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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr William Shakespear"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr William 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

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16357 results for: Keyword - Mr William Shakespear
We found 10808 matches on Author, 5343 matches on Event Comments, 2686 matches on Performance Comments, 581 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

15251
01 September 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Preludio

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

15252
28 November 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Banditti; Or, Love's Labyrinth

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

15253
01 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Related Works
Related Work: The Village Fete Author(s): William Shield

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

15254
30 September 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: Hamlet-[J. P.] Kemble (from the Theatre Royal, Dublin; 1st appearance upon that stage); King-Packer; Horatio-Farren; Polonius-Baddeley; Laertes-Barrymore; Ostrick-R. Palmer; Rosencraus-Phillimore; Guildenstern-Williames; Player King-Chaplin; Marcellus-Wrighten; Lucianus-Waldron; Gravediggers-Suett, Burton; Ghost-Bensley; Ophelia-Miss Field; Player Queen-Mrs Hedges; Queen-Mrs Hopkins .
Cast
Role: Guildenstern Actor: Williames
Related Works
Related Work: Hamlet Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

15255
03 October 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

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

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

15256
10 May 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Afterpiece Title: A Medley

Related Works
Related Work: The Triumphant Widow; or, The Medley of Humours Author(s): William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece, as17840311athi

15257
25 February 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

15258
31 January 1787 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady-Blurton, Rayner, Miss Cranfield

15259
29 March 1787 @ Red-Lion Inn, Lordship Road, Stoke Newington

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer; Or, The Mistakes Of A Night

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton; or, High Life above Stairs

Entertainment: Monologue. Entertainments: An Epilogue describing the Furor Dramatica, Epilogue to The Lying Valet [by David Garrick], Paul Prigg's Description of his Journey thro' Gravesend Rochester Boulogne Amiens and Chantilly, Prologue to Bon Ton [describing the Folly and Fashions of the Times by George Colman elder], Bucks have at Ye all, An Occasional Address of Thanks to the Ladies and Gentlemen [by Marriot, Johnny Gilpin's Account of his Journey thro' Stoke Newington Edmonton to Ware shewing how he went farther than he intended and arrived safe Home at last-Marriot

15260
21 July 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Comus

15261
12 January 1788 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Re Teodoro In Venezia

Dance: End I: a new ballet, The Military Dance (composed by Chevalier)-Didelot, Chevalier, Coulon, Vestris, Mlle Coulon, the two Miss Simonets, Sga Bedini, Mlle Hilligsberg; End Opera: Les Offrandes a l'Amour, as17871208

Related Works
Related Work: The Female Chevalier Author(s): William Taverner

15262
14 May 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Dance: As17880328

15263
17 September 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: Midas

15264
28 April 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: As17881010

Entertainment: Monologue. Preceding: Occasional Address-Middleton

15265
27 June 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Generosita D'alessandro

Dance: End I: New Divertissement, as17890310End Opera: L'Embarquement pour Cythere, as17890110, but Mlle _Normand

15266
31 July 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: The Portrait

Entertainment: Imitations End: Theatrical Imitations Serious, Comic, Vocal, and Rhetorical,-Rees; Duologue End afterpiece: Hobby@Horses Describing the Statesman's Hobby, the Ladies' Hobby, the Lawyer's Hobby, the Physician's Hobby, the Manager's Hobby, and R. Palmer's own Hobby,-R. Palmer, Iliff

15267
22 March 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

15268
04 October 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Provocation

15269
23 October 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Performance Comment: Lord Ogleby-King (1st appearance on that stage these 3 years); Sir John Melvil-Whitfield; Sterling-Parsons; Lovewell-Barrymore; Canton-Baddeley; Brush-Palmer; Serjeant Flower-Packer; Traverse-Phillimore; Trueman-Benson; Mrs Heidelberg-Mrs Hopkins; Miss Sterling-Miss Pope; Fanny-Mrs Kemble; Betty-Miss Tidswell; Chambermaid-Mrs Williames; Trusty-Mrs Booth.
Cast
Role: Chambermaid Actor: Mrs Williames

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

15270
01 January 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Cast
Role: Bell Actor: Mrs Williames

15271
07 March 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Advertisement; or, A New Way to Get a Husband

Entertainment: MonologuesEnd IV: The late King of Prussia and General Ziethen-Lee Lewes; End: A Whimsical Dissertation upon Law-Lee Lewes

15272
12 April 1791 @ Pantheon, Oxford Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Bella Pescatrice

Dance: End I: Amphion et Thalie, as17910409

Ballet: End Opera: Telemachus in the Island of Calypso

15273
05 May 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Song: End I: Wine cannot cure the pain I endure for my Chloe-Johnstone, Incledon; with new accompaniments by Shield-; End: Catches and Glees-Bannister, Johnstone, Incledon, Davies, Blanchard, Williamson; The Anacreontic Song-Bannister; The Introductory Dialogue, in Irish Character-Rock

Related Works
Related Work: The Lawyer Author(s): James Brow Williamson

15274
03 June 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Linco's Travels

Afterpiece Title: The Cottage Maid

Dance: In 3rd piece: a Hornpipe, Dance of Sailors-

Song: Masquerade Scene in 1st piece: Green Willow (composed by Percy)-Miss Broadhurst

15275
28 May 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dido Queen Of Carthage

Afterpiece Title: Katharine and Petruchio