SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Lady Batten"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Lady Batten")') 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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Mainpiece Title: The Distress'd Mother

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: Cooke, Anne Auretti

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

Dance: II: Pastoral Dance, as17480326 III: Savoyards, as17471215; V: By Desire Les Characters de la Dance-Anne Auretti

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Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite; Or, The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: Jockey dancing-Mr Adams

Event Comment: Play By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince George, Prince Edward, and the Lady Augusta

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince George, Prince Edward, Prince William, the Lady Augusta and Princess Elizabeth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

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Mainpiece Title: Mahomet And Irene

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: SScotch Dance, as17490118

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author Tickets to be had as 9 and 14 Feb. [The Gentleman's Magazine this month gave a nine-column article to the Plan and Specimens of Irene a Tragedy by Mr Samuel Johnsin acted at Drury Lane from 6-20 February inclusive." In it plot was first retold, then excerpts from speeches were given which illustrated the beautiful expression of the moral values contained in the play: "To instance every moral which is inculcated in this performance, would be to transcribe the whole; but, however difficult I shall select a few." No comments are made upon the stage presentation, all is presented upon the basis of examination of the text. William Shenstone thought not much of it as a play. See Letter to Lady Luxborough 22 March.] Receipts: #110 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel)

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Mainpiece Title: Mahomet And Irene

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: SSavoyards, as17480920

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dramatic Lecture

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Knights

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

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Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Yates

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat; The Anatomist

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Performance Comment: Ramble-Woodward; Townly-Palmer; Loveday-Blakes; Wiseacre-Yates; Doodle-Taswell; Dashwell-Neale; Roger-James; Peggy-Mrs Green; Eugenia-Mrs Mills; Engine-Mrs Cross; Jane-Mrs Havard; Aunt-Mrs James; Arbella (alias Lady No)-Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: I: Comic Dance-Mathews, Mrs Addison; III: The Black Joke-Mathews, Mrs Addison; with a Hornpipe-the Little Swiss

Song: II, IV: Master Mattocks

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Queen Tragedy Restored

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Dance: Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti, Mathews, Miss Baker

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: VVenetian Gardeners-Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love; Or, The World Well Lost

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Song: III: Miss Norris

Dance: VVenetian Gardeners-Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: II: Tambourine-Jardin; III: Dutch Dance-Cooke, Miss Hillyard; V: Grand Scots Dance-Cooke, Miss Hillyard

Song: IV: Go Rose-Miss Falkner

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Event Comment: Benefit for ye Author (no more Noise) (Cross). Tickets as of 5 Feb. Tickets deliver'd out for the third and sixth Nights will be taken. Receipts: #140 (Cross). Gentleman's Magazine, Feb. 1751, pp. 77-78, concerning Gil Blas: To animadvert upon a piece which is almost universally condemned is unneccessary, and to defend this is impossible. There is not one elegant expression or moral sentiment in the dialogue; nor indeed one character in the drama, from which either could be expected. It is however, to be wished that the Town, which opposed this play with so much zeal, would exclude from the theatre every other in which there is not more merit; for partiality and prejudice will be suspected in the treatment of new plays, while such pieces as the London Cuckolds, and the City Wives Confederacy, are suffered to waste time and debauch the morals of society....Upon the whole the Author appears to have intended rather entertainment than instruction, and to have disgusted the Pit by adapting his comedy to the taste of the Galleries....Perhaps the ill success of this comedy is chiefly the effect of the author's having so widely mistaken the character of Gil Blas whom he has degraded from a man of sense, discernment, true humor, and great knowledge of mankind...to an impertinent silly, conceited coxcomb, a mere Lying Valet, with all the affectation of a Fop, and all the insolence of a coward. [Thomas Gray wrote to Horace Walpole 3 March 1751, "Gil Blas is the Lying Valet in five acts. The fine lady has half-a-dozen good lines dispersed in it."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gil Blas

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alfred