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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "King and Queen"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "King and Queen")') 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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7150 results for: Keyword - King</i> and $Queen
We found 3386 matches on Performance Title, 3185 matches on Performance Comments, 1888 matches on Event Comments, 25 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2351
19 January 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: MMrs Bellamy thinks it her duty to inform the Public, that, as her name is in the Bills, (Though the Managers have sent her word she was not to play) she should think herself wanting of that Gratitude she owes the Public, if she did not let them know, she is ready to perform Cordelia. [Pasted in playbills of dl 1766-67 at 19 Jan. See Mrs Bellamy's Apology (1785) IV, 145-47, where she notes that although Miss Wilford made her entrance the audience forced her to withdraw and Mrs Bellamy acted the entire part.] Receipts: #221 3s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Cast
Role: Cornwall Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Arnauld, Miss Valois, Dumai, Petro, Rayner, Hussey, Curtat, King, Miss D. Twist, Miss Daw, Miss Pitt, Miss Barowby, Miss Twist, Miss Hilliard, Fishar, Sga Manesiere. With New Music, Scenes, Habits and Decorations.

2352
09 March 1767 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Cast
Role: Cornwall Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Arnauld, Miss Valois, Dumai, Petro, Rayner, Hussey, Curtat, King, Miss D. Twist, Miss Daw, Miss Pitt, Miss Barowby, Miss Twist, Miss Hilliard, Fishar, Sga Manesiere. With New Music, Scenes, Habits and Decorations.

2353
23 April 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Young and Mr Rooker. House charges #65 1s. Paid for two practices for Alexander #1 16s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: End: Hearts of Oak, as17670212

2354
13 May 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Perry and Holtom. Charges #64 14s. [Perry paid 2@3 the charges and received against that #2 3s. of the ready money. His deficit was #5 11s. 4d. Holtom paid 1!3 the charges and was credited with 1!3 the ready money. His deficit was #2 15s. 8d. The deficits were covered by income from tickets: Perry #93 9s. (Box 24; Pit 333; Gallery 375); Holtom #33 14s. (Box 11; Pit 159; Gallery 71).] (Account Book). Receipts: #56 7s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: I: A Hornpipe-by Desire, Mas. Harris; IV: The Female Archer, as17661215; End: Double Hornpipe, as17670427

Ballet: End: The Wapping Landlady. As17670427

Cast
Role: the other Sailors Actor: Petro, Hussey, Martin, Reynald, Curtat, King
Role: Landlady Actor: Miles

2355
15 July 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: IV: A serious Dance-; End: A comic Dance-Miss Froment

2356
21 October 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: Lear-Barry, 1st appearance there in 10 years; Gloster-Burton; Kent- Bransby; Bastard-J. Palmer; Edgar-Reddish, 1st time; Regan-Mrs Hopkins; Gentleman Usher-Dodd; Albany-Packer; Cornwall-Hurst; Burgandy-Fox; Arante-Mrs Hippisley; Cordelia-Mrs Dancer; Goneril-Mrs W. Barry.
Cast
Role: Burgandy Actor: Fox

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Cast
Role: Lovell Actor: King

Dance: End: The Irish Hay@makers, as17670919

2357
24 October 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Cast
Role: Burgandy Actor: Fox

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Cast
Role: Glib Actor: King

2358
20 February 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear colmans Alteration

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

2359
07 March 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Powell. Part of pit will be laid into boxes, where servants will be allowed to keep places. Ladies are desired to send servants by 3 o'clock. [Powell paid no House charges, so received a clear benefit of #170 19s. plus #109 5s. from disposing of 439 combined Box and Pit tickets (Accoudt Book).] Receipts: #170 19s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

Dance: End: A New Comic Dance, call'd The Highland Reel-Aldridge, Miss Valois, Sga Manesiere (playbill); [But Public Advertiser lists The Irish Lilt by Aldridge and Miss Valois.

2360
08 April 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Cast
Role: Burgandy Actor: Fox

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: End: The Wake, as17680220

2361
28 April 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Altered from Shakespeare and Tate. Afterpiece: Specified as a Musical entertainment in two acts, taken from The Summer's Tale, with alterations and additions by the author. Receipts: #109 7s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Amelia

Related Works
Related Work: Amelia Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Dance: End: The Highland Reel, as17680307

2362
17 November 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: End: The Lamplighters, as17681101

2363
20 December 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benfit towards the increase of a Fund (Established by the Performers of this Theatre) for the support of such actors, and their families, who from Age or Infirmities, shall be oblig'd to quit the stage. Charges #65 7s. 6d. [including candles, extra kettle drum, side drum, organ and tabor & pipe]. Balance due Fund #101 17s. 6d. plus a special income of #17 13s. from 64 Box tickets (Account Book). Receipts: #167 5s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

2364
11 January 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

2365
21 January 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Performance Comment: As17690104, but Diana-Mrs Thompson; and new scene-WITH ADDITIONS.
Cast
Role: and new scene Actor: WITH ADDITIONS.

2366
12 April 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Performance Comment: Fine Gentleman-Dyer; Old Man, Lord Chalkstone-Shuter; Aesop-King; Mercury-DuBellamy; Charon-Bates; Frenchman-Holtom; Drunken Man-Dunstall; Bowman-Davis; Fine Lady-Mrs Green.
Cast
Role: Aesop Actor: King

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady-, Double Hornpipe, as17690408

2367
01 May 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Entertainment: IV: THE CRIES OF LONDON-Shuter; End: Post Haste OBSERVATIONS on a Journey to Paris-Shuter

2368
15 January 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Cast
Role: The dances Actor: Giorgi, Atkins, Mrs King
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Love

2369
08 March 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

2370
13 March 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

2371
18 June 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: TThe Cowkeeper, as17700521

2372
11 September 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: hay Damon and Phillida

Cast
Role: Mopsus Actor: Vandermere

Dance: hay End of Play: The Nosegay, as17700611

2373
29 October 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Servandoni Actor: .

2374
31 October 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs King

2375
14 January 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton