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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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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.

6876
03 July 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'usurpator Innocente

Cast
Role: King Richard Actor: Quick
Role: King Henry Actor: Aickin
Role: Buckingham Actor: Farren

Dance: As17900615

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Cranfield, Delpini, Boyce, Byrne, Mrs Davenett, the two Miss Simonets

6877
17 July 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The last Time of performing this Season. cg Account-Book, 19 July: Received of Gallini for 8 Nights Opera Charge #400

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'usurpator Innocente

Cast
Role: King Richard Actor: Quick
Role: King Henry Actor: Aickin
Role: Buckingham Actor: Farren

Dance: End I: Divertisement, as17900515 at hay; End Opera: La Bergere des Alpes, as17900107 at hay; after which a variety of new Dances-

6878
07 September 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suicide

Related Works
Related Work: The Suicide Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Basket Maker

Cast
Role: King Simon Actor: Davies

6879
09 September 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Related Works
Related Work: The Spanish Barber; or, The Fruitless Precaution Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Basket Maker

Cast
Role: King Simon Actor: Davies

6880
10 September 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham

Related Works
Related Work: The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: The Basket Maker

Cast
Role: King Simon Actor: Davies

Dance: End: A Double Hornpipe- [See17900713

6881
13 September 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham

Related Works
Related Work: The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: The Basket Maker

Cast
Role: King Simon Actor: Davies

6882
08 November 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Cast
Role: Sir Anthony Absolute Actor: King
Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Modes Author(s): James Moore Smythe

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

6883
12 November 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Lord Ogleby Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

6884
13 November 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In afterpiece the playbill retains Dodd as Dangle, but he "would not act the Part...Benson studyed and did it, at a few Hours Notice" (Kemble Mem.).] Receipts: #262 14s. 6d. (204.11.0; 55.9.0; 2.14.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Cast
Role: Puff Actor: King
Role: Master of the Horse Actor: Alfred

6885
15 November 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Cast
Role: Sir Anthony Absolute Actor: King
Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Modes Author(s): James Moore Smythe

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Performance Comment: As17901028, but Grandmother-_.
Cast
Role: Grandmother Actor: Mrs Booth.

6886
18 November 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Sir Peter Teazle Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Cast
Role: Grandmother Actor: Mrs Booth.

6887
20 November 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Cast
Role: Puff Actor: King
Role: Master of the Horse Actor: Alfred

6888
22 November 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Cast
Role: Sir Anthony Absolute Actor: King
Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Modes Author(s): James Moore Smythe

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Cast
Role: Grandmother Actor: Mrs Booth.

6889
25 November 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #305 (288.5.0; 16.6.6; 0.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Cast
Role: Trappanti Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

6890
27 November 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Cast
Role: Puff Actor: King
Role: Master of the Horse Actor: Alfred

6891
29 November 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Cast
Role: Sir Anthony Absolute Actor: King
Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Modes Author(s): James Moore Smythe

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Cast
Role: Grandmother Actor: Mrs Booth.

6892
02 December 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Sir Peter Teazle Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Cast
Role: Grandmother Actor: Mrs Booth.

6893
04 December 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Cast
Role: Puff Actor: King
Role: Master of the Horse Actor: Alfred

6894
06 December 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Cast
Role: Sir Anthony Absolute Actor: King
Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Modes Author(s): James Moore Smythe

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Cast
Role: Grandmother Actor: Mrs Booth.

6895
11 December 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Cast
Role: Puff Actor: King
Role: Master of the Horse Actor: Alfred

6896
13 December 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Cast
Role: Brass Actor: King.

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Cast
Role: Grandmother Actor: Mrs Booth.

6897
13 December 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: King Actor: Hull
Role: Player King Actor: Thompson

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Cast
Role: A Sailor's life's a life of woe Actor: Mrs Harlowe, in place of The Greenwich Pensioner.
Role: I'm jolly Dick the Lamplighter Actor: Bernard
Role: Of the Ancients its speaking Actor: Johnstone
Role: How much I love thee Actor: Wilson
Role: Ben Backstay lov'd the gentle Anna Actor: Bannister
Role: 'Twas in the good ship Rover Actor: Bannister
Role: Sure an't the World a Masquerade Actor: Johnstone, Chorus

Dance: As17901123

6898
16 December 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Romp, advertised on playbill of 15 Dec.] Receipts: #211 13s. 6d. (173.8.0; 37.8.0; 0.15.0; ticket not come in: 0.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Sir Peter Teazle Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

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

6899
18 December 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Cast
Role: Puff Actor: King
Role: Master of the Horse Actor: Alfred

6900
20 December 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Cast
Role: Sir Anthony Absolute Actor: King
Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Modes Author(s): James Moore Smythe

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Cast
Role: Grandmother Actor: Mrs Booth.