SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "William King"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "William King")') 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: Love And Resolution

Performance Comment: William-Baker; Mary-Mrs Beaumont.
Cast
Role: William Actor: Baker

Dance: A new Ballad Dance-Leppi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: New Brooms

Cast
Role: Sprightly Actor: King
Role: not listed on playbill, Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: May Day or The Little Gipsy

Performance Comment: William-Vernon; Clod-Bannister; Dozey-Waldron; Cryer-Wrighten; Furrow-Parsons; Dolly-Mrs Wrighten; The Little Gipsy-Miss Abrams.
Cast
Role: William Actor: Vernon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theyve Bit The Old One Or The Scheming Butler

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: May Day or The Little Gipsey

Performance Comment: William-Incledon; Old Towler-Incledon; Sally in our Alley-Incledon; Clod-Farley; Furrow-Powel; Cryer-Rees; Dozey-Munden; Dolly-Mrs Martyr; The Little Gipsey-Mrs Clendining.
Cast
Role: William Actor: Incledon

Entertainment: Monologue. End 2nd piece: an Epilogue Address portraying the Characteristic Jealousies of the Spaniard, the Italian, the Dutchman, the Frenchman, & the Englishman,-Mrs Mattocks

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Management

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost

Afterpiece Title: The Mouth of the Nile

Performance Comment: William-Emery; Jack Junk-Townsend; Michael-Hill; Old Peasant-Simmons; Pat-Macartney; French Officer-Wilde; Peasants-Linton, Street, Thompson; Adela-Mrs Sydney; Susan-Miss Sims.
Cast
Role: William Actor: Emery

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Good natured Man

Performance Comment: Lofty-Lewis; Honeywood-Pope; Old Croaker-Munden; The Bailiff-Knight; Leontine-H. Johnston; Sir William Honeywood-Murray; Little Flannagan-Emery; Postboy-Simmons; Jarvis-Thompson; Butler-Abbot; Mrs Croaker-Mrs Mattocks; Olivia-Miss Murray; Garnet-Mrs Mills; Miss Richland-the Late Miss Betterton [i.e. now Mrs Glover].i.e. now Mrs Glover].
Cast
Role: Sir William Honeywood Actor: Murray

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Performance Comment: William-Incledon; Gage-Munden; O'Daub-Johnstone; Serjeant Drill-Townsend; Sir Harry Bouquet-Betterton; Monsieur Bluard-Farley; Recruits-Emery, Simmons; Nell-Mrs Chapman; Nancy (with the Manual Exercise)-Mrs Mills.
Cast
Role: William Actor: Incledon
Related Works
Related Work: Love in a Camp; or, Patrick in Prussia Author(s): William Shield
Related Work: Hartford Bridge; or, The Skirts of the Camp Author(s): William Pearce

Afterpiece Title: The Hermione

Song: End: A Chapter of Fashions (never performed; written by T. Dibdin Jun.)-Munden; The Tight Little Lads of the Ocean (never performed; written by the Author of The Bundle of Proverbs)-Fawcett

Event Comment: King, Prince, and Princess present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marriage A La Mode

Event Comment: King, Prince, and Princess present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pharnaces

Related Works
Related Work: Pharnaces Author(s): William Bates

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Performance Comment: King's Music MSS (BM) R.M. 20d. 2 and R.M. 19.f.7 lists: Galatea-Signora Strada; Acis-Senesino; Damon-Campioli; Polifemo-Montagnana; Clori-Miss Robinson; Filli-Signora Bagnolesi; Dorinda-Signora Bertoli; Eurillo-Mrs Davis; Silvio-Pinacci.
Event Comment: King, Queen, three eldest Princesses present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Semiramis

Event Comment: [King, Queen, Duke, and five Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne in Creta

Event Comment: [King, Queen, and three eldest Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne in Creta

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eunuchus

Performance Comment: King's Scholars of Westminster School.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: No Performance

Performance Comment: King Charles's Martyrdom. No Play.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Performance Comment: Oakly-Reddish; Charles-Cautherly; Lord Trinket-Dodd; Sir Harry Beagle-Palmer; Williams-Wrighten; Russett-Bransby; Major Oakly, first time-Hurst; O'Cutter-Moody; Tom-Ackman; Paris-Baddeley; Lady Freelove-Mrs Hopkins; Harriet, first time-Miss Jarratt; Toilet-Mrs Millidge; Mrs Oakly-Miss Pope; With a New Occasional Epilogue-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Williams Actor: Wrighten

