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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Williams"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Williams")') 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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16368 results for: Keyword - Mr Williams
We found 11047 matches on Author, 4553 matches on Event Comments, 2673 matches on Performance Comments, 577 matches on Performance Title, and 2 matches on Roles/Actors.

16226
April 1688 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Darius King Of Persia

16227
11 April 1689 @ no theater listed

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16228
November 1689 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Jovial Crew

16229
04 November 1690 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

16230
01 January 1691 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

16231
10 October 1691 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

16232
30 April 1693 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: This celebration of the Queen's Birthday presumably was given on 30 April, her birthday. The music in the Royal Society of Music gives the singers as Mrs Ayliff, The Boy, Turner, Snow, Edwards, Howell, Bowman, Damascene, Bouchier, Williams, Woodeson, Roberts. See Purcell's Works, Purcell Society, XXIV (1926), ii

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

16233
30 October 1693 @ The City, London

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

16234
July 1694 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: According to the testimony of Sir Thomas Skipwith, 10 Dec. 1694, the young actors played during the vacation nearly thirty days without Betterton, Williams, Bright, Kinaston, Sandford, or Mrs Betterton, and made sufficient money to keep them over the vacation. L. C. 7@3, 17 Dec. 1694, in Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 374

Performances

16235
29 October 1694 @ The City, London

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

16236
May 1695 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: See Cibber, Apology, I, 201-2, for his account of the mistake Betterton's Company made in not retaining Williams and Mrs Mountfort-Verbruggen, and of the problems of Rich's Company. In this passage Cibber implies that Hamlet, Othello, and Julius Caesar were acted at Drury Lane soon after the division of the companies

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16237
27 October 1697 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee Or The Faithful Irishman

16238
23 August 1698 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jephthas Rash Vow

16239
15 November 1699 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

16240
29 November 1699 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

16241
11 June 1701 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Libertine Destroyd

16242
13 June 1701 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

16243
March 1702 @ no theater listed

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16244
24 September 1702 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cimbiline King Of Brittain The Great Protector Of His Country

16245
07 October 1702 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline King Of Brittain The Great Protector Of His Country

16246
01 November 1703 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marry Or Do Worse

16247
31 July 1706 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Playhouse To Be Let With Sganarella The Blacksmith Of Paris

Afterpiece Title: Mock Pompey

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Dance:

16248
11 December 1706 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Williams

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

16249
02 April 1707 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the greatest Masters

16250
22 April 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Williams and Willer [Weller?]. Tickets delivered for Saturday 23 taken this night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Song: As17070327

Dance: As17070403