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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Joseph Besford"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Joseph Besford")') 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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1429 results for: Keyword - Joseph Besford
We found 950 matches on Author, 323 matches on Performance Comments, 107 matches on Performance Title, 104 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1326
14 December 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Lady

Dance: III: A Dance-Mas. Burton, Miss Besford; End: The Whim, as17691123

Performance Comment: Burton, Miss Besford; End: The Whim, as17691123.

1327
30 December 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Dance: II: Dutch Dance-Mas. Burton, Miss Besford[, as17691111

Performance Comment: Burton, Miss Besford[, as17691111.

1328
24 January 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Dance: II: The Dutch Milkmaid-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford , as17691111; End Opera: The Lamplighters, as17691005

Performance Comment: Blurton, Miss Besford , as17691111; End Opera: The Lamplighters, as17691005.

1329
24 September 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: The Dutch Milkmaid-Mas. Burton, Miss Besford. [See17691111.

Performance Comment: Burton, Miss Besford. [See17691111.]

1330
26 September 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Duke of York-$Miss Besford in Public Advertiser.] Afterpiece: By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Midas

1331
28 September 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Dance: End of Opera: The Provenzales-Mas. Burton, Miss Besford. [See17680301.

Performance Comment: Burton, Miss Besford. [See17680301.]

1332
23 September 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: End of Play: The Dutch Milkmaid-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford. [See17700924.

Performance Comment: Blurton, Miss Besford. [See17700924.]

1333
30 September 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: End: The Corsican Sailor's Punch House-Fishar, Miss Twist, Hussey, Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford. [See17710412.

Performance Comment: Blurton, Miss Besford. [See17710412.]

1334
21 September 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Dance: End: The Fingalian Dance with Double Hornpipe-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford

Performance Comment: Blurton, Miss Besford.

Monologue: Preceded: New Occasional Prelude. The Principal characters-Dyer, Kniveton, Younger, Davis, Cushing, Wignell, Saunders, Fox, a Young Lady Miss Barsanti her first appearance on any stage

1335
25 September 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: End: The Dutch Milkmaid-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford

Performance Comment: Blurton, Miss Besford.

Monologue: Before: The New Occasional Prelude. As 21 Sept

1336
30 September 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: II: The Corsican Sailor's Punch House-Fishar, Miss Twist, Hussey, Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford. [See17110930.

Performance Comment: Blurton, Miss Besford. [See17110930.]

1337
07 December 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: End: A New Pantomime Ballet call'd The Bird Catchers-Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford. [See dl 27 Nov. 1750.

Performance Comment: Blurton, Miss Besford. [See dl 27 Nov. 1750.]

1338
26 April 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Dance: I: New Dance, as17730206; II: A New Comic Dance-Mas. Harris (Scholar to Aldridge), Miss Mathews; End Opera: (By particular desire) will be reviv'd The Whim-Aldridge, Sg Manesiere; End II of Farce: A New Dance-Mas. Langrish (Scholar to Aldridge) his first appearance, Miss Besford

Performance Comment: Harris (Scholar to Aldridge), Miss Mathews; End Opera: (By particular desire) will be reviv'd The Whim-Aldridge, Sg Manesiere; End II of Farce: A New Dance-Mas. Langrish (Scholar to Aldridge) his first appearance, Miss Besford.

1339
30 December 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: Achilles in Petticoats

Dance: End: A Dutch Dance [see17720925]-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford

Performance Comment: Blurton, Miss Besford.

1340
08 April 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Reinhold. Mainpiece: Acted but once these 6 years. [See 29 Dec. 1769.] Charges #66 3s. 6d. Profit to Reinhold #66 7s. 6d., plus #111 9s. from tickets (Box 287; Pit 194; Gallery 106). Paid Mr Kingswood for feathers &c. #5 10s.; Paid Holmden (Breechesmaker) #1 13s. 6d.; Paid Fisher for the Music of the Sylphs #42; Paid Besford for making properties #20 15s. Receipts: #132 11s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Song: II: The Song of Mad Tom will be sung in Character-Reinhold

1341
12 April 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The South Briton

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Cast
Role: Watchman Actor: Besford

Dance: IV: A Double Hornpipe-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford; End I Farce: A Minuet-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley

Performance Comment: Blurton, Miss Besford; End I Farce: A Minuet-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley.

Monologue: Interlude.End: True Blue. As 26 March

1342
21 November 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Druids

Performance Comment: As17741119, but Dances-Miss Besford.
Cast
Role: Dances Actor: Miss Besford.

1343
29 April 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: I: New Comic Dance-Langrish (pupil to Aldridge), Miss Mathews; III: A New Pantomimical Dance call'd The Enchantress, as17750201; End: The Humours of Blackwall; or, The Indiaman Return'd-Aldridge, Mas. Jackson (his pupil), first appearance, Mrs Stephens, Miss Besford

Performance Comment: Jackson (his pupil), first appearance, Mrs Stephens, Miss Besford.

1344
11 May 1775 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: For the Last time this season. Tickets deliver'd by Blurton, Stoppelaer, Besford, Mrs Perry, and Mrs Lawrence? will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Druids

Dance: III: Double Hornpipe-Blurton, Miss Mathews; IV: The Humours of Blackwall, as17750429

1345
12 December 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Cast
Role: Porter Actor: Besford.

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: End Opera: A New Pantomimical Dance, call'd The Irish Wedding-Aldridge, Mas. Jackson, Miss Besford, others

Performance Comment: Jackson, Miss Besford, others.

1346
02 January 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Cast
Role: Porter Actor: Besford.

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: End Opera: A New Comic Dance call'd Mirth and Jollity-Aldridge, Mas. Jackson, Mas. Langrish, Miss Besford

Performance Comment: Jackson, Mas. Langrish, Miss Besford.

1347
15 May 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Lilliput

Performance Comment: The Lilliputians-Master Edwin, Master Harrison, Miss Morris, Miss P. Farren (see17770718, also Master Hitchcock, Master Pulley, Miss Besford, Miss Francis, Miss Hitchcock (Peake, II, 2).

1348
21 October 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zenobia

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal; or, The Tars of Old England

Dance: End: Mirth and Jollity-Aldridge, Langrish, Mast. Jackson, Miss Besford

Performance Comment: Jackson, Miss Besford.

Song: conclude Afterpiece: The Glorious Ninety@Two-

1349
23 May 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Wordsworth, Jackson, Painter, J. Bates, Fox, Besford, Eves, Mrs Sharpe, Mrs Templeton, Miss Bassan, the widow of the late Miles, and the widow of the late Dr Arne will be taken this evening. Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #219 2s. 6d. (43.14.0; 4.5.6; tickets: 171.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: End IV: Triple Hornpipe-Eves, Ratchford, Miss Lings; End: new dance, The Rakes of Mallow-Jackson, Miss Lings

1350
13 December 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: End of mainpiece St. David's Day; or, The Village Revels by Aldridge, Langrish, Jackson, Miss Rowson, Miss Besford

Performance Comment: David's Day; or, The Village Revels by Aldridge, Langrish, Jackson, Miss Rowson, Miss Besford .