ...
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., Date from manuscript notation., From a bound collection of playbills: [Collection of playbills assembled by Tate Wilkinson]. [England], [between 1748 and 1778]. Mounted on page 88., and Dated in ms.
Publisher:
New Theatre in Portsmouth
Subject (Name):
Fletcher, John, 1579-1625. and Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > At the new theatre in Portsmouth, on Wednesday evening, September 9th, will be presented a comedy, call'd, Rule a wife, and Have a wife ... : to which will be added a farce, call'd The guardian ... tickets to be had at the Fountain ... and at Mrs. Baker's lodgings, Mr. Mottley's peruke-maker in the High Street

4.
At the new theatre in Portsmouth, this present Monday, being the 3d of August, will be presented a

Creator:
Portsmouth Theatre (Portsmouth, England)
Published / Created:
[1761]
Call Number:
Folio 767 P69B W65
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
By desire by the Bath Company of Comedians and This present Monday, being the 3d of August, will be presented a comedy
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., Date from manuscript notation., From a bound collection of playbills: [Collection of playbills assembled by Tate Wilkinson]. [England], [between 1748 and 1778]. Mounted on page 79., and Dated in ms.
Publisher:
New Theatre in Portsmouth
Subject (Name):
Fletcher, John, 1579-1625. and Carey, Henry, 1687?-1743.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > At the new theatre in Portsmouth, this present Monday, being the 3d of August, will be presented a comedy, call'd The pilgrim ... : to which will be added a farce, call'd The contrivances ... tickets to be had at the Fountain ... and at the India Arms in Gosport. N.B. The whole performance will be over at half an hour past ten

5.
At the theatre in Canterbury. This present evening, August 31, will be performed, a comedy, called

Published / Created:
[1784?]
Call Number:
Folio 767 P69B K41
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Positively the last night but one. At the particular request of several ladies and gentlemen. For the benefit of Mrs Wilson
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., From a bound collection of playbills: [A collection of playbills for theatres in Kent, 1771-1784?]. [England], [between 1771 and 1784?]., and Numbered in ms. Dated in pencil.
Publisher:
Printed by Smith and Son
Subject (Name):
Fletcher, John, 1579-1625. and Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > At the theatre in Canterbury. This present evening, August 31, will be performed, a comedy, called, Rule a wife and have a wife ... : between the play and farce, a modern operatical, sentimental, crying comedy, called, Piety in pattens; or, The sentimental butler ... to which will be added, a comic opera, called The lottery ...

6.
English poets [graphic]

Creator:
Landseer, John, 1769-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
May 20, 1795.
Call Number:
Folio 724 812 B68
Collection Title:
Plate [135] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; portrait medallions of Milton, Fletcher, Waller, Jonson, Cowley, Butler, Shakespeare, Spencer, Chaucer and Surrey on a mountain with waterfall in foreground and Pegasus flying above."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text within image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [135] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Milton, John, 1608-1674,, Fletcher, John, 1579-1625,, Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687,, Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637,, Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667,, Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680,, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616,, Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599,, Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400,, and Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of, 1517?-1547,
Subject (Topic):
Pegasus (Greek mythology) and Waterfalls
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > English poets [graphic]

7.
On Friday, February the 11th, 1785, will be performed, a favourite comedy, called, Rule a wife and

Published / Created:
[1785]
Call Number:
Folio 767 P69B Ex38
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Benefit of Mr. Taylor
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., From a bound collection of playbills: [Playbills from Exeter and Lyme Regis, 1784-1786.]. [England], [between 1784 and 1786]., and Numbered in ms.
Publisher:
Printed by R. Trewman, in Fore-Street
Subject (Name):
Fletcher, John, 1579-1625. and Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > On Friday, February the 11th, 1785, will be performed, a favourite comedy, called, Rule a wife and have a wife ... : end of the play an interlude, taken from the orators, called, A theatric hub-bub; or, The origin of oratory ... to which will be added a farce, called, The new rehearsal; or, A peep behind the curtain ...

8.
On Tuesday next, being the 26th of February, 1760, will be presented a comedy, called, Rule a wife

Published / Created:
[1760]
Call Number:
Folio 767 P69B W65
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
By permission of the Right Hon. the Lord-Mayor. By desire. For the benefit of Mr. Brown. At the Theatre in Smock-Alley
Description:
Caption title., Place of publication derived from theatre., A playbill., and From a bound collection of playbills: [Collection of playbills assembled by Tate Wilkinson]. [England], [between 1748 and 1778]. Mounted on page 180.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Fletcher, John, 1579-1625. and Townley, James, 1714-1778.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > On Tuesday next, being the 26th of February, 1760, will be presented a comedy, called, Rule a wife ... : to which will be added, a farce, called High-life below-stairs ...

9.
This present Saturday, April 18, will be a concert of music. To begin exactly at half an hour after

Published / Created:
1761.
Call Number:
Folio 767 P69B W65
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Theatre
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., From a bound collection of playbills: [Collection of playbills assembled by Tate Wilkinson]. [England], [between 1748 and 1778]. Mounted on page 107., and Date in ms.
Publisher:
Printed by Stephen Martin
Subject (Name):
Fletcher, John, 1579-1625. and Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > This present Saturday, April 18, will be a concert of music. To begin exactly at half an hour after six o'clock ... : between the parts of the concert will be presented, gratis, a comedy called The pilgrim. Written by Dryden ... to which will be added a farce called The author ...

10.
This present Saturday, October 10, 1807, will be presented (not acted here these four years) the

Published / Created:
[1807]
Call Number:
Folio 767 P69B B32
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Theatre-Royal, Bath. Last night but one of Mr. Young's performing here
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., and From a bound collection of playbills: [Playbills from the Theatre-Royal, Bath, 1783-1815]. [Bath, England], [between 1783 and 1815].
Publisher:
Ann Keene, printer, Kingsmead-Street, Bath
Subject (Name):
Fletcher, John, 1579-1625. and Mendez, Moses, -1758.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > This present Saturday, October 10, 1807, will be presented (not acted here these four years) the favourite comedy of Rule a wife, and have a wife ... : to which will be added, the musical entertainment of Robin Hood ...