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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr and Mrs Furnival"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr and Mrs Furnival")') 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 23609 matches on Performance Comments, 7600 matches on Event Comments, 4621 matches on Performance Title, 27 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Performance Comment: As17360429 but Hoyden-Miss Binks; Nurse-Mrs Martin .
Cast
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Martin
Role: Berinthia Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Hallam

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Music: End Afterpiece: Handel's Water Musick, with Preamble on Kettle Drum by Benj. Baker

Dance: II: Peasant Dance by Tench and Miss Rogers. IV: Harlequin, Punch, and Colombine by Nivelon, Lalauze, and Mlle De L'Isle. End Afterpiece: Glover's Sailors Dance

Performance Comment: IV: Harlequin, Punch, and Colombine by Nivelon, Lalauze, and Mlle De L'Isle. End Afterpiece: Glover's Sailors Dance .

Song: I: Mock Italian Song by Roberts. III: Dialogue by Leveridge and Mrs Wright. V: Praise of old English Beer by Leveridge, &c

Performance Comment: III: Dialogue by Leveridge and Mrs Wright. V: Praise of old English Beer by Leveridge, &c .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Performance Comment: As17360323 but Lady Wronghead-Mrs Kilby .
Cast
Role: Lady Wronghead Actor: Mrs Kilby
Role: Lady Townly Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Lady Grace Actor: Mrs Buchanan
Role: Trusty Actor: Mrs Stevens

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Performance Comment: Townly-Havard; Lady Townly-Mrs Roberts; Lady Wronghead-Penkethman .
Cast
Role: Lady Townly Actor: Mrs Roberts

Afterpiece Title: The Lover His Own Rival

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. [Prince and Princess present. For a discussion of the raising of admission charges at pantomimes, see Grub St. Journal, 1 July.]

Performances

Afterpiece Title: The Chymical Counterfeits

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Le Sac; Doctor-Ray; Pierrot-Bencraft; Dropsical Servant-Aston; Doctor's Servant-Dove; Maid-Miss Jones; Colombine-Mrs Woodward .
Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Woodward
Event Comment: Benefit a New Polly Peachum, just arrived from the Island of Obscurity, who will make her Publick Entry in that Character. Afterpiece: A new Comi-Tragical Interlude. Written by Jack Juniper, a Distiller's Apprentice, just turn'd Poet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Mrs Charke. hathi.
Cast
Role: Macheath Actor: Mrs Charke. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: The Deposing and Death of Queen Gin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Mills; Macduff-Milward; Banquo-W. Mills; Lenox-Cibber; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Butler; Hecate-Johnson; Duncan-Boman; Malcolm-Cross; Seyward-Winstone; Seyton-Berry; 1st Murderer-Harper; Lady Macduff-Miss Hollyday; Witches-Miller, Griffin, Shepard.
Cast
Role: Lady Macbeth Actor: Mrs Butler

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; proper to the Play. The Vocal Parts-Stoppelaer, Mrs Clive

Performance Comment: The Vocal Parts-Stoppelaer, Mrs Clive.

Dance: Thurmond, Dukes, Levier, Villeneuve

Related Works
Related Work: The Duke of Milan Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Cast
Role: Margaret Actor: Mrs Villeneuve
Role: Ruth Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Mrs Hackum Actor: Oates
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Mrs Termagant Actor: Mrs Thurmond

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: Mock Doctor-Cibber; Leander-Stoppelaer; Dorcas-Mrs Clive; Sir Jasper-Shepard; James-Winstone; Harry-Leigh; Davy-Mechlin; Hellebore-Cole; Charlotte-Miss Brett.
Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Stoppelaer
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Clive

Dance: I: Tambourine-Mlle Roland; IV: Double Jealousy, as17360907; V: Drunken Peasant-Philips

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part I

Performance Comment: Falstaff-Quin; King-Mills; Prince-W. Mills; Hotspur-Milward; Glendower-Cibber; Kate-Miss Holliday; Hostess-Mrs Cross; Carries-Johnson, Miller.
Cast
Role: Hostess Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd; Or, A Plot Discover'd

Performance Comment: Jaffier-Delane; Pierre-Ryan; Duke-Paget; Bedamar-Walker; Priuli-Bridgwater; Renault-Chapman; Spinosa-Houghton; Elliot-Marshall; Antonio-Hippisley; Belvidera-Mrs Hallam.
Cast
Role: Belvidera Actor: Mrs Hallam.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Performance Comment: Hamlet-Ryan; Ghost-Delane; King-Paget; Ostric-Chapman; Horatio-Marshall; Polonius-Hippisley; Laertes-A. Hallam; Queen-Mrs Hallam; Ophelia-Miss Bincks; Gravediggers-Bridgwater, Mullart.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Hallam

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Performance Comment: Cato-Quin; Sempronius-Mills; Juba-W. Mills; Syphax-Cibber; Portius-Milward; Marcus-Este; Lucius-Berry; Decius-Winstone; Marcia-Mrs Thurmond; Lucia-Miss Holliday.
Cast
Role: Marcia Actor: Mrs Thurmond

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Event Comment: By Her Majesty's Command. Mainpiece: Written by the late N. Rowe, Esq; Poet-Laureat. The Queen, Duke, and Princesses present. [See Daily Gazetteer, 4 Nov., for a discussion of the need of a paper devoted to the theatre, with some comments on theatrical conditions.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: Tamerlane-Quin; Bajazet-Mills; Moneses-Milward; Axalla-Cibber; Arpasia-Mrs Thurmond; Selima-Miss Holliday; With the usual Prologue-.
Cast
Role: Arpasia Actor: Mrs Thurmond

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trick'd

Dance: III: Ballet-Denoyer, Mlle Roland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: Tamerlane-Delane; Bajazet-Walker; Moneses-Ryan; Axalla-A. Hallam; Arpasia-Mrs Hallam; Selima-Miss Bincks; With the usual Prologue-.
Cast
Role: Arpasia Actor: Mrs Hallam

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales [who were present]. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17360909, but Lady Macbeth-Mrs Porter.
Cast
Role: Lady Macbeth Actor: Mrs Porter.

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Cast
Role: Ballet Actor: Denoyer, Mlle Roland.
Role: Terra Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Clymene Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Venus Actor: Mlle Roland
Role: with a Grand Ballet Actor: Denoyer, Mlle Roland.

Dance: Mons Muilment, laterly arrived from Paris, the first time of his performance in England

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Performance Comment: As17360922, but Octavia-Mrs Hallam.
Cast
Role: Octavia Actor: Mrs Hallam.
Role: Cleopatra Actor: Mrs Horton

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Butler
Role: Ophelia Actor: Mrs Clive

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Performance Comment: Flash-Este; Longbib-Stoppelaer; John Trot-Hough; Harlequin-Philips; Colombine-Miss Mann; Mlle La Modestie-Harlequin Phillips; Ballad Qingers-Stoppelaer, Mrs Pritchard; Somerset-Roberts; Roundall-Hough; Equilibrist-Peters; With a New Burlesque Tragi-Comic-Farcical Interlude: Tiddi@Doll, Director of the Gingerbread Company-Master Green; Pistolet-Miss Cole; with a Comic Medley Overture by Arne-.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant; Or, The Beggar's Bush

Performance Comment: Merchant-Ryan; Clause-Bridgwater; Woolfort-Ryan; Hubert-A. Hallam; Higgen-Hippisley; Prig-Chapman; Vandunck-Mullart; Hemskirk-Marshall; Boor-James; Bertha-Mrs Bellamy; Jaqueline-Miss Bincks.
Cast
Role: Vandunck Actor: Mullart
Role: Bertha Actor: Mrs Bellamy
Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. [For Occasional Prompter VII and VIII, see Daily Journal, 23 and 25 Dec.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17361118, but Macbeth-Quin; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Butler.
Cast
Role: Lady Macbeth Actor: Mrs Butler.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Dance: I: Muilment; IV: Denoyer, Mlle Roland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Cast
Role: Eugenia Actor: Mrs Templer
Role: Engin Actor: Mrs Stevens
Role: Jane Actor: Mrs Kilby
Role: Aunt Actor: Mrs Cook
Role: Lady No Actor: Mrs Bellamy.

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Performance Comment: As17360922, but Furies-Lalauze, Tench, Desse, Dupre, Baudouin; Pierrots-Baudouin, Tench; Miller's Wife-Mrs Laguerre.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Performance Comment: Caled-Quin; Eumenes-Berry; Phocyas-Milward; Abudah-Mills; Daran-Cibber; Herbis-Turbutt; Artamon-Este; Sergius-Winstone; Eudocia-Mrs Cibber.
Cast
Role: Eudocia Actor: Mrs Cibber.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Song: II: Son Priginiero-Miss Cecilia Young; IV: Would You Gain the Tender Creature-Miss Young

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Performance Comment: As17361111, but Bravos-Snow, _Dove; Lamorce-Miss Tollet; Bisarre-Mrs Hamilton.
Cast
Role: Bisarre Actor: Mrs Hamilton.
Role: Bizarre Actor: Mrs Giffard
Role: Oriana Actor: Mrs Roberts.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Performance Comment: As17361005, but Combrush-Mrs Roberts; Sapscull-Bardin; Blunder-Nichols.
Cast
Role: Combrush Actor: Mrs Roberts
Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales [who were present]. Benefit the Author of the King and the Miller of Mansfield [Dodsley]. N.B. The Boxes not being equal to the Demand for Places, for the better Accommodation of the Ladies, Side Boxes will be made on the Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Performance Comment: As17361101, but Bolus-_; Lady Wishwell-Mrs Cross.
Cast
Role: Lady Wishwell Actor: Mrs Cross.
Role: Lady Dainty Actor: Mrs Butler
Role: Lady Sadlife Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Clarinda Actor: Mrs Thurmond
Role: Wishwell Actor: Mrs Grace
Role: Situp Actor: Mrs Bennet

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: Peggy Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Margery Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Kate Actor: Mrs Cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17361118, but Macbeth-Quin; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Butler.
Cast
Role: Lady Macbeth Actor: Mrs Butler.

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: Peggy Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Margery Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Kate Actor: Mrs Cross
Event Comment: In the morning Handel's new opera, Justin, was rehearsed. [See Egmont, Diary, II, 342.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: See17361108, but Lear-Delane; Gloucester-Bridgwater; Edgar-Ryan; Bastard-Walker; Cordelia-Mrs Horton.
Cast
Role: Cordelia Actor: Mrs Horton.

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne