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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "May"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "May")') 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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2030 results for: Keyword - May
We found 1809 matches on Event Comments, 175 matches on Performance Comments, 72 matches on Performance Title, 59 matches on Roles/Actors, and 1 matches on Author.

676
April 1701 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By Charles Gildon. Date of premiere unknown. Published 20 May.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Victim; Or, The Queen Of Wales

677
April 1701 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By George Farquhar. Date of premiere unknown. Published 13 May

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Harry Wildair

678
31 May 1701 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bath; Or, The Western Lass

Performance Comment: Edition of 1701 lists: Lord Lovechace-Griffin; Sir Oliver Oldgame-Norris; Sir Carolus Codshead-Johnson; Collonel Philip-Mills; Charles-Pinkiman; Harry-Bullock; Crab-Cibber; Lydia-Mrs Knight; Sophronia-Mrs Rogers; Delia-Mrs Kent; Gillian-Mrs Verbruggen; Combrush-Mrs Moor; Dearnwell-Mrs Stephens; Sisse-Mrs Baker; Prologue-Cibber; Epilogue, being a Satyr upon May-Fair,-Pinkeman.
Cast
Role: being a Satyr upon May Actor: Fair,-Pinkeman.

679
May 1702 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By John Dennis. Date of premiere unknown. Published 19 May.] Dedication: Falstaffe 's part...was by no means acted to the satisfaction of the Audience, upon which several fell from disliking the Action to disapproving the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Gallant; Or, The Amours Of Sir John Falstaffe

680
26 November 1702 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Colley Cibber. Premiere.] And it is humbly desir'd, that no Gentleman may Interrupt the Action by standing on the Stage the First day. Preface to Ximena (1719): The Kind Imposter did not pay the Charges on the Sixth Day

Performances

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

681
12 March 1703 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Benefit Edward Keene. Tickets (5s.) may be had at Keene's house in Arundel Street in the Strand. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-all the same Masters [who perform'd at his [Edward Keene's] last Meeting

682
15 May 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Gasperini. [It is uncertain on which date this performance occurred. It is advertised in Daily Courant, 13 May, for the 15th; but a playbill with essentially the same offerings for the eighteenth is reproduced in Thaler, facing p. 262.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Music: Gasperini, Paisible

Dance: DuRuel

Song: Mrs Campion

683
21 May 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Johnson. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the Famous Ben. Johnson. [First announced for 19 May-see a playbill in the British Museum (Press Mark 11795 g 19)--it was deferred by the "extream hot Weather."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone

684
24 May 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of some Persons of Quality who are going out of Town. [Volpone, intended for this day, is deferred to 25 May.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens; Or, The Man-hater

Music: A Mask set to Musick by the late Mr Henry Purcell-; Italian Sonatas-Gasperini

685
09 May 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Genest, II, 309, lists Don John; or, The Libertine Destroy'd, probably as a mistake for 1 May

Performances

686
18 May 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Betterton. [Genest, II, 309, lists this for 16 May.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music , to be expressed in the large Bills-

687
20 October 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mrs Mosse may well have been the dancer advertised in 1703-4 as the Devonshire Girl.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Taming Of The Shrew; Or, Sawny The Scot

Dance: Country Farmer's Daughter, Highland Lilt-Mrs Mosse; Whip of Dunboyn, an Irish Humour-Claxton, her Master

688
30 April 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. With the proper Scenes belonging to the Music. It being the last time of Acting till after May Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift; Or, The Fool In Fashion

Song: As17050410 particularly the Frost Music in Act IV of King Arthur, composed by Henry Purcell-

Dance: As17050303

689
May 1705 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: [By Mary Griffith Pix. Date of premiere unknown. Downes (p. 48) states that it was acted at the beginning of May 1705 and that it expired on the sixth day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conquest Of Spain

690
29 May 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these Five Years [but see 28 May]. Written by Mr Otway

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldier's Fortune

Song:

Dance:

691
03 March 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Moore. [This performance may have been deferred; see 6 and 17 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Song: Leveridge, others

Music: Instrumental Music-the best Masters

Dance: duRuel, Cherrier, Miss Santlow, others

692
13 May 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [in Daily Courant, 7 May, Thomyris had been advertised by subscription for Saturday 10 and Thursday 15 at two guineas for three tickets on each day, the number not to exceed 420 in the front boxes, side boxes, and pit, all to be laid together.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Thomyris, Queen Of Scythia

693
15 November 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. All Sung after the Italian manner. [in Post Boy, 13-15 Nov., a notice states: "Whereas the Names of Mrs Margarita del'Epine and Mrs Tofts, are mention'd in the Bills for the Opera of Camilla, as if they were to perform the parts of Prenesto and Camilla...That the Publick may not be impos'd upon, This is to give Notice, that the same is done without their Consent; and that they do not intend to perform; there being no Articles of Agreement between them and the Managers...who have of late declin'd coming to any with them."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Dance: Between the Acts:

694
12 February 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [by Richard Estcourt]: Mr Bayes's Practice of an Interlude, call'd, Prunella, done from the Italian. Benefit Estcourt. And at the Request of many of the Nobility (who have taken Tickets) 2 Benches of the Pit will be Rail'd in, for more Conveniency. And to prevent any Disappointment, by coming late, 'tis desire'd that their Servants may be sent by 2 a Clock with the Tickets to keep Places

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Prunella

695
01 May 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Being the last time of Acting till after May-Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

696
24 February 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Benefit Wilks. [According to Baggs, Wilks cleared #90 14s. 9d. at his benefit, and the receipts may have been #176 2s. 1 1!2d.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

697
02 May 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Thurmond. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [See also Tatler, 3 May.

Performances

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

698
10 May 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Fairbank. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [See also Tatler, 12 May.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

699
11 May 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by the famous Ben. Johnson. [See also Tatler, 12 May.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

700
24 May 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Finch and Mrs Kent. See also Tatler, 24 May

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach