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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Henry Fielding Esq"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Henry Fielding Esq")') 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 3375 matches on Author, 1218 matches on Performance Title, 746 matches on Performance Comments, 726 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

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Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

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Related Work: The Wedding Day Author(s): Henry Fielding

Entertainment: Monologue.End: a Serio-Comic, Poetic, Prosaic Paraphrase on Shakespeare's Seven Ages-King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahmoud

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

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Related Work: The Wedding Day Author(s): Henry Fielding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Almeyda

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

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Related Work: The Wedding Day Author(s): Henry Fielding

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Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

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Related Work: Tom Thumb Author(s): Henry Fielding
Related Work: The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): Henry Fielding

Afterpiece Title: The Point at Herqui

Dance: In 3rd piece: a new incidental Dance, as17960415

Song: In 3rd piece: songs As17960503; In Evening: Mad Bess (1st time), the Minstrel's Song [Where is that tow'ring spirit fled?] [from The Days of Yore-Mrs Clendining; Harp-Weippert

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Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

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Related Work: The Wedding Day Author(s): Henry Fielding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

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Related Work: The Wedding Day Author(s): Henry Fielding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Get Married

Afterpiece Title: What d'ye Call It

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

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Related Work: Tom Thumb Author(s): Henry Fielding
Related Work: The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): Henry Fielding

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Mainpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

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Related Work: The Shipwreck Author(s): Henry Mackenzie

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

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Related Work: The Wedding Day Author(s): Henry Fielding

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Entertainment: Monologue. To conclude with: a Short Notice of Farewells, including her own Farewell for the Present Season-Mrs Siddons

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

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Related Work: The Wedding Day Author(s): Henry Fielding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

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Related Work: The Wedding Day Author(s): Henry Fielding

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to the Nore

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

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Related Work: The Wedding Day Author(s): Henry Fielding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ways And Means

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

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Related Work: The Wedding Day Author(s): Henry Fielding

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

Song: In course: Fal Lal , from The Cherokee,-Mrs Bland

Entertainment: End 2nd piece: a variety of Imitations (for that night only)-Caulfield

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lover's Vows

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

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Related Work: The Intriguing Chambermaid Author(s): Henry Fielding

Afterpiece Title: The Mouth of the Nile

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ramah Droog

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

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Related Work: The Intriguing Chambermaid Author(s): Henry Fielding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

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Afterpiece Title: Feudal Times

Cast
Role: Henry Actor: Middleton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Abroad And At Home

Afterpiece Title: The Vanguard; or, British Tars Regaling after Battle

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

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Related Work: Tom Thumb Author(s): Henry Fielding
Related Work: The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): Henry Fielding

Song: In course Evening: Lovely Nan (By permission of Dibdin), Black Ey'd Susan-Incledon; A Bundle of Proverbs-Munden; In the Dead of the Night-Miss Poole; Together let us range-Incledon, Miss Poole

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Joanna

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

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Related Work: The Intriguing Chambermaid Author(s): Henry Fielding

Song: Mainpiece: Chorusses-Denman, Lee, Thomas, Lewiss, Little, Potts, Everett, Oddwell, J. Linton, Tett, Smith, Kenrick, Silvester, Jones, Fairclough, Baron, Master Goodwin, Master Slape, Master Bernard, Master Standen, Master Little, Master Speare, Master Sawyer, Master Linton, Ms Trevor, Ms Gilbert, Ms Norton, Ms Watts, Ms Follett, Ms Castelle, Ms Sydney, Ms Burnett, Ms Masters, Ms Lloyd, Ms Blurton, Ms Cox

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Egyptian Festival

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

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Related Work: The Wedding Day Author(s): Henry Fielding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Egyptian Festival

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

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Related Work: The Wedding Day Author(s): Henry Fielding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Votary Of Wealth

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Role: Henry Melville Actor: H. Johnston

Afterpiece Title: The Rendezvous

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

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Related Work: Tom Thumb Author(s): Henry Fielding
Related Work: The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): Henry Fielding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pizarro

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

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Related Work: The Wedding Day Author(s): Henry Fielding

Song: As17991228

Performances

Mainpiece Title: De Montfort

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

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Related Work: The Wedding Day Author(s): Henry Fielding
Event Comment: [K+King Henry VIII] Containing the Death of the Duke of Buckinghamv; the Tryal and Divorce of Queen Catherinev; the Death of Cardinal Wolseyv; the Christening of Queen Elizabethv; and many other Historical Passages. [A customary notice for all Henry VIII bills this season. It will not be repeated below.] Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Performance Comment: Wolsey-Mossop; Brandon-Jefferson; Old Lady-Mrs Bradshaw; Cranmer-Havard; Sandys-Philips; Lovell-Ackman; Guildford-Marr; Capucius-Scrase; Gardiner-Taswell; Surveyor-Simson; King Henry-Berry; Buckingham-Ross; Norfolk-Palmer; Surrey-Davies; Lord Chamberlain-Bransby; Suffolk-Blakes; Cromwell-Mozeen; Doctor Butts-Vaughan; Campeius-Burton; Ann Bullen-Mrs Jefferson; Queen-Mrs Pritchard; Patience (with song)-Miss [I] Young; With a Representation of the Coronation-; Ceremony of the Champion in Westminster Hall-.
Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Berry

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

Event Comment: Mainpiece: In Act I The Cardinal's Banquet. In Act II The Court for the Trial of Queen Katharine. In Act V a Grand Procession to the Christening of Princess Elizabeth. Paid Charles Smith on Acct. of Upholders Work at Drury Lane Theatre #400. Powell: Henry VIII rehearsed at 10 (for Packer, lame, and Mrs Siddons); Siege of Belgrade music at 12 (for Storace, Bannister Jun., Crouch, Davis, Danby). The Iron Curtain being finish'd was this Evening exhibited for the first Time with the Epilogue [and see 21 Apr.]. "On the 24th February, 1809, this theatre was burnt down . . . Every care had been taken to guard against such a calamity. Two large reservoirs for water, on the top of the house, happened, unfortunately, at this crisis to be empty; and an iron curtain, intended to separate the auditory from the stage, for the purpose of saving a part of the edifice in case of conflagration, was, with its machinery, so much out of order as to be useless; it was, in fact, utterly immoveable" (Brayley, p. 8). Receipts: #451 8s. 6d. (389/4/0; 56/5/0; 4/6/6; tickets not come in: 1/13/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Performance Comment: King Henry-Palmer; Cardinal Wolsey-Bensley; Campeius-Packer; Capucius-Phillimore; Cranmer-Aickin; D. of Norfolk-Whitfield; D. of Buckingham-Wroughton; Duke of Suffolk-Caulfield; Earl of Surry-Barrymore; L. Chancellor-Maddocks; L. Chamberlain-Trueman; Gardiner-Suett; Lord Sands-Baddeley; Sir Henry Guilford-Bland; Sir ThomasLovell-Dignum; Cromwell-C. Kemble; Dr Butts-Waldron; Surveyor-Benson; Brandon-Banks; Serieant-Lyons; Cryer-Evans; Doorkeeper-Jones//Queen Katharine-Mrs Siddons; Anne Bullen-Mrs Powell; Gentlewoman-Mrs Booth; Patience (with a song)-Mrs Bland; Agatha-Miss Collins. Prologue, Epilogue as17940421.
Cast
Role: King Henry Actor: Palmer
Role: Sir Henry Guilford Actor: Bland

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys does not indicate that this performance is the premiere, and Summers, The Playhouse of Pepys, p. 137, states, without offering his evidence, that the play first appeared on 11 Aug. 1664. The play also appears in Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 138. If Pepys saw the premiere, the play was possibly given on 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24 Aug. Pepys, Diary: Mr Creed dining with me I got him to give my wife and me a play this afternoon, lending him money to do it, which is a fallacy that I have found now once, to avoyde my vowe with, but never to be more practised I swear, and to the new play, at the Duke's house, of Henry the Fifth; a most noule play, writ by my Lord Orrery; wherein Betterton, Harris, and Ianthe's parts are most incomparably wrote and done, and the whole play the most full of height and raptures of wit and sense, that ever I heard; having but one incongruity, or what did not please me in it, that is, that King Harry promises to plead for Tudor to their Mistresse, Princesse Katherine of France, more than when it comes to it he seems to do; and Tudor refused by her with some kind of indignity, not with a difficulty and honour that it ought to have been done in to him. Downes, Roscius Anglicanus, pp. 27-28: This Play was Splendidly Cloath'd: The King, in the Duke of York's Coronation Suit; Owen Tudor, in King Charle's: Duke of Burgundy, in the Lord of Oxford's, and the rest all New. It was Excellently Perform'd, and Acted 10 Days Successively

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The History Of Henry The Fifth

Performance Comment: Edition of 1669: King Henry the Fifth-Harris; Duke of Bedford-Underhill; Duke of Exeter-Cogan; Earl of Warwick-Aingel; Bishop of Canterbury-Lylinston [Lilleston]; Owen Tudor-Betterton; The Dauphin-Young; Duke of Burgundy-Smith; Earl of Chareloys-Cadiman; Constable of France-James Noke; De Chastel-Norris; Bishop of Arras-Samford; Count of Blamount-Medborne; Monsieur Colemore-Floyd; Queen of France-Mrs Long; Princess Katherine-Mrs Betterton; Princess Anne-Mrs Davis; Countess of La Marr-Mrs Norris.
Cast
Role: King Henry the Fifth Actor: Harris