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9969 results for: Keyword - The king
We found 10005 matches on Roles/Actors, 2634 matches on Performance Title, 2610 matches on Performance Comments, 1593 matches on Event Comments, and 23 matches on Author.

4201
05 December 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Cast
Role: King Actor: W. Giffard
Role: Gravediggers Actor: Penkethman, Wetherilt Sr

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: V: Dutch Skipper by Vallois and Mrs Bullock. End of Afterpiece: Scot's Dance by Haughton, Mrs Bullock, &c

4202
27 December 1735 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: King Actor: Bridgwater

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Related Works
Related Work: The Rape of Proserpine: With The Birth and Adventures of Harlequin Author(s): Lewis Theobald

Music: As17351115, but Miss Norsa omitted

Dance: As17351115, but Nivelon, Delagarde, Bencraft, and Smith omitted

4203
17 January 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Cast
Role: King Actor: Walker

Dance: Tambourine by Glover and Miss Rogers. French Peasants, as17360109 Scot's Dance, as17360109

4204
18 February 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: King Actor: Bridgwater

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

4205
13 March 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #72 13s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Cast
Role: King Actor: Walker

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

4206
20 March 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Cast
Role: King Actor: Quin

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: II: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. III: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. V: Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c

4207
01 April 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mlle Roland. [For a poem on the Stage, see Country Magazine, April, 1736; and for an essay on the stage, see Grub St. Journal, 1 April.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part Ii

Cast
Role: Falstaff Actor: Quin, being the first time of his performing that character in this play
Role: King Actor: Mills
Role: Doll Tearsheet Actor: Miss Mann. A Prologue, by Mr Betterton, representing the Genius of Falstaff 40 Years ago, at the Revival of this Play, will be
Related Works
Related Work: The Tragedy of King Henry IV of France Author(s): Charles Beckingham

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Music: End Afterpiece: Preamble on Kettle Drums by Poitier

Dance: I: Tambourine by Mlle Roland. III: Harlequin and Harlequine by Poitier and Mlle Roland. IV: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. V: Double Jealousy, as17360327

4208
10 May 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Cast
Role: King Actor: Quin

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

4209
20 May 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part Ii

Performance Comment: As17360311 but Westmoreland-Winstone; Doll Tearsheet-Miss Dancey. A Prologue by Mr Betterton, representing the Ghost of Falstaff, Forty Years ago at the Revival of this Play, will be (by particular Desire) spoke by Mr Quin .
Cast
Role: Doll Tearsheet Actor: Miss Dancey. A Prologue by Mr Betterton, representing the Ghost of Falstaff, Forty Years ago at the Revival of this Play, will be
Role: Falstaff Actor: Quin, being the first time of his performing that character in this play
Role: King Actor: Mills
Related Works
Related Work: The Tragedy of King Henry IV of France Author(s): Charles Beckingham

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: I: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. II: Two Pierrots by Villeneuve and Delamayne. III: Minuet by Villeneuve and Mrs Anderson. IV: Rover by Essex, Mrs Walter, Mrs Pelling, Miss Mann, &c. V: Minuet by Master Weeks and Miss Cole. End Afterpiece: Rigadoon by Master Weeks and Miss Cole

4210
09 November 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Cast
Role: King Actor: Quin

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Dance: II: Flight-Essex, Mrs Walter; III: Ballet-Denoyer, Mlle Roland

4211
20 December 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Cast
Role: King Actor: Quin

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Performance Comment: Flash-Este; Longbib-Stoppelaer; John Trot-Hough; Harlequin-Philips; Colombine-Miss Mann; Mlle La Modestie-Harlequin Phillips; Ballad Qingers-Stoppelaer, Mrs Pritchard; Somerset-Roberts; Roundall-Hough; Equilibrist-Peters; With a New Burlesque Tragi-Comic-Farcical Interlude: Tiddi@Doll, Director of the Gingerbread Company-Master Green; Pistolet-Miss Cole; with a Comic Medley Overture by Arne-.
Cast
Role: With a New Burlesque Tragi Actor: Comic-Farcical Interlude: Tiddi@Doll, Director of the Gingerbread Company-Master Green
Role: Comic Actor: Farcical Interlude: Tiddi@Doll, Director of the Gingerbread Company-Master Green
Role: Director of the Gingerbread Company Actor: Master Green

4212
27 January 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Cast
Role: King Actor: Quin

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

4213
01 February 1737 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: King Actor: Bridgwater

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Music: The Vocal Parts, as17361020, but Mrs James, Mrs _Cantrell

Dance: As17361020; Also Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Lalauze; Peasant, as17370128

4214
24 February 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Written by the late Mr Congreve. The Pit and Front Boxes will be laid together at 5s. Servants may keep Places on the Stage, Side-Boxes, and the two Corner Front-Boxes on each Side of the Pit

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: King Actor: W. Mills

4215
25 April 1737 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Cast
Role: King Actor: Walker.

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Music: Between the Acts: various Instruments-

Song: II: The Lady's Lamentation, as17370414 V: A new Trumpet Song-Beard

Dance: I: Clown-Nivelon; III: Comic Dance-Nivelon, Lalauze, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs LeBrun; IV: A Ball Dance, called The Prince of Wales's Saraband, composed by L'Abbree, concluding with a Minuet-Dupre, Miss Norman; V: Grecian Sailors-Glover

4216
13 January 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ing Henry The Fourth, Part Ii

Cast
Role: King Actor: Milward

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

4217
21 January 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: King Actor: Walker

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: Mlle Roland; Je ne scai quoi-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates

4218
25 February 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Quin

Afterpiece Title: Sir John Cockle at Court

Cast
Role: King Actor: Cibber

Dance: I: Saraband, Minuet-the Elder Miss Scott; II: Grand Ballet-Muilment, Mrs Walter

4219
27 February 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Benefit the Author of Sir John Cockle at Court. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Sir John Cockle at Court

Cast
Role: King Actor: Cibber

4220
28 February 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Mr Southern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Royal Slave Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: Sir John Cockle at Court

Cast
Role: King Actor: Cibber

Music: V: Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Master Ferg; with two new Minuets for Trumpets and other Instruments-

Dance: II: Polonese-Haughton, Mrs Walter; III: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

4221
13 April 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Cast
Role: King Actor: Bridgwater

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Nymphs of the Chace Actor: Miss Brunette, Miss Rogers

4222
14 April 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Hallam. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. [Tickets of Mrs Hallam, No. 6, Wild Court, near lif.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: King Actor: Bridgwater

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Music: As17380103, but The Vocal Parts-Miss _Hillyard

Dance: GGrecian Sailors-Glover

4223
26 April 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: King Actor: Mills

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Dance: I: Tambourine-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; II: Maggot-Haughton, Mrs Walter; III: Punch-Master Ferg; V: La Pieraite-Livier, Miss Thompson

4224
23 October 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Cast
Role: King Actor: Mills

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

Cast
Role: Mother Midnight Actor: Hough
Related Works
Related Work: The Harlot's Progress; or, The Ridotto Al' Fresco: With a Grand Masque call'd, The Judgment of Paris; or, The Triumph of Beauty Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

4225
14 December 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Widow of the late Jo. Miller, Comedian. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Cast
Role: King Actor: Mills

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: with The Eearly Horn Actor: Beard
Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: IV: Moors Dance-Muilment, Mrs Walter

Music: V: Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Master Ferg