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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: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Britannia

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

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

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

Event Comment: The Last New English Opera, Taken from Shakespeare's Midsummer-Night's Dream. The Music compos'd by Mr Smith. Nothing under full prices will be taken during the whole performance. [See Genest, IV, 407.] Receipts: #140 (Cross)

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

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

Afterpiece Title: The Chinese Festival

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: As17551101; Granier, Miss Hilliard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: LLilliputian Sailors, as17551104

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: IV: A Hornpipe-Mathews

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. This Morning at Ten will be publish'd at 6d. An Epistle from Mr The. Cibber to David Garrick, Esq; to which are prefix'd some occasional verses, Petitions, &c.: @Lowliness is young Ambition's ladder,@Whereto the Climber upwards turns his face;@But when he once attains the upmost Round,@He then unto the ladder turns his back,@Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees@By which he did ascend.@Shakespeare@"Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so we would have it; let them not say, we have swallow'd him up," Ps. XXXV. v.25. Printed for R. Griffiths. [A thirty-five-page apologia, and bitter attack upon Garrick for supposed complicity in prohibiting the license of the Haymarket to him.] Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Non Juror

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: As17551101

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

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: IV: Peasant Dance-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: [But unspecified.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'olimpiade

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies

Dance: A New Dance-