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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Charles Williams"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Charles Williams")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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15099 results for: Keyword - Charles Williams
We found 12662 matches on Author, 2676 matches on Performance Comments, 721 matches on Event Comments, 137 matches on Performance Title, and 6 matches on Roles/Actors.

14926
October 1689 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

14927
November 1689 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Jovial Crew

14928
04 November 1690 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

14929
01 January 1691 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

14930
10 October 1691 @

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14931
08 November 1692 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Second, King Of England; With The Death Of Rosamond

14932
February 1693 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid's Last Prayer; Or, Any Rather Than Fail

14933
30 April 1693 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: This celebration of the Queen's Birthday presumably was given on 30 April, her birthday. The music in the Royal Society of Music gives the singers as Mrs Ayliff, The Boy, Turner, Snow, Edwards, Howell, Bowman, Damascene, Bouchier, Williams, Woodeson, Roberts. See Purcell's Works, Purcell Society, XXIV (1926), ii

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

14934
30 October 1693 @ The City, London

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

14935
21 March 1694 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: The Ambitious Slave; Or, A Generous Revenge

14936
22 March 1694 @ no theater listed

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14937
July 1694 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: According to the testimony of Sir Thomas Skipwith, 10 Dec. 1694, the young actors played during the vacation nearly thirty days without Betterton, Williams, Bright, Kinaston, Sandford, or Mrs Betterton, and made sufficient money to keep them over the vacation. L. C. 7@3, 17 Dec. 1694, in Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 374

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14938
29 October 1694 @ The City, London

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Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

14939
May 1695 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: See Cibber, Apology, I, 201-2, for his account of the mistake Betterton's Company made in not retaining Williams and Mrs Mountfort-Verbruggen, and of the problems of Rich's Company. In this passage Cibber implies that Hamlet, Othello, and Julius Caesar were acted at Drury Lane soon after the division of the companies

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14940
December 1695 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus The Great; Or, The Tragedy Of Love

14941
28 December 1695 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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14942
27 October 1697 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

14943
04 November 1697 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Europe's Revels For The Peace

14944
23 August 1698 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jephtha's Rash Vow

14945
25 August 1698 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

14946
November 1698 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo And Armida

14947
08 March 1699 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

14948
23 August 1699 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fryar Bacon; Or, The Country Justice : With The Humours Of tolfree The Miller, And His Son ralph

14949
15 November 1699 @ Whitehall or St. James's

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14950
29 November 1699 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments