SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Widow of Thomas Williams"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Widow of Thomas Williams")') 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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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Virtuoso

Related Works
Related Work: Virtuoso Author(s): Thomas Shadwell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

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Related Work: Thomaso; or, The Wanderer Author(s): Thomas Killigrew

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Libertine Destroyd

Related Works
Related Work: The Libertine Destroyed Author(s): Thomas Shadwell
Event Comment: Benefit Williams. At the desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by Mr Southern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Related Works
Related Work: The Fatal Marriage; or, The Innocent Adultery Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Song: Purcell's From Rosy Bowers-Leveridge

Dance: A French Peasant and his Wife-duRuel, Mrs duRuel; Punchanello-Cherrier

Event Comment: Benefit Williams and Willer [Weller?]. Tickets delivered for Saturday 23 taken this night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Related Works
Related Work: Venice Preserv'd; or, A Plot Discover'd Author(s): Thomas Otway

Song: As17070327

Dance: As17070403

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

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Related Work: The Fatal Marriage; or, The Innocent Adultery Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Dance: Shaw, Weaver, Boval, Lally, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Bullock, Miss Tenoe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Related Works
Related Work: Venice Preserv'd; or, A Plot Discover'd Author(s): Thomas Otway

Dance: Desnoyer, Thurmond Jr, Boval, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Younger, Mrs Tenoe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Booth, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Bullock, Boval, Mrs Bicknell, Miss Tenoe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Related Works
Related Work: The Pilgrim Author(s): Thomas Killigrew

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: TThe Happy Lovers, as17421006; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Grand Comic Ballet, as17430407

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: King Pepins Campaign

Related Works
Related Work: King Pepin's Campaign Author(s): Thomas Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest Or The Enchanted Island

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
Event Comment: NNew Theatre, Bowling Green. A Concert, etc. [repeated in all notices for this theatre]. Benefit Mrs Williams, Miss Pattocks, Mrs Smith 7 p.m. Prices 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

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Related Work: The Miser Author(s): Thomas Shadwell

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: RRussian Sailor Dance-Phillips

Song: Mrs Bennet, Cunningham

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Related Works
Related Work: The Cheats of Scapin Author(s): Thomas Otway

Dance: As17561217

Song: By the Desire of the Friends of Old Cole we will endeavor to sing a Song at the End of the Play (Public Advertiser)

Event Comment: Benefit for Ross, Wilford, Trott (Lobby Doorkeeper). Tickets deliver'd out by Williams, Mislebrook, Elliot, Hacket, and others will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Related Works
Related Work: The Miser Author(s): Thomas Shadwell

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: As17561023

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

Related Works
Related Work: The Prophetess; or, The History of Dioclesian Author(s): Thomas Betterton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

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Related Work: Comus Author(s): Thomas Arne
Event Comment: Paid Mr Chapman for horsekeeping [for Jubilee] #12 6s. (Treasurer's Book). [Published this month A Letter to David Garrick, Esq. on his conduct as Principal Manager and Actor at Drury Lane. Printed for S. Bladon. Accuses Garrick of controlling the press, save for two papers, and thus getting more favourbale treatment than his position and actions deserve. "You are a mere actor. You affect to feel where you do not, and imitate tones, looks and gestures, while your heart is at ease. This should heighten our opinion of you as an artist, whatever we might think of you as a man. I believe you are not generally judged of in this manner. It is not difficult to impose on the world." The author (David Williams?) deprecates Garrick's supposed handling of the actors of his company, and desires to see more Shakespeare. Suggests Garricks' acting perfection lies in the extreme, in exaggerated gesture, and sudden bursts of passion." Suggests he is getting old and should try his hand at Shylock.] Receipts: #271 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: Wits Last Stake

Related Works
Related Work: Wit's Last Stake Author(s): Thomas King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caractacus

Related Works
Related Work: Caractacus Author(s): Thomas Arne

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Related Works
Related Work: King Arthur; or, The British Worthy Author(s): Thomas Arne
Related Work: Arthur and Emmeline Author(s): Thomas Linley Sr.

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Song: As17811022

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Green Room

Performance Comment: Characters by Wilson, Wewitzer, Egan, Blissett, Stevens, Williamson; Miss Morris. [Larpent MS lists certain performers as appearing in this piece in their own persons, but their names do not correspond with the names printed on the playbill.] hathi.

Afterpiece Title: The English Merchant

Related Works
Related Work: Edgar; or, The English Merchant Author(s): Thomas Rymer

Afterpiece Title: The Sheep Shearing

Related Works
Related Work: The Winter's Tale Author(s): Thomas Hull
Related Work: The Sheepshearing; or, Florizel and Perdita Author(s): Thomas Arne

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece a favourite song by Miss George; End of Act IV Admiral Benbow by Bannister

Monologue: 1783 08 27 As 13 Aug. IMITATIONS. As 20 Aug

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eudora

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Chaplet

Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin's Chaplet Author(s): Thomas Shaw

Dance: In afterpiece: Additional Dances (1st time)-Byrne, Mrs Goodwin, the two Miss Simonets

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wilson and Williames [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. [The monologue refers to a criminal, Rynwick Williams, popularly known as "The Monster," who with a knife had recently attacked many women on the streets of London (see An Authentic Account of the Barbarities..(S. Bladon, 1790); World, 5 May, et seq.).] Gazetteer, 1 and 6 May : Tickets to be had of Williames and Mrs Wilson, No. 19, Great Piazza, Covent-garden. Receipts: #225 5s. (40.13; 21.14; 2.16; tickets: 160.2) (charge: #108 2s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: True Blue Or A Bang At The Dons

Afterpiece Title: King Henry the Fifth

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Role: Thomas Actor: Phillimore

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Related Works
Related Work: The Follies of a Day Author(s): Thomas Holcroft
Related Work: The Follies of a Day; or, The Marriage of Figaro Author(s): Thomas Holcroft

Entertainment: Monologue. End 2nd piece: (for this night only) The Monster Discovered-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Chaplet

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Boyce; Clown-Follett; Pantaloon-Ratchford; Lover-Farley; Farmer (with Come Roger and Nell)-Cubitt; Shepherd, Shepherdess (with Cast, my Love, thine Eyes around)-Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain; Serjeant-W. Powel; Recruit-C. Powell; Bricklayers-Letteney, Thompson; Carpenter-Lee; Sportsmen-Cross, Evatt; Gardener-Ledger; Woodcutter-Rock; Lover's Servant-Master Simmons; Monkey-Rayner; Peacock-Sloper; Principal Witches-Davies, Reeve [Public Advertiser: Linton], Miss Williams, Mrs Mountain; Colombine-Mrs Watts.
Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin's Chaplet Author(s): Thomas Shaw

Dance: As17901020

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Related Works
Related Work: The Road to Ruin Author(s): Thomas Holcroft

Afterpiece Title: Zelma or The Will o th Wisp

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Chaplet

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Boyce; Clown-Follett; Pantaloon-Ratchford; Lover-Farley; Farmer (with Come Roger and Nell)-Cubitt; Shepherd, Shepherdess (with Cast, my Love, thine Eyes around)-Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain; Serjeant-W. Powel; Recruit-C. Powell; Bricklayers-Letteney, Thompson; Carpenter-Lee; Sportsmen-Cross, Evatt; Gardener-Ledger; Woodcutter-Rock; Lover's Servant-Master Simmons; Monkey-Rayner; Peacock-Sloper; Principal Witches-Davies, Reeve [Public Advertiser: Linton], Miss Williams, Mrs Mountain; Colombine-Mrs Watts.
Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin's Chaplet Author(s): Thomas Shaw

Dance: As17931020