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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Matthew Gregory Lewis"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Matthew Gregory Lewis")') 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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2782 results for: Keyword - Matthew Gregory Lewis
We found 1474 matches on Performance Comments, 1121 matches on Author, 187 matches on Performance Title, 165 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2776
06 June 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets delivered for this Evening [Account-Book: by Appleby, Bayne, Dale Jun., Daglish, Douglas, Gardiner, Gillis, Kirk, Lyon, Standen, Pilsbury, Mrs Lewis] will be admitted. Receipts: #192 1s. (7.11.0; 2.14.6; 0.15.6; tickets: 181.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Dance: End: Minuet de la Cour and Allemande-Kirk, Miss J. Stageldoir

2777
09 June 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets delivered for this Evening [Account-Book: by Benson, Bourk, Booth, Dale, Johnston, Jones, Purser, Walker, Miss Davies, Mrs Heard, Mrs Lewis, Miss Stageldoir] will be admitted. [Afterpiece in place of The Doctor and the Apothecary, advertised on playbill of 8 June.] Receipts: #257 2s. 6d. (19.7.0; 7.8.6; 1.10.0; tickets: 228.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: II: a Dance-Hamoir, Miss Stageldoir; End: Highland Reel, as17890502, but Bourk, _Keen

Song: I: the Sheep@shearing Song-Miss Romanzini

2778
15 December 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The playbill announces The Suspicious Husband, but "The performance at this house was changed yesterday evening in consequence of the indisposition of Lewis, and Rose and Colin with The German Hotel were substituted for The Suspicious Husband"(Diary, 16 Dec.).] Receipts: #145 14s. 6d. (135.4.6; 10.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rose And Colin

Afterpiece Title: The German Hotel

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

2779
11 May 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Hue and Cry

Performance Comment: Characters-Whitfield Hollingsworth, Bland, Bannister Jun., Burton, Suett, Phillimore, Williames, Maddocks, Lyons, Alfred, Webb, Miss Collins, Mrs Williames; Larpent MS lists the parts: Count Abeville, Don Lewis, Don Juan, Perroquet, Fabio, Sanchez, Corregidore, Jailor, Grim, Donna Leonora, Inis. Prologue-Bannister Jun.

2780
25 November 1794 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Lewis, but he "was prevented, by a cold and hoarseness, from performing the part of Gingham" (Morning Herald 27 Nov.). The name of his subsitute is not mentioned.] Receipts: #308 2s. (294.14; 13.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rage

Afterpiece Title: Hercules and Omphale

2781
10 January 1795 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [as mainpiece the playbill announces The Dramatist, but "In consequence of the indisposition of Lewis, The Dramatist was obliged to be postponed...The Comedy of Errors was the substitute" (Morning Post, 12 Jan.).] Receipts: #220 2s. (190.0; 30.2),

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comedy Of Errors

Afterpiece Title: Hercules and Omphale

2782
30 May 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Song: In: The Blue Bell of Scotland, as18000512; accompanied on the Lute, as18000512; In course Evening: Crazy Jane-Mrs Bland; In 3rd piece: a new ballad, The Fisherman and the River Queen (Written and Composed by M. G. Lewis, Esq, M. P., Author of Crazy Jane.)-Mrs Bland

Performance Comment: G. Lewis, Esq=, M. P., Author of Crazy Jane.)-Mrs Bland.