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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Benj May"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Benj 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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7131 results for: Keyword - Mr Benj. May
We found 5678 matches on Event Comments, 1309 matches on Performance Comments, 607 matches on Performance Title, 19 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

6276
14 August 1758 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

6277
22 August 1758 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

6278
06 September 1758 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woman Turn'd Bully

6279
18 September 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

6280
10 October 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

6281
13 October 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Dance: TThe Millers, as17581012

6282
27 November 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Flora; or, Hob in the Well

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17581111; The Threshers, as17581016

6283
23 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Ballet: III: The Prussian Camp. As17581214

6284
25 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

6285
12 January 1759 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

6286
03 February 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

6287
23 March 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabeus

6288
24 March 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

6289
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.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus

6290
16 April 1759 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

6291
20 April 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Related Works
Related Work: The Suspicious Husband Author(s): Benjamin Hoadly

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

6292
21 April 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Of China

6293
21 April 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: I: The Roast Beef of Old England-Miss Hilliard; III: The Fingalian Dance, as17581111; End: A Dance (never perform'd before) call'd The Milkmaid's Holiday-Miss Hilliard

6294
30 April 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

6295
22 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

6296
29 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: HHornpipe-Walker

6297
26 July 1759 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Strattaggemma; Or, The Stratagem

Song: Before the Burletta: Singing-; several songs, a duetto-Signora Saratina, Reinhold

6298
13 August 1759 @ The Long Room, Hampstead

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Music: CConcerto on the Harpsichord-Stanley; solo on Violin-Hay

6299
17 September 1759 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Galligantus

6300
03 October 1759 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances