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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "English French Dutch Characters"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "English French Dutch Characters")') 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 3996 matches on Performance Comments, 1727 matches on Performance Title, 1431 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Dance: TTwo Harlequins-; The Shepherd's Holiday-

Song: Miss Thornowets

Event Comment: Afterpiece: All the Characters new Drest. Likewise New Scenes, Machines, and other Decorations. Receipts: #172 17s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country House

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Spaniard Outwitted

Event Comment: [By James Miller.] All the Characters new drest

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humours Of Oxford

Event Comment: Never Acted here before. Revis'd and Alter'd by the Author. All the Characters New Drest. Receipts: #96 5s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife Of Bath

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Giffard. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Afterpiece: A new Entertainment in Grotesque and Scotch Characters. With new Scenes, Machines, Flyings, and Sinkings, and other Decorations. Tickets for King Lear taken this Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Turn'd Dancing-Master; or, The Highlander Bit

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Song: End I: Mrs Wright; II: Since Times are so Bad-Leveridge, Salway; III: Mrs Chambers

Dance: IV: Nivelon

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Intermix'd with Songs, and an Additional Dialogue in the Characters of Rovewell and Arethusa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Greenwich Park

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: As17301010

Event Comment: All the Characters New Drest. Receipts: #131 9s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Dance: Salle, Mlle Salle, being the first Time of her Appearing on the Stage since her Arrival from the Opera at Paris

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

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Event Comment: Benefit Carey. With some Additional Songs proper to the Characters, which will be printed, and given Gratis to all Persons at their Entrance. [A Tragedy of half an act entitled Did You Ever See The Like? was advertised as an afterpiece for this day 1n Fog's, 28 Nov.] Daily Post, 3 Dec.: Our Friend Harry Carey having this Night a Benefit...the Powers of Music, Painting, and Poetry, assemble in his Behalf, he being an Admirer of the three Sister Arts: The Body of Musicians meet in the Hay-market, from whence they march in great Order, preceded by a magnificent moving Organ, in Form of a Pageant, accompany'd by all Kinds of Musical Instruments ever in Use, from Tubal Cain to this Day: A great Multitude of Booksellers, Authors and Printers, form themselves into a Body at Temple-Bar, from whence of Printers Devils, with their proper Implements: Here the two Bodies of Music and Poetry are joined by the Brothers of the Pencil, where taking a Glass of Refreshment at the Bedford-Arms, they make a solemn Procession to the Theatre, amidst an innumerable Croud of Spectators

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Greenwich Park

Song: A Dialogue of Mr Henry Purcell-Mrs Carey, Miss Raftor; A Cantata of Mr Carey's-Miss Raftor

Dance: Essex, Lally, Rainton, Mrs Walter, Miss Robinson, Miss Brett

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Event Comment: Afterpiece: a New Ballet. All the Characters New Dress'd. Receipts: #82 14s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Entertainment: In: The Masqueraders-Salle, DuPre, Glover, Pelling, Newhouse, Laguerre, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Ogden, Miss LaTour, Miss Wherrit

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By Charles Johnson.] Preface: I had the Mortification to see this Play acted the first Night, and to hear the Characters of Mother Lupine and her Women disapprov'd by several of the Audience, who, as if they thought themselves in bad Company, were very severe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caelia; Or, The Perjur'd Lover

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespeare. Afterpiece: a Masque. [Author unknown. Apparently not published.] All the Characters new dress'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Sportsman; or, The Death of the Stag

Event Comment: Benefit Chapman. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. N.B. The afore-nam'd Gentlemen attempt those Characters for their own Diversion (as other Gentlemen have done before 'em) and Mr Chapman's Profit only

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Event Comment: Benefit Chapman. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. N.B. The afore-nam'd Gentlemen attempt those Characters for their own Diversion (as other Gentlemen have done before 'em) and Mr Chapman's Profit only

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Event Comment: By the Company of Comedians of his Majesty's Revels. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. All the Characters entirely new drest. With new Scenes and Decorations. [This is the opening of HAY by the dissenting actors under Theophilus Cibber. For a Prologue intended to be spoken on this night, see The Honeysuckle (1734), pp. 113-15.] At Common Prices. 6 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: By Miss Robinson, Janny, Fisher Tench, Miss Mann

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Distinction. All the Characters entirely new dress'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Music: Select Pieces

Dance: Punches by Janno and F. Tench. The Whim by F. Tench and Miss Mann. Watteau by Miss Robinson

Event Comment: A new Comedy. [By William Popple.] All the Characters new drest. Preface to edition of 1734: A Report having been maliciously raised, and industriously spread all over the Town, that the Play was a Party Play, and supported by the Court, and therefore to be opposed, Numbers of Persons came into the House with an Intent ... to damn it at all Events. . . . However, the Play having had a fair Hearing, went off with infinitely more Applause than Blame

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Revenge; Or, The Rover Reclaim'd

Dance: By Malter and Mlle Salle

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Horton. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: All the Characters new drest

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

Event Comment: dvertiser, 11 March: We hear, amongst other publick Diversions that are prepaid for the Solemnity of the approaching Nuptials, there is to be perform'd [at King's, 13 March] a Serenata, call'd Parnasso in Festa: The Fable is Apollo and the Muses celebrating the Marriage of Thetis and Peleus. There is one standing Scene, which is Mount Parnassus, on which sit Apollo and the Muses, assisted with other proper Characters emblematically dress'd, the whole Appearance being extreamly magnificent; nor is the Musick less entertaining, being contriv'd with so great a Variety, that all sorts of Musick are properly introduc'd in single Songs, Duettoes, &c. intermix'd with Chorus's something in the Stile of Oratorios, People have been waiting with Impatience for this Piece, the celebrated Mr Handel having exerted his utmost Skill in it.hathiBenefit Delane. At the Desire of several Persons of Distinction

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Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: I: Shepherd by Young Weeks. II: Les Amants Comentants in the Character of a Highlander and his Lass by Dukes and Miss Baston. IV: By Desire, The Louvre, with a Minuet, by Dukes and Miss Baston. V: Pigmalion, as17340507

Song: III: As17340503

Event Comment: A New Opera.[Text by Paul Rolli; music by Nicholas Porpora.] The Characters are all new dress'd. N.B. The Tickets of such Subscribers who have not yet paid the last Call will not be admitted. 6:30 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aeneas

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

Event Comment: By particular Desire. By a Company of Comedians from both the Theatres. Afterpiece: a Farce of one Act [adapter not known]. All the Characters in the Opera to be play'd in Roman Dresses. 6:30 P.M. Admission: 4s., 2s. 6d., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera, Tragedized

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Sir John Falstaff, Justice Shallow, and Ancient Pistol