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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
23 January 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 30 Jan.: On Saturday Night, after the Actors...had perform'd the Maid's Tragedy, a Proclamation was made upon the Stage from the Duke of Newcastle, Lord Chamberlain, signifying that it was his Majesty's Pleasure to suspend for the present any more Acting at that House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maids Tragedy

Song: As17191003

352
17 March 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. By His Majesty's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

Dance:

353
04 April 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bicknell. By His Majesty's Command. Admission as 10 March

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Dance: As17200315

354
09 April 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Leigh. By His Majesty's Command. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Song: Leveridge

Dance: As17200120 The Italian Shadows which have not been perform'd these Twenty Years-

355
27 April 1721 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bullock. By His Majesty's Command. Receipts: money #59 18s. 6d.; tickets #67 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Dance: Monsieur Pierrot, Mademoiselle Vaurinville , formerly call'd Mademoiselle DeChalier from the French House

356
08 May 1721 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mr Smith, distress'd by Fire. By His Majesty's Command. Receipts: money #19 6s. 6d.; tickets #62 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

357
18 May 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Denoye. By His Majesty's Command. Written by the late Mr Dryden.[The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Dance:

358
21 November 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Dance:

359
10 April 1722 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Mainpiece. Written by M Voltaire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipe

Afterpiece Title: Le Cocher Suppose

360
09 February 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 7 Nov. 1722. Daily Post, 11 Feb.: On Saturday Night last a Disturbance happen'd at the Opera House...occasion'd by a Difference that arose between a Scotch Nobleman and an English Baronet, who were going to decide the same with the Point of the Sword; but the General of the Forces, who was near at hand, being made acquainted with it, very reasonably interposed and put them both under an Arrest by his Majesty's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

361
18 March 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Booth. By His Majesty's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: As17221211

362
20 April 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Receipts: #136 6s. The King present, on which occasion the House was prodigiously crowded (Daily Post, 23 April)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Jupiter and Europa

363
27 May 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: At 7 p.m. Tomorrow being His Majesty's Birth-Day occasions the Opera being perform'd this Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Flavius

364
05 October 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. [The King, Prince and Princess of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Prince By Enchantment With His Comical Cavalcade And Taken Up In The Air By Daemons Or The Loves Of Pantalon And Argentine His Imprisonment And Condemnation To The Gallies

Dance: As17260928

365
21 October 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. N.B. For the better Information of those who do not thoroughly understand the Italian Language, a Book with the Argument and Explanations in English, of what is transacted in every Scenes, may be had...at the usual Places in the Opera-House. Price 6d. [The King, Prince, and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Enchanted Island Of Arcadia Or The Magician Doctor With Harlequin King Of The Woods Flights Decorations And Transformations Of Harlequin Cupid Pantalon Venus And Brighella Jupiter And The Sacrifice Of Harlequin

Dance: Furies, Nymphs, Shepherds, Statues-; , the latter performing the Labours of Hercules-Statues , after the Manner of the Venetian Gondaliers at Venice: The whole full of Variety

366
28 October 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. N.B. This being the first Time of Acting on Account of Subscriptions, the General Tickets will be sent to the Subscribers. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Most Knowing Least Understanding Or Harlequins Metamorphosis Viz

Afterpiece Title: The Pleasant Marriage Concluding with The Singing Deities

Dance: Dancing and other Decorations proper to the Play , entirely new and diverting-

367
01 November 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Greatest Glory Of A Prince Is The Conquest Of His Own Passions

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Buffoon at Court a Dumb Spy and Condemned to the Stirpado

Dance: Serious Dances-Poitier, others

368
05 November 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dianas Madness Or Fatime A Favourite Slave In The Seraglio Mad For Love And Crownd Empress By The Grand Signior With Pantlon And Harlequin Eunuchs Elected Kaimcan And Ciguir The One Impaled And The Other Sawed Asunder The Bashas Selim And Achmet Ript Open Rabca Strangled And Chistar Beheaded

Entertainment: Carneval-after the Venetian Manner; Dancing-Masqueraders in divers Characters, Madmen, Turks Men and Women being the Invention of Mr Poictiers

369
07 November 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. [The King and Prince Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pantalon A Broker Broken Merchant And Desperately In Love Harlequin His Shopkeeper With A Ridotto After The Venetian Manner Songs And A Serenata In A Venetian Gondola

Entertainment: As17261105

370
12 November 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. With Flyings, Apparitions, &c. [The King, Prince, and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Argentina A Magician Disguised Serving Diana Transformed Into A Gipsie Armenian Footman Fiend Lady And Counsellour

Dance: As17260928

371
16 November 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Mercante Prodigo Or Harlequin A Prodigal Merchant Persecuted By Silvio Basilisk Of Bernagasso

Dance: As17260928

372
19 November 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Furbarie Per Vendetta Or Brighellas Revenge Thwarted By Argentina With Divers Transformations Of Harlequin Viz

Dance: Turkish Men and Women, being the Invention of Mr Poitier

373
30 November 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Disgrazie Darlechino Viz

Performance Comment: Harlequin's Misfortune; or, His Marriage Interrupted by Brighella's Cunning: With his Comical Circumcision. none listed in edition of 1726.

Dance: As17260928

374
03 December 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lo Spirito Folletto Or The Hobgoblin By Argentina

Dance: TThe Furies-Poictier, others

375
07 December 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Furbarie Per Vendetta Or Bridghellas Revenge Contrariated By Argentina With Harlequins Transformation Viz

Performance Comment: a Physician, Master of Musick, Madam Patasia, or Lady Pancake, Swaggerer, Giant, and Grand Bashaw; Together with his Comical Egress and Regress to and from the Tower.