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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Ambrose Philips"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Ambrose Philips")') 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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1796 results for: Keyword - Ambrose Philips
We found 1001 matches on Author, 702 matches on Performance Comments, 89 matches on Event Comments, 80 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1676
11 April 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not; Or, The Kind Impostor

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

1677
14 April 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: II: Masquerade Dance, as17871107; End: New Divertisement, as17880124

Song: II afterpiece: Ally Croaker in two parts,-Mrs Abington, Johnstone

1678
30 May 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Afterpiece Title: Love and War

Dance: End: a new dance, The Cobler of Castle Dormot-Ratchford, Miller, Mrs Ratchford

1679
04 June 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Ballet: The Wapping Landlady. As17880401

1680
04 October 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: End: The Slave in Love-the young D'Egvilles, Miss DeCamp; In afterpiece: Mock Minuet-R. Palmer, Miss Pope [which was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances]

1681
22 October 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not; Or, The Kind Impostor

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

1682
28 November 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Afterpiece Title: A Bold Stroke for a Wife

Dance: As17880924

1683
26 February 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

1684
05 June 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: End I afterpiece: Highland Reel, as17890527

Song: End II: Poor Jack!, as17890528

Entertainment: Monologue. As17890527

1685
16 June 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Cast
Role: Ambrose Actor: Thomson

Ballet: End: The Wapping Landlady. Jack in Distress-Blurton; Orange Woman-Mrs Watts; Landlady-Mr King

1686
01 December 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: In afterpiece: a Mock Minuet-R. Palmer, Miss Pope

1687
18 February 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not; Or, The Kind Impostor

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan; or, A Peep into the Seraglio

Dance: In afterpiece: Grand Dance-Hamoir, Miss Blanchet, Miss Stageldoir

1688
08 March 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Czar

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Song: III: The Prince unable to conceal his Pain, from Alexander's Feast-Mrs Billington. [This was included, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

1689
16 July 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not; Or, The Kind Impostor

Afterpiece Title: A Merry Sketch of Folly and Fashion

1690
25 October 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not; Or, The Kind Impostor

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

1691
11 April 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: As17901204

1692
02 May 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Afterpiece Title: Alexander the Little; or, The Rival Queans

Dance: End: The Jockies-Ratchford, Platt, Jackson, Mrs Goodwin

Song: End II: song-Incledon; Afterpiece: The Tragedy will be interspersed with Airs, Duets, Glees, composed by Arne, Arnold, Fischer, Dibdin, with a Grand Overture(A Finale, composed by Shield), Triumphal Entry of Alexander-

1693
19 May 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Strangers At Home

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: In afterpiece: a Mock Minuet-R. Palmer, Miss Pope

Song: In course evening: Henry's Cottage Maid-Miss Hagley

1694
01 November 1791 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: End: a Dance-

1695
22 November 1791 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: In II afterpiece: Mock Minuet-R. Palmer, Miss Pope. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Song: As17911119; accompanied upon the Harp-Meyer Jun

1696
01 March 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

1697
09 October 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

Dance: In II afterpiece: a Mock Minuet-R. Palmer, Miss Pope

1698
12 February 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay King John

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

1699
29 October 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

1700
13 August 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: THE DEAD ALIVE