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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "William Wilks"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "William Wilks")') 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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13191 results for: Keyword - William Wilks
We found 10791 matches on Author, 2700 matches on Performance Comments, 497 matches on Event Comments, 52 matches on Performance Title, and 2 matches on Roles/Actors.

13026
11 June 1701 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit William Bowen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Libertine Destroy'd

13027
13 June 1701 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit William Penkethman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

13028
March 1702 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: [King William died on Sunday 8, and the playhouses were forbidden to act until after the Coronation, 23 April.

Performances

13029
24 September 1702 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Written by the famous Author William Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cimbiline King Of Brittain; The Great Protector Of His Country

13030
07 October 1702 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the Famous William Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline King Of Brittain; The Great Protector Of His Country

13031
01 November 1703 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By William Walker. Not advertised in Daily Courant, but this date accepted as premiere by Nicoll, p. 363 and Genest, II, 303.] Preface: It was so hem'd in between the Benefits that it seem'd meerly Confin'd to the Limits of a Single Night before hand

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marry; Or, Do Worse

Related Works
Related Work: Marry; or Do Worse Author(s): William Walker

13032
29 June 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Williams. At the desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by Mr Southern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Song: Purcell's From Rosy Bowers-Leveridge

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

13033
31 July 1706 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Sir William Davenant; but Originally by the famous French Dramatick Poet Monsieur Moliere. [Genest, II, 352, surmises that the company probably acted Acts I, II, and V of The Playhouse to be Let.] Afterpiece: A Burlesque Farce

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Playhouse To Be Let; With Sganarella, The Blacksmith Of Paris

Related Works
Related Work: The Playhouse To Be Let Author(s): Sir William Davenant

Afterpiece Title: Mock Pompey

Song:

Dance:

13034
11 December 1706 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Williams

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

13035
02 April 1707 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Hall, Daughter to William Hall, who formerly had the Consort of Musick at his House in Norfolk-street. At 7 p.m. Tickets 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the greatest Masters

13036
22 April 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Song: As17070327

Dance: As17070403

13037
05 June 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By William Taverner.] Never Acted before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid's The Mistress

Related Works
Related Work: The Disappointment: or, The Maid's the Mistress Author(s): William Taverner

13038
25 May 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: See Tatler, 26 May. [In Daily Courant, 24 May, William Bowen announced that The Stratagem, advertised for this day as his benefit, is deferred and that tickets for it will be accepted on 1 June at Sganarell; or, The Cuckold in Conceit.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Cast
Role: Plume Actor: Wilks

13039
06 February 1711 @ Southwark

Event Comment: Benefit William Mears and Friend Hale. In the Town Hall at St. Margaret's Hill, Southwark. Tickets 1s. 6d. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

13040
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

13041
28 February 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: '[By William Taverner.] Never Acted before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 'tis Well If It Takes

Related Works
Related Work: Tis Well if it Takes Author(s): William Taverner

13042
23 December 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit William Cobston. By Subscription

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

13043
23 February 1720 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: Benefit William Douglass, commonly called the Black Prince. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; Singing-Mrs Fletcher; Concerto-Matthew Dubourg; Solo-Kytch

13044
09 May 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit William Mills and Chetwood, Prompter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

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

13045
08 May 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit William Mills and Chetwood

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

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

13046
16 February 1722 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: Benefit William Douglas, commonly call'd Prince. Tickets 5s. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-Castrucci, Kytch

13047
07 May 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit William Mills and the Prompter. Mainpiece: As it was alter'd by the late Duke of Buckingham

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Cast
Role: John Actor: Wilks

Afterpiece Title: Hob

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

13048
06 March 1723 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: Benefit William Douglas, commonly call'd Prince. Tickets 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Violin-Michael Christian Festin; Lute-Francisco Weybough; Hautboy-Kytch [but see hay]

13049
29 April 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Williams. By Her Royal Highness's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Constancy

Dance: Shaw, Topham, Boval, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bullock, Miss Tenoe; particularly Myrtillo-

Related Works
Related Work: Small Talk; or, The Westminster Boy Author(s): William Shield

13050
26 February 1724 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: Benefit William Douglass, commonly called Prince. Tickets 5s. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Concerto, Solo on Hautboy-Kytch; Solo on Violin-Michael Festing; Sonata-Mr China