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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "His Majestys Comedians"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "His Majestys Comedians")') 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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512 results for: Keyword - His Majesty's Comedians
We found 432 matches on Event Comments, 63 matches on Performance Comments, 20 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

351
31 January 1721 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. N.B. Whereas it has been reported, that several of the best French Comedians would soon return to Paris: This is to certify, that the said Report is totally groundless, for they will remain here all the Winter Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Tartuffe

Afterpiece Title: Le Tombeau de Maitre Andre

Dance:

352
17 February 1721 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Daily Post, 18 Feb.: The French Company of Comedians do hereby give Notice, That Monsieur Francisque, alias Harlequin, did refuse to perform last Night, which obliged the Master to dismiss the Audience

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Major Ridicule

Afterpiece Title: Le Mariage Force

353
02 June 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Dance:

354
20 September 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

355
04 December 1721 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By the Company of French Comedians, just arrived. Mainpiece: Written by Mons Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tartuffe

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Invisible Chez le Roy de Luchine

Dance:

356
03 April 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

357
05 April 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldier's Fortune

Afterpiece Title: The Magician

Song: With several new collected Songs-Mr Legare, never performed by him before

Dance: Hornpipe-Jones

358
31 December 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: British Journal, 5 Jan. 1723: Mr Matthew Birkhead, one of the Comedians [of dl], died on Sunday Morning last [30 Dec.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Music: Between the Acts: Select Pieces-

359
08 July 1723 @ Hampstead

Event Comment: For the Diversion of Gentlemen and Ladies. By Bullock's and Lee's Company of Comedians from both the Theatres. At Mr Luffingham's Great Room at Hampstead Wells. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Music:

Song:

Dance: The Mimick of a Drunken Man-

360
16 December 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By the New Company of Comedians. Written by the late Mr Rowe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Song: Original Song-Mrs Hill

Dance: Two Children, Scholars to Mrs Roussau

361
22 June 1724 @ Richmond

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. At Mr Penkethman's Theatre in Richmond. By a Company of Comedians from the Theatre Royal. Written by Sir John Vanbrugh. In proper Habits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Music: Between the Acts: Select Pieces- , accompany'd with the Harpsicord, Flutes, and Hautboys

Song: The Dame of Honour-Mrs Willis

Dance: The Drunken Man-Harper

362
24 September 1724 @ Southwark

Event Comment: Benefit Ward and Mrs Haughton. By Mr Bullock's and Spiller's Company of Comedians At their great Theatrical Booth in Bird-Cage Alley. With all the Scenes, Machines, and other Decorations proper to the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

Dance: Haughton, Mrs Ogden, James, Mrs Haughton; End II: particulary Tollet's Grounds-Mrs Haughton, Mrs Ogden; End IV: French Peasant-; End V: Swedish Dale Karl-Haughton, Mrs Ogden

363
17 December 1724 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By the Company of Italian Comedians, just arriv'd. Mainpiece: an Italian Comedy. Afterpiece: Opera Comique. At 6 p.m. Boxes by printed tickets only at 5s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Les Metamorphoses D'arlequin

Afterpiece Title: L'Isle des Amazones

364
20 September 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

365
24 March 1726 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By the Company of Italian Comedians just arriv'd. Boxes 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Fille Allamode; Ou, La Parisien Duppe

Afterpiece Title: L'Ombre D'Arlequin

Dance: Mr Poitiers, others

366
03 August 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Journal, 3 Aug.: Mr Williams, one of the Comedians belonging to the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, is dead

Performances

367
21 September 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Journal, 21 Sept.: A Company of Italian Comedians recently arrived here from beyond Sea, and being patronized by the Dukes of Montague and Richmond, 'tis said, that Leave will be given them to perform in the Opera-House in the Hay-Market

Performances

368
29 October 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For an essay on the foreign comedians, see Mist's, 29 Oct

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

369
07 June 1727 @ Marlborough House

Event Comment: A few days before 7 June the Drury Lane comedians presented Tamerlane at the Dutchess Dowager of Marlborugh's House in St. James's. See St. James's Evening Post, 10 June

Performances

370
07 September 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

371
27 November 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. To which will be added the Coronation Scene of Anna Bullen , and the Ceremony of the Champion in Westminster Hallv; with several additional Decorations. Daily Post, 27 Nov.: The Coronation of Anna Bullenv having met with such extraordinary Success...the Players have been encouraged to give the Town and additional and different View of that Solemnity, by shewing the whole Magnificence at one, with the Ceremony of the Champion in Westminster Hall, &c. And we hear that several Persons of Quality being unwilling to lose their usual Variety of Plays, have desired the Comedians to add the Coronation, &c. as a separate Entertainment, to any other Play the Town may be inclin'd to see

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

372
27 May 1728 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the English Harlequin. By a New Company of English Comedians, who never yet appear'd upon that Stage. [Second Piece: "a New Farce (of one Act)." Apparently not published. Third Piece: "a New Entertainment in Grotesque Characters."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Chimney Sweeper's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Conqueror

373
21 January 1729 @ Bow Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Enchanter

Performance Comment: A Set of Lilliputian Comedians.

374
24 February 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: See17290101 and See17281018, but to be perform'd by the Comedians , as usual.

375
06 August 1729 @ Richmond

Event Comment: DDaily Journal, 8 Aug.: On Wednesday last in the Evening her Majesty, the Prince of Wales, his Royal Highness the Duke, the Princess Royal, and the Princesses Amelia and Carolina, were entertained in the Gardens at Richmond by the Comedians of the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Unknown