SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Rob Williams"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Rob 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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Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 116. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 345. There is some uncertainty as to whether this is the premiere, but another performance on 15 Jan. 1674@5 and its entry in the Stationers' Register 13 Jan. 1674@5 suggest that this was probably the first performance

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Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

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Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

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Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

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Mainpiece Title: King Lear

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Event Comment: The date of this performance is not certain, but Nell Gwyn attended this play given by the Duke's Company sometime in (probably) November 1675. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407

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Mainpiece Title: Henry VIII

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Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

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Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

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Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

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Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

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Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346. There is no certainty that this performance is the premiere, but as the play was licensed for printing on 9 Jan. 1676@7, this performance may well be the first one. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, pp.9-10) lists the same cast except for the ommission of Letice. It is not certain which Mrs Knight played Letice. Possibly it was Frances Maria Knight (see Wilson, All the King's Ladies, where she is tentatively listed for that role), but the presence of Mrs Ursula Knight on an undated L. C. list, 3@24, with the date of her swearing into the company given as 12 March 1676@7, it is quite likely that she played this role. (I owe this reference to Ursula Knight to Professor John Harold Wilson.) John Dennis: And when upon the first representations of the Plain Dealer, the Town, as The Authour has often told me, appeard Doubtful what Judgment to Form of it; the foremention'd gentlemen [The Duke of Buckingham, Earl of Rochester, Earl of Dorset, Earl of Mulgrave, Savil, Buckly, Sir John Denham, Waller] by their loud aprobation of it, gave it both a sudden and a lasting reputation (Defense and Defects of Dramatick Poetry, 1725, in The Works of John Dennis, ed. Hooker, II, 277)

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Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

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Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

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Mainpiece Title: A Shoemaker A Gent

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Mainpiece Title: Wits Led By The Nose; Or, A Poet's Revenge

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Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

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Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is known through a document summarized in The Theatrical Inquisitor and Monthly Mirror, July 1816, p. 25, and summarized in Fitzgerald, A New History, I, 145. Although this performance is the first certainly known, it is probably not the premiere, for the attendance (see below) was too small for the premiere of a new work by John Dryden. Since the play was entered in the Stationers' Register, January 1678, the first production was probably not long before this performance. The document in The Theatrical Inquisitor gives this information: The King's Box, no receipts; Mr Hayles' boxes, #3 (probably 15 spectators); Mr Mohun's boxes, #1 12s. (probably 8 spectators); Mr Yeats' boxes, 12s. (probably 3 spectators); James' boxes, #2 (probably 10 spectators). Mr Kent's pitt, 82 spectators, and Mr Britan's pitt, 35 spectators, a total of 117, paying #14 12s. 6d. Mr Bracy's gallery, 42 spectators; and Mr Johnson's gallery, 21 spectators; a total of 63 spectators, who paid #4 14s. 6d. Mr Thomson's gallery, 33 spectators, paying #1 13s. The total attendance appears to have been 249; the receipts were #28 4s. The house rent came to #5 14s. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 11) gives a cast which is identical except for omissions

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Mainpiece Title: All For Love; Or, The World Well Lost

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Mainpiece Title: The History Of Timon Of Athens, The Man-hater

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Mainpiece Title: The Conspiracy; Or, The Change Of Government

Related Works
Related Work: The Conspiracy Author(s): Robert Jephson

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

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Mainpiece Title: The Sicilian Usurper