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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Company of English"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Company of English")') 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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2869 results for: Keyword - Company of English
We found 2077 matches on Event Comments, 512 matches on Performance Title, 347 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2176
27 October 1686 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 260. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or, Alexander The Great

2177
29 October 1686 @ The City, London

Performances

Mainpiece Title: London's Yearly Jubilee : Performed On Friday October Xxix

Performance Comment: 1686. For the Entertainment of the Right Honourable Sir John Peale, Knight, Lord Mayor of the City of London. With a Description of the several Pageants, Speeches and Songs, made proper for the Occasion. All set forth at the proper Costs and Charges of the Right Worshipful the Company of Mercers. Composed by M. Taubman.

2178
01 November 1686 @ Inner Temple

Event Comment: The United Company. The players received the customary fee of #20. See A Calendar of Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 239

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

2179
03 November 1686 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 260. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ir Courtly Nice

2180
10 November 1686 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 260. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351. This play was reprinted in 1687

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

2181
17 November 1686 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 260. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

2182
24 November 1686 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 260. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

2183
01 December 1686 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 260: The Beggars at Whitehall. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351. A song, Bring out your cony-skins fair? maids to me, set for this play by Samuel Ackroyde, is in Vinculum Societatis, 1687

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Bush

2184
09 December 1686 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 260: A King & no King at Whitehall. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A King And No King

2185
15 December 1686 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 260: the Maiden Queene at Whitehall. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love; Or, The Maiden Queen

2186
22 December 1686 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company, Lord Ashburnham's Diary: I went to visit Ld Sussex, and Mr Campion, neither of them at home, I went into the Play (the Wanton Wife) [Ashburnham MS 932; see 14 Dec. 1686]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

2187
03 January 1687 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 361. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Fond Husband; Or, The Plotting Sisters

2188
06 January 1687 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. Lord Ashburnham's Diary: I went to the Play (a King and no King) and came home in good time a very rayny night (Ashburnham MS 932; see 14 Dec. 1686)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A King And No King

2189
10 January 1687 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. Lord Ashburnham's Diary: I came home at 8 of ye Clock after having look'd in at the Play, the Spanish Curate (Ashburnham MS 932; see 14 Dec. 1686)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Curate

2190
10 January 1687 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 361. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan; Or, The Unhappy Marriage

2191
19 January 1687 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 361: The Rover at Whitehall. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351. The entry does not indicate whether Part I or Part II was acted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

2192
20 January 1687 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 361: The King & Queene & a Box for ye Maides of Honor at ye Rehearsall. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

2193
26 January 1687 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 361: Rolo at Whitehall. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rollo

2194
28 January 1687 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. Lord Ashburnham's Diary: In the afternoon came Sr John Katchpole to see me, afterwards I went to the Play (The Maids Tragedy) [Ashburnham MS 932; see 14 Dec. 1686]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid's Tragedy

2195
01 February 1687 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. Lord Ashburnham's Diary: I went to the Play, (The Committee) [Ashburnham MS 932; see 14 Dec. 1686]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

2196
02 February 1687 @ Inner Temple

Event Comment: The United Company. The play is probably The Spanish Curate rather than Dryden's The Spanish Fryar, for the latter, on 8 Dec. 1686, was ordered not to be acted. The players received the customary fee of #20. See A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 244

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Priest

2197
22 February 1687 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is known from a playbill. See Eleanore Boswell, A Playbill of 1687, Library, 4th Series, XI (1931), 499-502, and Cecil Price, A Playbill, c. 1686, Notes and Queries, Vol. 194 [1949), p. 519. The bill Price saw is in the State Papers James II, 31@3, ff. 215-16, among documents referring to 1686, but the date and day of the week point to 1687. The bill reads: At the Theatre Royall this present Tuesday being the Twenty second day of February will be presented, A Play called, A King, and No King. Beginning Exact...t Four of the Clock....their Majesties Servants. VIVAT REX

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A King And No King

2198
March 1687 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. The date of the first performance is not known, but the play was licensed 6 April 1687 in the Stationers' Register, 24 May 1687. The play was probably given first in March, as the Prologue refers to the speaking head, which was mentioned in the Newdigate newsletters (Folger Shakespeare Library), 26 March 1687: A Country man haveing invented a head & soe contrived it that whatever language or tune you speak in the Mouth of it it Repeated distinctly and Audibly. [I owe this reference to Professor John Harold Wilson]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperour Of The Moon

2199
06 April 1687 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 361: The King & Queene & a Box for ye Maides of Honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid's Tragedy

2200
11 April 1687 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 361. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Curate