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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "queen"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "queen")') 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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3871 results for: Keyword - queen
We found 3495 matches on Roles/Actors, 1118 matches on Performance Comments, 759 matches on Performance Title, 429 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

3076
18 November 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Cast
Role: Queen Elizabeth Actor: Mrs Powell

Afterpiece Title: The Pavilion

3077
26 June 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surrender Of Calais

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Miss Chapman

Afterpiece Title: 'Tis All a Farce

3078
28 December 1694 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Queen Mary died on this day. The theatres were closed until after Easter

Performances

3079
22 November 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens; Or, The Death Of Mary Queen Of Scotland

3080
11 March 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth; With The Divorce Of Queen Katherine, The Fall Of Cardinal Wolsey, And The Birth Of Queen Elizabeth

3081
11 April 1711 @ Stationer's Hall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the best Performers; Particularly several select Entertainments out of the following English Operas: The Fairy Queen, King Arthur, The Indian Queen, Dioclesian, with the Masque in Timon of Athens; all by that great Master the late Mr Henry Purcell-

3082
10 December 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens; Or, The Death Of Mary, Queen Of Scotland

3083
18 November 1714 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albian Queens; With The Death Of Mary Queen Of Scotland

3084
26 December 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens; Or, The Death Of Mary, Queen Of Scotland

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

3085
15 October 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Music: A New Medley Overture, composed by Prelleur

Dance: New Dances adapted to the Opera, particularly A Dance of Court Cards: King of Spades-Ray; Queen of Spades-Mrs Dove; Knave of Spades-Norris; King of Hearts-Presgrave; Queen of Diamonds-Miss Hughes; Knave of Clubs-Hamilton. Other dances by Haughton, Mrs Bullock, Vallois, Mrs Woodward, Le Sac, Mrs Vallois

Song: [In it] the Original Songs, set to Musick by Mr Prelleur, and sung by Kelly, Mrs Chambers, Miss Jones

3086
09 February 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: England Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Sailor; or, Little Bob and Little Ben

Dance: In afterpiece: Triple Hornpipe-Blurton, Mrs Watts, Mlle St.Amand

Song: End: Interlude of Songs, Glees, and Chorusses: With a jolly full Bottle, Great Britain still her Charter boasts, The Wooden Walls, Queen Betty was a famous Queen, To arms to arms-Incledon, Johnstone, Townsend, Linton, Gray, Street, Lee, Curties, Blurton, Wilde

Entertainment: Monologues. Preceding: An Occasional Prologue-Holman; Preceding singing: An Address to the Audience (instead of Epilogue)-Pope

3087
26 January 1664 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Queen

3088
27 January 1664 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: In the way observing the streete full of coaches at the new play, The Indian Queene; which for show, they say, exceeds Henry the Eighth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Queen

3089
28 January 1664 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Queen

3090
02 February 1664 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Queen

3091
03 February 1664 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Queen

3092
04 February 1664 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Queen

3093
05 February 1664 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: I saw acted the Indian Queene a Tragedie well written, but so beautified with rich Scenes as the like had never ben seene here as happly (except rarely anywhere else) on a mercenarie Theater

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Queen

3094
15 May 1665 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Mistress; Or, The Queen's Mask

3095
02 March 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: After dinner, with my wife, to the King's house to see The Mayden Queene, a new play of Dryden's, mightily commended for the regularity of it, and the strain and wit; and, the truth is, there is a comical part done by Nell, which is Florimell, that I never can hope ever to see the like done again, by man or woman. The King and Duke of York were at the play. But so great performance of a comical part was never, I believe, in the world before as Nell do this, both as a mad girle, then most and best of all when she comes in like a young gallant; and hath the motions and carriage of a spark the most that ever I saw any man have. It makes me, I confess, admire her

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love; Or, The Maiden Queen

3096
04 March 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love; Or, The Maiden Queen

3097
05 March 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love; Or, The Maiden Queen

3098
25 March 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse; and by and by comes Mr Lowther and his wife and mine, and into a box, forsooth, neither of them being dressed, which I was almost ashamed of. Sir W. Pen and I in the pit, and there saw The Mayden Queene again; which indeed the more I see the more I like, and is an excellent play, and so done by Nell, her merry part, as cannot be better done in nature, I think

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love; Or, The Maiden Queen

3099
18 April 1667 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists, 5@139, p. 129, and 5@12, p. 17: The Mayden Queene at court. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 343

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love; Or, The Maiden Queen

Performance Comment: The Mayden Queene. See16670302.

3100
23 August 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's house, and saw The Mayden Queene, which pleases us mightily

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love; Or, The Maiden Queen