SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(perftitleclean,performancetitle) "Pericles, Prince Of Tyre" | "Pericles" | "Othello" | "Othello, Moor Of Venice" | "The Moore Of Venice" | "The Merry Wives Of Windsor" | "Hamlet" | "Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark" | "Hamlet Prince Of Denmark" | "Twelfth Night" | "Or, What You Will" | "Twelfth Night Or What You Will" | "Romeo And Juliet" | "A Midsummer Night\'s Dream" | "King Lear" | "Henry V" | "King Henry V" | "King Henry The Fifth" | "Henry The Fourth, Part I" | "1 Henry IV" | "I Henry IV" | "The Winters Tale" | "King John" | "Richard II" | "Richard The Second" | "The Two Gentlemen Of Verona" | "The Gentlemen Of Verona" | "Loves Labour Lost" | "The Merchant Of Venice" | "As You Like It" | "Alls Well Yt Ends Well" | "All\'s Well That Ends Well" | "Henry Ye Fourth, Part II" | "2 Henry IV" | "Henry Iv Part Ii" | "Coriolanus" | "Andronicus" | "Julius Caesar" | "Julius Caesar: With The Death Of Brutus And Cassiu" | "Anthony And Cleopatra" | "Antony And Cleopatra" | "The Comedy Of Errors" | "The Comoedy Of Errors" | "Richard III" | "Richard The Third" | "Henry VIII" | "Henry The Eighth" | "Much Ado About Nothing" | "Cymbeline" | "Cimbeline" | "Cimbeline Or The Fatal Wager" | "Measure For Measure" | "The Taming Of The Shrew" | "The Tameing Of Ye Shrew" | "The Tempest" | "Titus Andronicus" | "Troilus And Cressida" | "Macbeth" | "Timon Of Athens")') 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 'William Shakespeare', but also performances of associated titles, including adaptations.

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Mainpiece Title: I Rivali Delusi

Dance: End of Act I a New Divertissement, in which the 3 different Stiles of Dancing, viz., Serious, Demicharacter and Comic, by Lepicq, Mme Rossi, Sg and Sga Angiolini, with a Dance performed in Wooden Shoes by Nivelon, Frederic, Mlle Dorival; End of Opera a new Pastoral Ballet in 2 parts, composed by Gardel Sen., Ballet-master to the French Court, A la Plus Sage; ou, La Vertu Ricompensk, by Lepicq, Mme Rossi, Frederic, Sga Angiolini, Zuchelli, Henry, Mme Bithmer, Nivelon, Mlle Dorival

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus

Music: End of Part 1 concerto on the hautboy by Parke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fox

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Dance: End of mainpiece a new Comic Dance by Mills and the Miss Stageldoirs

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Pittore Parigino

Dance: End of Act I Divertissement, as17850224; End of Opera The Deserter, as17850226

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Music: End of Part I concerto on the Piano Forte ["the sixth concerto of Schroeter's last set [i.e. Op. V]" (London Magazine, Mar. 1785, p. 217)] by Miss Parke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Nitteti

Dance: End of Act I Divertissement, as17850224; End of Opera an entirely new Ballet (composed by Lepicq; the music by Gluck); Convitato di Pietra by Lepicq, Mme Rossi, Sg and Sga Angiolini, Frederic, Nivelon, Mlle Dorival, in which a Pas de Trots; the Orchestra accompanied on the harp by Cardon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece Hornpipe by Miss Besford (of CG)

Monologue: 1785 03 15 End of mainpiece Shuter's Post-haste Observations in a journey to Paris by Dutton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: End of Part I solo on the violin by Master Flack (1st performance in public)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: End of mainpiece The Rival Nymphs, as17841006, but omitted: Byrne, Ratchford

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Curioso Indiscreto

Dance: End of Act I New Divertissement, as17850303End of Opera; Convitato di Pietra, as17850312athi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Song: End of mainpiece The Soldier Tir'd of War's Alarms by Miss Phillips

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece a Hunting Cantata; In afterpiece A Soldier for Me, both by Mrs Wrighten

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Finta Principessa

Dance: End of Act I A La Plus Sage, as17850303End of Opera Il Convitato di Pietra, as17850312athi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece Hornpipe by Miss Besford; After 2nd song, The Mountaineers, as17841201

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece The Sorrows of Charlotte at the Tomb of Werter (the music composed by Percy, and never before sung in public) sung in character by Miss Wheeler; End of mainpiece The Soldier tir'd of War's Alarms by Miss Wheeler

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Curioso Indiscreto

Dance: End of Act I an entirely new Ballet, L'Amour Soldat, in which a new Minuet and Gavot by Mlle Dorival and Lepicq, and in the second part of the ballet a Pas de Deux [Trois?] by Mlle Dorival in Man's Cloaths, Lepicq, Mme Rossi; End of Opera Don Juan; or, The Libertine Destroyed [performers not listed; this was perhaps another version of Il Convitato di Pietra(see17850312

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Related Works
Related Work: The Maid in the Mill Author(s): William Rowley

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disguise

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece Hornpipe by Mills; End of mainpiece The Sportsmen's Return, as17840916

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece The Lark, from The Spanish Rivals (composed by [Thomas] Linley [Sen.]) by Miss Phillips

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fashionable Levities

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Related Works
Related Work: The Poor Soldier Author(s): William Shield
Related Work: The Shamrock; or, The Anniversary of St. Patrick Author(s): William Shield

Dance: End of mainpiece Damon and Musidora by Harris and Miss Besford

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beaus Duel Or A Soldier For The Ladies

Related Works
Related Work: The Schemers; or, The City Match Author(s): William Bromfield

Afterpiece Title: The St

Related Works
Related Work: The Union; or, St. Andrew's Day Author(s): William Reeve
Related Work: The Shamrock; or, The Anniversary of St. Patrick Author(s): William Shield
Related Work: Love in a Wood; or, St. James's Park Author(s): William Wycherley

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Monologue: 1785 04 11 End of Act I of mainpiece The History of John Gilpin, the Linen Draper by Baddeley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Women Pleasd

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: In Act IV of mainpiece a song by Mrs Martyr; End of Mainpiece Four and Twenty Fidlers all on a Row by Edwin

Monologue: 1785 04 11 End of Act II of mainpiece A Description of the Curiosities of the Tower of London by Edwin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Fool

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17850307athi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fashionable Levities

Afterpiece Title: The Nunnery

Related Works
Related Work: The Nunnery Author(s): William Pearce

Dance: End of mainpiece Leap Year, as17841022, but Miss Matthews in place of Mrs Goodwin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaserse

Dance: End of Act I Robin Gray, with a set of new Caledonian Reels, by Lepicq, Mme Rossi, Slingsby, and a Pas de Quatre by Nivelon, Frederic, Sga Angiolini, Mlle Dorival; End of Opera The Deserter [performers not listed, but see17850111]

Song: Opera: With some of the most approved Airs of Handel by Babbini, Crescentini, Sga Ferrarese

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Related Works
Related Work: Ramah Droog; or, Wine does Wonders Author(s): William Reeve

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Song: End of mainpiece Awake, AEolean Lyre, a glee composed by Danby (which gained a Prize Medal), by Bannister, Suett, Staunton, Barrymore, Chapman, Williames, Dignum

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant Or The Sick Ladys Cure

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Song: End of 1st piece Stand to your guns, my hearts of oak by Bannister

Monologue: 1785 04 25 End of Act IV of 1st piece, as 11 Apr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Related Works
Related Work: The Deserter Author(s): William Reeve

Dance: End of mainpiece The fancy Races {performers not listed]

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece Tantivy, the welkin resounds (the Music by Hook); End of Act II a new song, The New Blown Rose (the Words by Mrs Cumyns, the Music by Dale), both by Mrs Martyr