SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "His Majestys"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "His Majestys")') 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 228 matches on Event Comments, 15 matches on Performance Title, 14 matches on Performance Comments, 4 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.
Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Santlow. By His Majesty's Command. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Dumb Farce

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bicknell. By His Majesty's Command. Written by Shakespear. Pit and Front Boxes together at 5s. Tickets for The Man of Mode taken. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Event Comment: Benefit Johnson. By His Majesty's Command. Tickets for The Scornful Lady taken. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Dance: As17190421

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Fletcher. By His Majesty's Command. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Song: A new Cantata by Dr Pepusch-Mrs Fletcher; Signora Margarita, Mrs Pulmon

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 30 Jan.: On Saturday Night, after the Actors...had perform'd the Maid's Tragedy, a Proclamation was made upon the Stage from the Duke of Newcastle, Lord Chamberlain, signifying that it was his Majesty's Pleasure to suspend for the present any more Acting at that House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid's Tragedy

Song: As17191003

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. By His Majesty's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

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Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bicknell. By His Majesty's Command. Admission as 10 March

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Dance: As17200315

Event Comment: Benefit Leigh. By His Majesty's Command. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Song: Leveridge

Dance: As17200120 The Italian Shadows which have not been perform'd these Twenty Years-

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bullock. By His Majesty's Command. Receipts: money #59 18s. 6d.; tickets #67 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Dance: Monsieur Pierrot, Mademoiselle Vaurinville , formerly call'd Mademoiselle DeChalier from the French House

Event Comment: Benefit Mr Smith, distress'd by Fire. By His Majesty's Command. Receipts: money #19 6s. 6d.; tickets #62 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Event Comment: Benefit Denoye. By His Majesty's Command. Written by the late Mr Dryden.[The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

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Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

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Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Mainpiece. Written by M Voltaire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipe

Afterpiece Title: Le Cocher Suppose

Event Comment: Admission as 7 Nov. 1722. Daily Post, 11 Feb.: On Saturday Night last a Disturbance happen'd at the Opera House...occasion'd by a Difference that arose between a Scotch Nobleman and an English Baronet, who were going to decide the same with the Point of the Sword; but the General of the Forces, who was near at hand, being made acquainted with it, very reasonably interposed and put them both under an Arrest by his Majesty's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Booth. By His Majesty's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: As17221211

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Receipts: #136 6s. The King present, on which occasion the House was prodigiously crowded (Daily Post, 23 April)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Jupiter and Europa

Event Comment: At 7 p.m. Tomorrow being His Majesty's Birth-Day occasions the Opera being perform'd this Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Flavius

Event Comment: Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 13 June: His Majesty's Comedians have Orders not to depart above a certain Number of Miles from London his Season, in order, as tis said, to be at hand to entertain his Prussian Majesty, who is expected here in a Month's Time

Performances

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. By the Italian Company of Comedians newly arriv'd. Pit and Boxes together by tickets only at 4s. Gallery 2s. N.B. Whereas the Number of Subscribers for this Company that are in Town, is very little, some of the first Representations will not be on thair Account. Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 1 Oct.: Last Wednesday Night his Majesty and their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, together with great Numbers of the Nobility and Persons of Distinction...saw the Comedy...The Faithful Wife

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Faithful Wife; Or, Arlequin Strip'd, Sentry, Brave, Coward, Terrour Of The Turks, And Judge Of His Own Cause

Dance: Monsieur Poictier, others

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. [The King, Prince and Princess of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Prince By Enchantment; With His Comical Cavalcade And Taken Up In The Air By Daemons; Or, The Loves Of Pantalon And Argentine, His Imprisonment And Condemnation To The Gallies

Dance: As17260928

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. N.B. For the better Information of those who do not thoroughly understand the Italian Language, a Book with the Argument and Explanations in English, of what is transacted in every Scenes, may be had...at the usual Places in the Opera-House. Price 6d. [The King, Prince, and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Enchanted Island Of Arcadia; Or, The Magician Doctor, With Harlequin King Of The Woods; Flights, Decorations And Transformations Of Harlequin, Cupid, Pantalon, Venus, And Brighella, Jupiter, And The Sacrifice Of Harlequin

Dance: Furies, Nymphs, Shepherds, Statues-; , the latter performing the Labours of Hercules-Statues , after the Manner of the Venetian Gondaliers at Venice: The whole full of Variety

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. N.B. This being the first Time of Acting on Account of Subscriptions, the General Tickets will be sent to the Subscribers. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Most Knowing, Least Understanding; Or, Harlequin's Metamorphosis; Viz

Afterpiece Title: The Pleasant Marriage; Concluding with The Singing Deities

Dance: Dancing and other Decorations proper to the Play , entirely new and diverting-

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Greatest Glory Of A Prince Is The Conquest Of His Own Passions

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Buffoon at Court, a Dumb Spy, and Condemned to the Stirpado

Dance: Serious Dances-Poitier, others

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Diana's Madness; Or, Fatime, A Favourite Slave In The Seraglio, Mad For Love, And Crown'd Empress By The Grand Signior: With Pantlon And Harlequin Eunuchs Elected Kaimcan And Ciguir, The One Impaled And The Other Sawed Asunder, The Bashas Selim And Achmet Ript Open, Rabca Strangled, And Chistar Beheaded

Entertainment: Carneval-after the Venetian Manner; Dancing-Masqueraders in divers Characters, Madmen, Turks Men and Women being the Invention of Mr Poictiers

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. [The King and Prince Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pantalon A Broker Broken Merchant And Desperately In Love, Harlequin His Shopkeeper: With A Ridotto After The Venetian Manner, Songs, And A Serenata In A Venetian Gondola

Entertainment: As17261105