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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Edward Harley Jr"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Edward Harley Jr")') 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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3253 results for: Keyword - Edward Harley Jr
We found 1583 matches on Performance Comments, 946 matches on Author, 635 matches on Performance Title, 332 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3076
11 April 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Chrononhotonthologos

Dance: Salomon, Sga Padouana

3077
26 April 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Gray

Afterpiece Title: A Cure for a Scold

3078
17 September 1751 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Escapes of Harlequin

3079
15 May 1754 @ The Chapel at the Foundling's Hospital, or at the Lock Hospital, Hyde Park Corner

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

3080
03 February 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fairies

Dance: CComic Dance-Sabatini, Sga Sabatini, Sabatini jun, his first time

3081
11 February 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

3082
10 December 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: Granier, Leppie, Lucas, Miss Hilliard

3083
27 April 1758 @ The Chapel at the Foundling's Hospital, or at the Lock Hospital, Hyde Park Corner

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

3084
27 October 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

3085
22 September 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comment Continued

3086
25 May 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

3087
18 June 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Dance: As17610616

3088
23 February 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Music: After Interlude: The New Concerto on Harpsichord, as17670212

Dance: HHearts of Oak, as17670212

3089
12 March 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: II: The Lilliputian Camp, as17670227

3090
07 April 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Dance: End: The Vintage, as17661011

Entertainment: LLinco's Travels, as17670406(by Desire)

3091
14 May 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dido

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Dance: End: The Lilliputian Camp, as17670227

3092
01 June 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: III: The Wake-the Giorgis

3093
30 May 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies' Frolick

Dance: The Medley-Scholars of Giorgi

3094
02 June 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Dance: II: A Dance, as17730506

3095
28 May 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The History Of George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Ring

Dance: V: The Sailors Revels, as17730928

3096
26 May 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: V: The Pirates, as17750422

3097
27 May 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Matilda

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

3098
03 June 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber; Or, The Fruitless Precaution

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17830531

3099
17 February 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Alexander the Great

Song: [omitted from playbill]As17950128

3100
08 October 1660 @ The Cockpit in Drury Lane

Event Comment: Possibly on this day, Davenant and Killigrew, with a united company, began acting at this theatre. In L. C. 5@137, p. 332 (6 Oct. 1660) is a list of His Majesty's Comedians: Burt, Hart, Mohun, Robert Shatterell, Lacy, Wintershell, Clunne, Cartwright, Edward Shatterell, Baxter, Loveday, Kynaston, Betterton. (See Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 294; Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 204.) Hotson, p. 205, states that the company acted daily from 8 to 16 Oct. 1660

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