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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Kings Patent"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Kings Patent")') 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 2638 matches on Performance Title, 2615 matches on Performance Comments, 1626 matches on Event Comments, 23 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece, as17811004

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duplicity

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: End of Epilogue, as17811024

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dissipation

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Dance: End of mainpiece The Devonshire Minuet, as17810915

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Agreeable Surprise

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Harlequin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not; Or, The Kind Impostor

Afterpiece Title: Lun's Ghost

Dance: As17820112

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Harlequin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece, as17820223

Song: In Act V of mainpiece song by Miss Field

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece, as17820223

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Linco's Travels

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: End of Act IV of mainpicce a Minuet and Gavot by Zuchelli and Miss M. Stageldoir

Song: In Act II of mainpiece a song by Du-Bellamy; End of Act III The Soldier tir'd of War's Alarms, as17820420

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Don Juan; or, The Libertine Destroy'd

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece a new Masquerade Dance, in which a Minuet by Zuchelli and Miss M. Stageldoir; Afterpiece to conclude with a Dance of Furies (performers not listed)

Song: In Masquerade Dance a favorite song by Miss Romanzini, and to conclude with a Serious and Comic Air by Delpini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: As17820917

Song: In Act II of mainpiece song by Miss Field

Monologue: 1782 09 19 As 17 Sept

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: As17820921

Song: In Act III of mainpiece song by Williames. [This was sung, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances, except on 10 Dec]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17820925

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Song: In Act v of mainpiece song by Miss Field

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton; or, High Life above Stairs

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamesters

Afterpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

Dance: End of Act I of afterpiece The Irish Fair by Blurton, Miss M. Stageldoir

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Delicacy

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: As17820921

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd