SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Ward"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Ward")') 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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Mainpiece Title: Tyrannic Love; Or, The Royal Martyr

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Mainpiece Title: The Woman Made A Justice

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Mainpiece Title: Tartuffe; Or, The French Puritan

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Mainpiece Title: The Forc'd Marriage; Or, The Jealous Bridegroom

Event Comment: [The King's Company. The date of the first performance is not known, but a letter--see 2 Jan. 1670@1--indicates that the first part had been acted before that date and that Part II was to be shortly staged. The point of the Prologue spoken by Ellen Gwyn seems to have derived from an incident at Dover (see Downes, Roscius Anglicanus, p. 20) in May 1670, when James Nokes attired himself in a ridiculous fashion, including "Broad wast Belts." The speakers of the Epilogue and the Prologue to the Second Part are mentioned in Sir William Haward's MS (Bodl. MS Don. b., pp. 248-49); see The Poems of John Dryden, ed. James Kinsley (Oxford, 1958), IV, 1848-49. In Part I a song Beneath a myrtle shade, with music by John Bannister, is in Choice Songs and Ayres, First Book, 1673. Another, Wherever I am, with music by Alphonso Marsh, is in the same collection, as is also How unhappy a lover am I, the music by Nicholas Staggins. Mrs John Evelyn to Mr Bohun, ca. Jan. 1670@1: Since my last to you I have seen The Siege of Grenada, a play so full of ideas that the most refined romance I ever read is not to compare with it; love is made so pure, and valour so nice, that one would image it designed for an Utopia rather than our stage. I do not quarrel with the poet, but admire one born in the decline of morality should be able to feign such exact virtue; and as poetic fiction has been instructive in former ages, I wish this the same event in ours. As to the strict law of comedy I dare not pretend to judge: some think the division of the story is not so well if it could all have been comprehended in the day's actions (The Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, ed. William Bray, IV, 25). According to John Evelyn--see 9 Feb. 1670@1--Robert Streeter did some of the scenes for this play. In the Preface to The Fatal Discovery, ca. February 1697@8, George Powell, in discussing revivals of Dryden's plays, stated: In relation to our reviving his Almanzor...very hard crutching up what Hart and Mohun could not prop

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Mainpiece Title: The Conquest Of Granada By The Spaniards

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conquest Of Granada, Part Ii

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentleman Dancing Master

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Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

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Mainpiece Title: Philaster; Or, Love Lies A Bleeding

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Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Jealousie

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

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Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Ramble; Or, The Town-humours

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Mainpiece Title: The Dutch Cruelties At Amboyna; With The Humours Of The Valiant Welch-man

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

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Mainpiece Title: The Empress Of Morocco

Performance Comment: Edition of 1673: The first Prologue at Court-Lady Elizabeth Howard; The second Prologue at Court-Lady Elizabeth Howard; Prologue at the Play House-; Muly Labas-Harris; Muly Hamet-Smith; Grimalhaz-Batterton; Hametalhaz-Medbourne; Abdelcador-Crosby; Laula-Mrs Batterton; Mariamne-Mrs Mary Lee; Morena-Mrs Johnson; Epilogue-.

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistaken Husband

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or, The Enchanted Island

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

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Mainpiece Title: Concert