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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Williams"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Williams")') 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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16176 results for: Keyword - Mr Williams
We found 10808 matches on Author, 4553 matches on Event Comments, 2673 matches on Performance Comments, 577 matches on Performance Title, and 2 matches on Roles/Actors.

16026
11 February 1684 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Valentinian

16027
March 1684 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Northern Lass

16028
27 March 1684 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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16029
June 1684 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Hercules Buffoon; Or, The Poetical Squire

16030
December 1684 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cheats Of Scapin

16031
26 March 1687 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

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16032
April 1688 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Darius, King Of Persia

16033
11 April 1689 @ no theater listed

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16034
November 1689 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Jovial Crew

16035
04 November 1690 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

16036
01 January 1691 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

16037
10 October 1691 @

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16038
30 April 1693 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: This celebration of the Queen's Birthday presumably was given on 30 April, her birthday. The music in the Royal Society of Music gives the singers as Mrs Ayliff, The Boy, Turner, Snow, Edwards, Howell, Bowman, Damascene, Bouchier, Williams, Woodeson, Roberts. See Purcell's Works, Purcell Society, XXIV (1926), ii

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

16039
30 October 1693 @ The City, London

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

16040
July 1694 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: According to the testimony of Sir Thomas Skipwith, 10 Dec. 1694, the young actors played during the vacation nearly thirty days without Betterton, Williams, Bright, Kinaston, Sandford, or Mrs Betterton, and made sufficient money to keep them over the vacation. L. C. 7@3, 17 Dec. 1694, in Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 374

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16041
29 October 1694 @ The City, London

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

16042
May 1695 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: See Cibber, Apology, I, 201-2, for his account of the mistake Betterton's Company made in not retaining Williams and Mrs Mountfort-Verbruggen, and of the problems of Rich's Company. In this passage Cibber implies that Hamlet, Othello, and Julius Caesar were acted at Drury Lane soon after the division of the companies

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16043
27 October 1697 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

16044
23 August 1698 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jephtha's Rash Vow

16045
15 November 1699 @ Whitehall or St. James's

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16046
29 November 1699 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

16047
11 June 1701 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Libertine Destroy'd

16048
13 June 1701 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

16049
March 1702 @ no theater listed

Performances

16050
24 September 1702 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cimbiline King Of Brittain; The Great Protector Of His Country