SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Vernon much Applause Hopkins Diary Benefit for Vernon "/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Vernon much Applause Hopkins Diary Benefit for Vernon ")') 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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Event Comment: Benefit Signora del'Epine. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hydaspes

Event Comment: Benefit Cole and Giles

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Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Performance Comment: See17091202, but Oroonoko-Booth; Aboan-Powell; Governor-Keene; Blandford-Bickerstaff; Daniel-Norris; Imoinda-Mrs Bradshaw; Widow Lackit-Mrs Knight .
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Role: Blandford Actor: Bickerstaff

Entertainment: To be expressed in the Bills

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Cross. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Hodgson

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Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Event Comment: Benefit Thurmond. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd Or A Plot Discoverd

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Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Powell and Hall. For the Entertainment of the Four Kings lately arriv'd from America

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Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

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Event Comment: [Benefit Bullock. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Queenborough

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Event Comment: Benefit the Author

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Mainpiece Title: Squire Brainless

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Elizabeth Hemmings. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality and for the Entertainment of the Mohocks and the 3 Indian Kings (Being the last Time of their Appearance in Publick). At 8 p.m. Tickets 5s

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and instrumental Music-the best Masters; Wherein in English and Italian several new Cantatas, other Pieces of Musick-Mrs Hemmings, others; She also accompanies to her own Voice in the Harpsicord, being the first Time of her Appearance in Publick-Mrs Hemmings

Event Comment: Benefit Mlle Isabella Girardau. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: Hydaspes

Event Comment: Benefit Newman and Mrs Willis

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Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Event Comment: Benefit Evans. For the Entertainment of Don Venturo Zary, the Emperour of Morocco's/Minister; and Elhadge Guzman, the Royal Messenger, (from the said Emperour Muley Ismael, to her Majesty) with their Attendants in their several Habits

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Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Event Comment: Benefit King, Dykes, Willmore, boxkeepers. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

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Event Comment: Benefit Husband. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Not Acted these Ten Years, [but see 4 July 1704]

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Mainpiece Title: The Villain Or The Officers In Winter Quarters

Event Comment: Benefit Underhill [in Daily Courant, 11 May, that Ancient Comedian Cave Underhill." In the same issue Ventoso had been advertised as by a Gentleman for his first appearance.

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Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Event Comment: Benefit Martin and Cartwright; [in Daily Courant, 13 May, Cartwright is gallery doorkeeper]

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Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

Event Comment: Benefit Pervill and Sherman. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Event Comment: Benefit Bowman.At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Event Comment: Benefit Booth and Keene. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Dance: Italian Night Scene-; Scaramouch-Layfield; Miller's Dance-Prince, Leigh

Event Comment: Benefit Cross. [In Daily Courant, 24 May, and later Penkethman announced his new theater in Greenwich, to which several Persons of Quality have subscribed. He intends to open on 12 June with a new Prologue by himself and a new Epilogue-by him and Bullock. He solicits additional subscription for a proposed program of 24 plays. See also Tatler, 25-27 May.

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Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Event Comment: Benefit Smith. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

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Event Comment: Benefit Pack and Mrs Bradshaw. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Dance: Four Scaramouches-; Italian Night Scene-

Event Comment: Benefit Commodore Leigh and Coxen Burkhead. [For a detailed account of this performance, especially of the dancing, see London in 1710, pp. 30-31.

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Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Dance: Between the Acts: Six several Entertainments of Comical Dancing-

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Santlow and Mrs Moore. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

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Role: Foresight Actor: Norris
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Moor.

Dance: Before the Play: Harlequin-Miss Santlow; Italian Night Scene-

Entertainment: As17100526

Event Comment: Benefit Wilks. At the Particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [See also Tatler, 6-8 and 11-13 June.

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Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband