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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "King of Shweden"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "King of Shweden")') 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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5846 results for: Keyword - King of Shweden
We found 2634 matches on Performance Title, 2610 matches on Performance Comments, 1593 matches on Event Comments, 23 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4801
16 November 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116. The King's Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow

4802
21 November 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116. The King's Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

4803
22 November 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116. The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I to the new playhouse and saw part of the Traitor, a very good Tragedy; Mr Moon [Mohun] did act the Traitor very well

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Traitor

4804
23 November 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116. The King's Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Elder Brother

4805
24 November 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116. The King's Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

4806
26 November 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116. The King's Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Opportunity

4807
27 November 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: I to a play, The Scornfull Lady. [Because this play was offered at Vere Street on 21 Nov. 1660 and because Pepys had been attending that playhouse, it seems likely that this was also a production of the King's Company.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

4808
29 November 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 117. The King's Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

4809
December 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The Prologue, extant in a broadside in the Worcester College Library, appears to represent a performance occuring before the end of 1660. It has been reprinted by Noyes, Ben Jonson, pp. 105-6, and by Wiley, Rare Prologues and Epilogues, pp. 16-17. The King's Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

4810
01 December 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 117. The King's Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Claricilla

4811
03 December 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 117. The King's Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Kinge And No Kinge

4812
04 December 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: After dinner Sir Tho. Crew and my Lady to the Playhouse to see The Silent Woman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

4813
05 December 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: After dinner I went to the new Theatre and there I saw The Merry Wives of Windsor acted, the humours of the country gentleman and the French doctor very well done, but the rest but very poorly, and Sir J. Falstaffe as bad as any

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

4814
06 December 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 117. The King's Company. Andrew Newport to Sir Richard Leveson, 6 Dec. 1660: Plays at court every week (HMC, 5th Report, Part I, 1876, p. 158)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rollo, Duke Of Normandy

4815
12 December 1660 @ Salisbury Court

Event Comment: On this day (L. C. 5@137,p. 343) Davenant was granted a warrant to act the following plays: Tempest, Measures for Measures, Much Adoe About Nothing, Romeo? and Juliet, Twelfe Night, The Life of King Henry the Eyght, The Sophy, Kinge Lear, The Tragedy of Mackbeth, The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark, and The Dutchesse of Malfy. In addition, he was to have exclusive right for two months to The Mad Lover, The Mayde in Ye Mill, The Spanish Curate, The Loyall Subject, Rule a Wife and have a Wife, and [Pericles] Persiles Prince of Tyre. Davenant also received the right to act his own plays

Performances

4816
31 December 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I bought the play of Henry the Fourth, and so went to the new Theatre...and saw it acted; but my expectation being too great, it did not please me, as otherwise I believe it would; and my having a book, I believe did spoil it a little

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Fourth

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragedy of King Henry IV of France Author(s): Charles Beckingham

4817
03 January 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, where was acted Beggar's Bush, it being very well done; and here the first time that ever I saw women come upon the stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Bush

4818
04 January 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Mr Moore and I to the Theatre, where was The Scornful Lady, acted very well, it being the first play that ever he saw

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

4819
07 January 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Tom and I and my wife to the Theatre, and there saw The Silent Woman. The first time that ever I did see it, and it is an excellent play. Among other things here, Kinaston, the boy, had the good turn to appear in three shapes: first, as a poor woman in ordinary clothes, to please Morose; then in fine clothes, as a gallant, and in them was clearly the prettiest woman in the whole house, and lastly, as a man; and then likewise did appear the handsomest man in the house

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

4820
08 January 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I took my Lord Hinchinbroke and Mr Sidney to the Theatre, and shewed them The Widdow, and indifferent good play, but wronged by the women being to seek in their parts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow

4821
09 January 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 117, who gives the date as Monday 9, presumably an error for Wednesday 9

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wedding

Related Works
Related Work: The Triumph of Mirth; or, Harlequin's Wedding Author(s): Thomas King

4822
19 January 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, where I saw The Lost Lady, which do not please me much

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lost Lady

4823
25 January 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Evelyn, Diary: After divers yeares, that I had [not] seene any Play, I went to see acted the Scornfull Lady at a new Theater in Lincolns-in fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

4824
28 January 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, where I saw again The Lost Lady, which do now please me better than before; and here I sitting behind hn a dark place, a lady spit backward upon me by a mistake, not seeing me, but after seeing her to be a very pretty lady, I was not troubled at it at all

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lost Lady

4825
31 January 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 117. The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, and there sat in the pit among the company of fine ladys, &c.; and the house was exceeding full, to see Argalus and Parthenia, the first time that it hath been acted: and indeed it is good, though wronged by my over great expectations, as all things else are

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Argalus And Parthenia