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15839 results for: Keyword - King William
We found 10811 matches on Author, 4080 matches on Performance Comments, 2683 matches on Performance Title, 1977 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2601
29 April 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for King. [Mrs Siddons's 1st appearance as Gertrude was at Liverpool, 23 July 1777; Mrs Jordan's as Ophelia at Richmond, 19 Aug. 1795.] Morning Herald, 28 Apr.: Tackets to be had of King, No. 56, Store-street, Bedford-square; 30 Apr.: The dresses [in Hamlet] were all modern. Receipts: #498 17s. 6d. (284.11.6; 55.9.0; 2.5.0; tickets: 156.12.0) (charge: #232 7s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: Claudius-Packer; Hamlet-Wroughton; Polonius-Dodd (1st appearance in that character); Horatio-Whitfield; Laertes-C. Kemble; Rosencrantz-Caulfield; Guildenstern-Trueman; Osrick (for that night only)-Bannister Jun.; Marcellus-Benson; Bernardo-Phillimore; Ghost of Hamlet's father-Bensley; Players-Maddocks, Hollingsworth; 1st Grave@digger-King (1st appearance in that character); 2nd Grave@digger-Burton; Gertrude-Mrs Siddons (1st appearance in that character [in London]); Ophelia-Mrs Jordan (1st appearance in that character in London]); [in which she will introduce an additional Air by Linley-Mrs Jordan; Actress-Miss Tidswell.
Cast
Role: 1st Grave@digger Actor: King
Related Works
Related Work: Hamlet Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

Cast
Role: Sir Adam Contest Actor: King
Role: William Actor: Evans

Entertainment: Monologue.End: a Serio-Comic, Poetic, Prosaic Paraphrase on Shakespeare's Seven Ages-King

Performance Comment: End: a Serio-Comic, Poetic, Prosaic Paraphrase on Shakespeare's Seven Ages-King.
Cast
Role: a Serio Actor: Comic, Poetic, Prosaic Paraphrase on Shakespeare's Seven Ages-King.
Role: Prosaic Paraphrase on Shakespeare's Seven Ages Actor: King.

2602
15 May 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [On this night an unsuccessful attempt was made to assassinate the King. As he entered his box he was shot at by James Hadfield, who was in the pit. The royal family remained in the theatre throughout the performance, during which God save the King was sung on four different occasions. Hadfield was subsequently adjudged insane. See Gentleman's Magazine, May 1800, pp. 478-80.] Receipts: #438 13s. 6d. (345.15.6; 87.9.0; 5.9.0)

Performances

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

Performance Comment: As18000428, but Don Manuel-King.
Cast
Role: Don Manuel Actor: King.

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

2603
17 November 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116. The King's Company. An edition of this play, published in 1661, lists no cast, no prologue, no epilogue

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid's Tragedy

Performance Comment: Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 5) lists a cast which (in part) pertains to this period: King-Wintersel; Melantius-Major Mohun; Amintor-Hart; Calianax-Shatterel.
Cast
Role: King Actor: Wintersel

2604
07 May 1663 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This marks the opening of the new Theatre Royal in Bridges Street, Drury Lane, to which Killigrew moved his company from Vere Street. Downes erroneously gives the opening date as 8 April, a fact which led to the creation of the famous spurious playbill for Bridges Street, Thursday, 8 April 1663. See Montague Summers, The Restoration Theater (London, 1934), p. 15. Pepys, Diary: This day the new Theatre Royal begins to act with scenes the Humorous Lieutenant, but I have not time to see it, nor could stay to see my Lady Jemimah lately come to town, and who was here in the house. Downes (p. 3): Note, this Comedy was Acted Twelve Days Successively

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

Performance Comment: Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 3): King-Wintersel; Demetrius-Hart; Seleucus-Burt; Leontius-Mohun; Lieutenant-Clun; Celia-Mrs Anne? Marshal.
Cast
Role: King Actor: Wintersel

2605
20 September 1670 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 16. Whether this is the premiere is not known. A song, Amintas that true-hearted swain, with music by John Bannister, is in Choice Ayres, Songs, and Dialogues, 2d. Ed., 1675. Downes, Roscius Anglicanus, p. 34: The Jealous Bridegroom, Wrote by Mrs Bhen, a good Play and lasted six Days; but this made its Exit too, to give Room for a greater. The Tempest. Note, In this Play, Mr Otway the Poet having an Inclination to turn Actor; Mrs Bhen gave him the King in the Play, for a Probation Part, but he being not us'd to the Stage; the full House put him to such a Sweat and Tremendous, Agony, being dash't, spoilt him for an Actor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Forc'd Marriage; Or, The Jealous Bridegroom

Performance Comment: Edition of 1671: Prologue-; Epilogue-a Woman; King-Westwood [ThomasOtway, however, played it the first night]; Philander-Smith; Alcippus-Betterton; Orgulious?-Norris; Alcander-Young; Pisaro-Cademan; Fallatius-Angel; Cleontius-Crosby; Gallatea-Mrs Jennings; Erminia-Mrs Betterton; Aminta-Mrs Wright; Olinda-Mrs Lee; Isilia-Mrs Clough.
Cast
Role: King Actor: Westwood

2606
02 January 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth ; Part I

Cast
Role: King Actor: Thurmond
Related Works
Related Work: King Henry the Fourth: With the Humours of Sir John Falstaff Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Henry the Fourth, Part I Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: The Tragedy of King Henry IV of France Author(s): Charles Beckingham
Related Work: The Siege of Rhodes, Part I Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Related Work: The Siege of Rhodes, Part II Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Related Work: Henry ye Fourth, Part II Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Henry the Sixth: The First Part, With The Murder of Humphrey Duke of Glocester Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: The Misery of Civil War Author(s): William Shakespeare

2607
16 May 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth

Cast
Role: King Actor: Thurmond
Related Works
Related Work: King Henry the Fourth: With the Humours of Sir John Falstaff Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Henry the Fourth, Part I Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: The Tragedy of King Henry IV of France Author(s): Charles Beckingham

Music: Concerto upon the Little Flute by Paisible-; Concerto intirely new, by Mr Hendel-

Dance: Weaver, Shaw, Wade, Topham, Mrs Bicknell, Miss Younger, Miss Tenoe

Related Works
Related Work: Small Talk; or, The Westminster Boy Author(s): William Shield

2608
15 November 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth; Part I

Cast
Role: King Actor: Thurmond
Related Works
Related Work: King Henry the Fourth: With the Humours of Sir John Falstaff Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Henry the Fourth, Part I Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: The Tragedy of King Henry IV of France Author(s): Charles Beckingham
Related Work: The Siege of Rhodes, Part I Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Related Work: The Siege of Rhodes, Part II Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Related Work: Henry ye Fourth, Part II Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Henry the Sixth: The First Part, With The Murder of Humphrey Duke of Glocester Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: The Misery of Civil War Author(s): William Shakespeare

2609
12 January 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth; Part I

Cast
Role: King Actor: Boheme
Related Works
Related Work: King Henry the Fourth: With the Humours of Sir John Falstaff Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Henry the Fourth, Part I Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: The Tragedy of King Henry IV of France Author(s): Charles Beckingham
Related Work: The Siege of Rhodes, Part I Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Related Work: The Siege of Rhodes, Part II Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Related Work: Henry ye Fourth, Part II Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Henry the Sixth: The First Part, With The Murder of Humphrey Duke of Glocester Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: The Misery of Civil War Author(s): William Shakespeare

2610
21 May 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth; Part I

Cast
Role: King Actor: Boheme
Related Works
Related Work: King Henry the Fourth: With the Humours of Sir John Falstaff Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Henry the Fourth, Part I Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: The Tragedy of King Henry IV of France Author(s): Charles Beckingham
Related Work: The Siege of Rhodes, Part I Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Related Work: The Siege of Rhodes, Part II Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Related Work: Henry ye Fourth, Part II Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Henry the Sixth: The First Part, With The Murder of Humphrey Duke of Glocester Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: The Misery of Civil War Author(s): William Shakespeare

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2611
10 December 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Vth

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Booth
Role: King of France Actor: Thurmond
Role: Lord Scroop Actor: Williams

2612
27 October 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Viiith

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Booth

2613
28 October 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Viiith

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Role: King Henry Actor: Booth

2614
31 October 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Viiith

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Role: King Henry Actor: Booth

2615
02 November 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Viiith

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Booth

2616
03 November 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Viiith

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Booth

2617
08 November 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Viiith

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Role: King Henry Actor: Booth

2618
10 November 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Viiith

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Booth

2619
11 November 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Viiith

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Booth

2620
15 November 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Viiith

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Role: King Henry Actor: Booth

2621
16 November 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Viiith

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Booth

2622
17 November 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Viiith

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Booth

2623
24 November 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Viiith

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Booth

2624
14 May 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Viiith

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Booth

2625
29 October 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Viiith

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Harper