SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Edward Shepherd"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Edward Shepherd")') 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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Mainpiece Title: The Secret

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Related Work: The Secret Author(s): Edward Morris

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

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Mainpiece Title: The Secret

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Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: As17980920, but Mock Minuet-Miss Mellon in place of Miss Pope

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Mainpiece Title: The Secret

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Afterpiece Title: Feudal Times

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Mainpiece Title: The Secret

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Afterpiece Title: Feudal Times

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Mainpiece Title: The Secret

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Afterpiece Title: Feudal Times

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Mainpiece Title: The Secret

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Afterpiece Title: Feudal Times

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Mainpiece Title: The Secret

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Afterpiece Title: Feudal Times

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Mainpiece Title: The Secret

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Afterpiece Title: Feudal Times

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Mainpiece Title: The Secret

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Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

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Mainpiece Title: The Secret

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Afterpiece Title: Feudal Times

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Mainpiece Title: The Secret

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Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

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Mainpiece Title: The Secret

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Afterpiece Title: The Adopted Child

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Mainpiece Title: The Secret

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Related Work: The Secret Author(s): Edward Morris

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: As17980920

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Mainpiece Title: The Secret

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Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard

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Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

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Afterpiece Title: The Embarkation

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Mainpiece Title: The Secret

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Afterpiece Title: The Pavilion

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Mainpiece Title: The Secret

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Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

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Mainpiece Title: The Secret

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Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard

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Mainpiece Title: The Secret

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Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

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Mainpiece Title: The Secret

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Afterpiece Title: Of Age To morrow

Event Comment: A historical note about the patent for May Fair by Edward Shepherd. Daily Advertiser, 1 May: Whereas a Patent was granted by King Charles the First, and confirm'd by King James II, to the Proprietor of Great and Little Brookfield, then in the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields, now in the Parish of St. George, Hanover Square, to hold a Fair during the Space of fifteen Days, to begin the 1st Day of May next, and every May Day forever: the present Proprietor thinks it proper to apprize the Publick thereof, that it may not be thought that he attempts to do any thing but by Virtue of the said Patent, and no Ways to disturb the Publick Peace, or act in Contradiction to the Laws of the Realm. [Alluded to in 2 May news of the Daily Advertiser, as being proclaimed by Edward Shepherd.

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Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. 3rd piece [1st time; M. INT 1, by Thomas John Dibdin. Larpent MS 1288; not published]: Founded on a late Glorious Naval Achievement [the recapture by Capt. Edward Hamilton, on 25 Oct. 1799, of the British frigate Hermione, from the Spaniards]. The Music selected and composed by Attwood. Morning Chronicle, 1 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Lewis, No. 52, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Receipts: #361 17s. (263.2.0; 33.5.6; tickets: 65.9.6)

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Mainpiece Title: How To Grow Rich

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain or An Opera Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Glib, the Author-Lewis; Manager-Davenport; Sir Toby Fuz-Gardner; Sir Macaroni Virtu-Farley; Wilson-Claremont; Mervin-Klanert; Prompter-Abbot; Carpenter-Rees; Scenemen-Wilde, Whitmore; Miss Fuz-Mrs Mills; Sweepers of the Stage-Mrs Whitmore, Mrs Norton; Lady Fuz-Mrs Davenport; Characters in the Burletta: Orpheus-Hill; Shepherds-Linton, Denman, Whitmore, Platt, Curties, Street, Bologna, Lee, Hawtin, Blurton, Coombs, Thomas, Noble, Lewiss; The Old Shepherd-Simmons; Rhodope-Mrs Martyr.

Afterpiece Title: The Hermione or Valours Triumph

Event Comment: At Mr Penkethman's and Mr Miller's Booth, at the Horns-Inn at Pye Corner, entering into Smithfield. A Celebrated Droll, Shewing the Pomp and Grandeur she lived in King Edward the IVth's Time, and the Misery she fell into upon Richard Duke of Gloucester's being made Protector. How she was oblig'd to do Penance in a white Sheet, carrying a lighted Torch bare Foot thro' the City, and then turn'd out to Starve; as also how she wandering met with her Husband, and the Tragick End of them Both. With the comical and diverting Humours of Sir Anthony Noodle, a foolish Courtier, and his Man Weezel

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Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: Sir Anthony Noodle-Miller; His Man Weezel-Penkethman; King-Williams; Shore-Wilks Jr; Captain Ayres-Oates; Blunderbuss-Shepherd.
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Role: Blunderbuss Actor: Shepherd.

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Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Frederick Reynolds. Prologue by James Boaden. Epilogue by Edward Topham (see text). For this play Reynolds and the cg manager made a new plan for payments to the author. Benefits for the author on the 3rd, 6th and 9th nights were abandoned; instead he received #33 6s. 8d. for each of the first nine nights and #100 on the 20th night. "This was the foundation of that bargain between manager and author which, I believe, exists to the present period [1826]" (Reynolds, II, 182-83)]. Morning Chronicle, 19 Jan. 1795: This Day is published The Rage! (2s.). Receipts: #259 13s. 6d. (255.17.6; 3.16.0)

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Mainpiece Title: The Rage

Afterpiece Title: Cymon

Performance Comment: Cymon-Incledon; Dorus-Quick; Merlin-Richardson; Shepherds-Claremont, Abbot; Linco-Fawcett; Fatima-Mrs Martyr; Urganda-Mrs Fawcett; Dorcas-Mr Munden; Shepherdesses-Miss Stuart, Miss Cornelys; Sylvia-Mrs Mountain.

Dance: Afterpiece to conclude with: a Dance-

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 16 Sept.: To be Sold. The Lease (having upwards of 50 Years to come) of the late Theatre in Goodman's-Fields. Enquire of Mr Edward Shepherd, at his House in Audley-street, Grosvenor-Square

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