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: Hamlet

Cast
Role: King Actor: Packer
Role: Player King Actor: Chaplin

Afterpiece Title: The Best Bidder

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons. Part of the Pit will be laid into Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by Half past Four o'clock. Public Advertiser, 10 Dec: Tickets to be had of Mrs Siddons, No. 149 in the Strand. [The most famous "point" in this play was the parting of Belvidera and Jaffier in Act III, and her words, "Remember twelve!" Boaden, Siddons, 1, 354, refers to Mrs Siddons's "querulous melancholy of tone, partaking of doubt, though still hoping for the best," in uttering these words.] Receipts: #335 5s. (157/15/0; 4/0/6; 0/12/6; tickets: 172/17/0) (charge: free). [Thus, officially, the Account-Book, but Mrs Siddons's total profit, from presents and from additional sums being added by her admirers to the usual price of her tickets, was, according to Public Advertiser, 25 Dec, over #800. This figure is almost certainly an accurate reckoning.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Cast
Role: Sir John Trotley Actor: King

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17820917

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Wroughton as Richmond, and Webb as Lord Mayor. On the Kemble playbill both names are deleted. The name of Wroughton's substitute has been cut by the binder; who acted the part has not as yet come to light. A MS annotation substitutes Bates for Webb.] Receipts: #165 18s. (162/13/6; 3/4/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Cast
Role: King Richard Actor: Henderson
Role: King Henry Actor: Clarke
Role: Buckingham Actor: Hull
Event Comment: Benefit for the City of London Lying-in Hospital [in Old-Street, City Road. Author of Epilogue unknown]. Receipts: #270 8s. 6d. (62/14/0; 13/4/6; 0/14/0; tickets: 193/16/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Tom Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

Song: In Act II of mainpiece song by Miss Phillips

Event Comment: Benefit for the Middlesex Hospital. Receipts: #184 14s. (67/10; 25/14; 0/0; tickets: 91/10) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Lord Ogleby Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: THE ALCHYMIST

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamesters

Cast
Role: Wilding Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth

Related Works
Related Work: The Triumph of Mirth; or, Harlequin's Wedding Author(s): Thomas King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Cast
Role: Atall Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth

Related Works
Related Work: The Triumph of Mirth; or, Harlequin's Wedding Author(s): Thomas King

Dance: As17821205

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Sir Peter Teazle Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth

Related Works
Related Work: The Triumph of Mirth; or, Harlequin's Wedding Author(s): Thomas King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Cast
Role: Sir Bashful Constant Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth

Related Works
Related Work: The Triumph of Mirth; or, Harlequin's Wedding Author(s): Thomas King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Lord Ogleby Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth

Related Works
Related Work: The Triumph of Mirth; or, Harlequin's Wedding Author(s): Thomas King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: King Actor: Clarke

Afterpiece Title: Rosina, As17821231

Cast
Role: Another Irishman Actor: Mahon

Dance: As17821231

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: Ranger Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth

Related Works
Related Work: The Triumph of Mirth; or, Harlequin's Wedding Author(s): Thomas King

Dance: As17830103

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Sir Peter Teazle Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth

Related Works
Related Work: The Triumph of Mirth; or, Harlequin's Wedding Author(s): Thomas King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: King Actor: Packer
Role: Player King Actor: Chaplin

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth

Related Works
Related Work: The Triumph of Mirth; or, Harlequin's Wedding Author(s): Thomas King
Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece: Frederick Pilon]. The 9th Night [i.e., the 1st 7 nights had occurred in the preceding season]. Receipts: #147 3s. 6d. (121/4/0; 25/19/6; 0/0/0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair American

Cast
Role: Admiral Dreadnought Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair American

Cast
Role: Admiral Dreadnought Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth

Related Works
Related Work: The Triumph of Mirth; or, Harlequin's Wedding Author(s): Thomas King
Event Comment: Mainpiece: The Music and Overture by Carter. Receipts: #95 18s. (94/8; 1/10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair American

Cast
Role: Admiral Dreadnought Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth

Related Works
Related Work: The Triumph of Mirth; or, Harlequin's Wedding Author(s): Thomas King
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [Mrs Mills was from the Edinburgh theatre.] Receipts: #173 6s. 6d. (140/13/0; 32/11/0; 0/0/0; ticket not come in: 0/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Cast
Role: Sir John Trotley Actor: King

Dance: In Act II of mainpiece a Masquerade Scene, with Dancing by Williamson and Miss M. Stageldoir; End of Act III, as17820917

Song: In Masquerade, by Miss Romanzini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Tom Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth

Related Works
Related Work: The Triumph of Mirth; or, Harlequin's Wedding Author(s): Thomas King

Song: As17820919

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Husband

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb, As17820927

Cast
Role: King Actor: Quick

Dance: As17821009

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Cast
Role: Shylock Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Cast
Role: Sir John Trotley Actor: King

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece The Devonshire Minuet, as17821003; End of Act iv, as17821016

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Lord Ogleby Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Related Works
Related Work: First Faults Author(s): Maria Theresa De Camp
Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by William Hodson, based on The Coffee House Politician, by Henry Fielding. Prologue by the author (see text)]. Public Advertiser, 2 May 1783: This Day is published The Adventures of a Night (ix.). Receipts: #166 7s. (112/9; 52/3; 0/10; tickets not come in: 1/5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: King Actor: Packer
Role: Player King Actor: Chaplin

Afterpiece Title: The Adventures of a Night

Event Comment: Benefit for Henderson. [In afterpiece the playbill retains Mrs Webb as Glumdalca, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Miss Platt.] Receipts: #280 12s. (154/1; tickets: 126/11) (charge: #105). [Henderson sold 439 tickets in boxes, 74 in pit, 57 in gallery.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Cast
Role: King Actor: Quick

Dance: As17821231

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pope. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by Half past Four o'clock. Public Advertiser, 29 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Miss Pope at her house in Great Queen-street. Receipts: #278 3s. (86/14; 21/9; 0/10; tickets: 169/10) (charge: #106 5s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Sir Peter Teazle Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Cast
Role: Sir John Trotley Actor: King

Dance: As17830329athi