SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "The king"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "The king")') 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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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.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Related Works
Related Work: Polly Honeycomb Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Cast
Role: Sir Harry Beagle Actor: King
Related Works
Related Work: The Jealous Wife Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: TThe Enchanted Peasant, as17610124

Event Comment: The Author's Night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Cast
Role: Sir Harry Beagle Actor: King
Related Works
Related Work: The Jealous Wife Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: TThe Enchanted Peasant, as17610124

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Cast
Role: Sir Harry Beagle Actor: King
Related Works
Related Work: The Jealous Wife Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: TThe Cow Keepers, as17601008

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Cast
Role: Sir Harry Beagle Actor: King
Related Works
Related Work: The Jealous Wife Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: TThe Cuckow, as17610212

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Edgar and Emmeline

Cast
Role: Florimond Actor: King
Event Comment: There is nothing else new but a very indifferent play called the Jealous Wife, so well acted as to have succeeded greatly (Walpole to Rev H. Zouch, 7 March)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Cast
Role: Sir Harry Beagle Actor: King
Related Works
Related Work: The Jealous Wife Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: AA Comic Dance [A New Pantomime Dance unnamed]-Sg Giorgi, Sga Giorgi, Miss Baker

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: King Actor: Davies
Role: Player@King Actor: Burton

Afterpiece Title: Edgar and Emmeline

Cast
Role: Florimond Actor: King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Cast
Role: Sir Harry Beagle Actor: King
Related Works
Related Work: The Jealous Wife Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: As17610307

Event Comment: The comedy of the Jealous Wife will [after tonight] be discontinued till Mrs Pritchard's Benefit, the 25th Instant

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Cast
Role: Sir Harry Beagle Actor: King
Related Works
Related Work: The Jealous Wife Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: As17610307

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber. Part of Pit [made into] Amphitheatre. Ladies are desired to send their servants by three o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder; Or, A Woman Keeps A Secret

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Related Works
Related Work: Polly Honeycomb Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: TThe Cow Keepers, as17601008

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Cast
Role: Stephano Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pritchard. Part of Pit will be laid into the Boxes, where Servants will be admitted to keep Places, and on the Stage, which will be formed into an Amphitheatre. Ladies desired to send their servants by three o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Cast
Role: Sir Harry Beagle Actor: King
Related Works
Related Work: The Jealous Wife Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Related Works
Related Work: Polly Honeycomb Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Cast
Role: William Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

Cast
Role: Sir Harry's Servt Actor: King

Dance: End Play: The Italian Gardener, as17601203

Event Comment: Benefit for Sheridan. Othello not acted for 5 years. [See 14 May 1759.] Miss Piercy in running off the stage, which was greatly crowded, fell down and broke her arm (Hopkins MS Notes)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: Othello-Sheridan; Iago-Havard; Cassio-Palmer; Roderigo-Yates; Desdemona-Mrs Cibber; Emelia-Mrs Pritchard; Brabantio-Burton.
Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Sheridan

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Event Comment: Benefit for Havard. By Particular Desire. Ode written by Havard, and set to music by Mr Bates. Tickets to be had at Mr Havard's in Broad Court, Bow-Street; at Tom's and the Bedford Coffee Houses; and of Mr Varney at the Stage Door, where places for the Boxes may be taken. Ode deliver'd Gratis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Related Works
Related Work: Polly Honeycomb Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Entertainment: End: will be perform'd a New Coronation Ode by Havard; Vocal parts-Lowe, Champness, Mrs Vincent, Miss Young

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Cast
Role: Sir Harry Beagle Actor: King
Related Works
Related Work: The Jealous Wife Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

Cast
Role: Sir Harry's Servt Actor: King

Dance: As17610307

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

Related Works
Related Work: Polly Honeycomb Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: II: The Cow Keepers, as17601008

Event Comment: By Desire a Minuet-Noverre, Miss Pritchard. Benefit for Miss Pritchard. Mainpiece by the Particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Tickets deliver'd for Zara will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Cast
Role: Sir Harry Beagle Actor: King
Related Works
Related Work: The Jealous Wife Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: King Actor: Davies
Role: Player@King Actor: Burton

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Song: I Farce: Mrs Vincent

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Cast
Role: Trappolin Actor: King, first time.

Dance: By Particular Desire, aMinuet-O'Brien, Miss Pritchard; End IV: A Comic DanceNew Dance, as17610307

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Kennedy. No Building on Stage. Tickets deliver'd for Much Ado and The Wonder will be taken

Performances

Afterpiece Title: The New Hippocrates

Entertainment: After:(by Particular Desire) Mimic Comic Opera Song-Mrs Clive

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Vincent. No Building on Stage. Tickets deliver'd out for the Merry Wives of Windsor will be taken. Receipts: #51 4s. plus #88 7s. from tickets (Box 142; Pit 239; Gallery 170) (Account Book). Charges: #64 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief

Afterpiece Title: Florizel and Perdita

Cast
Role: King Actor: Hull.

Entertainment: After the Farce:(this night only) the Origin, Nature, and Progress of the: Order of British Bucks, with the Whimsical Behavior of Choice Spirits and M. Thurot's Trip to Carrickfergus-Mr Shuter. See17610326

Dance: The Last New Comic Dance-Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: King Actor: Sparks
Role: Player King Actor: Redman

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

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

Dance: End: The Waggoners, as17610228; End IV: A Hornpipe-Mrs Crawford

Event Comment: [M$Mrs Palmer] the late Miss Pritchard (Winston MS 9). Full Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office with Prologue

Cast
Role: Capt Le Brush Actor: King