SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Duke Watson"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Duke Watson")') 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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Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Afterpiece Title: First Love

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Dance: End 2nd piece: New Dance-; in which The Princess of Wales's New Minuet and Gavot-J. and Miss D'Egville; and to conclude with a New Reel-Miss and Master Menage, Miss Phillips, Mrs Fialon, Miss S. and G. D'Egville

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Mainpiece Title: The Bank Note Or A Lesson For The Ladies

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

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Mainpiece Title: The Rage

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Dance: In afterpiece: Ballet-Byrn, Mlle St.Amand

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Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

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Mainpiece Title: The Fugitive

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Captive

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Mainpiece Title: The Wheel Of Fortune

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

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Mainpiece Title: The Purse

Afterpiece Title: The Merry Wives of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

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Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

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Mainpiece Title: Wives As They Were And Maids As They Are

Afterpiece Title: The Wicklow Mountains

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Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Afterpiece Title: An Entremets

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

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Mainpiece Title: The Jew

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Thieves

Afterpiece Title: The Village Fete

Song: End: Wigs-, including His own Wig, Doctor's Wig, Coachman's Wig; The Storm-Incledon; In 3rd piece: Chorusses, As17970518

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Mainpiece Title: The Purse

Afterpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

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Mainpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

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Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Song: As17980705

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Mainpiece Title: The Secret

Afterpiece Title: Feudal Times

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Mainpiece Title: The Funeral Or Grief A la mode

Afterpiece Title: Feudal Times

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Mainpiece Title: Zorinski

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Song: End II: Crazy Jane-Mrs Bland; End: a favorite Mock Italian Song-Fawcett

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Mainpiece Title: The Secret

Afterpiece Title: The Pavilion

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Mainpiece Title: The Egyptian Festival

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

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Mainpiece Title: What A Blunder

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary, 6 June 1660: My letters tell me...that the two Dukes do haunt the Park much, and that they were at a play, Madam Epicene, the other day

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Mainpiece Title: Madam Epicene

Event Comment: In Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 82, is a list of the plays acted by the Red Bull actors: The Humorous Lieutenant. Beggars Bushe. Tamer Tamed. The Traytor. Loves Cruelty. Wit without Money. Maydes Tragedy. Philaster. Rollo Duke of Normandy. Claricilla. Elder Brother. The Silent Woman. The Weddinge. Henry the Fourthe. Merry Wives of Windsor. Kinge and no Kinge. Othello. Damboys [Bussy D'Ambois]. The Unfortunate Lovers. The Widow. This list (see Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 203) apparently concerns plays revived by this company, some before 10 Sept. 1660, some afterward. (See also the list of plays at the opening of the season and also 6 and 23 June 1660.

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Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: To Blackfryars [presumably a slip for Whitefriars, Salisbury Court] (the first time I ever was there since plays begun), and there after great patience and little expectation, from so poor beginning, I saw three acts of The Mayd in ye Mill, acted to my great content. But it begin late, I left the play

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Mainpiece Title: The Maid In The Mill

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: Creed and I to Whitefriars to the Play-house, and saw The Mad Lover, the first time I ever saw it acted, which I like pretty well

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Mainpiece Title: The Mad Lover

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The British Museum copy of the 1653 copy of this play has, in an old hand: Deflores by Betterton. Pepys, Diary: Then by water to Whitefriars to the Play-house, and there saw The Changeling, the first time it hath been acted these twenty years, and it takes exceedingly. Besides, I see the gallants do begin to be tyred with the vanity and pride of the theatre actors who are indeed grown very proud and rich

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Mainpiece Title: The Changeling