SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "E L"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "E L")') 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 509 matches on Event Comments, 313 matches on Performance Comments, 234 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

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Mainpiece Title: Londons Triumph Presented In Severall Delightfull Scaenes

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Mainpiece Title: The Indian Queen

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Boswell (Restoration Court Stage, p. 282) thinks that this play given on the L. C. lists--see Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346--between 29 Oct. and 6 Nov., may have been acted on this day. See also an order for supplies for the comedians acting at court in Alwin Thaler, Shakespear to Sheridan, p. 290. Pepys, Diary: I to White Hall, where I staid walking up and down till night, and then got almost into the playhouse, having much mind to go and see the play at Court this night; but fearing how I should get nome, because of the bonefires and the lateness of the night to get a coach, I did not stay

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Mainpiece Title: Mustapha

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Worse And Worse

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Mainpiece Title: The Adventures Of Five Hours

Event Comment: The King's Company. In L. C. 5@139, p. 129, the play is given on one list as The Silent Woman on another list for the same day, The Scornful Lady. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 343

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Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Performance Comment: . the cast may be that in Downes (p. 6): Elder Loveless-Burt; Younger Loveless-Kynaston; Welford-Hart; Sir Roger-Lacy; The Lady-Mrs Rebecca? Marshal; Martha-Mrs Rutter; Abigail-Mrs Corey.
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Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Rebecca? Marshal

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

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Mainpiece Title: The Villain

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Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love Or The Maiden Queen

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Mainpiece Title: The English Princess Or The Death Of Richard The Third

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Mainpiece Title: The Humourous Lovers

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Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge Or Love In A Tub

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Mainpiece Title: Secret Love Or The Maiden Queen

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Mainpiece Title: Bartholomew Fair

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Mainpiece Title: The Wits

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Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lovers

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Mainpiece Title: The Schoole Of Complements

Performance Comment: [Love Tricks, by James Shirley.] Edition of 1667: The Prologue-; [No actors' names. Epilogue-. [As it is now Acted by His Royal Highnesse the Duke of York's Servants at the Theatre in Little Lincolns Inn Fields.As it is now Acted by His Royal Highnesse the Duke of York's Servants at the Theatre in Little Lincolns Inn Fields.

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Mainpiece Title: The Committee

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Mainpiece Title: Auglaura

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Mainpiece Title: The Country Captain

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Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Rhodes

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. It is not certain this is the first performance, but it may well have been. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@139, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346. Pepys, Diary: Sir W. Pen and I to the Duke's house, where a new play. The King and Court there: the house full, and an act begun. And so went to the King's. Downes (p. 28): Sir Martin Marral, The Duke of New-Castle, giving Mr Dryden a bare translation of it, out of a Comedy of the Famous French Poet Monseur Moleire: He adapted the Part purposely for the Mouth of Mr Nokes, and curiously Polishing the whole....All the Parts being very Just and Exactly perform'd, specially Sir Martin and his Man, Mr Smith, and several others since have come very near him, but none Equall'd, nor yet Mr Nokes in Sir Martin: This Comedy was Crown'd with an Excellent Entry. In the Last Act at the Mask, by Mr Priest and Madam Davies; This, and Love in a Tub, got the Company more Money than any preceding Comedy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Feignd Innocence Or Sir Martin Marall