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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Farquhar"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Farquhar")') 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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6501 results for: Keyword - Mr Farquhar
We found 4241 matches on Event Comments, 1145 matches on Performance Comments, 1076 matches on Author, 528 matches on Performance Title, and 2 matches on Roles/Actors.

1901
08 December 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duel

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

1902
19 January 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Related Works
Related Work: The Constant Couple; or, A Trip to the Jubilee Author(s): George Farquhar
Related Work: Sir Harry Wildair: Being the Sequel of the Trip to the Jubilee Author(s): George Farquhar

1903
05 January 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: As17780919

1904
08 March 1707 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Written by the Author of the Recruiting Officer [George Farquhar]. Never Acted before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Related Works
Related Work: The Stratagem Author(s): George Farquhar

1905
18 November 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Farquhar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Related Works
Related Work: The Stratagem Author(s): George Farquhar

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: As17371116

1906
01 February 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Farquhar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Related Works
Related Work: The Stratagem Author(s): George Farquhar

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: As17380125

1907
09 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Castelman, the Treasurer. Mainpiece: Written by Farquhar. [Tickets at Castelman's Lodgings, at Watford's, Russel Street, Bloomsbury

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Related Works
Related Work: The Stratagem Author(s): George Farquhar

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Tambourine-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; II: Maggot-Haughton, Mrs Walter; IV: Polish Dance-Haughton, Mrs Walter; V: Drunken Peasant-Philips

Song: III: Beard

1908
09 February 1750 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: A Concert, etc. by the English Anti-Gallic Company that perform'd the Beggar's Opera last Season. Play translated from Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer. Prices: 5s., 3s., 2s. None to be admitted into the Boxes, but with printed Tickets, which will be delivered at the Office of the said Theatre. To begin at Six o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'officier En Recrue

1909
31 October 1755 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Farquhar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant, Or, The Way To Win Him

Related Works
Related Work: The Inconstant: or, The Way to Win Him Author(s): George Farquhar
Related Work: The Inconstant Author(s): George Farquhar

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

1910
13 May 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Rainton, Hawksby, Peacop &c. Tickets (Cross) Tickets delivered for The Fair Quaker will be taken, and those deliver'd by Mrs Bradshaw, Miss Farquhar, and Miss Smith (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #90 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

1911
16 April 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick. 3rd piece [1st time; F 1, author unknown. Not in Larpent MS; not published]: Altered from [the same by] Farquhar. Public Advertiser, 6 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Quick, No. 99, High Holbourn. Receipts: #324 1s. (156.4; 2.17; tickets: 165.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: Annette and Lubin

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach; or, Inn in an Uproar

Related Works
Related Work: The Stage-Coach; or, Inn in an Uproar Author(s): George Farquhar
Related Work: The Stage-Coach Author(s): George Farquhar

Entertainment: Monologue Before: Mother Shipton's Review of the Audience (Written By D. Garrick, Esq., with Alterations and Additions) (for that night only)-Quick

1912
26 January 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Richard Cumberland, based on The Beaux Stratagem, by George Farquhar. Prologue by the author (World, 27 Jan.). Epilogue by the same (Knapp, 150)]. Public Advertiser, 14 Feb. 1789: This Day is published The Impostors (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #254 (235.16; 17.9; 0.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Impostors

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

1913
12 December 1677 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

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

1914
20 June 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tartuffe; Or, The Hypocrite

1915
25 March 1756 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oratorio From First Book Of Paradise Regained

1916
14 September 1757 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Impromptu Faragolio

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Frolic

1917
17 December 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zingis

Afterpiece Title: The Absent Man

1918
01 March 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alonzo

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

1919
02 June 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Dance: II: A Dance, as17730506

1920
19 November 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Ring

1921
26 December 1677 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or, Alexander The Great

1922
November 1693 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

1923
07 December 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: By Poitier and Mlle Roland

1924
19 September 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: TThe German Hunters, as17580916

1925
17 December 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Dance: End: Reviv'd The Prussian Camp-Grimaldi, Aldridge, Lauchery, Miss Baker