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15939 results for: Keyword - King William
We found 11053 matches on Author, 4080 matches on Performance Comments, 2683 matches on Performance Title, 1977 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2526
07 October 1702 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the Famous William Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline King Of Brittain The Great Protector Of His Country

2527
17 March 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid Mr Williams 2 nights in Musical Lady #1 1s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #162 6s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Cast
Role: Spatter Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Cast
Role: Dancing Actor: Miss _Reynolds, Mrs King.

Dance: II: A New Pantomime Dance call'd The Millers and the Colliers-Grimaldi, Duquesney, Mons Rolle, Mrs King, Miss Tetley; End: The Lilliputian Camp, as17670227

2528
03 May 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miles. Charges #73 16s. Balance to Miles #47 14s. plus #119 7s. from tickets (Box 226; Pit 331; Gallery 132). Williams, Gard & Singleton rec'd customary Pay for performing the Bell and the lion in the Pantomime [see 15 Feb.] (Account Book). Receipts: #121 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Jubilee

Dance: III: A Minuet-King, Miss Twist; IV: The Tartars, as17691207

2529
31 January 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by Hannah Cowley. Prologue and Epilogue by the author (see text)]. @When first thy Tragedy I view'd@Where Sparta mourns her Lot severe;@I caught the Spartan Fortitude@And watch'd her Woes without a Tear.@ (William Parsons [not the actor], in Thraliana, II, 713.) Public Advertiser, 27 Feb. 1788: This Day is published The Fate of Sparta (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #203 15s. 6d. (171.13.0; 30.15.0; 1.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fate Of Sparta Or The Rival Kings

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Kemble, Bensley, Barrymore, Whitfield, Staunton, Williames, Bates, Phillimore, Chaplin, Wilson, Benson, Mrs Siddons. [Cast from text (G. G. J. and J. Robinson), and World, 1 Feb.: Cleombrotus-Kemble; Leonidas-Bensley; Amphares-Barrymore; Nicrates-Whitfield; Corex-Staunton; Mezentius-Williames; Officer-Bates; Sarpedon-Phillimore; High Priest-Chaplin; Priest-Wilson; Attalus-Benson; Child-Miss Gaudry; Chelonice-Mrs Siddons; Prologue-Wroughton; Epilogue-Mrs Siddons. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]
Cast
Role: Mezentius Actor: Williames

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Cast
Role: Beaumont Actor: Williames

2530
14 March 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Rehearsal Of Kings Or The Projecting Gingerbread Baker With The Unheard Of Catastrophe Of Macplunderkan King Of Roguomania And The Ignoble Fall Of Baron Tromperland King Of Clouts

Performance Comment: First Queen Incog-Mrs Eliza Haywood; Don Resinano-Mrs Charke; King of Clouts-Roberts; Mynheer Maggot-Jones; Mynheer Wiserman-Lacy; Crimcrowky-Davies; other characters are King Roguomania-; King Bombardino-; King Pamper Gusto-; King Taxyburndus-; King Lexoneris-; Sardonides-; Bandiquamonti-; Campanardicoff-; Ghost of a Dutch Statesman-.
Cast
Role: King of Clouts Actor: Roberts
Role: other characters are King Roguomania Actor:
Role: King Bombardino Actor:
Role: King Pamper Gusto Actor:
Role: King Taxyburndus Actor:
Role: King Lexoneris Actor:

2531
03 April 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: SSquire Richard-Mr Obrien ($Hopkins). Benefit for King. Receipts: #250 (MacMillan); charges: #64 4s. [Profit to King: #185 16s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Cast
Role: Count Basset Actor: King.

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Cast
Role: Mask Actor: King

Entertainment: II: King, as Mr Prattle, will (for this night only) open a Packet of News-King; End: King, by Desire" will repeat a Comic Paraphrase on the Seven Ages of Shakespear-King

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Miss Baker; End Comic Paraphrase: The Irish Lilt, as17630922

2532
30 April 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for King. House charges #76 10s. [Profit to King #55 14s.] Paid Master Burney 15 nights #3 2s. 6d. Printer's bill #9 6s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #132 4s. (Treasurer's Book). At 5 went to the Pit at Drury Lane to see the Clandestine Marriage...I could see this play, as it is now performed, every night, but J. Palmer was not so good in Brush as the other Mr Palmer whose character it is. Plym did not please tonight. The scene between the lawyers was omitted. We had the Irish Lilt by Mrs King, Giorgi, &c., and a comic scene by her and M Dugermay, with Linco's Travels...Mrs King is certainly a very fine dancer and has the best legs I ever saw. Past eleven ere we got out. A little girl of 7 or 8 years old danced very prettily (Neville MS Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs King.

