SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "King and "/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "King and ")') 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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We found 10005 matches on Roles/Actors, 2634 matches on Performance Title, 2610 matches on Performance Comments, 1593 matches on Event Comments, and 23 matches on Author.
Event Comment: Benefit for Williames and Bates. Public Advertiser, 9 May: Tickets to be had of Williames, No. 2, Duke's-court, Bow-street; of Bates, No. 12, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #193 18s. 6d. (20.6.0; 10.8.0; 1.3.6; tickets: 162.1.0) (charge: #109 5s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Cast
Role: Trappanti Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Sons of Anacreon

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Cast
Role: Sir John Trotley Actor: King

Dance: End III: As17870113

Song: As17870201

Event Comment: Benefir for Fawcett and Phillimore. Receipts: #262 19s. (15.3.0; 9.0.6; 2.11.6; tickets: 236.4.0) (charge: #106 3s. 1d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Natural Son

Cast
Role: Jack Hustings Actor: King
Related Works
Related Work: The Natural Son Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End: As17870113; End I afterpiece: The Irish Fair-Ferrere, Miss Stageldoir

Event Comment: Benefit for Nix and Miss Barnes. Receipts: #254 3s. 6d. (67.10.0; 23.19.6; 2.19.0; tickets: 159.15.0) (charge: #106 2s. 9d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Cast
Role: Brass Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disguise

Song: End III: song-Miss Barnes; End IV: O! Nanny wilt thou go with me (composed by Carter)-Dignum; End: Bright Phoebus has mounted the Chariot of Day-Miss Barnes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Touchstone Actor: King
Role: Orlando Actor: Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Cast
Role: Landlord Actor: Chaplin

Dance: As17870126

Song: In: the Cuckoo Song-Caelia; V: a song-Mrs Forster

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Marks, Brandon, Edwards, Hall, Rolles, Turtle, Walker, Doe will be admitted (Account-Book). Receipts: #265 5s. 6d. (60.8.6; 3.4.0; tickets: 201.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: King Actor: Hull

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Cast
Role: Sir Clement Flint Actor: King
Role: Mr Blandish Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Mrs Blandish Actor: Mrs Wilson

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Cast
Role: Moody Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: End: As17870920

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Cast
Role: Sir Bashful Constant Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: King Actor: Packer
Role: Player King Actor: Chaplin

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Sir Peter Teazle Actor: King
Role: Mrs Candour Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan; or, A Peep into the Seraglio

Dance: In afterpiece: Hamoir, the Miss Stageldoirs

Song: III: a song-Williames. [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Cast
Role: Sir Clement Flint Actor: King
Role: Mr Blandish Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Mrs Blandish Actor: Mrs Wilson

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: As17871101

Event Comment: Paid Pugh, oilman, #92 3s. Afterpiece: From the French of Sedaine. The Music by the celebrated Gretry; and the Paintings by Greenwood. Receipts: #180 9s. 6d. (129.12.0; 48.9.0; 2.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Cast
Role: Moody Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Dance: In III afterpiece: Dance-the two young D'Egvilles, Miss DeCamp. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Performances

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: As17871101

Song: IV: song [(in character) composed by Linley Sen]-Mrs Crouch

Performances

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Account-Book, 14 Nov.: Orders #8 5s., Free #2 8s. [#10 13s.]; 21 Nov.: Orders &72 8s., Free #5 10s. [#77 18s.]. Receipts: #251 7s. (234.12.0; 16.2.6; 0.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Scandal Actor: Bensley
Role: Ben Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Performances

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Cast
Role: Landlord Actor: Chaplin

Performances

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Performances

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: As17871101

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. To conclude with a Splendid Representation of the Fairy's Palacev. The Paintings by Greenwood. The Music compiled and composed by Linley? Sen. Books of the Songs, Introduction, &c. to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #121 9s. (92.0.0; 27.18.6; 1.10.6)

Performances

Afterpiece Title: Hurly-Burly; or, The Fairy of the Well

Related Works
Related Work: Hurly-Burly; or, The Fairy of the Well Author(s): Thomas King

Dance: In afterpiece: Ferrere, the Miss Stageldoirs

Performances

Afterpiece Title: Hurly-Burly

Related Works
Related Work: Hurly-Burly; or, The Fairy of the Well Author(s): Thomas King

Dance: In afterpiece: Dancing-Hamoir, the Miss Stageldoirs

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Cast
Role: Sir Clement Flint Actor: King
Role: Mr Blandish Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Mrs Blandish Actor: Mrs Wilson

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble as Hamlet, but for his "indisposition an apology was made, and the audience requested to accept of Wroughton in his place--a request...no sooner asked than had" (World, 4 Dec.).] The Country Girl and Richard Coeur de Lion [both advertised on playbill of 1 Dec.] are obliged to be deferred, on Account of the Indisposition of a principal Performer. Receipts: #105 19s. 6d. (83.2.0; 21.7.6; 1.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: King Actor: Packer
Role: Player King Actor: Chaplin

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Sir Peter Teazle Actor: King
Role: Mrs Candour Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: Comus