SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Dr Hawksworth"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Dr Hawksworth")') 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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We found 376 matches on Event Comments, 360 matches on Performance Comments, 233 matches on Performance Title, 23 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Song: A new English cantata, The Britannia Compos'd on the Occasion of his Majesty's Happy Arrival in his Dominions-

Music: Several new Pieces of Instrumental Musick-

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Music: The Echo Flute-Paisible

Song: Mrs Barbier

Dance: Mrs Santlow

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple Or A Trip To The Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Dance: As17151122

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Dance: As17181024

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess Or The Generous Portuguese

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Dance: As17181129

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Dance: As17190209

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Song: Mrs Chambers; The Play of Love-Leveridge

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Song: Singing in Italian-Rochetti

Music: Solo on Bass Viol-Sig Chelleri, being the first Time of his appearing on the English Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder Or A Woman Keeps A Secret

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Song: II: The Smiling Hour by Handel-Mrs Storer; III: From Rosie Bowers by Henry Purcel-Mrs Storer

Event Comment: This Night (tho' not so mentioned) was for Dr Hawksworth, who alter'd the play (he is just made a Dr of Law) (Cross). Last time of performing till the Holidays (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With Alterations. Not acted for 20 years. [See 28 April 1747. Some slight alterations were made by Dr Hawksworth (Genest, IV, 478).] The songs of the Interlude will be printed and deliver'd gratis at the Doors. This Day Publish'd Lilliput, a Dramatic Entertainment as it is performed at Drury Lane. Printed for Paul Vaillant, facing Southampton St. in the Strand, 1s. Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon Or The Two Sosias

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Event Comment: Great Alterations in Oroonoko by Dr Hawksworth -Garr: did Or (Cross). Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Event Comment: Last time of performing the Afterpiece this season (playbill). Died of a [lingering?] fever Dr Hawksworth (Winston MS 10). Receipts: #189 6s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Event Comment: Oratorio: Written by the late Dr Hawksworth. Set to music by Stanley. Books of the Oratorio may be had of Mr Condell, in Cross St., Bow St., Covent Garden, and at the theatre the night of the performance. Price 1s. [This night Wm. Kenrick delivered his tenth, and apparently last, lecture on The School of Shakespeare. It was on King Lear, and very little could be said in favor of any of his remarks on the passages he selected...[he closed by] presenting the audience an act from Falstaff's Wedding." Monthly Miscellany (April 1774, p. 191), which had reviewed all of his lectures, had commented upon the increasing popularity of them as evidenced by the numbers attending, and presented an engraving of Kenrick in action before his audience.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of Egypt

Music: As17740218

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: HARLEQUIN AND FAUSTUS or The Devil will have his Own

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus King Of Thebes

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy