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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Edwards"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Edwards")') 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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7050 results for: Keyword - Mr Edwards
We found 4400 matches on Event Comments, 1699 matches on Performance Comments, 959 matches on Author, 605 matches on Performance Title, and 10 matches on Roles/Actors.

2876
06 October 1699 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

2877
14 February 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tragical History Of King Richard The Third

2878
02 January 1714 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tragical History Of King Richard The Third

2879
22 April 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperour

Dance: Serious and Comic Dancing-

2880
29 April 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

Dance:

2881
20 April 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Ivth Part I

Song: Leveridge, Mrs Chambers

Dance: DuPre, Lally, Pelling, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Wall, Mrs Ogden; particularly a new Polonese-Lally, Mrs Wall; Myrtillo-

2882
21 February 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #170 9s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 236 paid; stage, 44 paid; balcony, 2 paid; Pit, 290 Paid and 3 orders; slips, 47 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 419 paid and 1 order; second gallery, 189 paid. For a comment on the play by Thomas Edwards, see V. M. Gilbert, Unrecorded Comments on John Gay, Henry Travers, and Others, Notes and Queries, August 1953, pp. 337-38

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

2883
03 December 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By Ebenezer Forrest.] By Command of His Royal Highness. After the Manner of the Beggar's Opera. All the Habits and Scenes entirely New. Receipts: #161 18s. 6d. [For a comment on this performance, see Thomas Edwards to John Clerke, "Unrecorded Comments on John Gay, Henry Travers, and Others", N & Q (August 1953), p. 338.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Momus Turnd Fabulist Or Vulcans Wedding

2884
31 March 1732 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

2885
16 May 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: SScot's Dance-Mrs Bullock; Pierrot and Pierraite-deVallois, J. Delagarde; Friendly Lasses-Miss Wherrit, Miss Sandham; Masquerade Dance-

Song: Excell

2886
05 May 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: IV: Pastoral by Mrs Bullock. V: La Follette c'est Ravizee by Tench and Mrs Woodward

Song: II: old Anacreon (composed by Leveridge) sung by Nicholls in the Character of an Old Man. III: Waterman's Song, as17350502

2887
19 May 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Raftor, Edwards, Beckham

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreckd

Dance: I: Punches-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; II: Two Pierots-Leviez, Pelling; III: Chacone-Miss Kilby; In IV: French Peasants-Poitier, Mlle Roland

Song: V: The Life of a Beau-Mrs Clive

2888
08 May 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Leviez, Edwards, Beckham

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreckd

Dance: I: Miller's Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Morrison; II: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg; III: French Peasants-Leviez, Mrs Walter; IV: Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

2889
31 January 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: As 10 Dec. 1740. [For a discussion of recent Shakespearean performances, see Thomas Edwards to Richard Owen Cambridge, 31 January 1740@41 in Bodleian MS. 1009, pp. 140-41.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Dance: LLes Masons & Les Sabotiers-Fausan, Signora Fausan; Les Matelotes-Fausan, Signora Fausan

2890
28 May 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Edwards, Fenn, Fulwood, Fuller

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song: I: Blow Blow-Lowe; IV: The Noon@Tide Air-Lowe; V: Revenge Timotheus Cries (a favourite song in Alexander's Feast)-Savage

Dance: II: Minuet-Liviez, Miss Story; III: Le Matelote Tambourine-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

Music: IV: The March in Zara-; end Afterpiece: Preamble on Kettle Drum-Jo. Woodbridge

2891
01 April 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved Or A Plot Discoverd

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: TThe Leek, as17420224

2892
23 March 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Messiah

Performance Comment: . Sopranos-Signora Avogli (or Miss Edwards), Mrs Clive; Contralto-Mrs Cibber; Tenor-Beard; Bass-Reinhold. (Deutsch, p. 564.)

Music: Concerto on Organ-; Violin Solo-DuBourg

2893
26 April 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

2894
12 May 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mayle and Edwards. Tickets deliver'd by Taswell and others will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: II: Lowe

Dance: III: Serious Ballet, as17430425 IV: La Florana, as17430408

2895
01 February 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

2896
21 March 1744 @ Crown and Anchor Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Friendship

Performance Comment: Beard, Savage, Mrs Clive, Miss Edwards.

2897
10 May 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Cooke, Mlle Domitilla

2898
05 March 1745 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequino Triumphante

2899
11 March 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Dance: Cooke, Sga Campioni

2900
28 March 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Dance: Cooke, Lalauze, Picq, Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde

Song: (BBy Particular Desire) the song made on the Famous Sea Fight at La Hogue-Beard, in the characters of a sailor