SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr R"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr R")') 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 4401 matches on Event Comments, 2730 matches on Performance Comments, 549 matches on Performance Title, 24 matches on Roles/Actors, and 23 matches on Author.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon Or The Two Sosias

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Event Comment: The United Company. The date of the first performance is not known, but the play was noticed in the Gentleman's Journal, April 1692 (licensed 13 April 1692) as having been acted "last month" (March). It was entered in the Term Catalogues, May 1692. Gentleman's Journal, April 1692 (licensed 13 April 1692): The Traytor, an old Tragedy, hath not only been revived the last Month, but also been reprinted with Alterations and Amendments; It was suppos'd to be Shirly's, but he only usher'd it in to the Stage; the Author of it was one Mr Rivers a Jesuite, who wrote it in his Confinement in Newgate, where he died. It hath always been esteemed a very good Play, by the best Judges of Dramatick Writing

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Mainpiece Title: The Traytor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Regulus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens Or The Death Of Alexander The Great

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Duke And No Duke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maids Last Prayer Or Any Rather Than Fail

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Mainpiece Title: The Wary Widow Or Sir Noisy Parrat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Richmond Heiress

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lancashire Witches

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage Or The Innocent Adultery

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

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Mainpiece Title: The Ambitious Slave Or A Generous Revenge

Event Comment: The United Company. The date of the first performance is not known, but a notice in the Gentleman's Journal, October@November 1694, suggests that it was pro6ably acted in September or October: I have only jusy room to tell you, that we have had a new Comedy by Mr Ravenscroft, 'tis call'd, The Canterbury Jests, or a Bargain Broken (p. 276). Tne play was advertised in the London Gazette, No 3037, 17-20 Dec. 1694. A song, Good neighbor, why do you look away, set by Henry Purcell, is in Thesaurus Musicus, 1695. See also Purcell's Works, Purcell Society, XVI (1906), xiii-xv

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Canterbury Guests Or A Bargain Broken