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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "G W Williams"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "G W 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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13554 results for: Keyword - G. W. Williams
We found 10846 matches on Author, 2916 matches on Performance Comments, 874 matches on Event Comments, 120 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

13376
10 October 1691 @

Performances

13377
08 November 1692 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

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

13378
02 December 1692 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

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

13379
February 1693 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

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

13380
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

13381
30 October 1693 @ The City, London

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

13382
21 March 1694 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

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

13383
22 March 1694 @ no theater listed

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13384
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

Performances

13385
29 October 1694 @ The City, London

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

13386
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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13387
December 1695 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

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

13388
28 December 1695 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

13389
27 October 1697 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

13390
04 November 1697 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Europe's Revels For The Peace

13391
23 August 1698 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jephtha's Rash Vow

13392
25 August 1698 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

13393
November 1698 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo And Armida

13394
08 March 1699 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

13395
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

13396
15 November 1699 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

13397
29 November 1699 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

13398
20 March 1700 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Post Man, 16-19 March 1700: For the benefit of Mrs Hudson and Mr Williams, to morrow being Wednesday the 20th instant, in the Great Room in York Buildings, will be performed an extraordinary entertainment of Vocal and Instrumental Musick. At the desire of several Ladies of Quality, with a new Prologue to be performed by Jo. Haines

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

13399
29 April 1700 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

13400
October 1700 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Perjured Husband; Or, The Adventures Of Venice