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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "King Charles"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "King Charles")') 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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9084 results for: Keyword - King Charles
We found 3675 matches on Performance Comments, 2694 matches on Performance Title, 2436 matches on Author, 1832 matches on Event Comments, and 10 matches on Roles/Actors.

8526
27 April 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Powell and Hall. For the Entertainment of the Four Kings lately arriv'd from America

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Song:

Dance:

8527
28 April 1710 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of the Four Indian Kings lately arriv'd from Northern America, being the last Time of their appearing at a Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Squire Brainless

8528
01 May 1710 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Elizabeth Hemmings. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality and for the Entertainment of the Mohocks and the 3 Indian Kings (Being the last Time of their Appearance in Publick). At 8 p.m. Tickets 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and instrumental Music-the best Masters; Wherein in English and Italian several new Cantatas, other Pieces of Musick-Mrs Hemmings, others; She also accompanies to her own Voice in the Harpsicord, being the first Time of her Appearance in Publick-Mrs Hemmings

8529
08 May 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit King, Dykes, Willmore, boxkeepers. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

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Dance:

8530
13 January 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mackbeth

Performance Comment: As queen's 18 Nov. 1710, but King-_; Seyton-_.

8531
09 May 1711 @ Stationer's Hall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the best Performers; particularly, several select Entertainments of the following (English Operas) Operas viz. The Indian Queen, King Arthur, The Fairy Queen, and Dioclesian, the Masque in Timon of Athens, the Pastoral in The Libertin-; with several Songs out of the St. Cecilia's Musick: All by that great Master the late Mr Henry Purcell-

Performance Comment: The Indian Queen, King Arthur, The Fairy Queen, and Dioclesian, the Masque in Timon of Athens, the Pastoral in The Libertin-; with several Songs out of the St. Cecilia's Musick: All by that great Master the late Mr Henry Purcell-.

8532
11 May 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Rogers. Written by Mr Steele. N.B. The Tickets deliver'd out for King Lear will be taken at this Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

8533
16 June 1714 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Powell and King, the boxkeeper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

Dance: A Gentleman for his Diversion, lately arriv'd from Scotland; Mrs Santlow, others

8534
25 June 1714 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these 50 Years. Written by Shakespear in the Reign of King James the First. N.B. There will be a Play acted upon every Tuesday and Friday during the Summer-Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Puritan; Or, Widow Of Walting Street

8535
26 October 1714 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 8s. Pit 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. Stage Boxes half a Guinea. At 5:30 p.m. Notices as 23 Oct. It having been the Common Practice of several Persons to come into the Opera and stay a whole Act, and sometimes longer, without paying, to the great Prejudice of the Opera, therefore it is humbly desired for the future, that no Person will take it ill that tney are not admitted without Tickets. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arminius

8536
01 November 1714 @ Southwark

Event Comment: At the King's-Arms Tavern in Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Injur'd Virtue; Or, The Virgin Martyr

8537
08 January 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command [but see king's]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Dance:

8538
15 January 1715 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command. Colman's Opera Register: Ye King, Prince & Princess present, & a full House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

8539
09 April 1715 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Robinson. By Command. With the Original Mad-Scenev. Admission as 2 April. Colman's Opera Register: Ye House & ye stage full ye King, Prince, &c. present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ernelinda

8540
10 June 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Chetwood, Prompter, and King, Boxkeeper. Being the last time of the Company's Acting this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

8541
23 July 1715 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Listed only in Colman's Opera Register: No Opera performed since ye 23 July, ye Rebellion of ye Tories and Papists being ye cause--ye King and Court not liking to go into such Crowds these troublesome times

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hydaspes

8542
27 August 1715 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command. With the Cloaths and several Scenes belonging to Amadis; with The Fountain Scene. Admission as 25 June. The King present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hydaspes

Dance: Dutch Skipper-delaGarde, Mrs Bullock

8543
01 February 1716 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command. With all the New Scenes and Cloaths. In which above 20 Songs are chang'd. Pit and Boxes together by ticket only at half a guinea, the number not to exceed 400. Stage Boxes 15s. Gallery 2s. 6d. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lucius Verus

8544
03 March 1716 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Robinson. By Command. The Pit and Boxes at half a guinea. Stage Boxes 15s. Gallery 4s. The King and a great Number of the Nobility present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amadis

8545
10 March 1716 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command. With New Scenes. Admission as 1 Feb. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

8546
07 April 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Santlow. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. The Pit and Boxes together at 5s. each Ticket. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Last Stake

8547
06 June 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Castelman. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. And for the Entertainment of His Excellency Don Luis da Cunha, Ambassador Extraordinary from the King of Portugal

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Song: Turner; Mad Dialogue-Turner, Mrs Willis

Music: A New Concerto for the Little Flute-Paisable

Dance: Dupre, Dupre Jr, Prince, Boval, Mrs Santlow, Miss Younger

8548
09 June 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit King, Boxkeeper. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Being the last time of the Company's Acting this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Song: Turner, Renton, Mrs Willis

Dance: As17151029

8549
30 June 1716 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command. Being the last Opera that will be perform'd this Season. Admission as 4 Feb. At 6 p.m. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleartes

8550
06 November 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Ryder, Diary, pp. 359-60: Went to see the tragedy of Tamerlane which was acted with a new prologue in honour of King William and in memory of what he did for us. The play itself is good....Mills who acted the part of Bajazet did it mighty well and expressed that furiousness and rage and malice and ambition admirably well in his gesture at the end, but, which is his distinguishing character, very well kept up throughout. I observed in the general that the manner of speaking in our theatres in tragedy is not natural. There is something that would be very shocking and disagreeable and very unnatural in real life. Persons would call it theatrical, meaning by that something stiff and affected

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Related Works
Related Work: Tamerlane the Great Author(s): Charles Saunders