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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,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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17632 results for: Keyword - Widow of Thomas Williams
We found 15371 matches on Author, 2488 matches on Performance Comments, 1051 matches on Event Comments, 539 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

17026
12 February 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Dance: New Pantomime Dance call'd%The Cuckow-Grimaldi, Miss Baker

17027
09 March 1761 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Patie And Roger

Song: Two Masons Songs-Lauder

17028
25 April 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Performance Comment: Actors only: Irishman-Moody; Frenchman-Blakes; Scotchman-Foote; Capt Le Brush-King; Gulwell-Packer; Harwood-Austin; Frankly-Baddeley; Williams-Ackman; Lord Brilliant-Castle; Trickit-Fox; Maria-Miss Reed; Prologue-. Lady Wrinkle and Mrs Snarewell-not permitted to be played ($Genest, IV, 612).
Cast
Role: Williams Actor: Ackman

17029
11 May 1761 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Patie And Roger

Dance: Middlemist

17030
10 November 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: Arcadia

17031
10 November 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: LLes Charboniers, as17611012

17032
13 November 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V; With Conquest Of The French At Agincourt

Performance Comment: King Henry-Smith; Exeter-Tindal; Acbp Canterbury-Sparks; Fluellin-Shuter; Gower-Anderson; Pistol-Dyer; Hostess-Mrs Pitt; Williams-Buck; King of France-Gibson; Burgundy-Hull; Dauphin-Davis; Constable-Clarke; Isabel-Mrs Stephens; Catherine-Mrs Bellamy.
Cast
Role: Williams Actor: Buck

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation

17033
16 December 1761 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Patie And Roger

Dance: Middlemist

17034
21 April 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Entertainment: II: Hearts of Oak-Mrs Vincent, Mrs Baker; End Play: By particular Desire, and for that night only, Bucks Have at Ye All-King as17620330

Related Works
Related Work: Squire Oldsapp; or, The Night-Adventurers Author(s): Thomas D'Urfey

Dance: After Entertainments: the Louvre and Minuet-Settree, Miss Blagdon (his scholar)

17035
28 April 1762 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Patie And Roger

Song: TThe Last Time I cam o'er the Moor-

Dance: Middlemist

17036
30 April 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Afterpiece Title: Marplot in Lisbon

Dance: II: New Comic Dance, The Woodcutters-Leppie, a young gentlewoman his scholar; IV: The Taylors, as17620107

Entertainment: After: Hippisley's Drunken Man-Shuter (This Night only)

17037
01 May 1762 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orators

Performance Comment: Oratorical Lectures Parts-Foote, Weston, MacGeorge, Quin, Bannister, Williams, Young, Booth, Palmer, Kickill, Somers, Pearce (Edition of 1762).
Cast
Role: Oratorical Lectures Parts Actor: Foote, Weston, MacGeorge, Quin, Bannister, Williams, Young, Booth, Palmer, Kickill, Somers, Pearce

17038
28 July 1762 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Related Works
Related Work: The Gentle Shepherd Author(s): Thomas Linley Sr.

Dance: Middlemist

17039
16 October 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V, With Conquest Over French At Agincourt

Performance Comment: King Henry-Smith; Exeter-Tindal; Achbp Canterbury-Sparks; Fluellin-Shuter; Gower-Anderson; French Ambassador-White; Mountjoy-Baker; French Soldier-Holtom; MacMorris-Barrington; Jamy-Dunstall; Pistol-Dyer; Bardolph-Marten; Hostess-Mrs Pitt; Williams-Buck; French King-Gibson; Burgundy-Bennet; Dauphin-Davis; Constable-Clarke; Isabel-Mrs Stephens; Catherine-Miss Hallam.
Cast
Role: Williams Actor: Buck

Afterpiece Title: Coronation

17040
08 December 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Dance: II: The Jealous Woodcutter, as17621023

17041
08 December 1762 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Patie And Roger; Or, The Gentle Shepherd

Related Works
Related Work: The Gentle Shepherd Author(s): Thomas Linley Sr.

Dance: Middlemist

17042
18 January 1763 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Dance: II: The Sicilian Peasants, as17621125

17043
14 February 1763 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift; Or, The Fool In Fashion

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: III: The Dutch Skippers, as17630101

17044
08 March 1763 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Patie And Roger; Or, The Gentle Shepherd

Related Works
Related Work: The Gentle Shepherd Author(s): Thomas Linley Sr.

Dance: Middlemist

17045
03 May 1763 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Patie And Roger

Entertainment: CCries of Edinburgh-Lauder, by Desire

Dance: Middlemist

17046
12 October 1763 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift; Or, The Fool In Fashion

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: New Grand Comic Dance (Never Perform'd Before) call'd, The Amorous Knife Grinders. The Knife Grinders-Duquesney, Miss Wilford. See17600417.

17047
03 November 1763 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Dance: I: The Sicilian Peasants, as17631005; II: The Cudgell'd Husband, as17631101

Music: II: Mr Handel's Water@Music, with a preamble on the Kettle Drums-Poitier

17048
26 December 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The History Of George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Rites of Hecate; or, Harlequin from the Moon

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Rooker; Other characters-Vernon, Champnes, Parsons, Clough, Ackman, Vaughan, Stevens, Fox, J. Palmer, Miss Young, Mrs Vincent, Miss Williams, Mrs Love; Colombine-Miss Baker; The Dances-Grimaldi, Aldridge, Lauchery, Miss Dawson, Miss Hilliard.
Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: Vernon, Champnes, Parsons, Clough, Ackman, Vaughan, Stevens, Fox, J. Palmer, Miss Young, Mrs Vincent, Miss Williams, Mrs Love

17049
27 December 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Rites of Hecate

Performance Comment: As17631226, but Moody; Other characters-Mrs Bradshaw, Miss _Williams.
Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: Mrs Bradshaw, Miss _Williams.

17050
15 February 1764 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V; With Conquest Of French At Agincourt

Performance Comment: King-Smith; Exeter-Tindal; Achbp. Canterbury-Sparks; Fluellin-Shuter; Pistol-Dyer; Williams-Buck; French King-Gibson; Constable-Clarke; Isabel-Mrs Stephens; Catherine-Miss Hallam; Westmoreland-White; Gower-Anderson; Bardolph-Marten; Hostess-Mrs Pitt; MacMorris-Barrington; Jamy-Dunstall; Ambassador-White; Burgandy-Bennet; Dauphin-Davis.
Cast
Role: Williams Actor: Buck

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda and the Arcadian Nuptials