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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Envoys from the Emperor of Morocco"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Envoys from the Emperor of Morocco")') 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 216 matches on Performance Title, 74 matches on Event Comments, 54 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Emperor of the Moon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: Tamerlane-Johnson; Bajazet-Rosco; Moneses-Giffard; Axalla-Havard; Omar-Richardson; Prince-Hamilton; Haly-Woodward; Dervise-Lyon; Arpasia-Mrs Roberts; Selima-Mrs Giffard. With the Occasional Prologue .

Afterpiece Title: The Emperor of the Moon

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of a Foreigner of Great Distinction. [Prince of Modena present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: As17351104 With the Occasional Prologue .

Afterpiece Title: The Emperor of the Moon

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Hamilton. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperor; Or, The Conquest Of Mexico By The Spaniards

Dance: II: Dutch Skipper by Vallois and Mrs Bullock. V: Scot's Dance by Haughton, Mrs Bullock, &c

Song: I: Warriours Song (King Arthur) and III: Watchman's Song (Britannia) by Two Masters Hamilton. IV: By Mrs Chambers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperor

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: Dutch Skipper by Vallois and Mrs Bullock. Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Mrs Woodward

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperor; Or, The Conquest Of Mexico By The Spaniards

Afterpiece Title: Britannia

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Pantomime

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperor

Afterpiece Title: Britannia

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Pantomime

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperor

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: II: The Princess of Wales-Vallois, Miss Oates; V: Pierrots-Vallois, Delagarde

Song: IV: Miss Jones

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Related Works
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Spaniard Outwitted Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: The Medley; or, Harlequin At-All Author(s): Lewis Theobald

Dance: As17390305

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Afterpiece Title: PPerseus and Andromeda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Song: II: To Arms, Britons Strike Home-Salway, Leveridge, Legar

Dance: In II: Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Dance: A New Tambourine-Sga Barberina, Sga Domitilla, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Wright, Mrs Villeneuve; The Italian Peasants, as17411024, but Villagers not listed

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Macklin and Mrs Bennet. Tickets deliver'd out by Leigh, Carter and Miss Story will be taken. Tickets and places to be had of Bradshaw &c., and of Mrs Macklin at No. 12 in Wild Court, Wild St. Afterpiece: The Most Grave, Whimisical, Serious, Operatical Tragedy of Half and Act. Receipts: #150

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: Chrononhotonthologos, Emperor of Queeramania

Performance Comment: Chrononhotonthologos-Winstone; Bombardinion-Green; Quack-Gray; Aldiborontiphoscophornio-Cross; Captain of Guards-Woodburn; King of Fiddlers-Leigh; King of Antipodes-Hough; Rigdumfunidos-Macklin; Fadladinida-Mrs Cross; Tatlanthe-Mrs Bennet; Venus-Mrs Philips; Cupid-Miss Cole; Ladies of Honour-Miss Story, Miss Minors.
Cast
Role: Tatlanthe Actor: Mrs Bennet

Song: I: A Ballad-Lowe; III: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard; IV: Elin@a@Roon (By Particular Desire)-Mrs Clive

Dance: II: Le Boufon, as17420325 V: The Drunken Peasant, as17411029

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figliuola

Dance: End of Act I Pastoral Dance, as17811128, to conclude with The Emperor's Cossac (composed for the Masqued Ball [held at this theatre, 24 Jan.] by Noverre) by Nivelon and Mlle Theodore; End of Act II Divertisement Dance, as17811117; End of Act III Les Petits Riens, as17811211

Performance Comment: ] by Noverre) by Nivelon and Mlle Theodore; End of Act II Divertisement Dance, as17811117; End of Act III Les Petits Riens, as17811211 .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Quinto Fabio

Dance: End of Act I New Divertisement Dance (performers not listed, but probably as17820216), with The Emperor's Cossac, as17820129; End of Act II Rinaldo and Armida, as17820223

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Mrs Farrer. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Afterpiece: Never acted here. The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. 2nd Gallery 1s. Tickets delivered for Wednesday, Dec. 18, will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane The Great; Or, The Fall Of Bajazet, Emperor Of The Turks

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Song: IV: To Thee O Gentle Sleep-a Young Lady (1st appearance in public [unidentified])

Entertainment: Monologue End: Hippisley's Drunken Man-Jackson

Event Comment: By Command. For the Entertainment of his Excellency Hamet Ben Hamet Cardenas, Ambassador from the Emperor of Fez and Morocco

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The British Enchanters

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of Hamet Ben Hamet Cardenas, Ambassador from the Emperor of Fez and Morocco

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Event Comment: Benefit Penkethman. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. And for the Entertainment of his Excellency Hegabdelcader Perez, Embassador from the Emperor of Fez and Morocco

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Epsom Wells

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Song: Singing in Italian and English-Mrs Hill, who never appear'd on this Stage before

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Two sources naming the play attended by the Morocco ambassador differ as to what play was presented. CSPD, Charles II, 1682, p. 35: 19 Jan. 1681@2: To-day the Morocco Ambassador goes to a play named Circe at the Duke's House. Impartial Protestant Mercury, 20-24 Jan. 1681@2: The Morocco Ambassador, On Thursday last, went to the Duke's Theatre, where was Acted Psyche, a Play of extraordinary splendor, with which his Excellency was extreamly pleas'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Circe

Event Comment: Benefit for Wild. Mainpiece: Not acted these 25 years [acted 15 Apr. 1760]. With a Grand Procession and Triumphal Entry of Dioclesian, the Dance of Tapestry Figures, the Monument of Aurelia, and the Dance of Chairs. Afterpiece [1st time; M. INT I, by David Henry Urquhart; composer of music unknown]: To conclude with an exact Representation of the Chairing of the Member. Receipts: #115 13s. (58/1; tickets: 57/12) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

Performance Comment: Diocles (elected Co-Emperor of Rome)-Lewis; Maximinian (Emperor of Rome)-Whitfield; Charinus (Emperor of Rome)-Hull; Cosroe (King of Persia)-Clarke; Niger-Davies; Geta-Quick; Drusilla (Niece to the Prophetess)-Mrs Kemble; Aurelia (Sister to the Emperor)-Mrs Inchbald; Delphia (the Prophetess)-Mrs Bates .
Cast
Role: Actor: Emperor of Rome-Lewis

Afterpiece Title: A Jubilee in Commemoration of Handel and Shakespeare

Performance Comment: Scene I. As Scene I, 27 Apr., but Collins's Ode spoken by Kemble; The Smiling Dawn by Mrs Martyr; omitted: Overture. Scene II. Grand Procession, as17840507 .

Afterpiece Title: The Election

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Bannister, Brett, Davies; Mrs Webb, Mrs Martyr. [Text (no pub., 1784) lists the parts: Bob Perdix, Neighbour, Suckbribe, Pergameny [no women's parts]] .
Related Works
Related Work: The Election of Managers Author(s): George Colman, the elder
Event Comment: Afterpiece: A New Dramatic Masque. Admission 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s. No Money under the full Price will be taken; and the Advance Money will he returned to those who chuse to go out before the Overture to the Entertainment begins. Edition of 1736: Invented by Mr Pritchard. Musick composed by Mr Arne. Scenes painted by Mr Hayman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton: With Harlequin a Captive

Performance Comment: Jupiter-Winstone; Neptune-Turbutt; Priest of Aurora-Salway; Terra-Mrs Cross; Phoebus-Mrs Cantrell; Phaeton-Cross; Clymene-Mrs Clive; Ethiopian-Essex; Moors-Pelling, Villeneuve, Davenport, Rector; Seasons-Villeneuve, Duke, Mrs Walter, Mrs Pelling; Turkish Dancers-Delamayne, Mrs Walter; Turk-Salway; Harlequin-Le Brun; Morocco Servant-Poitier; Colombine-Miss Mann; Her Maid-Mrs Pritchard; Captain of the Galley-Este; Innkeeper-Turbutt; Barber-Grey; Porter-Leigh; China Woman-Mrs Ferguson; Lodging Woman-Mrs Bennet; Harlequin's Good Genius-Miss Cole; Adonis-Denoyer; Venus-Mlle Anne Roland; Followers of Adonis-Pelling, Rector, Davenport, Mrs Davenport, Mrs Villeneuve, Miss Cantrell; Hours-Pelling, Rector, Davenport, Mrs Davenport, Mrs Villeneuve, Miss Cantrell .
Cast
Role: Morocco Servant Actor: Poitier
Role: Captain of the Galley Actor: Este