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9969 results for: Keyword - The king
We found 10005 matches on Roles/Actors, 2634 matches on Performance Title, 2610 matches on Performance Comments, 1593 matches on Event Comments, and 23 matches on Author.

1551
24 August 1749 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of King John

Cast
Role: King John Actor: Redman
Role: Gormandize Simple the Hungarian Footman Actor: Yates
Role: Dorothy Squeezepurse the wanton Chambermaid Actor: Miss Hippisley

Afterpiece Title: The Adventures of Sir Lubberly Lackbrains

Cast
Role: Mordecai the Jew Actor: Massey

1552
11 October 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

1553
21 November 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

1554
24 November 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar, With The Deaths Of Brutus And Cassius

Performance Comment: Brutus-Quin; Cassius-Ryan; Caesar-Sparks; Caska-Ridout; Trebonius-Anderson; Metellus-Bransby; Decius Brutus-Elrington; Lepidus-Bencraft; Antony-Barry; Octavius-Gibson; Caius Ligarius-Usher; Cinna-Redman; Publius-Roberts; Plebeians-Collins, Dunstall, Stoppelaer, Barrington, Arthur, others; Calphurnia-Mrs Bambridge; Portia-Mrs Woffington.
Cast
Role: Plebeians Actor: Collins, Dunstall, Stoppelaer, Barrington, Arthur, others

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

1555
26 November 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Cast
Role: Plebeians Actor: Collins, Dunstall, Stoppelaer, Barrington, Arthur, others

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

Dance: As17500926

1556
27 November 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Cast
Role: Plebeians Actor: Collins, Dunstall, Stoppelaer, Barrington, Arthur, others

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

Dance: As17500926

1557
05 December 1750 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [[No General Advertiser for this day. Information from the Winston MS 7.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

Dance: [As17500926

1558
10 December 1750 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years [see 24 Jan. 1747]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not; Or, The Kind Imposter

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

Dance: As17500926

1559
22 December 1750 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Being the last time of the company's Performing till the Christmas Holidays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distress'd Mother

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

Dance: A Tambourin-Jardin; Grand Scots Ballet, as17500926

1560
03 January 1751 @ Covent Garden

Performances

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

Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

Dance: TTambourin-Jardin; Grand Scots Ballet, as17500926

1561
12 January 1751 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distress'd Mother

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

Dance: As17500926

1562
04 February 1751 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distress'd Mother

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Performance Comment: As17510103, but Peggy-Miss Haughton; otherwise the full cast of 17 Nov. 1750. otherwise the full cast of 17 Nov. 1750.
Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

1563
16 February 1751 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

Dance: As17500926

1564
11 April 1751 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Sparks. Tickets deliver'd out for The Fair Penitent 28 March will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: As17501105, but Axalla-Gibson; Selima-_; song To Thee O! Gentle Sleep-_.

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

1565
04 May 1751 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Froment, Gardner, Page (Housekeeper) and Mad Cointrie. Tickets deliver'd by Goodall, Rawlins, Goodwin, and the Widow Dupre will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

Dance: I: La Paisane, as17510426 III: Scotch Dance-Froment, Mlle Heutte; End of Play: Louvre and Minuet-Froment, Mlle Heutte

1566
14 May 1751 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Driscol, Banks, Barnard, Miss Davis, and Trott (Lobby Doorkeeper). Tickets deliver'd by Mlle Huette, Mrs Hanmeuze, Mrs Griffith will be taken. Tomorrow the Fair Penitent and on Friday Romeo and Juliet, being the last time of the Company's performing this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

Dance: As17510511

1567
25 October 1751 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

Dance: GGrand Dutch Dance, as17511021

1568
16 December 1751 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [See 15 March 1750.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved; Or, A Plot Discovered

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

Dance: GGrand Comic Ballet-Grandchamps, Mad Camargo

1569
03 February 1752 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant; Or, The Beggar's Bush

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

Dance: GGrand Comic Ballet, as17511216

1570
22 December 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This day at noon will be published at 6d. A Letter to Mr Henry Woodward, Comedian, occasioned by his letter to the Inspector. by Simon Partridge, the facetious Cobbler of Pall Mall, and son to the late Mr Partridge, famous for his dispute with Isaac Bickerstaff. "Barbarian to attack, a chymist, Critick, Journalist, and Quack" (Anon). Printed for H. Jeffrey in Pope's Head Alley, Cornhill. [Another mock defense of Hill, casting opprobrium on him in the manner of the eightenth-century bully boys of the bathroom. A second edition of Sampson Edwards' Letter to Woodward appeared this day. See Comment, 9 Dec.] Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: King Actor: Winstone

Dance: TThe Italian Gardeners, as17521221; Le Matelot Basque, as17521005

1571
06 January 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tragical History Of King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Buckingham Actor: Sparks

Afterpiece Title: [The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: [(BBy Desire )Grand Scots Ballet, as17521216

1572
08 October 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

Dance: Grandchamps, Madem Camargo

1573
20 October 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: With a Country Dance Actor: the characters of the opera.

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

Dance: Cooke, Miss Hilliard

1574
15 November 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

1575
08 December 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: the vocal parts Actor: Lowe, Howard, Legg, Baker, Roberts, Mrs Lampe, Miss Young, Mrs Chambers

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson