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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Ben Johnson"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Ben Johnson")') 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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7790 results for: Keyword - Mr Ben Johnson
We found 4589 matches on Event Comments, 2635 matches on Performance Comments, 974 matches on Author, 542 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3801
January 1664 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pompey The Great

3802
20 April 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

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3803
12 September 1667 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tu Quoque; Or, The City Gallant

3804
04 February 1668 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Horace

3805
12 May 1669 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Virgin; Or, The Unjust Judge

3806
March 1672 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Third Of France Stabb'd By A Fryer: With The Fall Of The Duke Of Guise

3807
09 August 1673 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man's The Master

3808
12 January 1675 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

3809
10 May 1675 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In The Dark; Or, The Man Of Bus'ness

3810
12 June 1675 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Libertine

3811
July 1675 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man Out His Humour

Related Works
Related Work: Every Man In His Humour Author(s): Ben Jonson

3812
September 1675 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alcibiades

3813
29 January 1676 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gloriana; Or, The Court Of Augustus Caesar

3814
11 March 1676 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode; Or, Sir Fopling Flutter

3815
25 May 1676 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Virtuoso

3816
September 1676 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Town-fopp; Or, Sir Timothy Tawdry

3817
04 November 1676 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p.408. It is not certain that this was the premiere, but, as the play was licensed for publication on 20 Nov. 1676, the first performance may well have been on this day. A song, Away with the causes of riches and cares, with music by Matthew Lock, is in Catch that Catch Can, No. 64, 1685. Another, Beneath a shady willow, with music by William Turner, is in A New Collection of Songs and Poems...by Thomas D'Urfey, 1683. Edition of 1677: That its only good Fortune was, in being the Subject of the Courts Diversion, where their Noble Clemency and Good Nature were extremely requisite, in covering its defects from the too Censorious; His Majesty, according to His accustomed Royal and Excellent Temper, was pleas'd to descend so far, as to give it a particular Applause, which was seconded by your Grace [The Duke of Ormond]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Madam Fickle; Or, The Witty False One

3818
December 1676 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Titus And Berenice

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

3819
September 1677 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Babylon

3820
17 January 1678 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Patient Fancy

3821
February 1678 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. The date of the premiere is not known, but a licensing date of 28 March 1678 suggests a first performance not later than February 1678. One song, One night while all the village slept, with music by Louis Grabu and words by Sir Car Scroop, is in Choice Ayres and Songs, The Third Book, 1681. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 17): Major Mohun...[in] Mithridates, &c. An Eminent Poet seeing him Act this last, vented suddenly this Saying: Oh Mohun, Mohun! Thou little Man of Mettle, if I should write a 100 Plays, I'd Write a Part for thy Mouth; in short, in all his Parts, he was most Accurate and Correct. [Downes, p. 12, gives an identical cast except for omissions.] Princess Anne apparently played Ziphares and Frances Apsley played Semandra in a production of this drama, probably at St James's Palace or at Sir Allen Apsley's house in St James's Square, between January 1677@8 and August 1679. See Benjamin Bathurst, Letters of Two Queens (London, 1924), p. 61

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mithridates, King Of Pontus

3822
February 1678 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rambling Justice; Or, The Jealous Husbands; With The Humours Of Sir John Twiford

3823
March 1678 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Newmarket

3824
21 March 1678 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A True Widow

3825
05 April 1678 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Friendship In Fashion