SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "King of Bantam"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "King of Bantam")') 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 2634 matches on Performance Title, 2615 matches on Performance Comments, 1595 matches on Event Comments, 23 matches on Author, and 6 matches on Roles/Actors.
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

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

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

Performances

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

Event Comment: [Opening night, under the management of John Rich.] By the Company of Comedians under Letters Patents granted by King Charles the Second. Beginning exactly at Six. No Persons are to be admitted behind the Scenes, nor any Money to be return'd after the Curtain is drawn up. Receipts: #143. Weekly Packet, 18 Dec.: This Day the New Play-House...is to be open'd...by the Company that act under the Patent; tho' it is said, that some of the Gentlemen who have left the Theatre in Drury-Lane for that Service, are order'd to return to their Colours, upon Pain of not exercising their Lungs anywhere; which may in Time prove of ill Service to the Patentee; that has been at vast Expence to make his Theatre as convenient for the Reception of an Audience as any one can possibly be

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

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

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

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

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

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

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

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

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

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

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

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

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

Event Comment: Benefit Antonio Bernacchi. By Command. Admission as 8 Dec. 1716. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wenceslaus

Event Comment: Benefit Wilks, Officekeeper, and King, Boxkeeper. Advertised as the last play of the season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wake

Dance: As17170524

Event Comment: At Bullock's and Leigh's Great Theatrical Booth, in Angel-Court, next the King's Bench. Mainpiece: a Dramatick Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Noble Soldier; Or, Love In Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Adventures of Master Billy Softhead, His Mother, and Sister Sally

Event Comment: Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 21 Sept.: We hear Mr Penkethman will bring his Action against the informing Constables, for breaking open his Booth last Friday was 7-Night, and taking him off the Stage, contrary to the King's Patent, under the Umbrage of which he acts, being sworn Servant to His Majesty; especially against such of them as were out of theirLiberty, when they executed that Office. The Fair will continue Monday and Tuesday Night

Performances

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. At 6 p.m. Post Boy, 28 Sept.: We hear that last Week Mr Rich made an Assignment of the New Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, and his Patent granted by King Charles II to Mr Keene and Mr Bullock jun. and that they open on Saturday next, with a celebrated Play of Shakespear's call'd, Cimbiline, which will be entirely new dress'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Event Comment: Not acted these Twenty Years. Written by Shakespear, and since revis'd with several Alterations. The whole Play being new dress'd. N.B. The Play will begin exactly at Six a-Clock. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 5 Oct., reports a rumor that J. J. Heidegger has sent to France to recruit a set of comedians to act French plays at the king's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cimbeline; Or, The Fatal Wager

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Cook, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Schoolding, Miss Smith

Event Comment: The King present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror