SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Fenton"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Fenton")') 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 318 matches on Roles/Actors, 131 matches on Performance Comments, 47 matches on Author, 9 matches on Event Comments, and 6 matches on Performance Title.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or, The Death Of Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone; Or, The Fox

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country House

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country House

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

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Role: Ophelia Actor: Miss Fenton.

Song: End I: Mrs Barbier; III: Rochetti; IV: Love and Wine-Leveridge, Legare

Dance: II: A new Ball Dance-Glover, Mrs Legare; V: Grand Dance of Lads and Lasses-Poitier, Pelling, Newhouse, Lanyon, Dupre Jr, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Ogden, Mrs Anderson, Miss LaTour

Performances

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Bedlam

Dance: End I: Fingalian-; II: French Peasants and their Lasses-; III: A new Ball Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre; V: Grand Dance of Moors-; Kettle Drums-Poitier

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And A Bottle

Dance: SScottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; Grand Dance of Moors-Glover, Newhouse, Pelling, Lanyon, Mrs Ogden, Mrs Anderson, Miss LaTour; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Cast
Role: Mrs Squeamish Actor: Miss Fenton.

Song: End I: The Merry Month of May-Miss Warren; IV: L'Amorche Parte Sento-Miss Warren

Dance: I: Milkmaids' Dance-; II: A new Dance to the Tune of Tamo Tanto-Miss LaTour; III: Scottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; V: Pastoral Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Cast
Role: Betty Actor: Miss Fenton

Song: Several English and Scotch Ballads-Miss Warren

Dance: FFrench Peasant-Eaton, Mrs Anderson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Cast
Role: Betty Actor: Miss Fenton

Song: As17280712

Dance: As17280712

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Performance Comment: Ld. Gayville-The Young Gentleman who performed Jaffier on Wednesday last [Gibbons]; Clifford-Yatesmore; Sir Clement Flint-Sadler; Blandish-Wilson; Chignon-Benson; Prompt-Simpson; Mr Rightly-Smith; Chairman-Wright; Servants-Watts, Meadows, Johnston; Alscrip-Waldron; Miss Alscrip-Mrs Waldron; Miss Alton-Miss Phillips; Mrs Blandish-Mrs Clarke; Mrs Sagely-Mrs Johnston; Tiffany-Miss Williams; Lady Emily-The Young Lady who performed Belvidera on Wednesday last [Miss Fenton]. Prologue [spoken by Gibbons]. Epilogue [spoken by Miss Fenton] .Miss Fenton]. Prologue [spoken by Gibbons]. Epilogue [spoken by Miss Fenton] .

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom of Coventry

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe; or, Harlequin Friday

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece Sweet Poll of Plymouth by Master Muffett of Hammersmith (1st appearance in public); In Act II an incidental song, accompanied by the pedal harp, by Miss Phillips; End of mainpiece Let Fame sound the Trumpet, as sung by Johnstone in Fontainbleau, by a Young Gentleman (1st appearance)

Monologue: 1786 07 10 End of last song Parents and Children, as 28 June

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Weekly Packet, 20 Feb., announces forthcoming plays: The Imperial Captives by a gentleman unknown to the town and Sewell's The Lottery. Fenton's Herod and Mariamne is deferred to winter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: Chamont-Royer; Acasto-Huddy; Monimia-Mrs Haughton; Page-Mrs Tollet; Serina-a Gentlewoman [who never appear'd on any Stage before possible Lavinia Fenton]; [With a new Prologue-Mr Royer; [and a new Epilogue-Mrs Haughton.

Song: Singing in Italian and English-Mrs Fitzgerald

Music: The Original Trumpet Song of Sound Fame-by Mr Henry Purcel Mr Armstrong

Event Comment: Benefit Polly [Miss Fenton]. Receipts: money #137 12s.; tickets #17 12s. Probable attendance: boxes, 157 by money and 35 by tickets; stage, 51 by money; pit, 263 by money and 39 by tickets; slips, 28 by money; first gallery, 323 by money and 30 by tickets; second gallery, 176 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Event Comment: Benefit for Barry. Mainpiece: By Elijah Fenton (Genest, V, 269). By Samuel Pordage (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Herod And Mariamne

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: IV: Comic Dance, as17690926

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Law Of Lombardy

Afterpiece Title: Jehu

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Farren, Lamash, R. Palmer, Miss Sherry, Miss Farren; Town and Country Magazine, Feb. 1779, p. 62, assigns Lord Jehu-King; Larpent MS 467 lists this part, as well as the other parts: Whiffle, Fenton, Groom, Mrs Gules, Lucy. Prologue , not listed on playbill, printed in Public Advertiser, 24 Feb., written by the author, and spoken by-King.