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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Robert Wilks Esq"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Robert Wilks Esq")') 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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3639 results for: Keyword - Robert Wilks, Esq.
We found 2281 matches on Performance Comments, 924 matches on Author, 633 matches on Event Comments, 99 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2426
26 July 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Acted but Once these Twenty Years. [As lif acted on Tuesdays and Fridays, possibly these plays were given earlier on 22 June.] By a Company of Comedians, acting under Letters-Patent. Mainpiece: Written by Thomas Shadwell, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woman Captain

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: TThe Ladies' Lamentation, as17370414 A Dialogue set by Henry Purcell-the Masters Hamilton

Dance: JJe ne scai quoi-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates

2427
06 September 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by C. Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat. Egerton 2320: Receipts: #62

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift; Or, The Fool In Fashion

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

2428
08 September 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq</a>. Egerton 2320. Receipts: #62. A dam'd stink this Night by a Vaults being Emptied in Vinegar yard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

2429
04 November 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales [who were present]. Mainpiece: Written by the late N. Rowe, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: As17371025

2430
07 November 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire. Mainpiece: Written by the late N. Rowe, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

Dance: I: Saraband-Miss Scott; Minuet-Miss Scott; II: Comic Dance-Miss Scott's Sister; III: The Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; two of the Lilliputians. IV: Serious Dance-Misses Scott

2431
08 November 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by C. Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Cast
Role: Louisa Actor: Mrs Roberts

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

2432
11 November 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by C. Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: I: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; III: Drunken Peasant-Phillips; V: Scot's Dance, as17371110

2433
02 January 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late $J. Addison, Esq.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trick'd

2434
03 January 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by C. Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Cast
Role: Louisa Actor: Mrs Roberts

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trick'd

Dance: Glover, Mlle Roland

2435
28 January 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire. Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Hughes, Esq</a>. London Evening Post, 28 Jan.: It's remarkable that the new Comedy call'd The Nest of Plays...and the new Farce call'd The Coffee House...and which are the two first that have been perform'd since the Act of Parliament took Place, obliging all Plays, Farces, &c. to be licens'd before play'd, were both damn'd by the Town

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi

Music: Select Pieces-

Dance: I: Flanderkins, as17380120 II: Drunken Peasant-Philips; III: Grand Polish Dance-Haughton, Mrs Walter, Liviez, Pelling, Vallois, Rector, Mrs Thompson, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Woodward, Miss Brett

2436
08 May 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mines, Gallant, Verhuyck, Naylor. Mainpiece: Written by C. Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Lawyer

Dance: SSerious Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; A new Pantomime Dance-Nivelon, Mrs LeBrun; Comic Dance-Richardson, Miss Cantrel

2437
15 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mr and Mrs Arne. Mainpiece: Written by C. Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: II: Drunken Peasant-Philips; IV: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

Song: I: Sweet Echoby Arne in Comus-Mrs Arne; III: Dove Spiega (an Italian Song by Arne)-Mrs Arne

2438
12 September 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales [who were present]. Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq</a>. Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan: Intermix'd with Songs

2439
05 October 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq</a>

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Cast
Role: Abigail Actor: Mrs Roberts

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi

Dance: II: Drunken Peasant-Philips; IV: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

2440
12 October 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these Twenty Years. Written by N. Rowe, Esq</a>

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Gray

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Dance: II: A new Grand Ballet-Mlle Roland, others

2441
14 October 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by N. Rowe, Esq</a>

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Gray

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Dance: As17381012

2442
16 October 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by N. Rowe, Esq</a>. Afterpiece: Altered from the French of Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Gray

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: II: Ballet-Mlle Roland the Elder; V: Drunken Peasant-Philips

2443
23 November 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq</a>

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Robin Goodfellow

Dance: III: Dance of Moors-Muilment

2444
18 December 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: As 27 Nov. Mainpiece: Written by N. Rowe, Esq</a>

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Gray

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: V: Le Badinage de Provence-Poitier, Mlle Roland

2445
23 January 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire. Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Hughes, Esq</a>

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

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

2446
24 March 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By particular Desire. Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq</a>

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

2447
07 May 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Sedgwicke, Merchant of London. Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq</a>

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: V: Ethiopian Dance-Muilment, Mrs Walter

2448
29 August 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: Villeneuve, Miss Oates

2449
02 October 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentlewoman in Distress. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq</a>; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Comic Dance-Richardson, Miss Rogers; II: Ballet-Desse, Miss Oates; III: By Desire, Tambourine-Mlle Villeneuve; V: Grecian Sailors-Glover

2450
06 October 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By particular Desire. Mainpiece: Written by N. Rowe, Esq</a>

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Cast
Role: Pan Actor: Roberts