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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "William Wright"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "William Wright")') 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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12985 results for: Keyword - William Wright
We found 10793 matches on Author, 2567 matches on Performance Comments, 545 matches on Event Comments, 254 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4201
03 December 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Related Works
Related Work: The Merry Wives of Windsor Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: The Comical Gallant: or, The Amours of Sir John Falstaffe Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: DDutch Skipper, as17421025; Les Jardiniers Suedois, as17421120

4202
04 December 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Related Works
Related Work: Measure for Measure; or, Beauty the Best Advocate Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Measure for Measure Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: The Law Against Lovers Author(s): William ShakespeareSir William Davenant

Dance: LLes Boufons du Cour, as17421120; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Les Jardiniers Suedois, as17421120

4203
06 December 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragical History of King Richard III Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Richard III Author(s): William Shakespeare

Dance: LLa Villageoise, as17421006; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Dutch Skipper, as17421025

4204
09 December 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Related Works
Related Work: The Old Batchelor Author(s): William Congreve
Related Work: The Credulous Husband Author(s): William Congreve

Dance: DDutch Skipper, as17421025; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Musette-Picq, Sga Domitilla; Grand Ballet, as17421108

4205
11 December 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv

Related Works
Related Work: 1 Henry IV Author(s): William Shakespeare

Dance: 1 TTambourine-Cook; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; The Happy Lovers, as17421006; La Provencale, as17421105

4206
13 December 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Related Works
Related Work: The History of King Lear Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: King Lear Author(s): William Shakespeare

Song: II: Beard; III: Song-Lowe

Music: IV: New Concerto-Piantanida

4207
13 December 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Related Works
Related Work: Othello Author(s): William Shakespeare

Dance: TTambourine-Cooke; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Musette, as17421209; Italian Peasants, as17421210

4208
14 December 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Related Works
Related Work: The Country Wife Author(s): William Wycherley
Related Work: The Country Wife Author(s): William Wycherley
Related Work: The Country Girl Author(s): William Wycherley

Dance: TTambourine-Cooke; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; The Happy Lovers, as17421006; La Provencale-Picq, Mlle Auguste

4209
16 December 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Related Works
Related Work: The History of King Lear Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: King Lear Author(s): William Shakespeare

Dance: TTambourine-Cooke; La Provencale, as17421105; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Dutch Skipper, as17421025

4210
17 December 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Related Works
Related Work: The Way of the World Author(s): William Congreve

Dance: DDutch Skipper, as17421025; The Happy Lovers, as17421006; A New Grand Ballet call'd Le Rendezvous Gallant-Cooke, Picq, Anne and Janneton Auretti, Young Master Gillier

4211
20 December 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Dighton Actor: Wright
Related Works
Related Work: The Tragical History of King Richard III Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Richard III Author(s): William Shakespeare

Song: As17421204

Music: III: Concerto-Piantanida

4212
20 December 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Related Works
Related Work: Julius Caesar Author(s): William Shakespeare

Dance: DDutch Skipper, as17421025; Les Savoyards, as17421218; Le Rendezvous Gallant, as17421217

4213
30 December 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Related Works
Related Work: The Country Wife Author(s): William Wycherley
Related Work: The Country Wife Author(s): William Wycherley
Related Work: The Country Girl Author(s): William Wycherley

Dance: DDutch Skipper, as17421025; Peasants-Villeneuve, Mlle August; Le Rendezvous Gallant,as17421217

4214
30 December 1742 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Related Works
Related Work: The Old Batchelor Author(s): William Congreve
Related Work: The Credulous Husband Author(s): William Congreve

Afterpiece Title: Imprisonment of Harlequin

4215
01 January 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Related Works
Related Work: Love for Love Author(s): William Congreve

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: I: Beard; IV: Lowe

Related Works
Related Work: The Genoese Pirate; or, Black-Beard Author(s): John Cartwright Cross

Music: III: A Concerto on Violincello-Cervetti; V: A Concerto-Piantinida

4216
01 January 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Related Works
Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): William ShakespeareSir William Davenant

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Ceres Actor: Mrs Wright

4217
03 January 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Dighton Actor: Wright
Related Works
Related Work: The Tragical History of King Richard III Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Richard III Author(s): William Shakespeare

Song: II: Beard; IV: Lowe

Music: Concerto on Violincello-Cervetti

4218
03 January 1743 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragical History of King Richard III Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Richard III Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Imprisonment of Harlequin

Dance: SSailor's Dance-Taylor

4219
04 January 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Related Works
Related Work: Measure for Measure; or, Beauty the Best Advocate Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Measure for Measure Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: The Law Against Lovers Author(s): William ShakespeareSir William Davenant

Afterpiece Title: Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Ceres Actor: Mrs Wright

4220
05 January 1743 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragical History of King Richard III Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Richard III Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Imprisonment of Harlequin

Dance: As17430103

4221
07 January 1743 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragical History of King Richard III Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Richard III Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: The English Sailor-Taylor; II: Two Millers and Courtesan-Three Graniers; III: The Sabatiers-LaPierre; IV: The Welch Buffoon-two Masters Granier; V: Comic Ballet-Mr Carney, Mrs Roland, Mr Pelling, Mr Granier, Mrs Vallois, Miss Scott

4222
10 January 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Dighton Actor: Wright
Related Works
Related Work: The Tragical History of King Richard III Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Richard III Author(s): William Shakespeare

Dance: II: Grand Serious Ballet, as17421005

Song: III: Song-Lowe

Music: IV: Concerto-Piantanida

4223
14 January 1743 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bickerstaff's Unburied Dead

Afterpiece Title: Richard III

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragical History of King Richard III Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Richard III Author(s): William Shakespeare

4224
15 January 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Related Works
Related Work: The History of King Lear Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: King Lear Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Song: II: Beard; III: Lowe

Music: IV: Concerto on German Flute-Burk Thumoth

4225
17 January 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Related Works
Related Work: The History of King Lear Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: King Lear Author(s): William Shakespeare

Dance: DDutch Skipper, as17421025; Les Savoyards, as17421218; Le Rendezvous Gallant, as17421217