Theatre in Dublin,1745-1820: A Calendar of Performances is the
first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000
performances that took place in Dublin's many professional
theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres
between Thomas Sheridan's becoming the manager at Smock Alley
Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in
1820. The daily performance calendar for each of the seventy-five
seasons recorded here records and organizes all surviving
documentary evidence pertinent to each evening's entertainments,
derived from all known sources, but especially from playbills and
newspaper advertisements. Each theatre's daily entry includes all
preludes, mainpieces, interludes, and afterpieces with casts and
assigned roles, followed by singing and singers, dancing and
dancers, and specialty entertainments. Financial data, program
changes, rehearsal notices, authorship and premiere information are
included in each component's entry, as is the text of contemporary
correspondence and editorial contextualization and commentary,
followed by other additional commentary, such as the many hundreds
of printed puffs, notices, and performance reviews. In the cases of
the programs of music halls, pleasure gardens, and circuses, the
playbills have generally been transcribed verbatim. The calendar
for each season is preceded by an analytical headnote that presents
several categories of information including, among other things, an
alphabetical listing of all members of each company, whether
actors, musicians, specialty artists, or house servants, who are
known to have been employed at each venue. Limited biographical
commentary is included, particularly about performers of Irish
origin, who had significant stage careers but who did not perform
in London. Each headnote presents the seasons's offerings of
entertainments of each theatrical type (prelude, mainpiece,
interlude, afterpiece) analyzed according to genre, including a
list of the number of plays in each genre and according to period
in which they were first performed. The headnote also notes the
number of different plays by Shakespeare staged during each season
and gives particular attention to entertainments of "special Irish
interest." The various kinds of benefit performance and command
performances are also noted. Finally, this Calendar of Performances
contains an appendix that furnishes a season-by-season listing of
the plays that were new to the London patent theatres, and, later,
of the important "minors." This information is provided in order
for us to understand the interrelatedness of the London and Dublin
repertories.
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