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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "William Egerton"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "William Egerton")') 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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12677 results for: Keyword - William Egerton
We found 11031 matches on Author, 1824 matches on Performance Comments, 510 matches on Event Comments, 52 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

11226
06 July 1682 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: BM Egerton 1628, Diary of Edward Southwell: Saw the Morocco Ambassador at the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Omment

11227
27 January 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: Betty

Performance Comment: Both advertised, but BM Egerton 2320 states: Dismist.

11228
13 April 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Butler. [Some uncertainty exists as to whether this performance was given, for Rich's Register does not list it; it is , however, recorded in BM Egerton 2320 .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

11229
26 July 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Election Or Court And Country

Performance Comment: Parts by Mrs Roberts, Mrs Charke, Mrs Egerton, Mrs Talbot, Turbutt, Miss Jones, Jones, Hallam, Woodward, Woodburne, and Este .

11230
13 November 1735 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: No receipts in Egerton 2267. Rich's Register: Dismiss'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Dance: Two Pierrots by Nivelon and Lalauze. Scot's Dance, as17351013 The Faithful Shepherd, as17351003

11231
01 December 1735 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Egerton 2267: Benefit Dupre. Receipts: money #70 14s. 6d.; tickets #77 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

11232
14 June 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets for James taken. Receipts: money #7 9s. 6d.; tickets #46 3s. [Benefit for Marshall, according to Egerton 2267.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Dance: By Glover, Tench, and Miss Rogers

11233
01 September 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Otway. At Common Prices. 6 p.m. N.B. There is a new Passage to the Pit.,. also a large Lobby for the Servants that keep Places. Receipts: #65. Egerton 2320: ye first night of Mr Right's appearance. Cato given out, but cou'd not be play'd, Mrs Cibber not being ready in Maria we cou'd play no Play but the Orphan Mrs Thurmond having left us

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Or The Unhappy Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

11234
03 September 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Beaumont, Fletcher. Egerton 2320: Receipts: #49

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

11235
08 September 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq. Egerton 2320. Receipts: #62. A dam'd stink this Night by a Vaults being Emptied in Vinegar yard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

11236
17 September 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Taken from Plautus, Moliere. Egerton 2320: Receipts: #82. Hamlet Posted for a week but put off upon Mrs Cibber's refusing to do Ophelia for which she was forfeited five pounds--the Miser play'd instead of it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

11237
20 September 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Dryden. Egerton 2320: Receipts: #80. [For a poem on Mrs Roberts' acting the Queen, see London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 26 Sept.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar Or The Double Discovery

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: new Grand Ballet called% The Peasants- Muilment

11238
04 October 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales; [Egerton 2320 : They were greatly Hollow'd. No receipts extant.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

11239
08 October 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Egerton 2320: Receipts: #78. Phaeton posted but the Devil to pay done

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: As17370920

11240
11 October 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Egerton 2320: Receipts: #178. P & Princess greatly hollow'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

11241
13 October 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Afterpiece: Taken from the French of Moliere. Egerton 2320: Receipts: #78

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: As17370920

11242
16 September 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth Part Ii

Performance Comment: Falstaff-Quin; King-Milward; Prince-Mills; Lancaster-Havard; Justice-Boman; Westmoreland-Winstone; York-Wright; Poins-Cross; Bardolph-Ray; Feeble-Woodward; Falstaff's Boy-Miss Cole; Hostess Quickly-Mrs Cross; Doll Tearsheet-Miss Mann; Shallow-Johnson; Silence-Harper [Egerton 2320: Harper's name in for Silence Griffin play'd it]; Pistol-Cibber.
Related Works
Related Work: Henry ye Fourth, Part II Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

11243
24 October 1746 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince and Princess of Wales, but they not there (Egerton 2268). Receipts: #142 15s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

11244
27 October 1746 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Receipts by this night, over and above nightly expenses, succeeded in liquidating the deficit, and the Account Books (Egerton 2268) show an actual balance of #1 12s.] Receipts: #190 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear And His Three Daughters

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

11245
07 November 1746 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Present The Duke, Princess Amelia, and Princess of Hesse (Account Books, Egerton 2268). Receipts: #161 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke

11246
10 November 1746 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Command. Present the Duke, Princess Amelia, and Princess of Hesse. (Account Books, Egerton 2268). Receipts: #178 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

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

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

11247
14 November 1746 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command. Ladies desired to send servants to keep places by three o'clock (General Advertiser). Present the Prince and Princess of Wales (Account Books, Egerton 2268). Receipts: #192 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

11248
25 November 1746 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command (General Advertiser). Present The King, The Duke and The Princess Amelia (Account Books, Egerton 2268). Receipts: #169 4s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

11249
15 December 1746 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Garrick on account #105. (Account Books, Egerton 2268). Receipts: #107 15s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

11250
16 December 1746 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Matthews for his dancing lesson #2 2s. (Account Books, Egerton 2268) Receipts: #125 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent