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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Doll Common"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Doll Common")') 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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415 results for: Keyword - Doll Common
We found 198 matches on Event Comments, 149 matches on Performance Comments, 103 matches on Roles/Actors, 9 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Author.

276
06 August 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Leigh and Spiller. At Common Prices. This is the last Time of the Company's Acting this Season

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Song: Oh! London Is A Fine Town-

Dance: Moreau, Cook, Pelling, Newhouse, Mrs Moreau, Miss Smith, Miss Schoolding

277
13 December 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. In which is contain'd, The Storming of the City Corioli, the Overthrow of the Volscians, the Triumph of Coriolanus , His Banishment by the Common Wealth, His Return against Rome, and his Death by the Treachery of Tullus Ausidious . With Scenes, Machines, Truimphal Arches, and other Decorations after the Custom of the Romans

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

278
02 June 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At Common Prices. N.B. Part of the Company will continue to Act two Days in a Week during the Summer Session. Original Weekly Journal, 6 June: A Quarrel happening in Drury-Lane Play-House, betwixt a Gentleman and an Officer, they immediately drew their Swords, and the Latter was wounded in the Arm

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don John; Or, The Libertine Destroy'd

Music: With the Original Shepherd's Musick by the late Henry Purcell-Birkhead, Bowman

279
11 July 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: It seems a very scandalous Interlude, or Play, has been prepar'd for Action at...Lincoln's Inn Fields notwithstanding the Discouragement that was given but a little while since to one of the same Kind; but a proper Authority has put a Stop to such Outrages against Common Decency and Manners.-Weekly Packet, 4-11 July

Performances

280
21 July 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Topham, Birkhead

281
20 April 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

282
24 June 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: With Scenes, Machines, Songs, and Dances proper to the Play. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

283
26 December 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: With Scenes, Machines, Songs, and Dances, proper to the Play. At common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or The Inchanted Island

284
29 December 1721 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Written by Mr C. Shadwell. At Common Prices. Receipts: #39 12s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: The Magician

285
04 January 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At the Request of the Inhabitants of the Town and Corporation of Windsor. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. At common Prices. Receipts: #60 15s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Magician

286
12 June 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: As 3 Jan. At Common Prices. [The opening of the Summer Season.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

287
06 July 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit a Persons distressed by Losses in Trade. Written by the late Mr Dryden. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feigned Innocence; Or, Sir Martin Marall

Dance: Mrs Bullock; A new Harlequin-Miss Lindar; Drunken Scene-Harper

288
07 January 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: As it was alter'd from Shakespear by Sir William D'Avenant and Mr Dryden. With all the Songs, Dances, and other Decorations proper to the Play. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or, The Inchanted Island

289
22 January 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Captives

290
29 October 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: With all the Original Decorations of Rising, Sinking, and Flying. And Dances proper to the Play. At common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lancashire Witches; Or, Teague O'divelly

Music: ll the Witches' Musick-, both Vocal and Instrumental, composed by the late Mr Barret

291
30 October 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As it was alter'd from Shakespear by Sir William D'Avenant and Mr Dryden. With all the Songs, Dances, and other Decorations proper to the Play. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or, The Inchanted Island

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea; or, The Country Wedding

292
31 October 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Otway. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd; Or, A Plot Discover'd

Song: As17241008

293
04 November 1724 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At Common Prices. Receipts: #62 14s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Magician; or, Harlequin a Director

Song: TThree Children on the Ice-

294
06 January 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMist's, 6 Jan.. We hear that in a certain Alley in Wapping during the Holidays the Coronation of Anna Bullenv has been represented by Punch's Company of Actors with very great Applause; and that all that have seen it agree, that they have far excell'd their Brethren of Drury-Lane in the Conduct of that Farce; and, it is the common Opinion, that the wooden Actors have much the best Heads for Theatrical Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don John

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

295
19 August 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of the King of the Cherokees, the Prince, the four Generals, and the young Captain, lately arrived from South Carolina. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

296
25 June 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At Common Prices. 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Music: Select Pieces-

Song: Song-Miss Raftor; accompany'd on the Violin-Charke

297
25 September 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Jovial Crew; or, The Merry Beggars

Dance:

298
30 September 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

299
02 October 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd

300
01 November 1731 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part I

Dance: Eaton, Mrs Tollett, Miss Sandham; particularly a new Comic dance-Eaton, Mrs Tollett