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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 School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Related Works
Related Work: The History of King Lear Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: King Lear Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: V: The Mountaineers, as17730930; End I Farce: The Irish Fair, as17730918

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian, King Of Portugal

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: End: The Old Ground Young, as17731208

Event Comment: Oratorio: Written by the late Dr Hawksworth. Set to music by Stanley. Books of the Oratorio may be had of Mr Condell, in Cross St., Bow St., Covent Garden, and at the theatre the night of the performance. Price 1s. [This night Wm. Kenrick delivered his tenth, and apparently last, lecture on The School of Shakespeare. It was on King Lear, and very little could be said in favor of any of his remarks on the passages he selected...[he closed by] presenting the audience an act from Falstaff's Wedding." Monthly Miscellany (April 1774, p. 191), which had reviewed all of his lectures, had commented upon the increasing popularity of them as evidenced by the numbers attending, and presented an engraving of Kenrick in action before his audience.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of Egypt

Music: As17740218

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Related Works
Related Work: The Tempest Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The King and The Miller of Mansfield

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Country Madcap

Dance: End: The Old Ground Young, as17731208

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prince Of Agra

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17731005

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part I

Related Works
Related Work: Henry the Fourth, Part I Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Henry ye Fourth, Part II Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Henry the Sixth: The First Part, With The Murder of Humphrey Duke of Glocester Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: The Misery of Civil War Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Song: II: The Song of Mad Tom will be sung in Character-Reinhold

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

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

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: End: The Old Ground Young, as17731208; After which: New Poetical Interlude, Henry and Emma: Parts-Smith, Hull, Miss Brown, Mrs Hartley; To conclude with: a New Air and Chorus by Dr Arne-

Related Works
Related Work: The Twins; or, A Comedy of Errors Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: The Winter's Tale Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: The Comedy of Errors Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: The History of Timon of Athens, the Man-Hater Author(s): William Shakespeare

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lover

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies Frolick

Song: II: Rise Glory-Mrs Wrighten

Dance: V: The Sailors Revels, as17730928

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: A Triple Hornpipe-Miss Matthews, Miller, Eves; being his first appearance. The two last, scholars to Fishar. A New Dance with Baskets of Flowers[, in which introduced, by particular desire, a Minuet and Allemande-Fishar, Sga Manesiere; [her first appearance this season. A New Grand Ballet, The Black Prince's Festival- (that night only); Prince-Fishar; Pages-Blurton, Miller; Favourites-Miss Twist, Miss Valois; [See17720424.] A New Serious Ballet-Miss Parish[, a Child of Ten Years of age, with only 4 months' instruction, Apprentice to Fishar, her first appearance

Related Works
Related Work: The Universal Passion Author(s): William Shakespeare

Ballet: The Favorite Comic Ballet, first time this season, The Wapping Landlady. Jack-Fishar; Landlady-Banks; Orange Woman-Miss Twist [see17730424]; [with Sixfold Hornpipe- [see17730424]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End I Afterpiece: The Irish Fair, as17730918

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 Deserter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Monologue: End: (By Desire) Linco's Travels. As 14 March

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Related Works
Related Work: The History of King Lear Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: King Lear Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Swindlers

Dance: V: The Irish Fair, as17730918

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius

Afterpiece Title: The Conjuror

Dance: V: The Mountaineers, as17730930

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Related Works
Related Work: Twelfth Night Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Love Betray'd; or, The Agreable Disapointment Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Dance: II: A Minuet, Allemande-Master Burn, Miss Burn (Scholars of Giorgi); IV: A New Hornpipe-Master Burn

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Fathers

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Entertainment: End Act II: Hippisley's Drunken Man-Weston

Dance: End: The Mountaineers, as17730930

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Ii

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Song: End Act III: Ode to Masonry-Vernon, Dodd, Bannister

Entertainment: Imitations-Bannister (last time this season)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Related Works
Related Work: The Merchant of Venice Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: The Jew of Venice Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies Frolick

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Walker; End: The Mountaineers, as17730930

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Related Works
Related Work: Cymbeline Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: The Injured Princess; or, The Fatal Wager Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies Frolick

Dance: End: A Hornpipe-Walker