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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.

11201
01 February 1716 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command. With all the New Scenes and Cloaths. In which above 20 Songs are chang'd. Pit and Boxes together by ticket only at half a guinea, the number not to exceed 400. Stage Boxes 15s. Gallery 2s. 6d. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lucius Verus

11202
03 March 1716 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Robinson. By Command. The Pit and Boxes at half a guinea. Stage Boxes 15s. Gallery 4s. The King and a great Number of the Nobility present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amadis

11203
10 March 1716 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command. With New Scenes. Admission as 1 Feb. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

11204
07 April 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Santlow. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. The Pit and Boxes together at 5s. each Ticket. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Last Stake

11205
06 June 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Castelman. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. And for the Entertainment of His Excellency Don Luis da Cunha, Ambassador Extraordinary from the King of Portugal

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Song: Turner; Mad Dialogue-Turner, Mrs Willis

Music: A New Concerto for the Little Flute-Paisable

Dance: Dupre, Dupre Jr, Prince, Boval, Mrs Santlow, Miss Younger

Related Works
Related Work: The Fairy Prince, with the Installation of the Knights of the Garter Author(s): Thomas Arne
Related Work: Don Carlos, Prince of Spain Author(s): Thomas Otway
Related Work: The Loyal Brother; or, The Persian Prince Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: Caernarvon Castle; or, The Birth of the Prince of Wales Author(s): Thomas Attwood

11206
09 June 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit King, Boxkeeper. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Being the last time of the Company's Acting this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Song: Turner, Renton, Mrs Willis

Dance: As17151029

11207
30 June 1716 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command. Being the last Opera that will be perform'd this Season. Admission as 4 Feb. At 6 p.m. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleartes

11208
06 November 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Ryder, Diary, pp. 359-60: Went to see the tragedy of Tamerlane which was acted with a new prologue in honour of King William and in memory of what he did for us. The play itself is good....Mills who acted the part of Bajazet did it mighty well and expressed that furiousness and rage and malice and ambition admirably well in his gesture at the end, but, which is his distinguishing character, very well kept up throughout. I observed in the general that the manner of speaking in our theatres in tragedy is not natural. There is something that would be very shocking and disagreeable and very unnatural in real life. Persons would call it theatrical, meaning by that something stiff and affected

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

11209
13 May 1717 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Antonio Bernacchi. By Command. Admission as 8 Dec. 1716. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wenceslaus

11210
07 June 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Wilks, Officekeeper, and King, Boxkeeper. Advertised as the last play of the season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wake

Related Works
Related Work: Hob; or, The Country Wake Author(s): Thomas Doggett

Dance: As17170524

11211
09 September 1717 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Bullock's and Leigh's Great Theatrical Booth, in Angel-Court, next the King's Bench. Mainpiece: a Dramatick Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Noble Soldier; Or, Love In Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Adventures of Master Billy Softhead, His Mother, and Sister Sally

Related Works
Related Work: The Disappointment; or, The Mother in Fashion Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Life of Mother Shipton Author(s): Thomas Thomson

11212
13 September 1717 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 21 Sept.: We hear Mr Penkethman will bring his Action against the informing Constables, for breaking open his Booth last Friday was 7-Night, and taking him off the Stage, contrary to the King's Patent, under the Umbrage of which he acts, being sworn Servant to His Majesty; especially against such of them as were out of theirLiberty, when they executed that Office. The Fair will continue Monday and Tuesday Night

Performances

11213
28 September 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. At 6 p.m. Post Boy, 28 Sept.: We hear that last Week Mr Rich made an Assignment of the New Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, and his Patent granted by King Charles II to Mr Keene and Mr Bullock jun. and that they open on Saturday next, with a celebrated Play of Shakespear's call'd, Cimbiline, which will be entirely new dress'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

11214
05 October 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Not acted these Twenty Years. Written by Shakespear, and since revis'd with several Alterations. The whole Play being new dress'd. N.B. The Play will begin exactly at Six a-Clock. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 5 Oct., reports a rumor that J. J. Heidegger has sent to France to recruit a set of comedians to act French plays at the king's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cimbeline; Or, The Fatal Wager

Related Works
Related Work: The Injured Princess; or, The Fatal Wager Author(s): Thomas D'Urfey

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Cook, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Schoolding, Miss Smith

11215
19 December 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

11216
24 January 1718 @ Westminster School

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Miles Gloriosus

Performance Comment: Acted in Latin King's Scholars.

11217
23 May 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit King, the Boxkeeper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Dance: Serious and Comic Dancing-

11218
15 November 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: According to Cibber, Apology (II, 218-89), the warrant (dated 15 Nov.) for the performances at Hampton Court shows expenses incurred by the actors of #374 1s. 8d. The King made the dl company a present of an additional #200

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck; or, Perseus And Andromeda

11219
03 December 1718 @ Long Room

Event Comment: The Long Room in the Haymarket is next to the King's Theater and was formerly Boman's Chocolate Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: A new Concerto grosso-; a new Cantata-; violin solo-; a new concerto for Little Flute-; solo for Hautboys-; Cantata Flute solo-; piece with two harpsichords-; concerto-; solo for German Flute-; solo for Harp-; cantata-

11220
12 February 1719 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command. For the Entertainment of the Princesses. [The King, the Three Young Princesses, and a great Number of Nobility and Gentry also there.] Pit and Boxes 5s. Stage Boxes 7s. 6d. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Esprit Follet

Afterpiece Title: Le Divorce

Entertainment: Dancing and Tumbling-; particularly Dancing-Mr Glover being the first Time of his Performance in publick since his return from the Court of Paris; Salle, Mlle Salle

11221
21 February 1719 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Robinson. By Command. Boxes and Pit at half a guinea. Gallery 2s. 6d. At 7 p.m. The King present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

11222
24 February 1719 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. With the Addition of a new Scene. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Balourd

Entertainment: Several particular new ones-

11223
30 March 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Santlow. By His Majesty's Command. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Related Works
Related Work: The Tempest; or, The Enchanted Island Author(s): Thomas Shadwell
Related Work: The Mock-Tempest; or, The Enchanted Castle Author(s): Thomas Duffett
Related Work: The Mock Tempest Author(s): Thomas Duffett

Afterpiece Title: The Dumb Farce

11224
22 April 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Johnson. By His Majesty's Command. Tickets for The Scornful Lady taken. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Dance: As17190421

11225
25 April 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Fletcher. By His Majesty's Command. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Song: A new Cantata by Dr Pepusch-Mrs Fletcher; Signora Margarita, Mrs Pulmon