SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "King of Bohemia"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "King of Bohemia")') 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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We found 2634 matches on Performance Title, 2612 matches on Performance Comments, 1595 matches on Event Comments, 23 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Seeing that the Spanish Curate was acted to-day, I...home again and sent to young Mr Pen and his sister to go anon with my wife and I to the Theatre...we went by coach to the play, and there saw it well acted, and a good play it is, only Diego the Sexton did overdo his part too much. [Sir Edward Browne seems to connect this play with the Duke's Company. See Introdutcion to 1661-1662.

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Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Curate

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

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Mainpiece Title: The Merry Devil Of Edmonton

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

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Mainpiece Title: The Virgin Martyr

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

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Mainpiece Title: Philaster

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Related Work: The Restoration; or, Right Will Take Place Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
Event Comment: Possibly this was acted by the King's Company, which had given it on 16 Nov. 1660 and 8 Jan. 1661. Evelyn, Diary: This Night was acted before his Majestie the Widow, a lewd play

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Mainpiece Title: The Widow

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

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Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

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Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary [Sir W. Pen] and I and my wife to the Theatre...and there saw Rule a Wife and have a Wife very well done

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Event Comment: This play was seen by Jacques Thierry and Will Schellinks (Seaton, Literary Relationships, pp. 333, 335). As this play was presented by the King's Company on 15 Nov. 1660 and again on 30 Dec. 1661, it was probably given at Vere St.

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Mainpiece Title: Love's Cruelty

Event Comment: This play was seen by Jacques Thierry and Will Schellinks (Seaton, Literary Relationships, pp. 333, 335). As this play was given as recently as 5 Feb. 1661@2 by the King's Company, it has been assigned to Vere St.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: I saw a Comedy acted before the Dutchesse of York at the Cock-pit: The king was not at it

Performances

Event Comment: This play was seen by Jacques Thierry and Will Schellinks (Seaton, Literary Relationships, pp. 333, 335). As the King's Company is the only one known to gave given it since the Restoration, it has been assigned to Vere St

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid's Tragedy

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118: Aglavara the Tragicall Way

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aglaura

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118. BM Add. Mss. 34217, in Hotson, p. 246: @O' th' contrary Salendina for witt@Most say did come far short of it@And though I confesse there was some fault there@Yett this I'll say in defense of the Author@A good Plott though ill writt lookes more like a Play@Then all your fine lines when the plott is away.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zelindra

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118. See also The Variety, in Bentley, Jacobean and Caroline Stage, III, 149-51; and James Shirley's The Ball; or, French Dancing Master, in Bentley, V, 1079. See also 10 Nov. 1661

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The French Dancing Master

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Little Thief

Event Comment: Jacques Thierry and Will Schellinks attended this performance, but do not indicate the theatre. See Seaton, Literary Relationships, pp. 334, 336. As this play had been acted by the King's Company on 11 Jan. 1661@2, it has been assigned to Vere St.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Lies A Bleeding

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Northern Lass

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Father's Own Son

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118. This was a new play, but it is not clear that this day was the premiere. BM Add. Mss. 34217, in Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 246: @For the surprizall it was a good proofe@By its getting them mony it took well enough@Without which Divell take the Play@Be it never so good the Actors say@But they may thanke God with all their hart@That Lacy plaid Brankadoros part.

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Mainpiece Title: The Surprizal

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Knight Of The Burning Pestle

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: At the Theatre, where I saw the last act of the Knight of the Burning Pestle, which pleased me not at all

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Knight Of The Burning Pestle

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Brenoralt [or, the Discontented Colonel]