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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "J Williams"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "J 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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13391 results for: Keyword - J. Williams
We found 11041 matches on Author, 2476 matches on Performance Comments, 866 matches on Event Comments, 145 matches on Performance Title, and 1 matches on Roles/Actors.

13201
10 October 1691 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

13202
08 November 1692 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

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

13203
02 December 1692 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

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

13204
February 1693 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maids Last Prayer Or Any Rather Than Fail

13205
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

13206
30 October 1693 @ The City, London

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

13207
21 March 1694 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ambitious Slave Or A Generous Revenge

13208
22 March 1694 @ no theater listed

Performances

13209
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

13210
29 October 1694 @ The City, London

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

13211
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

Performances

13212
December 1695 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus The Great Or The Tragedy Of Love

13213
28 December 1695 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

13214
27 October 1697 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee Or The Faithful Irishman

13215
04 November 1697 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Europes Revels For The Peace

13216
23 August 1698 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jephthas Rash Vow

13217
25 August 1698 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

13218
November 1698 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo And Armida

13219
08 March 1699 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

13220
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

13221
15 November 1699 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

13222
29 November 1699 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

13223
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

13224
29 April 1700 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

13225
October 1700 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Perjured Husband Or The Adventures Of Venice