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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Henry Fielding Esq"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Henry Fielding Esq")') 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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5644 results for: Keyword - Henry Fielding, Esq
We found 3489 matches on Author, 1218 matches on Performance Title, 746 matches on Performance Comments, 726 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4826
13 November 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Mr Rowe, Esq; late Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

4827
11 December 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by N. Rowe, Esq. late Poet Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Song: As17251208

4828
19 January 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by N. Rowe, Esq; late Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

4829
08 September 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Qualiy&ty. Written by N. Rowe, Esq. late Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

4830
11 July 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these Six Years. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the late N. Tate, Esq; Poet Laureat, Author of the Tragedy of King Lear. With Scenes, Habits, Machines, and other proper Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance:

4831
27 June 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: UUniversal Spectator, 27 June: Thomas Odell, Esq. Master of the New Theatre in Goodman's Fields, hath been at Windsor to obtain Leave to bring his Company of Comedians down thither to perform Plays during the Court's Stay at Windsor; and we hear that he hath succeeded therein

Performances

4832
15 June 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late N. Tate, Esq; Poet Laureat, Author of the Tragedy of King Lear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: The Amours of Billingsgate

4833
03 June 1732 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For a comment on the season's operas, see See and Seem Blind...In a Letter from Lord B-to A-H-Esq. (London, 1732), part of which is reproduced in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 300-301

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lucius Papirius

4834
27 September 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Post, 28 Sept.: Yesterday Morning [27 Sept.] between Nine and Ten o'Clock, Robert Wilks, Esq., one of the Patentees and Managers of his Majesty's Company of Comedians, died, at his House in Bow-street, Covent-Garden

Performances

4835
04 April 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Secret

Performance Comment: Parts-Ryan, Quin, Walker, Milward, Chapman, Hall, Aston, Paget, Mrs Hallam, Mrs Kilby, Miss Binks; but edition of 1735 lists: Ferdinand-Ryan; +Cardinal of Arragon-Walker; +Young Duke of Malfy-Miss Binckes; +Antonio-Milward; +Delio-Hale; +Marquise of Pescara-Chapman; +Bosola-Quin; +Flavio-Paget; +Urbino-Aston; +Dutchess of Malfy-Mrs Hallam; +Cariola-Mrs Kilby. Prologue by Philip Frowde, Esq-; Epilogue for $the Dutchess-.
Cast
Role: Cariola Actor: Mrs Kilby. Prologue by Philip Frowde, Esq-
Role: Esq Actor:

4836
23 June 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: See Daily Advertiser, 23 June, for a poem: On the Death of Barton Booth, Esq.

Performances

4837
05 October 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man Or The Fops Fortune

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: As17331003, but Watteau omitted

4838
20 October 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by Colley Cibber Esq; Poet Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Music: Second Musick: First Concerto of the 1st Opera of Geminiani. Third Music: Overture compos'd by Handel for Alexander. I: A Concerto call'd The Cuckoo composed by Vivaldi. III: Duo for Two French Horns by Charle and Giay

Dance: V: La Follette s'cest ravizee by Nivelon and Miss Mann

Song: II: Quanto Dolce by Miss Arne. IV: Per le forte del tormento by Miss Arne and Young Master Arne

4839
06 November 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late N. Rowe, Esq; Poet Laureat. Afterpiece: Set to Musick by Mr T. Arne Jr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Opera of Operas

Dance: As17331031

4840
28 November 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Harper. Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq. [For further discussion of Harper's appearance in Court, see Universal Spectator, 1 Dec; London Evening Post, 29 Nov.; Grub St. Journal, 6 Dec]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Tambourine by Miss Robinson. La Bagatell by Essex and Miss La Tour. La Folette S'cest ravizee by Nivelon and Miss Mann

4841
19 January 1734 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Dance: Pigmalion, as17340114

4842
02 February 1734 @ Inner Temple

Event Comment: Daily Courant, 2 Feb.: We are credibly informed, that Charles Fleetwood, Esq; of Bromley-Hall, in the county of Stefford . . . hath purchased all the shares of the Patentees of the Theatre in Drury-Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

4843
30 March 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Cibber. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late N. Rowe, Esq; Poet Laureat. Afterpiece: Taken from the French by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Music: A Comic Medley Overture composed by Charke

Dance: I: A new Maggot by Le Brun. In II: Polonese, as17340325 V: Pierrots by Poitier and Nivelon. End I of Afterpiece: English Maggot by Lally and Mrs Walter. End Afterpiece: Grand Dance in Momus, as17340316

Song: III: Was ever Nymph like Rosamond by Miss Arne. IV: Bella Sorge L'Esperanza (from Ariadne) by Miss Arne

4844
19 April 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late N. Rowe, Esq; Poet Laureat. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Cupid and Psyche

4845
14 September 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay or The Wives Metamorphosd

4846
10 October 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Dance: Sleepy Dutchman and his Frow: Dutchman-Nivelon; Frow-Mrs Laguerre; others by Essex, Thurmond, Pelling, Chose, Davenport, Mrs Walter, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Davenport, Miss Anderson

4847
21 October 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh and C. Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat. Afterpiece: Intermix'd with Dances and Songs made to Ballad Tunes. Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Harlots Progress or The Ridotto al Fresco

4848
04 November 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by the late N. Rowe, Esq; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

Related Works
Related Work: Cephalus and Procris: With The Mistakes Author(s): Henry Carey

Dance: Serious and Comic, by Monsieur Denoyer, the first time of his performance since his arrival from Poland, Mlle Roland, Poitier

4849
26 December 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Dance: I: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. II: Grand Comic Ballet by Poitier and Mlle Roland. III: Black Joak by Nivelon and Miss Mann. IV: Grand Polish Dance (with New Habits), as17341221

4850
21 January 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late N. Rowe, Esq; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Related Works
Related Work: An Old Man Taught Wisdom; or, The Virgin Unmask'd Author(s): Henry Fielding

Dance: By Essex, Nivelon, Le Brun, Lalauze, Mrs Walter, Castiglion, Villeneuve, Livier, Pelling, Davenport, Mrs Pelling, Miss Mann, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Davenport, Miss Brett, particularly I: Dutchman and his Frow. II: English Maggot. III: Lively Lad and Lass. IV: Pierots. V: Polonese