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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "William Shakespear"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "William 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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12529 results for: Keyword - William Shakespear
We found 10791 matches on Author, 1683 matches on Performance Comments, 1329 matches on Event Comments, 57 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

151
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

152
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

153
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

154
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

155
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

156
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

157
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: The Siege of Rhodes, Part I Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Related Work: The Siege of Rhodes, Part II Author(s): Sir William Davenant
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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158
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

159
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

Related Works
Related Work: The Stage Coach Opera Author(s): William Chetwood

Song: Sally, as17170806

160
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

Related Works
Related Work: The Stage Coach Opera Author(s): William Chetwood

Song: Sally, as17170806

161
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

162
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

163
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

164
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

165
22 October 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

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

166
25 October 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear, and since revis'd with several Alterations. Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s. Benefit John and Christopher Rich. Receipts. #61 8s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cimbeline

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

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Doctor; or, The Intriguing Dame

Dance: duPre, Mlle Gautier, from the Opera at Paris, being the first time of her appearing upon the English Stage

167
30 November 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear, and since revis'd with several Alterations. A new comedy, The Artful Wife, announced for this day, is deferred to 3 Dec

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cimbeline

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

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Doctor

Song: Ray

Dance: As17171022

168
31 December 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Related Works
Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): William ShakespeareSir William Davenant

169
03 January 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit J. and Ch. Rich. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Afterpiece: A New Dramatick Entertainment of Vocal and Instrumental Musick after the Italian Manner, in Grotesque Characters. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: #56 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Related Works
Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): William ShakespeareSir William Davenant

Afterpiece Title: The School of Folly

Dance: Dances for the afterpiece composed by DuPre-DuPre, Boval, Cook, Pelling, Cook Jr, Newhouse, Mlle Gautier, Mrs Schoolding, Mlle Corail, Miss Schoolding Jr

170
08 February 1718 @ 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

171
17 April 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit F. Leigh. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

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

Dance: As17180318

172
23 April 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Corey and Ogden. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cimbeline

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

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Executed

Dance: As17171022

173
01 August 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: As it was alter'd from Shakespear by Sir Wm. Davenant and the late Mr Dryden, Poets Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Related Works
Related Work: The Tempest Author(s): William ShakespeareSir William Davenant
Related Work: The Tempest; or, The Enchanted Island Author(s): Sir William Davenant

174
20 September 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

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

175
30 September 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Viii

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