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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "English French Dutch Characters"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "English French Dutch Characters")') 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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6418 results for: Keyword - English, French, Dutch Characters
We found 3996 matches on Performance Comments, 1727 matches on Performance Title, 1431 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4526
25 June 1715 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Nicolino. With New Scenes and Cloaths, particularly the Scene with the Fountain. Pit and Boxes half a guinea. Stage Boxes 15s. Gallery 4s. At 6 p.m. Weekly Packet, 25 June: Signior Nicolini's Quail-Pipe continues to lug the Nobility and Gentry by the Ears, who have gone very far on his last Benefit-Night, towards equipping him for another purchase at Venice, he having already built a stately Edifice there, near the Rialto, upon which is written in Characters of Gold, Villa Britannica, as a Testimony that Scaliger's Saying, that we are Hospitibus Feri, is a downright Untruth, and falsly imputed to our Nation

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

Dance:

4527
06 November 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

4528
22 November 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command. All the Characters being New Dress'd. [The Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode; Or, Sir Fopling Flutter

Dance: As17161027

4529
11 February 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By William Taverner.] Never Acted before. The Dresses for all the Characters being entirely new. Receipts: #58 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Artful Husband

4530
02 April 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. Afterpiece: A New Dramatick Entertainment of Dancing in Grotesque Characters

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck; or, Perseus and Andromeda

4531
22 November 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit J. and Ch. Rich. Afterpiece: A New Dramatic Entertainment of Dancing in Grotesque Characters. Receipts: #45 6s. 6d. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant; Or, Beggar's Bush

Afterpiece Title: Mars and Venus; or, The Mouse Trap

4532
03 December 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By William Taverner.] Never Acted before. All the Characters being new Drest

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Artful Wife

4533
09 January 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Mr Congreve. All the Characters being new drest

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

4534
24 January 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A new Dramatick Opera in Dancing in Serious and Grotesque Characters. With all the Musick, Habits, Machines and other Decorations entirely new. Receipts: #47 4s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Amadis; or, The Loves of Harlequin and Colombine

Performance Comment: Amadis-Dupre; Punch-Boval; Scaramouch-Cook; Englishman-Cook Jr; Oriana-Mlle Gautier; Scaramouchet-Miss Smith; Englishwoman-Miss Schoolding; Harlequin-Lun; Colombine-Mrs Schoolding; Clodpole-Spiller; Furies-Thurmond Jr, Tully, Newhouse, Pelling, Turner.
Cast
Role: Englishman Actor: Cook Jr
Role: Englishwoman Actor: Miss Schoolding

4535
18 October 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Not Acted these 15 Years. Written by Mr Congreve. All the Characters being new drest

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Dance: delaGarde's@Two@Children , who never perform'd on any Stage before

4536
14 February 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By T. Killigrew.] Never Acted before. All the Characters new dress'd. Original Weekly Journal, 21 Feb.: The House was so crowded, that several hundred could not find admittance. Some Disorder happen'd in one of the side Boxes, occasion'd by a Gentleman drawing his Sword on a Footman, who was keeping Places; and some Blows were exchang'd between the Gentleman and the Footman, which, however, ended without any bad Consequences

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Chit Chat

4537
13 February 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Ryan. Afterpiece: A new Dramatick Entertainment of Grotesque Characters

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Turned House Breaker

Song: Mrs Fletcher

Dance: As17200120

4538
22 April 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit J. and Ch. Rich. Mainpiece: [Author unknown.] All in the Characters of the Italian Theatre. Receipts: #69 19s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Theatre

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Afterpiece Title: Amadis

Dance: As17200120; The Italian Shadows-

4539
08 October 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these Five Years. All the Characters being new dress'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Lovers; Or, Marriage A La Mode

4540
10 October 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: All the Characters being new dress'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Lovers

4541
22 October 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Not Acted these Sixteen Years. Written by Shakespear. Receipts: #99 14s. Davies, Dramatic Miscellanies, I, 139: The first play acted at Lincoln's-inn Fields, which fixed the attention of the public, was The Merry Wives of Windsor. This comedy was so perfectly played in all its parts, that the critics in acting universally celebrated the merit of the performers. The characters were so well adapted to the abilities of the actors, that no play had been represented with equal skill and propriety at that theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

4542
15 December 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Afterpiece: an Entertainment of Dancing in Grotesque Characters. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: #78 19s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Doctor

4543
16 March 1721 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Seymour.Afterpiece: A new Dramatick Entertainment of Dancing in Grotesque Characters. Receipts: money and tickets #101 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear And His Three Daughters

Afterpiece Title: The Magician; or, Harlequin a Director

4544
10 January 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As it was alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham. Afterpiece: A new Dramatick Entertainment of Dancing in Grotesque Characters

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: The Escapes of Harlequin

4545
13 February 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By William Phillips.] Never Acted before. The Characters all new Dress'd. Receipts: #57 10s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hibernia Freed

4546
08 June 1722 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Admission as 25 May. The reason of this Delay is occasion'd by the changing some of the Parts, as well as by the illness of two of the Chief Characters in the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Music:

4547
07 November 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Sir Richard Steele.] With new Scenes, and all the Characters new drest. Daily Journal, 8 Nov.: Where a greater Concourse of People was never known to be assembled. [See also Cibber, Apology, II, 206; Dennis, Remarks on a Play call'd The Conscious Lovers; and British Journal, 10 Nov. and 8 Dec.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

4548
31 January 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Betty Smith and Mrs Orfeur. All the Characters new dress'd. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bonduca; Or, The British General

Dance: Dancing Proper to the Play-; particularly, Dancing-Girl of Six years of Age, for her Diversion, Scholar to Mr Roussau; being the first Time she ever appeared on the Stage

4549
16 March 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Blind Man's Bluff

4550
23 March 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Subscription. Afterpiece: A new Dramatic Entertainment of Dancing in Burlesque Characters. With new Scenes, Machines, Cloaths, and other Decorations. N.B. No Persons to be admitted into the Boxes but by Subscribers' Tickets, which will be deliver'd at the Theatre at 7s. each. Pit 4s. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. Receipts: subscription and money #111 18s.; tickets #33 19s. [For an essay on the afterpiece, see Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post. 6 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Jupiter and Europa; or, The Intrigues of Harlequin