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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr William Barton"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr William Barton")') 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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16514 results for: Keyword - Mr William Barton
We found 11167 matches on Author, 4559 matches on Event Comments, 2729 matches on Performance Comments, 577 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1551
January 1702 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By William Burnaby. Date of premiere unknown. Published 5 Feb.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Modish Husband

Related Works
Related Work: The Modish Husband Author(s): William Burnaby

1552
February 1703 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By William Burnaby. Date of premiere unknown. Published 11 Feb.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Betrayed Or The Agreeable Disappointment

Related Works
Related Work: Love Betray'd; or, The Agreable Disapointment Author(s): William Burnaby
Related Work: Twelfth Night Author(s): William Shakespeare

1553
May 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By William Taverner. Date of premiere unknown. Published in June.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Faithful Bride Of Granada

Related Works
Related Work: The Faithful Bride of Granada Author(s): William Taverner

1554
06 January 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By William Taverner.] Never Acted before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Advocates

Related Works
Related Work: The Female Advocates: or, The Frantick Stock-Jobber Author(s): William Taverner

1555
11 February 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By William Taverner.] Never Acted before. The Dresses for all the Characters being entirely new. Receipts: #58 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Artful Husband

Related Works
Related Work: The Artful Husband Author(s): William Taverner

1556
12 June 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Smith, Kellom's Scholar, Buck, Cross, Williams. Receipts: money #9 8s.; tickets #61 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Taming Of The Shrew

Related Works
Related Work: The Taming of the Shrew Author(s): William Shakespeare

Dance: Thurmond, Miss Smith; particularly a new Swedish Dale Karle-

1557
03 December 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By William Taverner.] Never Acted before. All the Characters being new Drest

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Artful Wife

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Related Work: The Artful Wife Author(s): William Taverner

1558
01 May 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Shepherd, Williams, and Oates. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

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

1559
28 February 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: '[By William Taverner.] Never Acted before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: tis Well If It Takes

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Related Work: Tis Well if it Takes Author(s): William Taverner

1560
11 May 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Corey and Williams. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Related Works
Related Work: Henry VIII Author(s): William Shakespeare

Dance: Weaver, Thurmond Jr, Lallie, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bicknell, Miss Tenoe

1561
13 February 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By William Phillips.] Never Acted before. The Characters all new Dress'd. Receipts: #57 10s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hibernia Freed

Related Works
Related Work: Hibernia Freed Author(s): William Philips

1562
18 February 1724 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Williams

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marplot

Performance Comment: Marplot-Williams.
Cast
Role: Marplot Actor: Williams.

Afterpiece Title: The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus

Related Works
Related Work: The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Author(s): William Mountfort
Related Work: The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Made into a Farce Author(s): William Mountfort

Music: Between the Acts: Select Pieces-

1563
14 April 1724 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By William Philips.] Receipts: #26 19s. 6d. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 18 April: But how contemptible an Opinion must the next Generation have of this Age, if it should be known amongst them; that the first Night this Tragedy appear'd upon the Stage, it did not Bring half a House, because it happen'd to be upon a Masquerade Night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Belisarius

Related Works
Related Work: Belisarius Author(s): William Philips

1564
26 April 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Cory and William Mills. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

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

Dance:

1565
20 November 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. [The King, Queen, Prince William, Princess Royal, Princess Amelia, and Princess Carolina present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

1566
08 April 1730 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [By William Hatchett.] With New Habits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Father Or The Death Of Achilles

Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Father; or, The Death of Achilles Author(s): William Hatchett

1567
04 May 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Chetwood and Miss Williams. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

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Related Work: Henry VIII Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

Cast
Role: Followers of Pleasure Actor: Mrs Walter, Mrs Delorme, Miss Mears, Miss Williams
Role: Syrens Actor: Mrs Walter, Mrs Delorme, Miss Mears, Miss Williams

1568
15 March 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: A New Tragedy. [By William Havard.] Boxes 3s. Boxes and Balconies on the Stage 4s. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Scanderbeg

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Related Work: Scanderbeg Author(s): William Havard

1569
20 August 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit: The Deceas'd Author's Friend or The Author [the bills vary]. A new Tragedy. [By William Bond. For a discussion of the play, see a letter from Hill to Victor, in Victor, History of the Theatres, II, 196-97. Hill states that the youth who speaks the Prologue is Harvey, a young man of eighteen or nineteen.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tuscan Treaty Or Tarquins Overthrow

Related Works
Related Work: The Tuscan Treaty; or, Tarquin's Overthrow Author(s): William Bond

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Mutineers

Dance: As17330814

1570
25 November 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By William Duncombe.] 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s. Prompter, 18 Feb.: Accordingly, the Reception it met with, answer'd what the Author might have expected, if parental Fondness had not over-rated it in his Esteem.... The ill Success then this Play met with, gave me as much Satisfaction, as I had already conceived Indignation against the Poet, for having been so servile, as to stoop to translate a Frenchman's Plagiarism

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Junius Brutus

Related Works
Related Work: Junius Brutus Author(s): William Duncombe

1571
03 November 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [P$Peter Promptwell writes a letter (Daily Gazetteer) commenting on William Hint's two letters. (See 13, 20, 23 Oct. He discourses on the history of the English stage, emphasizing that theatres were better directed heretofore than they are at present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Related Works
Related Work: Richard III Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Columbine Courtezan

1572
15 April 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: fterpiece by William Shirley; music by Arne.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: King Pepins Campaign

1573
28 November 1746 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command. Present The King, Prince and Princess of Wales, The Prince George, Prince Edward and Prince William, and the Lady Augusta (Account Books, Egerton 2268) Receipts: #103 18s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

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

1574
14 May 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command. Present the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Prince George, Prince Edward, and Prince William, with the Lady Augusta and Lady Elizabeth (Account Books, Egerton 2268). Receipts: #87 7s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

Related Works
Related Work: Henry VIII Author(s): Sir William Davenant

Dance: The English Boy and Girl

1575
04 May 1749 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Play by Command of their Royal highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince George, Prince Edward, Prince William, Lady Augusta and Lady Elizabeth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Related Works
Related Work: Henry VIII Author(s): William Shakespeare