Toggle Sphinx Query
SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Queen Mary"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Queen Mary")') 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

Result Options

Download:
JSON XML CSV

Search Filters

Event

Date Range
Start
End

Performance

?
Filter by Performance Type










Cast

?
+
+

Keyword

?
New Search
2418 results for: Keyword - Queen Mary
We found 1269 matches on Performance Comments, 783 matches on Performance Title, 518 matches on Event Comments, 51 matches on Roles/Actors, and 29 matches on Author.

126
14 December 1686 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. Lord Ashburnham's Diary: I waited on my Mother home and afterwards I went into the play (the Maiden Queen) There was a great deale of company, I came home before 8 at night, I am now not charm'd with Playes &c. (Ashburnham MS 932, East Sussex County Record Office, County Hall, Lewes, Sussex; I owe this entry and the subsequent ones from this MS to the kindness of Professor George Hilton Jones, Kansas State University). This is an unusual example of the revival of a play at the public theatre the day before its presentation at court

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love Or The Maiden Queen

127
16 February 1693 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@151, p. 369: ye Q a Box & a Box for ye Maids Honr Fairy Queen. [See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 352. This play was reprinted in 1693: With Alterations, Additions, and several new Songs. See Purcell's Works, Purcell Society, XII (1903), i.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fairy Queen

128
29 April 1696 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Post Man, 28-30 April 1696: The Venetian Ambassadors went yesterday to see a Play called the Indian Queen, accompanied by about 30 persons in 6 coaches

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Queen

129
13 March 1697 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Lady Morley attended this performance. Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 377: Lady Morley and two at the Indian Queen 15s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Queen

130
05 June 1697 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Lady Morley attended this performance. Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 377: Lady Morley and three in the Box att Indian Queen #1

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Queen

131
November 1697 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. The date of the first performance is not known. For a discussion of the dating, see Baldwin Maxwell, Notes on Charles Hopkins' Boadicea, Review of English Studies, IV (1928), 79-83. Downes, Roscius Anglicanus, p. 44: Boadicea, the Brittish Queen, wrote by Mr Hopkins: 'twas a well Writ Play in an Ovidean Stile in Verse; it was lik'd and got the Company Money. A Comparison Between the Two Stages (1702), p. 20: This is Cha. Hopkins's and did very well

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Boadicea Queen Of Britain

132
18 December 1697 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Post Boy, 16-18 Dec. 1697: We hear that the Marquiss of Carmarthen who lately Entertain'd the Great Officer from the Czar of Muscovy, at the Opera call'd the Prophetess, has this day Bespoke the Entertainment of the Indian Queen at the Theatre Royal

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Queen

133
24 February 1698 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Post Man, 24-26 Feb. 1697@8: London Feb. 26. On Thursday the Czar of Muscovy came privately with a small Retinue to Kensington, and I am told went afterwards to see the Play, the Rival Queens, or the Death of Alexander the Great

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens Or The Death Of Alexander The Great

134
25 April 1702 @ Chelsea College

Event Comment: To all the Nobility and Gentry: In Honour of the Queen s Coronation. At 5 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Mr Abell's new Consort of English Musick-; [composed on the Royal Subject [the Queen's Coronation]: With other Songs in several Languages-; accompanied-the greatest Masters [of Instrumental Musick

135
04 January 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Subscription. With a new Prologue and Epilogue. Admission as 14 Dec. 1703. [A Folger Library broadside appears to be a program for this concert. It lists in Act I The Druid's Song from Bonduca, two songs by Mrs Tofts, a song from The Fairy Queen, and a dance; in Act II The Frost Music from King Arthur, two dances, and a song by Mrs Tofts; in Act III an Ode on the Glorious Beginning of Her Majesty's Reign, set by Daniel Purcell and performed by Leveridge, Hughes, Mrs Lindsey, and Mrs Campion; a song by Mrs Tofts, The Sacrifice from King Arthur, and a Grand Dance.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Wherein several Songs in Italian and English-Mrs Tofts; With several select Pieces of Musick- (compos'd by the late famous Mr Henry Purcell) taken out of the Operas of The Fairy Queen, King Arthur, Dioclesian, and Bonduca; And an Ode upon the Happy Accession of Her Majesty to the Throne- set to Musick by Mr Daniel Purcell, never perform'd before

Dance: L'Abbe, DuRuell, Cherrier, Mrs Elford, Mrs Campion, Devonshire Girl

136
29 June 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Afterpiece: a comical Tragedy [a burlesque of Lee's The Rival Queens by Cibber]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Queens With The Humours of Alexander the Great

Song: Three select Entertainments in Italian-Mr Holcombe. Being the first time of his performance on that Stage

137
22 November 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command. [No mention of the King and Queen in Treasurer's Book.] Paid Mr Grist on act by order #10. Receipts: #280 1s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Queen Mab

Dance: II: The Savage Hunters, as17751118

138
11 June 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mme Mara. Morning Chronicle, 4 June; Tickets to be had of Mme Mara, No. 25, Queen Anne-street, East. Receipts: #233 5s. 6d. (170.5.6; 56.9.0; 6.11.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #161 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dido Queen Of Carthage

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

139
15 March 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Balthazar to Gray, but "Incledon...condescended to take the part of Balthazar, which Townsend [who acted it on 6 Oct.] was too ill to perform, and sung 'Sigh no more, ladies' with much sweetness and effect. In the entertainment Johnstone introduced the song of 'Queen Bess" (Morning Herald, 16 Mar.).] Receipts: #372 1s. 6d. (362.8.6; 9.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Thieves

Dance: As17971006

Song: In afterpiece: Queen Bess [not listed on playbill; see below]-Johnstone

140
March 1696 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lost Lover Or The Jealous Husband

Related Works
Related Work: The Lost Lover; or, The Jealous Husband Author(s): Mary Manley

141
April 1696 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Mischief

Related Works
Related Work: The Royal Mischief Author(s): Mary Manley

142
May 1696 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ibrahim The Thirteenth Emperour Of The Turks

Related Works
Related Work: Ibrahim, the Thirteenth Emperour of the Turks Author(s): Mary Pix

143
August 1696 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Wives

Related Works
Related Work: The Spanish Wives Author(s): Mary Pix

144
June 1697 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Innocent Mistress

Related Works
Related Work: The Innocent Mistress Author(s): Mary Pix

145
November 1697 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Deceiver Deceived

Related Works
Related Work: The Deceiver Deceived Author(s): Mary Pix

146
02 February 1699 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Wives

Related Works
Related Work: The Spanish Wives Author(s): Mary Pix

147
May 1699 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend Or The Fate Of Disobedience

Related Works
Related Work: The False Friend; or, The Fate of Disobedience Author(s): Mary Pix

148
March 1700 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beau Defeated Or The Lucky Younger Brother

Related Works
Related Work: The Beau Defeated; or, The Lucky Younger Brother Author(s): Mary Pix

149
14 July 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Wives

Related Works
Related Work: The Spanish Wives Author(s): Mary Pix

Entertainment: As17030705

150
14 March 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ibrahim The 13th Emperor Of The Turks

Related Works
Related Work: Ibrahim, the Thirteenth Emperour of the Turks Author(s): Mary Pix

Dance: As17150310 Also a Scaramouch-a Gentleman for his own Diversion

Song: The New Girl; A Dialogue-Leveridge, Pack