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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "William King"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "William King")') 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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15934 results for: Keyword - William King
We found 11052 matches on Author, 4080 matches on Performance Comments, 2683 matches on Performance Title, 1977 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

15301
15 April 1721 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Music by Ariosti, Bononcini, Handel. Text by P. A. Rolli.] Admission as 19 Nov. 1720. De Fabrice to Flemming, 21 April (in Deutsch, Handel, p. 126): The Princess of Wales was safely delivered of a son last Saturday. The news was taken to the King by Lord Herbert during...Mutius Scevola, where there was a particularly large audience on account of its being the first performance. The audience celebrated the event with loud applause and huzzas. Each act of this opera is by a different composer, -the first by a certain Pipo, the second by Bononcini, and the third by Hendell, who easily triumphed over the others

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mutius Scaevola

15302
02 May 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Thurmond, the Dancing-Master. At the Desire of the Two Princes, Brothers to the King of Delago in Africa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Dance:

15303
03 May 1721 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 19 Nov. 1720. The King present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mutius Scaevola

15304
18 May 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Denoye. By His Majesty's Command. Written by the late Mr Dryden.[The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Dance:

15305
26 May 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Heron and Mrs Seale. At the Desire of the Two Princes, Brothers to the King of Delago in Africa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Dance:

15306
01 June 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit King, the Boxkeeper. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Dance:

15307
02 June 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mr Hodgson, formerly a Comedian in the King's Company. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by Row, late Poet Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Dance:

15308
26 January 1722 @ Westminster School

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eunuchus

Performance Comment: The King's Scholars.

15309
25 April 1722 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 9 Dec. 1721, King and Prince present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Floridante

15310
09 May 1722 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 9 Dec. 1721. The King, Prince and Princess present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Griselda

15311
05 September 1722 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At the Angel Tavern, next Door to the King's Bench: Miller is not with Penkethman, but by himself. A New Droll

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Faithful Couple; Or, The Royal Shepherdess

Entertainment: Between Old Hob and his Wife, Comical Humours of Mopsey and Collin-

15312
27 October 1722 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Advertised in Daily Courant, 25 Oct., but not later; in Daily Courant, 27 Oct., it is listed only for Wednesday 31. Yet Daily Journal, 29 Oct., states that the King was present this night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mutius Scaevola

15313
22 January 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 7 Nov. 1722. The King, Prince and Princess present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

15314
28 January 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Fryar, who has played but once since the days of King Charles, and taught three Queens to Dance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Half Pay Officers

Afterpiece Title: Hob's Wedding

Dance: The Bashful Country Maid, Irish Trot-Peggy Fryar

15315
06 April 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Original Weekly Journal, 6 April: We are told that the Italian Singers at our Opera, to the Number of five, of whom two are Eunuchs, have obtain Permission from the King of France...to go over thither in July next, for the Theatre, and a Gratuity of 35,000 Livres

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Erminia

15316
18 May 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: The King present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Flavius

15317
02 September 1723 @ Richmond

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. At Penkethman's Theatre. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Afterpiece: a diverting Droll. Box Tickets at Penkethman's House in Richmond. Daily Post, 5 Sept.: Mr Penkethman...had the Honour to divert their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, with Entertainments of Acting and Tumbling perform'd to Admiration; Likewise with his Picture of the Royal Family, down from the King of Bohemia to the young Princesses, in which is seen the Nine Muses playing on their several Instruments, in Honour of that August Family. There were present Nobility, Gentry and Ladies upwards of 200

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyramus And Thisbe

Afterpiece Title: The Blind Beggar of Bednal Green; or, The Woman Never Vex'd

Music: Concerto on small Flute-John Baston

Dance: Several surprizing Entertainments of Rope Dancing-a Young Lad lately come from France, who flourishes the Colours, plays on the Violin, and turns several Times on the Rope without a Pole; Ladder Dancing-the greatest Performer in the World, who stands on the Top Round of the Ladder, drinks a Glass of Wine, with his other Hand above his Head in the Middle of the Stage; Dancing , both Serious and Comic,-Monsieur De Long Dents, Monsieur De Long Dents'@two@children , just arrived from Paris; To which will be added, Variety of Tumbling-Mons Tollard, others, just arrived from Madrid

15318
04 December 1723 @ King's Arms Tavern

Event Comment: At the King's Arms Tavern near Temple Bar. At the Desire of several Gentlemen in the Neighbourhood. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medley

Related Works
Related Work: The Triumphant Widow; or, The Medley of Humours Author(s): William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle

Entertainment: Comical Songs-; The Drunken Man-

15319
05 March 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. No Persons to be admitted into the Boxes, or behind the Scenes, but by printed tickets at 5s. Two Benches of the Pit to be rail'd in, at the Price of the Boxes. [The King and the Prince and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Booth, Mrs Younger

15320
16 May 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit King, Boxkeeper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Hob

15321
13 November 1724 @ Westminster School

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adelphi

Performance Comment: The King's Scholars; With an Epilogue-.

15322
11 January 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: TThe King, Prince and Princess of Wales present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rodelinda

15323
15 January 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by Haym.] Admission as 30 Nov. 1725. The King and the three Princesses present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elisa

15324
08 February 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: TThe King, Prince and Princess of Wales present. Universal Mercury, February 1726: Mr Handel had the Satisfaction of seeing an old Opera of his not only fill the House, which had not been done for a considerable time before, but People crowding so fast to it, that above 300 were turn'd away for want of room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

15325
08 March 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: TThe King, Prince and Princess of Wales, and the young Princesses present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho