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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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5858 results for: Keyword - King of Bantam
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.

5301
02 May 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Thurmond, the Dancing-Master. At the Desire of the Two Princes, Brothers to the King of Delago in Africa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Dance:

5302
03 May 1721 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mottley. For the Entertainment of the Two Princes, Brothers to the King of Delago in Africa. Receipts: money #41 14s. 6s.; tickets #25 15s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Magician

5303
03 May 1721 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 19 Nov. 1720. The King present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mutius Scaevola

5304
18 May 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Denoye. By His Majesty's Command. Written by the late Mr Dryden.[The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Dance:

5305
26 May 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Heron and Mrs Seale. At the Desire of the Two Princes, Brothers to the King of Delago in Africa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Dance:

5306
01 June 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit King, the Boxkeeper. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Dance:

5307
02 June 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mr Hodgson, formerly a Comedian in the King's Company. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by Row, late Poet Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Dance:

5308
21 November 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Dance:

5309
26 January 1722 @ Westminster School

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eunuchus

Performance Comment: The King's Scholars.

5310
25 April 1722 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 9 Dec. 1721, King and Prince present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Floridante

5311
09 May 1722 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 9 Dec. 1721. The King, Prince and Princess present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Griselda

5312
19 May 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit King, Boxkeeper. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the late Mr Wycherley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Music: Between the Acts: Select Pieces-

Dance: Shaw, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bullock; The Hussar-

5313
05 September 1722 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At the Angel Tavern, next Door to the King's Bench: Miller is not with Penkethman, but by himself. A New Droll

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Faithful Couple; Or, The Royal Shepherdess

Entertainment: Between Old Hob and his Wife, Comical Humours of Mopsey and Collin-

5314
27 October 1722 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Advertised in Daily Courant, 25 Oct., but not later; in Daily Courant, 27 Oct., it is listed only for Wednesday 31. Yet Daily Journal, 29 Oct., states that the King was present this night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mutius Scaevola

5315
22 January 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 7 Nov. 1722. The King, Prince and Princess present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

5316
28 January 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Fryar, who has played but once since the days of King Charles, and taught three Queens to Dance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Half Pay Officers

Afterpiece Title: Hob's Wedding

Dance: The Bashful Country Maid, Irish Trot-Peggy Fryar

5317
06 April 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Original Weekly Journal, 6 April: We are told that the Italian Singers at our Opera, to the Number of five, of whom two are Eunuchs, have obtain Permission from the King of France...to go over thither in July next, for the Theatre, and a Gratuity of 35,000 Livres

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Erminia

5318
20 April 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Receipts: #136 6s. The King present, on which occasion the House was prodigiously crowded (Daily Post, 23 April)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Jupiter and Europa

5319
18 May 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: The King present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Flavius

5320
27 May 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit King, Boxkeeper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Escapes of Harlequin

5321
02 September 1723 @ Richmond

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. At Penkethman's Theatre. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Afterpiece: a diverting Droll. Box Tickets at Penkethman's House in Richmond. Daily Post, 5 Sept.: Mr Penkethman...had the Honour to divert their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, with Entertainments of Acting and Tumbling perform'd to Admiration; Likewise with his Picture of the Royal Family, down from the King of Bohemia to the young Princesses, in which is seen the Nine Muses playing on their several Instruments, in Honour of that August Family. There were present Nobility, Gentry and Ladies upwards of 200

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyramus And Thisbe

Afterpiece Title: The Blind Beggar of Bednal Green; or, The Woman Never Vex'd

Music: Concerto on small Flute-John Baston

Dance: Several surprizing Entertainments of Rope Dancing-a Young Lad lately come from France, who flourishes the Colours, plays on the Violin, and turns several Times on the Rope without a Pole; Ladder Dancing-the greatest Performer in the World, who stands on the Top Round of the Ladder, drinks a Glass of Wine, with his other Hand above his Head in the Middle of the Stage; Dancing , both Serious and Comic,-Monsieur De Long Dents, Monsieur De Long Dents'@two@children , just arrived from Paris; To which will be added, Variety of Tumbling-Mons Tollard, others, just arrived from Madrid

5322
04 December 1723 @ King's Arms Tavern

Event Comment: At the King's Arms Tavern near Temple Bar. At the Desire of several Gentlemen in the Neighbourhood. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medley

Entertainment: Comical Songs-; The Drunken Man-

5323
05 March 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. No Persons to be admitted into the Boxes, or behind the Scenes, but by printed tickets at 5s. Two Benches of the Pit to be rail'd in, at the Price of the Boxes. [The King and the Prince and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Booth, Mrs Younger

5324
06 May 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Robinson and Mrs Willis. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. With all the Song, Dances, and other Decorations proper to the Play. Afterp1ece: Compos'd by Mr John Eccles, Master of the King's Musick

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea

5325
16 May 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit King, Boxkeeper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Hob