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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(perftitleclean,performancetitle) "The Royal Garland" | "Harlequin Dr Faustus" | "The Portrait" | "The Portrait" | "The Painters Easel" | "Mother Shipton" | "The Weathercock" | "April Day" | "April day" | "The Spanish Barber" | "The Fruitless Precaution" | "The Spanish Barber Or The Fruitless Precaution" | "The Gipsies" | "The Son in Law" | "Fire and Water" | "The Wedding Night" | "The Genius of Nonsense" | "The Dead Alive" | "The Baron Kinkvervankotsdorsprakengatchdern" | "The Agreeable Surprise" | "The Banditti" | "Loves Labyrinth" | "The Banditti Or Loves Labyrinth" | "Harlequin Teague" | "The Giants Causeway" | "Harlequin Teague or The Giants Causeway" | "The Castle of Andalusia" | "The Castle Of Andalusia" | "The Maids the Mistress" | "The Maids The Mistress" | "The Birth Day" | "The Prince of Arragon" | "The Birth Day or The Prince of Arragon" | "Gretna Green" | "GRETNA GREEN" | "Two to One" | "Two To One" | "Hunt the Slipper" | "Peeping Tom" | "A Beggar on Horseback A Dramatic Proverb" | "A Beggar on Horseback" | "Turk and No Turk" | "Turk And No Turk" | "Here and There and Every Where" | "The Siege of Curzola" | "The Siege Of Curzola" | "Inkle and Yarico" | "Inkle And Yarico" | "The Gnome" | "Harlequin Underground" | "The Gnome or Harlequin Underground" | "Ut Pictura Poesis" | "The Enraged Musician" | "The Battle of Hexham" | "Days of Old" | "The Battle of Hexam" | "The Battle Of Hexham Or Days Of Old" | "New Spain" | "Love in Mexico" | "New Spain or Love in Mexico" | "The Basket Maker" | "The Surrender of Calais" | "The Enchanted Wood" | "The Mountaineers" | "The Children in the Wood" | "Harlequin Peasant" | "A Pantomime Rehearsed" | "HARLEQUIN PEASANT or A Pantomime Rehearsed" | "Auld Robin Gray" | "AULD ROBIN GRAY" | "How to be Happy" | "HOW TO BE HAPPY" | "Rule Britannia" | "Britains Glory" | "A Trip to Portsmouth" | "BRITAINS GLORY or A Trip to Portsmouth" | "Zorinski" | "Who Pays the Reckoning" | "Love and Money" | "The Fair Caledonian" | "Love and Money" | "Love and Money or The Fair Caledonian" | "Love and Madness" | "Bannian Day" | "The Shipwreck" | "The Hovel" | "The Irish Legacy" | "The Italian Monk" | "Throw Physick to the Dogs" | "Cambro Britons" | "False and True" | "False And True" | "The Review" | "The Wags of Windsor" | "The Review or The Wags of Windsor")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION

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Results not only include performances of plays known to be by 'Samuel Arnold', but also performances of associated titles, including adaptations.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Dance: I: Miller's Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Morrison; II: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg; III: French Peasants-Leviez, Mrs Walter; IV: Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Dance: I: Pierots-Lalauze, Leviez; II: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg; III: Muilment; IV: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

Music: V: Preamble on Kettle Drums-Master Ferg; with Handel'sWater Musick-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Related Works
Related Work: The Credulous Husband Author(s): Samuel Foote

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Dance: III: Comic Ballet-Muilment, Essex, Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: Grand Ballet-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Dance: I: Peasant-Nivelon; II: Desse; In III: Hornpipe-Vaughan

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Music: As17401119

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Music: As17401119

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Dance: In III: Hornpipe-Vaughan

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Dance: In V: Peasant-Nivelon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Dance: I: La Provencale-Mlle Chateauneuf

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks

Music: A piece of Instrumental Musick- to be perform'd on the Stage

Song: Mr Laroon, Mrs Hughs; particularly a Two/part Song-Mr Laroon, Mrs Hughs compos'd by the late Mr Henry Purcell

Song: Country Farmer's Daughter, Highland Lilt-the Devonshire Girl; The Whip of Dunbyn-Claxton; a new Entry-Mrs Campion, others; A Scotch Dance-Mrs Bicknell; a new Scaramouch Man and Scaramouch Woman-Laferry, Mrs Lucas

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caesar Borgia; Son Of Pope Alexander Vi

Song: Mrs Hodgson; A two/part song-Cook, Davis; Indian Trumpet Song-Davis; Song in Imitation of an Old Woman, Irish Whim-Mrs Willis

Music: A new Set of Airs for the Trumpet Hautboys and Violins composed by Corbett-

Dance: Miss Evans, Clark, Firbank, Firbank's scholar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Northern Lass

Song: In: the Songs new set by Mr Clark-Mrs Cross who both sings and dances several times; Singing in Italian-Mrs Tofts; Leveridge, Hughes, Mrs Lindsey, the new Boy; including comical dialogues, two/part songs-

Dance: Cherrier, Mrs Moss, others; in the play: Mrs Cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and instrumental Music-; with several three/part songs composed by Eccles and performed before the Queen on her birthday-; A Purcell two/part song never printed or performed in public-; Violin solos-a pupil of Gasperini who never performed in public before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and instrumental Music-; including several two/part and three/part songs with a trumpet and other instruments, set by Henry Purcell and Eccles-; Songs-Cook, Davis, the best masters

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks; Or, The Yeoman Of Kent

Song: As17050922; Particularly a two/Part Song compos'd by the late Mr Henry Purcell-

Dance: Cherrier

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew; Or, The Merry Beggars

Song: As17051016; particularly a Purcell two/part song-

Dance: As17051127

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Loyal Subject

Song: Ramondon, the Boy; particularly a two/part song by Purcell-

Music: An extraordinary piece for violin and flute-Gasparini, Paisible

Dance: As17051105

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Song: As17050922; particularly a Purcell two/part song-

Music: As17051105

Dance: Mrs Cross, Mrs Moss, others

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Consisting of Songs for 1, 2, and 3 Voices (particularly those set for the British Apollo)-; besides several full Pieces of Musick for Trumpets, Hautboys, Violins-Mr Dean, Mr Manship, others; Also a Solo of the famous Archangelo Corelli's-Mr Dean, Mr Bulkley; To which will be added, a Two/part Song-Mr Turner, Mr Reading by the late famous Dr Blowe, never yet perform'd in publick

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Dance: Prince, Wade, Birkhead, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Willis

Related Works
Related Work: The Birth Day; or, The Prince of Arragon Author(s): Samuel Arnold

Song: A New Two/part Song-Teno, Rainton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Dance: delaGarde's@Two@Children , who never perform'd on any Stage before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Blind Beggar Of Bednal Green; Or, The Woman Never Vex'd: With The Comical Humour Of Squire Souse Crown And His Man Gudgeon

Dance: Dutch Skipper-Monsieur De Long Dens, Monsieur De Long Dens'@Two@Children , just arrived from Paris

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zenobia

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal; or, The Tars of Old England

Dance: End: Mirth and Jollity-Aldridge, Langrish, Mast. Jackson, Miss Besford

Song: conclude Afterpiece: The Glorious Ninety@Two-