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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Dr Staggins"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Dr Staggins")') 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 383 matches on Event Comments, 361 matches on Performance Comments, 233 matches on Performance Title, 23 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Andrew Marvell to William Popple, 24 July. Scaramuccio acting dayly in the Hall at Whitehall, and all Sorts of People flocking thither, and paying their Money as at a common Playhouse; nay even a twelve-penny Gallery is builded for the convenience of his Majesty's poorer Subjects (Marvell's Works, ed. H. M. Margoliouth, [Oxford, 1927], II, 320). For a warrant to Nicholas Staggins for writing "a chaccon" for "Scaramoucha" see Boswell, Restoration Court Stage, p. 122

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Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359: Augustus Caesar. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346. The music for a song in act I, scene I, was composed by Nicholas Staggins, and printed in Choice Ayres and Songs, The Second Book, 1679. There is no certainty that this was the premiere, but it may well have been. The play was entered in the Term Catalogues, May 1676

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Mainpiece Title: Gloriana; Or, The Court Of Augustus Caesar

Event Comment: L. C. 5@142, p. 38 (see also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 355): Order to Mr Staggins, Master of his Majesty's Musick, and in his absence to Mr Lock, who officiates for him:--That all His Majesty's musitians doe attend to practise in the theatre at Whitehall at such tymes as Madam Le Roch and Mr Paisible shall appoint for ye practiceing of such musick as is to be in ye French comedy to be acted before His Matie [the 29 May]

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Mainpiece Title: The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: As17790610

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Mainpiece Title: The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

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Mainpiece Title: The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: As17780615

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Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Quacks; or, Love's the Physician

Dance: IV: Dance-Muilment

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Mainpiece Title: Cure Of The Spleen; Or, Shuter's Warehouse

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Mainpiece Title: The Triumph Of Truth 0

Afterpiece Title: Triumph of Truth 1

Afterpiece Title: Triumph of Truth 2

Afterpiece Title: Triumph of Truth 3

Music: As17890311

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Faustus; or, The Devil will have his Own

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts-Johnstone, Incledon, Bowden, Townsend, Rock, Linton, Blurton, Abbot, Street, Miss Poole, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Clendining, Miss Hopkins, Mrs Henley, Miss Stuart, Mrs Arnold, Mrs Watts, Miss Leserve, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Bayzand, Mrs Blurton, Mrs Masters, Mrs Martyr

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Entertainment: Divine Musick in Praise of Religion and Vertue-; both Vocal and instrumental, with new Anthems compos'd by Mr Blow; an Oration by Mr Collier; Pieces by Mr Tate, her Majesty's Poet Laureat. The edition of 1702 lists: The Introductory Poem Upon the Reformation of Poetry-Mr Tate Poet-Laureat to her Majesty; The First Anthem-, Compos'd by Dr Blow, and Sung in Westminster-Abbey, at Her Majesty's Coronation; The Oration-J. Collier/M.A.; The Second Anthem, Compos'd by Dr Blow: Te Deum Laudamus-; A Poem in Praise of Virtue- , Written by Mr Tate

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Mainpiece Title: The Author's Farce; With The Pleasures Of The Town

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Mainpiece Title: The Author's Farce

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

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Mainpiece Title: The Mother-in-law; Or, The Doctor The Disease

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Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: Devisse, Ferrere, Mlle Auretti

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Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Song: Lowe

Dance: As17541203

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Mainpiece Title: Judith

Music: A Concerto on the Organ-

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Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast

Afterpiece Title: Beauty and Virtue

Music: I: Concerto on Violincello-Siprutini; II: Concerto on German Flute-Florio

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Mainpiece Title: The Cure Of Saul

Music: The Orchestra to be led by-Sg Giardini; Between acts: a Concerto on the Violin, Concerto on the violincello by Cervetto-Sg Giardini

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Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Brave Irishman

Entertainment: II: The Paraphrase of Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man-King

Dance: End: As17700428

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Mainpiece Title: Concerto Spirituale; Judas Maccabaeus

Music: First Violin, as17760223; After I: Concerto on German Flute, as17760223; End II: Concerto on Violin-Lamotte

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Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: A Fete The Fete Anticipated

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch Of Bacon

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Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

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Mainpiece Title: Love In A Veil

Afterpiece Title: Jewish Education

Afterpiece Title: The Quacks; or, The Credulous Man

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17840311athi

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Mainpiece Title: Turk, And No Turk

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague