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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "W Shakespear"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "W Shakespear")') 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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2383 results for: Keyword - W. Shakespear
We found 1297 matches on Performance Comments, 1178 matches on Event Comments, 38 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1301
22 January 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Related Works
Related Work: Hamlet Author(s): William Shakespeare

1302
07 January 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Related Works
Related Work: Othello Author(s): William Shakespeare

1303
18 January 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Related Works
Related Work: Othello Author(s): William Shakespeare

1304
02 October 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth; With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Related Works
Related Work: King Henry the Fourth: With the Humours of Sir John Falstaff Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Henry the Fourth, Part I Author(s): William Shakespeare

1305
13 October 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by Shakespear. With all the Decorations proper to the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mackbeth

1306
20 October 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar: With The Death Of Brutus And Cassius

1307
19 November 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these Eight Years. Written by Shakespear. Containing, the Death of the Duke of Buckingham. The Fall of Cardinal Wolsey. The Divorce, and Death of Queen Catherine. The Coronation of Queen Anne Bullen, and the Christning of Queen Elizabeth. With Decorations proper to the Play. [The Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Related Works
Related Work: Henry The Eighth Author(s): William Shakespeare

1308
01 December 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Related Works
Related Work: Othello Author(s): William Shakespeare

1309
26 December 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. Description as 19 Nov

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Related Works
Related Work: Henry The Eighth Author(s): William Shakespeare

1310
14 January 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: His Royal Highness's Command. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mackbeth

1311
01 February 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mackbeth

1312
21 February 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Related Works
Related Work: Henry The Eighth Author(s): William Shakespeare

1313
04 March 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command. Written by Shakespear. [The Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Related Works
Related Work: Henry The Eighth Author(s): William Shakespeare

1314
11 April 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Husband. With all the Original Musick, Scenes, Machines, Habits and Dances proper to the Play. N.B. That Night (only) the Front of the Gallery will be adorn'd with the Original Pictures of several of our most celebrated Poetsv, particularly those who have been most excellent in the Dramatick Way, as Shakespear, Ben. Johnson, Fletcher, Dryden, &c. together with that of our English Orpheus, the late Mr Henry Purcell. Receipts: money #52 9s.; tickets #43 16s. See also The Censor, No. 73 (9 April) and No. 75 (13 April)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

1315
27 April 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Bickerstaff. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Related Works
Related Work: Julius Caesar Author(s): William Shakespeare

Song: As17170204

Dance: As17161210

1316
02 May 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Ryan. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Related Works
Related Work: Othello Author(s): William Shakespeare

Song: As17170204

Dance: As17161210

1317
21 May 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Prince. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part I

Related Works
Related Work: King Henry the Fourth: With the Humours of Sir John Falstaff Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Henry the Fourth, Part I Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Henry ye Fourth, Part II Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Henry the Sixth: The First Part, With The Murder of Humphrey Duke of Glocester Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: The Misery of Civil War Author(s): William Shakespeare

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1318
24 May 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Walker. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Related Works
Related Work: Henry The Eighth Author(s): William Shakespeare

Dance: Mrs Bicknell, Miss Younger

1319
13 August 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these Fifteen Years [but see dl 17 Nov. 1704]. Written by Shakespear. Revis'd with Alterations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Titus Andronicus; Or, The Rape Of Lavinia

Related Works
Related Work: Titus Andronicus; or, The Rape of Lavinia Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Titus Andronicus Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Song: Sally, as17170806

1320
16 August 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. Revis'd with Alterations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Titus Andronicus

Related Works
Related Work: Titus Andronicus; or, The Rape of Lavinia Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Titus Andronicus Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Song: Sally, as17170806

1321
28 September 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. At 6 p.m. Post Boy, 28 Sept.: We hear that last Week Mr Rich made an Assignment of the New Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, and his Patent granted by King Charles II to Mr Keene and Mr Bullock jun. and that they open on Saturday next, with a celebrated Play of Shakespear's call'd, Cimbiline, which will be entirely new dress'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Related Works
Related Work: Hamlet Author(s): William Shakespeare

1322
05 October 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. Summary of incidents advertised

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Viii

Related Works
Related Work: Henry The Eighth Author(s): William Shakespeare

1323
05 October 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Not acted these Twenty Years. Written by Shakespear, and since revis'd with several Alterations. The whole Play being new dress'd. N.B. The Play will begin exactly at Six a-Clock. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 5 Oct., reports a rumor that J. J. Heidegger has sent to France to recruit a set of comedians to act French plays at the king's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cimbeline; Or, The Fatal Wager

Related Works
Related Work: Cymbeline Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: The Injured Princess; or, The Fatal Wager Author(s): William Shakespeare

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Cook, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Schoolding, Miss Smith

1324
08 October 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. With all the Music, Dances, and other Decorations proper to the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mackbeth

1325
09 October 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear, and since revis'd with several Alterations. The whole Play being new dress'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cimbeline

Related Works
Related Work: Cymbeline Author(s): William Shakespeare

Dance: As17171005