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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Cross and Wife"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Cross and Wife")') 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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6613 results for: Keyword - Cross and Wife
We found 3047 matches on Event Comments, 2525 matches on Performance Title, 1626 matches on Performance Comments, 110 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1126
17 August 1710 @ Greenwich

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of Esquire Bickerstaff, who will honour Mr Penkethman with his Presence. These Performances will be done between the 1st and 4th Act, by reason Esquire Bickerstaff is oblig'd to be gone when the 3d Act is over. Altho' Mr Penkethman is at an Extraordinary Charge for these Entertainments, besides the Play, yet to oblige his Friends he lets 'em in at Common Prices [as 7 Aug.]. Note, No Subscribers Tickets will pass this Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fond Husband

Cast
Role: Fond Husband Actor: Norris

Entertainment: 1st: turns upon one Foot 300 times-A Young Gentlewoman, who never appear'd on a publick Stage, and as she is turning fixes 12 Swords points about her, 2 to her Eyes, 2 to her Eye-lashes, 2 to her Eye-brows, 2 to her Nose, 2 to her Lips, and 2 to her Breasts

Dance: French Peasant-; Scaramouch-; Wooden Shoe-; Dance by Harlequin Scaramouch Cooper and his Wife-; Ladder Dance-

1127
21 August 1710 @ Greenwich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue

Dance: Italian Night Scene between Scaramouch, Harlequin, Cooper, and Wife-

1128
24 August 1710 @ Greenwich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sea Voyage

Music: A Consort of Musick from London-

Dance: Ladder Dance-; French Peasant and Wife-; Miller's Dance-Leigh

1129
26 August 1710 @ Greenwich

Event Comment: Benefit Penkethman. The Boxes and Pit 2s. 6d., the Boxes being laid open to the Pit. Note, No Subscribers' Tickets to pass this Day. To begin exactly at 5 of the Clock, by reason that the Gentlemen and Ladies that come from London may have time to return home before Night. Note, The Tide happens very luckily for Mr Penkethman's Friends in London: It Ebbs to Greenwich from 10 in the Morning till 6 at Night, flows from 6 in the Evening till 11, it being Moon-light

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Performance Comment: Ned Blunt-the famous true Comedian Mr Cave Underhill, to oblige Mr Penkethman's Friends; Rover-Powell; Belville-Husband; Frederick-Cory; Angelica-Mrs Kent; Helena-Mrs Baker; Florinda-Mrs Shepard; Moretta-Mrs Powell; With an Epilogue-Mr Penkethman on an Ass.
Cast
Role: Belville Actor: Husband

Entertainment: Young Gentlewoman, as17100817; Likewise a Vaulting the Managed Horse-famous Master who never appear'd on the Publick Stage

Dance: Ladder Dance-; French Peasant-; Wooden Shoe-; Harlequin Scaramouch Cooper and Wife-

1130
11 September 1710 @ Greenwich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Wives' Confederacy; Or, The Usurer Outwitted

Song: The Whimsical Country-

Dance: The Whimsical Country Wedding-

1131
21 May 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Libertine Destroy'd

Dance: Dutch Skipper and Wife-

1132
26 June 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Governor Of Barcelona; Or, The Spanish Wives

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

1133
30 August 1711 @ Greenwich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Music: Vocal and instrumental Music-

Dance: The Miller and his Wife-

1134
03 September 1711 @ Greenwich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Dance: Several comic entertainments-; particularly the Night Scene of Scaramouch, Harlequin, the Cooper, Cooper's Wife, other-

1135
12 November 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief; Or, The Husband's Cure

1136
13 November 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief

1137
15 November 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief

1138
16 November 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief

1139
17 November 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief

1140
19 November 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief

1141
20 November 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Henry Cromwell to Alexander Pope, 7 Dec.: We have had a poor comedy of Johnson's (not Ben) which held seven nights, and has got him three hundred pounds, for the town is sharpset on new plays (Pope, I, 136)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief

1142
01 December 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief

1143
14 December 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief

1144
29 December 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief

1145
04 February 1712 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief

1146
19 July 1712 @ Greenwich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Loves Of Baldo And Media

Music: Between the Acts: Concertos-

Dance: Four Scaramouches-; Dutch Skipper-; Miller and his Wife-

1147
12 May 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife Of Bath

1148
14 May 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife Of Bath

1149
15 May 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife Of Bath

1150
09 June 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Epsom Wells

Afterpiece Title: The Merry Wives of Broad Street

Dance: Prince, Mrs Bicknell