Dance: I: The Irish Lilt-Giorgi, Mrs King; End: A Comic Dance-Duquesney, Mrs King

Entertainment: LLinco's Travels-King

2533
30 March 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: As17610919, but Archer-King; Aimwell-Packer; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Pritchard; Sir Charles-Blakes; Gibbet-_; Lady Bountiful-_; Gipsey-_.
Cast
Role: Archer Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: As17611109, but reduc'd to two acts: Shift, Smirk, Mrs Cole, Epilogue-King; Minor-Holland; Lucy-Mrs Hopkins.
Cast
Role: Epilogue Actor: King

Entertainment: I: King (for this night only) will present the Public with a Serio-Comic, Satiric, Prophetic, Poetic Oration, call'd The Brass Prophecy or News Ten Years Hence-King; End Farce, By Particular Desire: The Picture of the Playhouse or Bucks Have at ye All-King

Dance: IV: A New Hornpipe-Miss Baker. *uöfidl After: The Farmer's Return from London. As17620329

2534
23 April 1675 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 215: King and Queene. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 345

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A King And No King

2535
09 December 1686 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 260: A King & no King at Whitehall. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A King And No King

2536
06 January 1687 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. Lord Ashburnham's Diary: I went to the Play (a King and no King) and came home in good time a very rayny night (Ashburnham MS 932; see 14 Dec. 1686)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A King And No King

2537
22 February 1687 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is known from a playbill. See Eleanore Boswell, A Playbill of 1687, Library, 4th Series, XI (1931), 499-502, and Cecil Price, A Playbill, c. 1686, Notes and Queries, Vol. 194 [1949), p. 519. The bill Price saw is in the State Papers James II, 31@3, ff. 215-16, among documents referring to 1686, but the date and day of the week point to 1687. The bill reads: At the Theatre Royall this present Tuesday being the Twenty second day of February will be presented, A Play called, A King, and No King. Beginning Exact...t Four of the Clock....their Majesties Servants. VIVAT REX

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A King And No King

2538
24 April 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for King. 1st piece: In one act; not acted these 20 years [not acted since 12 Nov. 1772]. 2nd piece [1st time; D 3, author unknown. Larpent MS 1250; not published]. Morning Chronicle, 10 Apr.: Tickets to be had of King at his house, Store-street, Bedford-square. Receipts: #437 14s. (241.3.0; 57.7.6; odd and after-money: tickets: 137.0.6) (charge:#231 7s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Will And No Will Or Wits Last Stake

Performance Comment: Linger-King; Saville-Russell; Caveat-Maddocks; Item-Sparks; Martin-Bannister Jun.; Mrs Watchly-Miss Tidswell; Myra-Miss Heard; Lucetta-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Linger Actor: King
Related Works
Related Work: Wit's Last Stake Author(s): Thomas King

Afterpiece Title: Trials of the Heart

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Kemble, Barrymore, King, Mrs Siddons, Mrs Jordan, Mrs Walcot. [Larpent MS lists the parts: Norman, Belfield, Wentworth, Eliza, Louisa, Margaret.]Larpent MS lists the parts: Norman, Belfield, Wentworth, Eliza, Louisa, Margaret.]
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Kemble, Barrymore, King, Mrs Siddons, Mrs Jordan, Mrs Walcot.

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

Performance Comment: As17990131, but Sir Adam Contest-King.
Cast
Role: Sir Adam Contest Actor: King.

Song: End 2nd piece: The Country Club-Bannister Jun.; In 3rd piece: In the dead of the Night-Mrs Jordan

Entertainment: Monologue End: Foote's Prologue to The Author-King; in which is introduced the well-known Fable of The Man the Boy and the Ass-King

2539
15 February 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A King And No King

2540
12 April 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs King. Theodosius Advertis'd. Mr Barry Ill (Cross Diary). Tickets deliver'd for Theodosius will be taken. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Performance Comment: As17690405 but with Ralph-King for this night only.
Cast
Role: Ralph Actor: King for this night only.
Related Works
Related Work: The Maid in the Mill Author(s): William Rowley

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit or Harlequin at Rhodes

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Rooker; Colombine-Mrs King; others as usual; Dances-the Giorgis; Pantaloon-Grimaldi; Old Lady-Mrs Cross; Clown-Ackman; Hermit-Kear; French Lady-Johnston; Country Girl-Miss Young; J. Burton, Castle. See17670923. J. Burton, Castle. See17670923.
Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs King

Dance: I: The Wake, as17680929

Entertainment: End of Opera: King (for that night only) will present the Audience with a Comic Paraphrase-King on Shakespeare's The Seven Ages

2541
03 April 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings False Colours

