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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Williams"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "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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14479 results for: Keyword - Williams
We found 10791 matches on Author, 5263 matches on Roles/Actors, 1664 matches on Performance Comments, 434 matches on Event Comments, and 51 matches on Performance Title.

14226
14 January 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Mrs Greville and Williams. Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years. Tickets delivered for the 17th of December will be admitted. Tickets and places to be had of Williams at Mr Spoke's, Tottenham Court; Mr White, Auctioneer, Queen street, Westminster; Messrs Ellis and Scott, Old Bond-street; Mr Hewitt, New Bond-street; Mr Cowcieroy, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury; and at the Excise Office Coffee-House, Old Bond-street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple; Or, A Trip To The Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Song: End of Act I of afterpiece Horn sweet are the Woodlands by Forrest and Groves. imitations. End of mainpiece, Vocal and Rhetorical, by the Gentleman who performs Beau Clincher

14227
21 January 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Word To The Wise

Afterpiece Title: The Talisman

Performance Comment: Principal Parts by L'Estrange, Smith, Williams, Robson, Stannard, Jones, Johnson, Brett, Remy, Thomson; Mrs Willliams, Mrs Moore, Mrs Beaufield, Mrs Lefevre. [Larpent MS lists the parts: Sir Charles Drinkwater, Francis Friendly, Sir William Randal, Darby Mulroony; Lady Drinkwater, Mrs Friendly, Miss Timor, Betty.] Prologue spoken by L'Estrange .

Song: End of mainpiece a song by Brett

Monologue: 1784 01 21 End of Act III of mainpiece a Masonic Address by a Brother [unidentified]

14228
19 May 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Afterpiece Title: Laoeudaimonos; or, A People Made Happy

Dance: End II: The Russian Minuet-the young D'Egvilles, Miss DeCamp; End: a new dance, The Irish Bird@Catchers-the young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp

14229
21 September 1795 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Madness

Afterpiece Title: 'Tis a Wise Child Knows its Father

14230
18 May 1797 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alceste

Ballet: End Opera: Sapho et Phaon. As17970406

14231
29 October 1659 @ The City, London

Performances

Mainpiece Title: London's Tryumph

14232
05 November 1660 @ The Red Bull Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

14233
29 October 1661 @ The City, London

Event Comment: Edition of 1661: By the Worshipful Company of Grocers. Evelyn, Diary: I saw the Lord Major passe in his Water Triumph to Westminster being the first solemnity of this nature after 20 years. Pepys, Diary: I was (after office was done) ready to go to my Lord Mayor's feast, as we are all invited; but the Sir Williams were both loth to go, because of the crowd, and so none of us went....This Lord Mayor, it seems, brings up again the custom of Lord Mayors going the day of their instalment to Paul's, and walking round about the Cross, and offering something at the altar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: London's Triumphs

14234
29 November 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Princess; Or, Love At First Sight

14235
22 January 1662 @ The Red Bull Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The New Made Nobleman

14236
May 1663 @ no theater listed

Performances

14237
10 December 1663 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

14238
30 May 1664 @ The Red Bull Theatre

Performances

14239
November 1664 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comment

14240
03 April 1665 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mustapha, The Son Of Solyman The Magnificent

14241
25 October 1666 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: [Mrs Knipp] told us they begin at both houses to act on Monday [29] next. But I fear, after all this sorrow, their pains will be but little. Mrs Williams says, the Duke's house will now be much the better of the two, because of their women; which I am glad to hear

Performances

14242
14 February 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

14243
31 August 1668 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

14244
16 November 1668 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Feign'd Innocence; Or, Sir Martin Marall

14245
02 December 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: So she [Mrs Pepys] and I to the King's playhouse, and there sat to avoid seeing Knepp in box above where Mrs Williams happened to be, and there saw The Usurper; a pretty good play, in all but what is designed to resemble Cromwell and Hugh Peters, which is mighty silly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Usurper

14246
18 December 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Catiline's Conspiracy

14247
16 January 1669 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Horace

14248
09 November 1671 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Feign'd Innocence; Or, Sir Martin Marall

14249
January 1672 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

14250
09 March 1672 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hannibal