Afterpiece Title: Like Master Like Man

Performance Comment: King, Cautherly, Baddeley, Mrs Egerton, Miss Pope.
Related Works
Related Work: Every Body Mistaken Author(s): William Taverner

Dance: End: New Dance, as17730327 Quadrille, as17730327

Event Comment: King not being sufficiently recover'd the School for Wives deferr'd. Paid half year's rent to the Duke of Bedford to Mich. last #165 2d.; Insurance of theatre and New Building to Christmas 1774 from this day #51 10s. 6d.; Mr G. Garrick on acct #100. Receipts: #183 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Event Comment: King continuing ill. The Spleen Deferr'd. Paid 4 days salary list #416 4s. 4d. Receipts: #239 2s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressd Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Dance: The Grand Garland Dance-Slingsby, Como, Sga Crespi, Sga Paccini

Event Comment: King Lear [announced on playbill of 31 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of Mrs Hartley and Lewis. The Rehearsal having been found too tedious in Representation, and Part of the Dialogue between Bayes and the two Gentlemen wholly obsolete, it has been thought advisable to...reduce the Piece to Three Acts [from the original five]. Receipts: #219 10s. [216.4.6; 3.5.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Dance: As17780129

Event Comment: King Lear [announced on playbill of 1 Nov.] is unavoidably obliged to be deferred on account of Henderson's infirm state of health. Receipts: #85 0s. 6d. (81/2/0; 3/18/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Event Comment: King Richard the Third [announced on playbill of 27 Dec] is obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of a principal Performer. Receipts: #110 12s. (87/0/0; 19/0/0; 3/9/6; tickets not come on: 1/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Cast
Role: Sir William Worthy Actor: Aickin

Song: In Act I of mainpiece song by Williames

Event Comment: King Henry the Eighth [advertised on playbill of 19 Jan.] is, on Account of the Indisposition of Mrs Siddons, deferred 'till Sturday next (after which it will be laid aside from some Time, on Account of Preparations for Coriolanus [see 7 Feb.]) with The Critic [also advertised on playbill of 19 Jan.]. Kemble Mem.: Palmer imprisoned [seemingly for debt]. Receipts: #129 13s. (108.3; 19.19; 1.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Event Comment: William Cartwright's The Lady Errant was licensed by Sir Henry Herbert to the Duke's Company on this date. See Bentley, Jacobean and Caroline Stage, III, 128-32

Performances

Event Comment: William Blaythwaite to Sir Robert Southwell, 4 Sept. 1679 [describing a visit made on 3 Sept. 1679 by Sir Edward Dering, Mrs Helena Percival, Miss Helena, Miss Betty, and himself]: What we saw was the dancing on the ropes performed first by Jacob Hall and his company, then by a Dutch dancer, who did wonderful feats. From thence we went to the Elephant, who I think was more terrible than pleasant to the young spectators (Morley, Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair, p. 192)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady Or Harlequins Opera In The Manner Of A Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Part-Penkethman, Bullock, Lacy, W. Giffard, W. Williams, Huddy, Smith, Collet, Bardin, Mrs Thomas, Mrs Mountfort, Mrs Giffard, Mrs Palmer; but edition of 1730 lists: Ballad-Penkethman; Meanwell-W. Giffard; Modely-Bullock; Drama-Lacey; Mrs Foible-Mrs Mountford; Mrs Sprightly-Mrs Giffard; Prattle-Mrs Palmer; Merit-W. Williams; Smooth-Mrs Thomas; Hackum-Huddy; Whim-Smith; Trifle-Collet; Voice-Bardin; Harlequin-Burney.

Dance: Burny, Sandham, Eaton, R. Williams as Harlequin, Scaramouch, Punch, Pantalon

Performance Comment: Williams as Harlequin, Scaramouch, Punch, Pantalon.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Favourite Opera

Dance: End I: La Nymphe et le Chasseur, as17890319at king's; in which Minuet of Iphigenia, as17890428 at king's; Pas de Deux Anacreontique, as17890428 at king's; End Opera: Le Tuteur Trompe-see17890615; in which Minuet de la Cour, as17890615at king's; Les Folies d'Espagne-see17890615; Pas de Six de la Rosieu, as17890521 at king's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings King Henry The Fifth

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Kemble
Role: Williams Actor: Whitfield
Role: King of France Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner