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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "King of France"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "King of France")') 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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5948 results for: Keyword - King of France
We found 2672 matches on Performance Title, 2644 matches on Performance Comments, 1622 matches on Event Comments, 156 matches on Roles/Actors, and 23 matches on Author.

5351
18 December 1714 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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

5352
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:

5353
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

5354
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

5355
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

5356
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

Related Works
Related Work: Hydaspes Author(s): Francesco Mancini

5357
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

Related Works
Related Work: Hydaspes Author(s): Francesco Mancini

Dance: Dutch Skipper-delaGarde, Mrs Bullock

5358
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

5359
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

5360
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

5361
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

5362
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

5363
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

5364
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

5365
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 Author(s): Francesco Gasparini

5366
13 May 1717 @ King's Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wenceslaus

5367
07 June 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

5368
09 September 1717 @ Southwark Fair

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

5369
13 September 1717 @ no theater listed

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

5370
28 September 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Related Works
Related Work: Hamlet Author(s): Francesco Gasparini

5371
19 December 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

5372
24 January 1718 @ Westminster School

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Miles Gloriosus

Performance Comment: Acted in Latin King's Scholars.

5373
23 May 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit King, the Boxkeeper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Dance: Serious and Comic Dancing-

5374
15 November 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: According to Cibber, Apology (II, 218-89), the warrant (dated 15 Nov.) for the performances at Hampton Court shows expenses incurred by the actors of #374 1s. 8d. The King made the dl company a present of an additional #200

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck; or, Perseus And Andromeda

5375
03 December 1718 @ Long Room

Event Comment: The Long Room in the Haymarket is next to the King's Theater and was formerly Boman's Chocolate Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: A new Concerto grosso-; a new Cantata-; violin solo-; a new concerto for Little Flute-; solo for Hautboys-; Cantata Flute solo-; piece with two harpsichords-; concerto-; solo for German Flute-; solo for Harp-; cantata-