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17963 results for: Keyword - the Sir Williams
We found 11545 matches on Author, 6982 matches on Performance Comments, 1316 matches on Event Comments, 1129 matches on Roles/Actors, and 512 matches on Performance Title.

16976
29 September 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear And His Three Daughters

Performance Comment: Lear-Booth; Edgar-Wilks; Edmund-Mills; Gloster-Thurmond; Kent-Williams; Gentleman Usher-Penkethman; Cordelia-Mrs Booth.
Cast
Role: Kent Actor: Williams

16977
11 October 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Addison

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Performance Comment: Cato-Booth; Juba-Wilks; Syphax-Cibber; Sempronius-Mills; Portius-Thurmond; Marcus-Williams; Decius-Boman; Lucius-Cory; Marcia-Mrs Oldfield; Lucia-Mrs Porter.
Cast
Role: Marcus Actor: Williams

16978
17 October 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover; Or, The Banish'd Cavaliers

Performance Comment: Rover-Wilks; Hellena-Mrs Booth; Angelica-Mrs Porter; Belvil-Mills; Blunt-Johnson; Sancho-Norris; Frederick-Williams; Florinda-Mrs Horton; Valeria-Mrs Heron.
Cast
Role: Frederick Actor: Williams

16979
26 October 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Performance Comment: Cholerick-Penkethman; Carlos-Wilks; Clodio-Cibber; Antonio-Shepard; Charino-Griffin; Sancho-Norris; Duart-Williams; Angleina-Mrs Booth; Elvira-Mrs Younger; Louisa-Mrs Horton.
Cast
Role: Duart Actor: Williams

16980
01 November 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by the late Mr Otway

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: Castalio-Wilks; Polydor-Booth; Chamont-Mills; Chaplain-Cibber; Ernesto-Williams; Monimia-Mrs Porter.
Cast
Role: Ernesto Actor: Williams

16981
05 November 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Rowe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: Tamerlane-Booth; Bajazet-Mills; Moneses-Wilks; Axalla-Williams; Arpasia-Mrs Thurmond; Selima-Mrs Booth; With the usual Prologue-.
Cast
Role: Axalla Actor: Williams
Role: With the usual Prologue Actor: .

16982
22 December 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius; Or, The Force Of Love

Performance Comment: Varanes-Booth; Athenais-Mrs Porter; Theodosius-Williams; Marcian-Mills; Atticus-Boman; Leontine-Thurmond; Lucius-Corey; Pulcheria-Mrs Horton.
Cast
Role: Athenais Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Theodosius Actor: Williams
Related Works
Related Work: The Weathercock Author(s): Theodosius Forrest

16983
09 January 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Charles Johnson.] Alter'd from the Comedy call'd As You Like It, Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Forest

Performance Comment: Edition of 1723 lists: Duke Frederick-Williams; Alberto-Booth; Jaques-Cibber; Amiens-Corey; Oliver-Thurmond; Orlando-Wilks; Roberto-Roberts; Adam-Mills; Le Beau-Th. Cibber; Charles-W. Mills; Rosalind-Mrs Booth; Celia-Mrs Thurmond; Hymen-Miss Lindar; Pyramqs-Penkethman; Wall-Norris; Lion-Wilson; Moonshine-Ray; Thisbe-Miller; Prologue-Wilks; Epilogue-Mrs Thurmond.
Cast
Role: Duke Frederick Actor: Williams

16984
02 March 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these Seven Years. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens; Or, The Death Of Mary, Queen Of Scotland

Performance Comment: Norfolk-Wilks; Davison-Booth; Morton-Mills; Cecil-Williams; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs Porter; Queen of Scots-Mrs Oldfield; Dowglass-Mrs Booth.
Cast
Role: Cecil Actor: Williams

16985
22 April 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Constancy

Performance Comment: Edition of 1723 lists: Zimon-Mills; Omphales-Booth; Tryphon-Cibber; Ammon-Williams; Hesione-Mrs Porter; Prologue-Booth; Epilogue-Mrs Porter.
Cast
Role: Ammon Actor: Williams

16986
14 September 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Bevil-Mills; Bevil Jr-Booth; Myrtle-Wilks; Sealand-Williams; Cimberton-Griffin; Humphrey-Shepard; Tom-Cibber; Daniel-Th. Cibber; Indiana-Mrs Oldfield; Isabella-Mrs Thurmond; Lucinda-Mrs Booth; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Moore; Phillis-Mrs Younger.
Cast
Role: Sealand Actor: Williams

16987
24 September 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. With an intire new Sett of Scenes representing Ancient Rome, Painted by Monsieur Devoto

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar; With The Death Of Brutus And Cassius

Performance Comment: Caesar-Thurmond; Brutus-Booth; Cassius-Mills; Antony-Wilks; Octavius-Williams; Citizens-Johnson, Norris, Miller, Harper; Portia-Mrs Thurmond; Calphurnia-Mrs Horton.
Cast
Role: Octavius Actor: Williams

16988
05 October 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear And His Three Daughters

Performance Comment: Lear-Booth; Edgar-Wilks; Edmund-Mills; Gloster-Thurmond; Kent-Williams; Gentleman Usher-Penkethman; Cordelia-Mrs Booth.
Cast
Role: Kent Actor: Williams

16989
31 October 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Performance Comment: Cato-Booth; Juba-Wilks; Syphax-Cibber; Sempronius-Mills; Portius-Thurmond; Marcus-Williams; Decius-Boman; Marcia-Mrs Oldfield; Lucia-Mrs Porter.
Cast
Role: Marcus Actor: Williams

16990
04 November 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: Tamerlane-Booth; Bajazet-Mills; Moneses-Wilks; Axalla-Williams; Arpasia-Mrs Thurmond; Selima-Mrs Booth; With the usual Prologue-.
Cast
Role: Axalla Actor: Williams
Role: With the usual Prologue Actor: .

16991
07 November 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius; Or, The Force Of Love

Performance Comment: Varanes-Booth; Athenais-Mrs Porter; Theodosius-Williams; Marcian-Mills; Atticus-Boman; Pulcheria-Mrs Horton.
Cast
Role: Athenais Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Theodosius Actor: Williams
Related Works
Related Work: The Weathercock Author(s): Theodosius Forrest

Afterpiece Title: The Escapes of Harlequin

16992
15 November 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Performance Comment: Cholerick-Penkethman; Carlos-Williams; Clodio-Cibber; Antonio-Shepard; Charino-Cross; Sancho-Norris; Duart-Wilks Jr; Angelina-Mrs Booth; Elvira-Mrs Younger; Louiza-Mrs Horton.
Cast
Role: Carlos Actor: Williams

Dance: As17231028

16993
15 January 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By John Gay.] True Briton, 22 Jan.: I was a Spectator, the first Night, at...The Captives; when I was Witness to a Ceremony, which I can never judge to be either beneficial to the Author, or contribute much to the Entertainment of the Town. There were large Quantities of Brandy distributed amongst the Footmen in the Boxes, and that in so plentiful a manner, that several of them were carried out of the House dead drunk. This, it seems, is call'd, Christening a Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Captives

Performance Comment: Edition of 1724 lists: Phraortes-Wilks; Sophernes-Booth; Hydarnes-Mills; Araxes-Williams; Orbasius-Bridgwater; Astarbe-Mrs Porter; Captive-Mrs Oldfield; Doraspe-Mrs Campbell; Prologue-Wilks; Epilogue-Mrs Oldfield.
Cast
Role: Araxes Actor: Williams
Related Works
Related Work: The Happy Captive Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: Troades; or, The Royal Captives Author(s): Sir Edward Sherburne
Related Work: The Temple of Dulness; with the Humours of Sg Capochio and Sga Dorinna Author(s): Lewis Theobald

16994
12 February 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [For an essay on this play and this pantomime, see Pasquin, 18 Feb.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Constancy

Performance Comment: Zimon-Mills; Omphales-Booth; Tryphon-Cibber; Ammon-Williams; Hesione-Mrs Porter.
Cast
Role: Ammon Actor: Williams

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

16995
14 February 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Performance Comment: As17231021, but Frederick-Williams; Antonio-Wilks Jr; Valeria-Miss Seal.
Cast
Role: Frederick Actor: Williams

Dance:

16996
15 February 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mithridates, King Of Pontus

Performance Comment: Mithridates-Mills; Zephares-Wilks; Pharnaces-Booth; Archilaus-Boman; Aquilius-Williams; Semandra-Mrs Oldfield.
Cast
Role: Aquilius Actor: Williams

Song: As17240201

16997
22 April 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Williams

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Sealand Actor: Williams

Music: Select Piece-Sig Carbonelly on the Stage

Dance: Shaw, Thurmond, Mrs Bullock, Miss Tenoe

16998
04 July 1724 @ Richmond

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke; Or, Trapolin Suppos'd A Prince

Performance Comment: Trapolin-Harper; Duke-Bridgwater; Brunetto-Williams; Alberto-Chapman; Barberino-Roberts; Prudentia-Mrs Houghton; Isabella-Mrs Orfeur; Conjuoro-Orfeur; Flametta-Mrs Roberts; Dustress'd Women-Mrs Willis, Mrs Davison; Puritan-Norris.
Cast
Role: Brunetto Actor: Williams

Afterpiece Title: Hob; or, The Country Wake

Song: A Quaker's Song-Mrs Willis

Dance: Highland Lilt-Mrs Willis; Running Footman-Houghton; Union Dance-Houghton, Mrs Willis

16999
18 July 1724 @ Richmond

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by the late Mr Dryden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Performance Comment: Fryar-Harper; Torrismond-Roberts; Bertran-Orfeur; Raymond-Chapman; Pedro-Williams; Alphonso-Norris Jr; Queen-Mrs Gulick; Elvira-Mrs Houghton; Teresa-Mrs Vincent; Gomez-Norris Sr; Colonel-Bridgewater.
Cast
Role: Pedro Actor: Williams

Dance:

17000
05 September 1724 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Valentine And Orson

Performance Comment: Orson-Bridgewater; King-Huddy; Alphonso-Williams; Valentine-Roberts; Athelia-Mrs Morgan; Cleora-Mrs Butcher; Countrywoman-Mrs Willis; Peter Pitiful-Butcher.
Cast
Role: Alphonso Actor: Williams
Role: Athelia Actor: Mrs Morgan

Song: Mrs Willis

Dance: Mrs Willis

Entertainment: Tumbling-