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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Richard Sheridan"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Richard Sheridan")') 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 4663 matches on Event Comments, 2037 matches on Author, 1836 matches on Performance Comments, 1224 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: II: A New Cantata-Beard; III: Hooly and Fairly by Desire-Beard; V: Rule Britannia-Beard, chorus; Britons Strike Home sung in Character-Beard, accompanied with a chorus

Music: IV: A Piece upon the Harp-Parry

Dance: ll concluding with% Hornpipe-Mathews

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: III: New Comic Dance-Three Sabatinis, as17550203

Song: B$Beard particularly at the End: Rule Britannia, as17550402 Britons Strike Home in character and accompanied with a Chorus, as17550402 Concluding with: a Hornpipe-Mathews

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: Beard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: Marplot in Lisbon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Song: I: By particular desire, Hooly and Fairly-Beard

Dance: II: As17550203

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: As17550203

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: II: The Running Footmen-Morris, Walker; III: The Minuet, Louvre-Dennison, Mrs Addison; IV: Comic Dance by Three Sabatinis, as17550203

Song: V: Rule Britanniaby Beard, as17550402 concluding with a Hornpipe-Morris

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Lady Moore; or, the Dragoness

Dance: CComic Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Britannia

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb the Great

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Song: Tymms

Dance: PPierots Dance-Settree, Walker, Sga Fiorentina; Hornpipe-small jolly Tar (seven years old); La Dance de Village-Settree, Sga Fiorentina

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: PPierrots Dance-Settree, Walker, Sga Fiorentina; Hornpipe-a small jolly Tar, seven years old; La Dance de Village-Settree, Sga Fiorentina

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Injur'd Merchant; Or, The Extravagant Son

Afterpiece Title: The Jew in Distress; or, Harlequin turn'd Sharper

Song: Phillips, Mrs Vaux, Mrs St.John

Dance: Phillips, Mrs Vaux, Mrs St.John

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Opera Of The Fairies

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: Guerin, first appearance on the English stage, Mlle Capdeville

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: IV: Lilliputian Sailors, as17551104

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: As17551101

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Andromaca

Dance: With new Dances- [repeated several times]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: The Chinese Festival

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Chinese Festival