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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mary Wilks"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mary Wilks")') 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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1577 results for: Keyword - Mary Wilks
We found 1394 matches on Performance Comments, 167 matches on Event Comments, 69 matches on Performance Title, 29 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1576
28 March 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: This Day Publish'd elegantly printed in one Volume Octavo (Dedicated to the Right Hon. Garret, Lord Mornington) A General View of the Stage, by Mr Wilks, of Dublin. Printed for J. Coote. [Contains 355 pages on the stage and its usefulness in presenting tragedy, comedy, opera, farce and pantomime. Discusses the art of acting, reviews plays and parts. Chapter VI on [Dress and its propriety" suggests the growing interest in historical authenticity in costume: [The judicious propriety in 'dress' adapted with sufficient exactitude to the age, time, and circumstances of [the] character...may be call'd the last colourings and finishings of [the] picture; and in this case very much will depend on knowledge of ancient history and historical paintings." Thirty-two pages praising Garrick the actor, and discussing in some detail all the characters he had performed to that time.

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Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus

1577
01 November 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: The Cabinet Of Fancy

Performance Comment: As17801030, but unknown Artist specified as Wilks.
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Role: Farcical and Puppet Actor: showical Representations, mostly Transparency. Instead of delivering a Catalogue, the Designs will be explained by at present an unknown Artist see I Nov.