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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Shakespear"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Shakespear")') 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 5026 matches on Event Comments, 1151 matches on Performance Comments, 532 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Collection Auction Of Pictures

Event Comment: [Benefit for Berry and Mrs Green. Stage form'd into Front and Side Boxes. Tickets of Hobson at stage door; or Berry at his lodgings in Little Bridges St., Covent Garden; and Mrs Green at her Lodgings at the Green Canister in Great Shier Lane, Carey St., Lincolns Inn. [This day one B. B. (presumably Macklin) inserted a letter to the author of the General Advertiser in that paper framing the historical background for the Lover's Melancholy, to be performed as benefit for his wife on 22 April. It gave a short account of the author (John Ford), his works in general, and of that dramatic piece in particular, and sought to align Ford as an intimate and profess'd admirer of Shakespeare. See comment for 23 April]. Receipts: #207 (Cross); house charges, #63 N.B.: Mr Berry paid, but at the rate o 60 pounds for his benefit, therefore I must make a draw back of #1 10s. for his half (Powel); cash, #88 9s. tickets, #118 12s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: [The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: [II: Savoyards, as17471215; V: Gondoliers-Cooke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Related Works
Related Work: Othello Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

Dance: Cooke, Janeton Auretti

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Afterpiece Title: A Will and No Will

Dance: II: The Savoyards, as17471215; V: Dutch Dance, as17471128

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Purgatory

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

Dance: II: Pastoral Dance, as17480326 III: Savoyards, as17471215; V: By Desire Les Characters de la Dance-Anne Auretti

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Dance: II: Pastoral Dance, as17480326 III: Les Characteres de La Dance-Ann Auretti; V: Dutch Dance, as17471128

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: III: Comic Dance, as17480506; V: Pastoral Dance, as17480326

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lover's Melancholy

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: II: Savoyards, as17471215; V: Pastoral Dance, as17480326

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: III: Tambourine-Anne Auretti; V: Dutch Dance, as17471128

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple; Or A Trip To The Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: Phillips

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragical History of King Richard III Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: New Pantomime Entertainment

Song: III: Genius of England-; End: New Mad Tom-Platt Sen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: As17481019

Music: As17481019

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved; Or, A Plot Discovered

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Related Works
Related Work: Much Ado About Nothing Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Much Ado about Nothing Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: The Law Against Lovers Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: The Universal Passion Author(s): William Shakespeare

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beaux Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom; or, The Virgin Unmasked

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Music: A Piece of Musick-the Child between the parts of the Auction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida