The London Stage Database team will be retiring the Legacy Search on May 1, 2025. Please take a moment before that date to reproduce any pre-2021 searches and export any resulting datasets you may wish to preserve for future use. We are making this change in order to free up computational resources for new features and data, currently in development with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Watch this space for more updates and, coming soon, new ways to keep up with the latest project developments!
Toggle Sphinx Query
SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Shakespear"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Shakespear")') 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

Result Options

Download:
JSON XML CSV

Search Filters

Event

Date Range
Start
End

Performance

?
Filter by Performance Type










Cast

?
+
+

Keyword

?
New Search
6424 results for: Keyword - Mr Shakespear
We found 5026 matches on Event Comments, 1151 matches on Performance Comments, 532 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

5076
18 April 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Collection Auction Of Pictures

5077
19 April 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Benefit for Berry and Mrs Green. Stage form'd into Front and Side Boxes. Tickets of Hobson at stage door; or Berry at his lodgings in Little Bridges St., Covent Garden; and Mrs Green at her Lodgings at the Green Canister in Great Shier Lane, Carey St., Lincolns Inn. [This day one B. B. (presumably Macklin) inserted a letter to the author of the General Advertiser in that paper framing the historical background for the Lover's Melancholy, to be performed as benefit for his wife on 22 April. It gave a short account of the author (John Ford), his works in general, and of that dramatic piece in particular, and sought to align Ford as an intimate and profess'd admirer of Shakespeare. See comment for 23 April]. Receipts: #207 (Cross); house charges, #63 N.B.: Mr Berry paid, but at the rate o 60 pounds for his benefit, therefore I must make a draw back of #1 10s. for his half (Powel); cash, #88 9s. tickets, #118 12s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: [The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: [II: Savoyards, as17471215; V: Gondoliers-Cooke

5078
20 April 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Related Works
Related Work: Othello Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

Dance: Cooke, Janeton Auretti

5079
22 April 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Afterpiece Title: A Will and No Will

Dance: II: The Savoyards, as17471215; V: Dutch Dance, as17471128

5080
25 April 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Purgatory

5081
29 April 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

Dance: II: Pastoral Dance, as17480326 III: Savoyards, as17471215; V: By Desire Les Characters de la Dance-Anne Auretti

5082
03 May 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Dance: II: Pastoral Dance, as17480326 III: Les Characteres de La Dance-Ann Auretti; V: Dutch Dance, as17471128

5083
09 May 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

5084
18 May 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: III: Comic Dance, as17480506; V: Pastoral Dance, as17480326

5085
20 May 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lover's Melancholy

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: II: Savoyards, as17471215; V: Pastoral Dance, as17480326

5086
25 May 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: III: Tambourine-Anne Auretti; V: Dutch Dance, as17471128

5087
01 August 1748 @ Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple; Or A Trip To The Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: Phillips

5088
10 September 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

5089
21 September 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

5090
22 September 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

5091
26 September 1748 @ Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragical History of King Richard III Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: New Pantomime Entertainment

Song: III: Genius of England-; End: New Mad Tom-Platt Sen

5092
12 October 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

5093
21 October 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: As17481019

Music: As17481019

5094
07 November 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

5095
14 November 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved; Or, A Plot Discovered

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

5096
15 November 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Related Works
Related Work: Much Ado About Nothing Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Much Ado about Nothing Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: The Law Against Lovers Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: The Universal Passion Author(s): William Shakespeare

5097
16 November 1748 @ The New Theatre, Mr Bradley's Distiller, Old Gravel Lane, Wapping

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beaux Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom; or, The Virgin Unmasked

5098
21 November 1748 @ New Wells, London Spa, Clerkenwell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

5099
01 December 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Music: A Piece of Musick-the Child between the parts of the Auction

5100
14 December 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida