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11735 results for: Keyword - Thomas King, Esq.
We found 5449 matches on Author, 3212 matches on Performance Comments, 2694 matches on Performance Title, 2194 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

11051
17 December 1675 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 345

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

11052
21 December 1675 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conquest Of Granada, Part I

Related Works
Related Work: The Comical History of Don Quixote, Part I Author(s): Thomas D'Urfey
Related Work: The Comical History of Don Quixote, Part II Author(s): Thomas D'Urfey
Related Work: An Eclogue; or, Representation in Four Parts Author(s): Thomas Jordan
Related Work: The Amorous Bigotte: With the Second Part of Tegue O Divelly Author(s): Thomas Shadwell
Related Work: The Atheist; or, The Second Part of the Souldiers Fortune Author(s): Thomas Otway

11053
29 December 1675 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sophonisba

11054
12 January 1676 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359: Moor of Venice. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

11055
17 January 1676 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359: The ffox. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346. The Prologue, which may have been performed on this day, is in R. G. Noyes, A Manuscript Restoration Prologue for Volpone, Modern Language Notes, March 1937, pp. 198-200

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone; Or, The Fox

11056
29 January 1676 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359: Augustus Caesar. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346. The music for a song in act I, scene I, was composed by Nicholas Staggins, and printed in Choice Ayres and Songs, The Second Book, 1679. There is no certainty that this was the premiere, but it may well have been. The play was entered in the Term Catalogues, May 1676

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gloriana; Or, The Court Of Augustus Caesar

11057
02 February 1676 @ Inner Temple

Event Comment: The King's Company. See A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 108

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Curate

11058
16 May 1676 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

11059
18 May 1676 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359: Tyranick Loue or ye R Martir. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346. Boswell (Restoration Court Stage, p. 286) believes that this performance may have been given at court. This play was reprinted in 1677

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tyrannic Love; Or, The Royal Martyr

11060
23 May 1676 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359: Phylaster. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Philaster; Or, Love Lies A Bleeding

Related Works
Related Work: The Restoration; or, Right Will Take Place Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

11061
29 May 1676 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aureng-zebe

11062
13 June 1676 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359: Noe foole like ye old foole. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346. This play apparently was never published

Performances

Mainpiece Title: No Fool Like Ye Old Fool

11063
03 August 1676 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: According to a directive, L. C. 5@141, p. 433, the King's Company was ordered not to act until further notice

Performances

11064
09 September 1676 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: According to L. C. 7@1-see Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p.325n--a disagreement within the King's Company resulted in the Lord Chamberlain's directing Michaell Mohun, Charles Hart, Edward Kynnaston, and William Cartwright to manage the company under his supervision

Performances

11065
30 October 1676 @ The City, London

Event Comment: G. Lady Chaworth to Lord Roos, 2 Nov. 1676: I have not yet seen Mr Pack, being att Lord Major's show when hee was heere....The pageants were but three and worse then others formerly, but the King, Queen, Duke and Duchess finer in both clothes, liveries, coaches and traine then ever, to the honour of the Citty (HMC, 12th Report, Part V, Rutland Papers, II, 31)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: London's Triumphs

Performance Comment: : Express'd in sundry Representations, Pageants and Shows, performed on Monday Octob. 30, 1676, at the Inauguration and Instalment of the Right Honourable Sir ThomasDavies, Kt, Lord Mayor of the City of London. Containing a true Description of the several Scenes and Habits of the Representers, with the Speeches Spoken on each Pageant. All the Charge and Expences of the Industrious Designs, being the sole Undertakings of the Ancient and Right Worshipful Society of Drapers. Being the Second Year without Intermission. Devised and Composed by Tho. Jordan.
Related Works
Related Work: The Goldsmiths Jubilee; or, London's Triumph: Containing, A Description of the several Pageants: On which are Represented, Emblematical Figures, Artful Pieces of Architecture, and Rural Dancing: with the Speeches Spoken on each Pageant. Author(s): Thomas Jordan

11066
01 November 1676 @ Inner Temple

Event Comment: The King's Company acted at the Revels this day, but the play is not known. See A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 114

Performances

11067
27 November 1676 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359: Hanniballs Overthrow. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p.346

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sophonisba; Or, Hannibal's Overthrow

11068
04 December 1676 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

11069
05 December 1676 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359: The Mayden Queene. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love; Or, The Maiden Queen

11070
13 December 1676 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

11071
01 January 1677 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346. See the headnote to the 1674-75 season for an Epilogue to this play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Shoemaker A Gent

11072
12 January 1677 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346. There is no certainty that this is the first performance, but a performance of Part II on 18 Jan. 1676@7 and a reference to both parts in a letter dated 19 Jan. 1676@7 suggest that the premiere must have occurred early in January

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Destruction Of Jerusalem By Titus Vespasian, Part I

Related Works
Related Work: The Comical History of Don Quixote, Part I Author(s): Thomas D'Urfey
Related Work: The Comical History of Don Quixote, Part II Author(s): Thomas D'Urfey
Related Work: An Eclogue; or, Representation in Four Parts Author(s): Thomas Jordan
Related Work: The Amorous Bigotte: With the Second Part of Tegue O Divelly Author(s): Thomas Shadwell
Related Work: The Atheist; or, The Second Part of the Souldiers Fortune Author(s): Thomas Otway

11073
18 January 1677 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346. There is no indication that this performance is the premiere, but see 12 Jan. 1676@7 and 19 Jan. 1676@7

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Destruction Of Jerusalem By Titus Vespasian, Part Ii

Related Works
Related Work: The Comical History of Don Quixote, Part II Author(s): Thomas D'Urfey
Related Work: Barataria; or, Sancho Turn'd Governor Author(s): Thomas D'Urfey

11074
02 February 1677 @ Inner Temple

Event Comment: An unnamed play was acted by the King's Company. See A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 114

Performances

11075
March 1677 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. There is no indication of the date of the first performance, but a licensing date of 6 April 1677 and the large number of minor actors in the cast suggest a Lenten performance. Preface to edition of 1677: I think (without Ostentation) never was House more throng'd;...The first, second, and other times it was Acted, I think lost me no Credit, but...Fortune...Jaded me, robbing me of the Honour of my Plays continuance for that time; by a Mischance which hapned to one, whose Part was too considerable to be quickly studied

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Innocence; Or, The Chamber-maid Turn'd Quaker