Performance Comment: [Characters by Suett, King, Wroughton, Barrymore, Bannister Jun., R. Palmer, Wewitzer, Maddocks, Alfred, Banks, Webb, Miss Pope, Miss Farren, Mrs Goodall, Miss Heard. Cast from text (T. Cadell, 1793): Lord Visage-Suett; Sir Paul Panick-King; Sir Harry Cecil-Wroughton; Captain Montague-Barrymore; Grotesque-Bannister Jun.; Subtle-R. Palmer; Tony-Wewitzer; Robert-Maddocks; Cook-Alfred; Servants [so listed in text, but actors' names omitted]-Banks, Webb; Lady Panick-Miss Pope; Constance Evelyn-Miss Farren; Harriet-Mrs Goodall; Lucy-Miss Heard; Prologue-Wroughton; Epilogue-Miss Farren. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances, except on 1 and 2 May.]These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances, except on 1 and 2 May.]
Cast
Role: Sir Paul Panick Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

2542
June 1677 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. The date of the first production is not known, but see the discussion of Wits Led by the Nose, mid-June 1677, for the relationship of the two plays. The Rival Kings was entered, and deleted, in the Stationers' Register, 26 July 1678; but because the play was entered in the Term Catalogues, November 1677, it seems likely that its premiere occurred in 1677

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Kings Or The Loves Of Oroondates And Statira

2543
04 January 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Subscription. With a new Prologue and Epilogue. Admission as 14 Dec. 1703. [A Folger Library broadside appears to be a program for this concert. It lists in Act I The Druid's Song from Bonduca, two songs by Mrs Tofts, a song from The Fairy Queen, and a dance; in Act II The Frost Music from King Arthur, two dances, and a song by Mrs Tofts; in Act III an Ode on the Glorious Beginning of Her Majesty's Reign, set by Daniel Purcell and performed by Leveridge, Hughes, Mrs Lindsey, and Mrs Campion; a song by Mrs Tofts, The Sacrifice from King Arthur, and a Grand Dance.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Wherein several Songs in Italian and English-Mrs Tofts; With several select Pieces of Musick- (compos'd by the late famous Mr Henry Purcell) taken out of the Operas of The Fairy Queen, King Arthur, Dioclesian, and Bonduca; And an Ode upon the Happy Accession of Her Majesty to the Throne- set to Musick by Mr Daniel Purcell, never perform'd before

Dance: L'Abbe, DuRuell, Cherrier, Mrs Elford, Mrs Campion, Devonshire Girl

2544
02 February 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales [who were present]. Benefit the Author of the King and the Miller of Mansfield [Dodsley]. N.B. The Boxes not being equal to the Demand for Places, for the better Accommodation of the Ladies, Side Boxes will be made on the Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Cibber

2545
22 March 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: See17370214, but King-Cibber; Miller-Miller.
Cast
Role: King Actor: Cibber

Music: Select Pieces-; II: Solo on the Violin-Riggs

Dance: III: Harlequin-Denoyer's@Prentice; V: Russian Sailor-Denoyer

2546
16 May 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of The King and the Miller of Mansfield. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Toy Shop

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Cibber

Dance: I: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; III: Wooden Shoe Dance-Livier, Villeneuve; V: Russian Sailor-Denoyer's@Prentice

2547
01 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

Cast
Role: King Actor: Mills
Related Works
Related Work: Hamlet Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: See17380413 but King-Hill; Miller-Miller.
Cast
Role: 7380413 but King Actor: Hill

Dance: I: La Pieraite-Livier, Mrs Thompson; II: Polonese-Haughton, Mrs Walter; III: Turkish-Muilment; IV: English Maggot-Haughton, Mrs Walter; V: Russian Sailor-Denoyer

2548
05 April 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: As17390120, but King-Winstone; Attendants-Woodburn, Cross, Green; Foresters-Turbutt, Gray, Leigh.
Cast
Role: King Actor: Winstone

Dance: I: Punches Dances-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; V: Grand Ballet-Muilment, Mrs Walter

2549
26 April 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: As17390405 but King-Mills; Kate-Miss Chetwood; Attendants-_; Foresters-_.
Cast
Role: King Actor: Mills

Dance: SSaraband-Miss Scott; Serious Dance-Muilment, Mrs Walter; Minuet-Rector, Mrs Walter

Song: OOh Happy Pair-Beard

2550
25 May 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: See17390426 but King-Winstone; Miller-Shepard; Lurewell-Raftor; Richard-Havard; Peggy-Mrs Hamilton; Margery-Mrs Bennet; Joe-Beard; Kate-Miss Chetwood.
Cast
Role: 7390426 but King Actor: Winstone

Dance: I: Tambourine-Mlle Roland; III: French Peasants-Poitier, Mlle Roland; V: Turkish Dance-Muilment; End Afterpiece: A new Scotch Dance-Miss Wright

Song: II: The Protestation-Beard