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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: The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: Between the acts: Duquesnay, Miss Street, scholars of Gherardi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Catches And Glees

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orators

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

Dance: As17680530

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

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

Afterpiece Title: Flora; or, Hob in the Well

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

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

Dance: TThe Lilliputian Camp-

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

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

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Countess Of Salisbury

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: End: The Wake, as17680929

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Dance: M Daguville, 1st appearance, Mrs King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: I: A New Pantomime Dance, as17681116

Event Comment: MMiss Morris was a pupil of Mr Colman's--She was very much approved by the public in the character of Juliet. On the sixth night of her appearance on the stage she was taken ill, and died before the end of this season. See the Bill for her Benefit (Hopkins MS Notes). Afterpiece: Not acted these 6 years. [See 19 May 1762.] [The Occasional Prologue, by Colman, is Larpent MS 288, which introduces Miss Morris as Juliet, and stresses the qualms and fears of a new performer.] Receipts: #227 19s. 6d. (Account Book). Lloyd's Evening Post, 28-30 Nov.: Sir: The managers of both theatres have of late, in order to put a stop to the Public complaint against a dearth of actors, given trials to several stage candidates that seemed to have any promising requisite. Such experiments have not proved fruitless. The most brilliant and interesting of which was the young lady's appearance on Covent Garden Theatre last night, in the character of Juliet. So great was her terror, on presenting herself for the first time before a crowded audience, that, deprived of all her powers, she fell down on the stage in a swoon. The first act in consequence, was all terror on her side, all compassion and anxiety on that of the audience. But having had time between the first and second Acts to recover from her panic, she shone forth in the Balcony Scene the most pleasing promise of a young tragic actress that has been seen for half a century past, and continued so throughout. Her person is genteel, her tone of voice insinuating, variable, and melodious; her recitation is just and sensible; very affecting in the pathetic parts; condescending, free, and polite are the familiar speeches with the Nurse. She is happily devoid of all stage whine, and tragedy Cant. The manner she has been rudimented in does great honour to her instructors, who have so judiciously prevented the so excellent actor of this verily a Shakespeare's Juliet, from being sophisticated by the studied tricks, and false ornamenting of mistaken modern and degenerate art

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Related Works
Related Work: Romeo and Juliet Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: The History and Fall of Caius Marius Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Dance: II: A Dance call'd The Reel-Aldridge, Miss Valois, Sga Manesiere. [See17680307.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zingis

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: End: The Reel, as17681212

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: New Comic Dance, as17681210

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock