SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Ackman Public Advertiser This day only Paid Mr C "/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Ackman Public Advertiser This day only Paid Mr C ")') 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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Mainpiece Title: The Bondman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rollo Duke Of Normandy

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Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

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Mainpiece Title: The Chances

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Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

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Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

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Mainpiece Title: The Mad Lover

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Mainpiece Title: The Maid In The Mill

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118. Langbaine (English Dramatic Poets, p. 477): This Play has been received with Success (as I said) in our Time; and as I remember, the deceas'd Mr Lacy acted Jonny Thump, Sir Gervase Simple's Man, with general Applause

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Mainpiece Title: Love In A Maze

Event Comment: Some time (probably not long) before this date Aglaura [by Sir John Suckling] was acted by the King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Thence to Mr Wotton, the shoemaker's, and there bought a pair of boots, cost me 30s., and he told me how Bird hath lately broke his leg, while he was fencing in Aglaura, upon the stage, and that the new theatre of all will be ready against term

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Mainpiece Title: An Unidentified Play

Event Comment: This was probably acted by the King's Company, which acted the play several times in 1660-61. Pepys, Diary: At White Hall by appointment, Mr Creed carried my wife and I to the Cockpitt, and we had excellent places, and saw the King, Queen, Duke of Monmouth, his son, and my Lady Castlemaine, and all the fine ladies; and The Scornfull Lady, well performed. They had done by eleven o'clock

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Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

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Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: Mr Moore and I to Love in a Tubb, which is very merry, but only so by gesture, not wit, at all, which methinks is beneath the House

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Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge Or Love In A Tub

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This play was apparently not printed. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 26): Wrote by Mr Holden. Pepys, Diary: Being called by my wife, we all to a play, The Ghosts, at the Duke's house, but a very simple play

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Mainpiece Title: The Ghosts

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Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge Or Love In A Tub

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love Or The Maiden Queen

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary I home to dinner, where Mr Pierce dined with us, who tells us what troubles me, that my Lord Buckhurst hath got Nell Gwin? away from the King's house, lies with her, and gives her #100 a year, so as she hath sent her parts to the house, and will act no more. And yesterday Sir Thomas Crew told me that Lacy lies a-dying of the pox

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Event Comment: At Mr Croome's, at the Sign of the Shoe and Slap, near the Hospital Gate in West Smithfield, is to be seen, The Wonder of Nature, A Girl, above Sixteen Years of Age, born in Chesire, and not above Eighteen Inches long, having shed the Teeth seven several Times, and not a perfect Bone is any part of her, only the Head; yet she hath all senses to Admiration, and Discourses, Reads very well, Sings, Whistles, and all very pleasant to hear. Sept. 4, 1667. God Save the King. (Henry Morley, Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair, p. 189)

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Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Eighth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tartuffe Or The French Puritan