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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "W Bullock"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "W Bullock")') 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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3782 results for: Keyword - W. Bullock
We found 2799 matches on Performance Comments, 697 matches on Performance Title, 389 matches on Event Comments, 242 matches on Author, and 144 matches on Roles/Actors.

3701
14 August 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: What A Blunder

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

3702
20 February 1699 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: James Brydges, Diary: I set Mr Bullock down at ye Playhouse, & came home (Huntington MS St 26). John Dryden wrote to Mrs Steward on 23 Feb. [1699@1700, but possibly 1698@99, as the letter concerns theatrical affairs of the autumn and winter of 1698-99]: The Poem of The Confederates [see The Island Princess, November 1698] some think to be Mr Walsh: the copies are both lik'd. And there are really two factions of ladyes, for the two play-houses. If you do not understand the names of some persons mention'd I can help you to the knowledge of them. You know, Sir Tho. Skipwith is master of the play-house in Drury-Lane; and my Lord Scarsdale is the patron of Betterton's house, being in love with somebody there [presumably Anne Bracegirdle] (The Letters of John Dryden, p. 133)

Performances

3703
23 June 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Bullock. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Song: Singing in Italian and English-; particularly a Trumpet Song-Mrs Tofts

Dance: In and between the Acts

3704
31 March 1707 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: For the Benefit of Will Bullock, as the Saying is. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the Author of the Recruiting Officer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

3705
29 April 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: [Benefit Bullock. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Queenborough

Song:

Dance:

3706
24 May 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Cross. [In Daily Courant, 24 May, and later Penkethman announced his new theater in Greenwich, to which several Persons of Quality have subscribed. He intends to open on 12 June with a new Prologue by himself and a new Epilogue-by him and Bullock. He solicits additional subscription for a proposed program of 24 plays. See also Tatler, 25-27 May.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

3707
19 June 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew; Or, The Merry Beggars

Performance Comment: Powell, Booth, Keene, Johnson, Penkethman, Bullock, Norris, Leigh, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Mountfort.

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: Prince, Mrs Bicknell; Two Dutch Skippers-

3708
10 May 1714 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Bullock. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

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

Dance: Mrs Santlow

3709
14 June 1714 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Bullock Jr and Ryan. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Dryden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperor

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue; or, The Devil in the Wine Cellar

Dance: Mrs Santlow, Prince, Wade, Sandham

3710
23 April 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Bullock Jr. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: #70 15s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Song: The New Boy; Trumpet Song-Rawlins; A Dialogue-Leveridge, Pack

Dance: As17150404 Also A Countryman and a Harlequin-

3711
23 April 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Bullock Jr. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: money #19 14s. 6d. and tickets #71 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Song: Mrs Fitzgerald, The Boy

Dance: As17151217

3712
28 March 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Bullock Sr. No receipts extant

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mackbeth

Music: As17161030

Dance: As17170202

3713
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

3714
12 September 1717 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 14 Sept.: On Thursday...Mr Bullock and Mr Leigh were taken out of their Booth in Southwark, as we hear, upon an Information against them; but being carried before the Lord Mayor, they were releas'd upon Bail

Performances

3715
20 September 1717 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: Post Boy, 26 Sept.: On Friday last, his Royal Highness the Prince came incognito to Southwark-Fair, and saw the Droll at Penkethman's, and after at Bullock and Leigh's Booth

Performances

3716
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

3717
27 February 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Bullock Sr. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

Afterpiece Title: Pan and Syrinx

Dance: As17180121

3718
29 August 1718 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Evening Post, 30 Aug.: Yesterday Mr Bullock, Master of the Play-House in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, was commanded to attend his Majesty at Hampton-Court, where he receiv'd Orders for his Company to perform several Plays for the Entertainment of His Majesty during his Stay there, in the Winter Season, and there is a magnificent Theatre erecting for that Purpose

Performances

3719
24 September 1718 @ Angel Court

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: Kite-Hall; Ballance-Schoolding; Brazen-Giffard; Bullock, Costar Pearmain-Spiller; Appletree-Pack; Silvia-Mrs Spiller; Lucy-Mrs Giffard.

Dance: Ladder dance-Thomazio Alegro delCampo, lately arrived from Italy, with Vaulting on the manag'd Horse; The Union-a Scots Man and Woman; A Peasant and his Wife-; Italian Mimic Night Scene between Harlequin and a Clown-

3720
26 November 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit the French Comedians. [#40 paid to Bullock presumably the house charges]. By His Majesty's Command. Tickets given out for Pasquin and Marforio taken at this play. [His Majesty Present.] Original Weekly Journal, 29 Nov.: And we hear, his Majesty gave a 100 Guineas

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Maitre Etourdi

Afterpiece Title: Le Tombeau de Maitre Andre

Entertainment: Several new Entertainments which were never perform'd in England before-

3721
10 December 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit the French Comedians [Bullock paid #40]. Written by Mons le Noble

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Les Deux Arlequins

Entertainment:

3722
19 December 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit M and Mlle Salle, the two Children who dance in the Company of the French Comedians. By His Royal Highness's Command. Tickets for L'homme a bonne fortune taken this day. [The Prince present. #40 paid to Bullock.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Les Chinois; Ou, Arlequin Major Ridicule

Afterpiece Title: La Retour de la Foire

Entertainment:

3723
30 December 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Bullock. The Company to act Tuesday and Thursday

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Divorce; Ou, Arlequin Fourbe Et Demi

Entertainment: Carillon-Harlequin, others; Vaulting, Tumbling as usual-

3724
01 January 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Ch. Bullock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Parisien Dupe Dans Londres; Ou, La Fille A La Mode

Entertainment: Vaulting and Tumbling-

3725
06 January 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Ch. Bullock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Les Pasquinades Italiennes; Ou, Arlequin Medecin De Moeurs

Entertainment: Vaulting and Tumbling-; Somerset-Pierot performs a particular Entertainment of throwing a Somerset thro' a Dozen Hoops all rais'd 12 Foot high