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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "TThe Queen"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "TThe Queen")') 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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2647 results for: Keyword - TThe Queen
We found 1185 matches on Performance Title, 1127 matches on Performance Comments, 517 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2326
07 February 1704 @

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Performance Comment: Marc Antony-Betterton; Ventidius-Verbruggen; Dolabella-Wilks; Alexas-Booth; Cleopatra-Mrs Barry; Octavia-Mrs Bracegirdle [Downes, p. 47]; A Prologue to the Court on the Queen's Birthday [1704 [Congreve, IV, 72-73]-.

2327
28 February 1704 @

Event Comment: Elizabeth Coke to Thomas Coke: They say the Queen and Prince was both extremely diverted with it. There was a great deal of Company, but no finery, the Court being in mourning. [Cowper MS, III, 163.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Solomon Single

2328
09 April 1705 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: [Librettist unknown. Premiere. For the identification of this opera, see Loewenberg, pp. 58-59. Downes (p. 48) says that the opera lasted five days; Cibber (I, 325) states that it was given only three days, and those not crowded. This day marked the opening of the Queen's Theater in the Haymarket, the first new theatrical construction of the century. For a discussion of it, see Cibber, I, 319-22.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Loves Of Ergasto

2329
08 April 1706 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By George Farquhar. The preface is a semi-serious, semi-humorous apology for having the play open on the night of D'Urfey's benefit at the Queen's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

2330
04 February 1707 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: [By Colley Cibber.] Never Acted before. By Subscription. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and none to be admitted but by the Subscribers' Tickets. [In the preface to The Double Gallant Cibber states that in Marriage a la Mode he joined "the Comical Episodes of the Maiden Queen, and Marriage alamode...the Alteration cost me but six days trouble; and not calling it a new Play, we found the Town very favourable to it."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marriage A La Mode; Or, The Comical Lovers

2331
13 June 1707 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: [This performance probably marked the opening of the summer season at the queen's.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

2332
22 July 1707 @ Dancing School

Event Comment: At 7 p.m. Tickets 2s. 6d. At Queen Street and Frith Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

2333
31 December 1707 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: [An order of this date by the Lord Chamberlain restricted the queen's to operas, Drury Lane to plays; the change became effective after 10 Jan. 1708.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

2334
07 January 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these Five Years [but see queen's, 14 Dec. 1706 and dl, 12 Oct. 1705]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge; Or, Love In A Tub

Song: the best Performers

Dance: the best Performers

2335
16 January 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: See dl, 18 Oct. 1707 and queen's, 31 Dec. 1707.

2336
17 January 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid's Tragedy

Performance Comment: Betterton and Mrs Barry acting their own parts, but see queen's, 6 Nov. 1707.

2337
19 January 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Performance Comment: See queen's 18 Oct. 1707.

2338
20 January 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Performance Comment: See queen's 1 Jan.

2339
21 January 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Performance Comment: See queen's 6 Dec. 1707.

2340
22 January 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Performance Comment: See queen's 25 Oct. 1707.

2341
23 January 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fortune Hunters

Performance Comment: See queen's 31 Oct. 1707.

2342
24 January 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part I

Performance Comment: See queen's 19 Nov. 1707.

2343
28 January 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: See queen's 10 Nov. 1707.

2344
29 January 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Performance Comment: See queen's and dl, 21 Oct. 1707.

2345
02 February 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Performance Comment: As at queen's 23 Oct. 1707, but Crack-Penkethman.

2346
05 February 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Performance Comment: As at queen's 11 Nov. 1707, but Humphrey-Penkethman; Pounce-Estcourt; Fainlove-Mrs Porter; Aunt-_.

2347
16 February 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Performance Comment: As at queen's, 24 Nov. 1707.

2348
17 February 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: As at queen's, 10 Nov. 1707, but Cherry-_; Lady Bountiful-_.

2349
21 February 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marriage A La Mode

Performance Comment: As at queen's, 20 Nov. 1707, but Doralice-Mrs Porter; Flavia-Mrs Moor; Philotis-Mrs Bicknell; Melissa-Mrs Powell; Sabina-Mrs Norris; Olinda-Mrs Saunders.

2350
06 March 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd If She Cou'd

Performance Comment: As at queen's, 18 Nov. 1707, but Sir Oliver-Dogget; Sir Joslin-Estcourt; Rakish-_; Sentry-_.