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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Cooper"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Cooper")') 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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We found 4282 matches on Event Comments, 1164 matches on Performance Comments, 600 matches on Performance Title, 20 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Cooper, Printer, as per bill #39 18s. (Account Book). Receipts: #183 2s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Event Comment: Paid Cooper (printer) as per bill, #41 9s. (Account Book). Went to Covent Garden-could not get into either Pit or Gallery, so came home (Neville MS Diary). Receipts: #230 18s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Event Comment: Paid Cooper (printer) on account #21 (Account Book). Receipts: #187 8s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Event Comment: Paid Cooper (printer) #16 4s. (Account Book). Receipts: #206 4s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Wilford. Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years. [See 30 Sept. 1761.] Last time of performing till the holidays. Charges #64 10s. [Profit to Miss Wilford #36 plus #130 16s. from tickets (Box 353; Pit 261; Gallery 34).] (Account Book). Paid Cooper (printer) #44 13s. 2d. (Account Book). Receipts: #100 10s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: I: The Sicilian Peasants-Sga Manesiere, Miss Wilford [see17641001]; To conclude with the Original Dance[, in the characters of an Old Man and Old Woman-Arnauld, Miss Poitier; III: A Minuet-Fishar, Miss Wilford

Event Comment: Paid Cooper (printer's) Bill #14 8s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #185 8s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Barbarossa

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: End: The Corsican Sailor's Punch House-Miss Twist, Fishar, Hussey, Mas. Blurton, Miss Capon

Event Comment: Paid Cooper (printer) #41 11s.; Paid Pattinson (tallow chandler) #38 15s. (Account Book). Receipts: #97 12s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: End: The Jovial Gardners, as17711104

Event Comment: Paid Cooper (printer) #43 1s.; Paid McMillen (shoemaker) #30 5s. (Account Book). Receipts: #146 7s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Event Comment: Sixth Night. For the Author. Charges #68 18s. 6d. Profit to author #97 18s. 6d. Paid Cooper (printer) #41 14s.; Paid Mrs Leverton (mantua maker) #32 6s.; Paid Younger for writing parts #11 3s. 1d. (Account Book). Receipts: #166 17s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zobeide

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Dance: End Comedy: A Comic Dance, as17711031

Event Comment: Tenth Night for the Tragedy. Paid Sarjant for a Trumpet Banner #2 10s. Paid Cooper (printer) #45 (Account Book). Receipts: #161 17s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zobeide

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Event Comment: Paid Cooper (printer) as per bill #31 7s. (Account Book). Receipts: #190 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Dance: II Comedy: Comic Dance, as17711031

Event Comment: Benefit for Dyer. Charges #64 10s. Profit to Dyer #24 8s. 6d., plus #110 4s. from tickets (Box 250; Pit 190; Gallery 172). Paid Cooper (printer) #40 11s. (Account Book). Receipts: #88 18s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: End: The Old ground Young, as17711030

Event Comment: Benefit for Condell, Potter and Evans (box-keepers). Charges #81 5s. Deficit to the Box Keepers #14 7s. 6d. apiece, cover'd by income from tickets: Condell #67 3s. (Box 169; Pit 116; Gallery 75); Potter #56 (Box 116; Pit 102; Gallery 117); Evans #83 13s. (Box 151; Pit 228; Gallery 117). Paid Cooper (printer) #33 10s. 6d.; Paid Richards (painter) as per bill #6 16s. 6d.; Paid Dr Arne for composing two songs one in Comus, the other in Twelfth Night #6 6s. (Account Book). Receipts: #38 2s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: IV: The Lilt, as17720326

Event Comment: Paid Cooper (printer) #20 19s. (Account Book). Receipts: #166 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: II: The Fingalian Dance with Double Hornpipe, as17721009

Event Comment: Afterpiece [by Bickerstaffe]: a Musical Entertainment never performed there before. The Cnaracters new dress'd. [Daphne identified by Winston MS 10 and by Kemble note on playbill.] Paid Cooper (printer) #42 1s. (Account Book). [Reviewer for Town and Country Magazine commends Miss Wewitzer for the lower register of her voice. Belives she will be a credit to her tutor, Griffiths the Organist."] Receipts: #181 4s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17721012

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Paid Bellamy and Settree (mercers) #122 8s.; Paid Cooper (printer) #42 11s.; Paid Stedman and Bowley (linnen drapers) #39 (Account Book). Receipts. #154 8s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All's Well That Ends Well

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: II: The Bird Catchers, as17721207

Event Comment: Paid Cooper (printer) #42 8s., and Mrs Lynn for a Lady's white and gold Flower'd suit of Cloaths #12 12s. (Account Book). Receipts: #141 16s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fox

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Cooper (printer) #42 8s. (Account Book). Receipts: #146 9s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A Comedy [by Richard Cumberland] never performed there. Paid John Doe for sticking Black Bills #3 12s. Paid Cooper (printer) as per bill #20 2s. (Account Book). [The Westminster Magazine held in reserve its judgment on Lewis as an actor until the reviewer could see him in another part.] Receipts: #137 4s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Event Comment: Paid Cooper (printer) #42 11s. Receipts: #125 15s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Widows; or, The Fair Libertine Author(s): Elizabeth Cooper

Dance: II: Aldridge, Miss Capon

Event Comment: The Miser oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of Indisposition of Mrs Green. Paid Stedman and Bewlay (linnen drapers) #79 16s. Paid Cooper (printer) #49 18s. Receipts: #108 8s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

Dance: End: A Dance, as17731014

Event Comment: The New Comedy, The Man of Business is still deferr'd on account of Woodward's Illness. Paid Pattinson (tallow chandler) #49 13s. Paid Cooper (printer) #42 8s. (Account Book). Receipts: #202 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs

Event Comment: Paid Cooper (printer) #48 2s.; and Pattinson (tallow chandler) #32 10s. Receipts: #152 5s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Event Comment: The Fifteenth Night. For the Author. Charges #64 5s. Profit to Hull #51 9s., plus #68 15s. from tickets (Box 151; Pit 134; Gallery 109). Paid Holme & Cooper (timber merchants) #69 8s.; Paid Evans (sawyer) #3 1s. Receipts: #115 14s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: End: The Frolick, as17740416

Event Comment: Benefit for Sarjant (Box-book and House-keeper). Charges #83 16s. Deficit to Sarjant #24 19s., cover'd by income from tickets, #168 14s. (Box 467; Pit 293; Gallery 80). Paid Cooper (printer) #40 15s. and Huddy (rope merchant) #2 11s. Receipts: #58 17s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton