SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Duke"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Duke")') 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 5120 matches on Event Comments, 2253 matches on Performance Comments, 856 matches on Performance Title, 420 matches on Author, and 2 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Cast
Role: Colin Actor: Dukes

Music: Select Pieces between the Acts

Dance: II: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. In IV: Grand Ballet by Essex, Mrs Walter, Villeneuve, Dukes, Davenport, Rector, Mrs Anderson, Miss Mann, Mrs Davenport, Miss Brett

Performance Comment: In IV: Grand Ballet by Essex, Mrs Walter, Villeneuve, Dukes, Davenport, Rector, Mrs Anderson, Miss Mann, Mrs Davenport, Miss Brett .
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Downes (p. 25) states that it was acted eight days successively, but as Pepys does not indicate whether he saw its first performance, the sequence of playing it is not known. Pepys, Diary: We [Mrs Pepys and Pepys] took coach and to the Duke's playhouse, where we saw The Duchess of Malfy well performed, but Betterton and Ianthe [Mrs Saunderson] to admiration. Downes (p. 25): This Play was so exceeding Excellently Acted in all Parts; chiefly, Duke Ferdinand and Bosola: It fill'd the House 8 Days Successively, it proving one of the Best of Stock Tragedies

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duchess Of Malfy

Performance Comment: Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 25): Duke Ferdinand-Harris; Bosola-Betterton; Antonio-Smith; Cardinal-Young; Dutchess of Malfey-Mrs Betterton [Mrs Saunderson]; Julia-Mrs Gibbs; [The edition of 1678 lists other performers who could have acted on this occasion: Delio-Midburn? [Medbourne]; Castruchio-Richards?; Sylvio-Cademan?; Pescara-Norris?; Molateste-Price?; Cariolo=-Mrs Norris?.
Cast
Role: Duke Ferdinand Actor: Harris

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Duke of York Actor: Miss Besford

Afterpiece Title: Duke and no Duke

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Perry

Dance: II: By Particular Desire, a Minuet-Dumai, a Young Lady his scholar; End: The Highland Reel, as17680307

Event Comment: Benefit for Hull and Macready. 1st piece: In Act I a Grand Banquet. With the Procession [in Act IV] from the Abbey at the Coronation of Anne Bullen . To conclude with the Ceremonial of a Royal Christening. [In 2nd piece the scenes, as listed on 10 May, are indicated.] Morning Herald, 20 May: Tickets to be had of Hull, No. 7, Duke's-court, Westminster; Diary, 21 May: of Macready, No. 3, Mary-street, Charles-street, Tottenham-Court-Road. Receipts: #282 14s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Performance Comment: King Henry-Holman (1st and only appearance in that character); Duke of Buckingham-Farren; Cranmer-Hull; Cromwell-Davies; Lord Chamberlain-Cubitt; Bishop of Winchester-Quick; Surrey-Macready; Duke of Norfold-Harley; Duke of Suffolk-Marshall; Cardinal Wolsey-Pope; Anne Bullen-Miss Chapman; Queen Catherine-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: Duke of Buckingham Actor: Farren
Role: Duke of Norfold Actor: Harley
Role: Duke of Suffolk Actor: Marshall

Afterpiece Title: The Sailor's Festival

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of A Day

Song: III: a song-Mrs Clendining

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Dance: LaBee, lately arriv'd from the Opera at Paris; also new dances-Thurmond Jr, others

Song: A Variety of English and Italian Songs-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: Between the Acts: Dancing-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: Drunken Man-Harper

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance:

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wedding and Skimmington

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wedding and Skimmington

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin a Sorcerer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Cheats of Harlequin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Cast
Role: Fawns Actor: Dupre, Lesac, Delagarde, Duke
Role: Grecians Actor: Dupre, Delagarde, Duke, Lesac

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda