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9971 results for: Keyword - King</i> and $<span class=
We found 10005 matches on Roles/Actors, 2634 matches on Performance Title, 2610 matches on Performance Comments, 1593 matches on Event Comments, and 25 matches on Author.

3801
08 April 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Cast
Role: Burgandy Actor: Fox

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: End: The Wake, as17680220

3802
28 April 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Altered from Shakespeare and Tate. Afterpiece: Specified as a Musical entertainment in two acts, taken from The Summer's Tale, with alterations and additions by the author. Receipts: #109 7s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Amelia

Related Works
Related Work: Amelia Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Dance: End: The Highland Reel, as17680307

3803
17 November 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: End: The Lamplighters, as17681101

3804
20 December 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benfit towards the increase of a Fund (Established by the Performers of this Theatre) for the support of such actors, and their families, who from Age or Infirmities, shall be oblig'd to quit the stage. Charges #65 7s. 6d. [including candles, extra kettle drum, side drum, organ and tabor & pipe]. Balance due Fund #101 17s. 6d. plus a special income of #17 13s. from 64 Box tickets (Account Book). Receipts: #167 5s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

3805
11 January 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

3806
21 January 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Performance Comment: As17690104, but Diana-Mrs Thompson; and new scene-WITH ADDITIONS.
Cast
Role: and new scene Actor: WITH ADDITIONS.

3807
01 May 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Entertainment: IV: THE CRIES OF LONDON-Shuter; End: Post Haste OBSERVATIONS on a Journey to Paris-Shuter

3808
19 September 1769 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Weston and Miss Ogilvie. By Authority. Being the Last Night. [Many advance bills noted the continuous deferment of this on account of Weston's bad state of health.] Mr Weston's late and precarious State of Health making it extremely doubtful whether he could go through so long and laborious part as Richard, he humbly recommends to the Public Mr Gentleman's friendly intention of undertaking the Character for that Night, and will for the Capital Entertainment of his Friends, speak a new Occasional Prologue, and appear in the Farce, that the strength he has gained for some Days past may not be impaired by Fatigue

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: Richard-F. Gentleman; Henry-Bannister; Richmond-Davis; Buckingham-Gardner; Prince Edward-Master Cape; Duke of York-Miss Rose; Tressel-A Young Gentleman, first appearance; Lady Anne-Miss Ogilvie, first time; Duchess of York-Mrs Painter; Queen-Mrs Wright from Dublin; Stanley-Bailey; Catesby-Farrell; Ratcliff-Dancer; Lord Mayor-Sharpless; Lieut.-Lings (Hogan).
Cast
Role: Buckingham Actor: Gardner

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Performance Comment: Dick (with a variety of imitations)-Bannister; Simon-Weston; Chalotte-Miss Ogilvie; end of Farce, By Desire, Epilogue to The Doctor Last in His Chariot-Miss Rose; and the Original Prologue-Davis.
Cast
Role: and the Original Prologue Actor: Davis.

Entertainment: SScrub's Trip to the Jubilee (a New Occasional Prologue)-Weston

3809
07 October 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Performance Comment: As17690926, and Masquerade .
Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs King
Role: the Allemande Actor: Dagueville, Sg Vidini.

3810
13 November 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: Richard-Holland; Henry VI-Reddish; Buckingham-Jefferson; Norfolk-Burton; Stanley-Bransby; Lieut.-Fawcett; Tressel-Cautherly; Lady Anne-Miss Young, first time; Queen-Mrs Hopkins; Princes-Miss Rogers, Miss Collett; Richmond-Aickin; Duchess of York-Mrs Johnston.
Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Holland
Role: Buckingham Actor: Jefferson

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Cast
Role: Parts Actor: King, Moody, Parsons, Ackman, Hurst, Waldron, Castle, Wheeler, W. Palmer, Wright, Keen, Hartry, Mesink, Clough, Booth, J. Burton, Mas. Cape, Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Lowe. The Vocal Parts-Vernon, Dibdin, Bannister, Champnes, Fawcett, Kear, Miss Radley, Mrs Baddeley
Role: The Dances Actor: Dagueville, Mrs King, Sga Vidini, Miss Rogers
Role: Ralph Actor: King
Role: Touchstone Actor: King
Role: Richard III Actor: Holland

3811
15 January 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Cast
Role: The dances Actor: Giorgi, Atkins, Mrs King
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Love

3812
08 March 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

3813
13 March 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

3814
18 June 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: TThe Cowkeeper, as17700521

3815
11 September 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: hay Damon and Phillida

Cast
Role: Mopsus Actor: Vandermere

Dance: hay End of Play: The Nosegay, as17700611

3816
29 October 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Servandoni Actor: .

3817
31 October 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs King

3818
14 January 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

3819
23 November 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Institution of the Garter

3820
30 December 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Pattinson (Tallow Chandler) #38 3s.; Paid Doctor Macdonogh the balance for Bt. for General Lying In Hospital, Oxford Road #11 15s. (Account Book). Receipts: #200 8s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

3821
21 May 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Legg, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones, Miss Besford. Charges #66 1s. Deficit apportioned as follows: Legg #2 15s.; Mrs Lampe and Mrs Jones combined #1 7s. 6d.; Miss Besford #1 7s. 6d. It was cover'd by income from tickets (Account Book). @Tickets Box Pit Gallery Value@Legg 107 171 163 #68 11s.@Mrs Lampe & Mrs Jones 89 110 #49 17s.@Miss Besford 29 57 85 #24 6s.@ Receipts: #60 11s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: DuBellamy

Dance: I: Minuet-Fishar, Miss Besford; IV: Fingalian Dance, as17720424

Ballet: End: The Wapping Landlady. As17720424[Sixfold Hornpipe, as17720424

Cast
Role: Landlady Actor: Banks

3822
06 November 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 20 years. [See 16 April 1751.] With the Decorations prescribed by Shakespeare. The Characters new Dressed in the Haibts of the Times. [The reviewer for Town and Country Magazine preferred Mrs Hartley's acting in Jane Shore to that in Henry VIII, where she frequently sunk into a whining monotony which from the length of some of the speeches became very disagreeable.' She did, however, he thought, do the last scene well.] Receipts: #223 13s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Performance Comment: Henry-Clarke; Wolsey-Bensley; Surry-Dyer; Norfolk-Perry; Suffolk-Owenson; Capucius-DuBellamy; Butts-Stoppelaer; Surveyor-Thompson; Brandon-Fox; Old Lady-Mrs Pitt; Ld Chamberlain-Lewes; Buckingham-Wroughton; Cranmer-Gardner; Cromwell-Hull; Sands-Kniveton; Guilford-R. Smith; Lovell-Davis; Campeius-Morris; Gardiner-Shuter; Anne Bullen-Miss Ogilvie; Patience (with a Song)-Mrs Baker; Queen Catherine-Mrs Hartley; In Act I, The Banquet-; with Dancing-Fishar, Aldridge, Sga Manesiere, Miss Twist Act IV, The Procession in the Abbeyv at the Coronation of Anne Bullenv.
Cast
Role: Brandon Actor: Fox
Role: Buckingham Actor: Wroughton
Role: Sands Actor: Kniveton

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

3823
07 November 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Cast
Role: Brandon Actor: Fox
Role: Buckingham Actor: Wroughton
Role: Sands Actor: Kniveton

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: DuBellamy

3824
09 November 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Cast
Role: Brandon Actor: Fox
Role: Buckingham Actor: Wroughton
Role: Sands Actor: Kniveton

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

3825
11 November 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Cast
Role: Brandon Actor: Fox
Role: Buckingham Actor: Wroughton
Role: Sands Actor: Kniveton

Afterpiece Title: The Country Madcap