SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Princesses Royal and Amelia"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Princesses Royal and Amelia")') 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 Mrs Thurmond. By His Royal Highness's Command. [The Prince present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not; Or, The Kind Imposter

Event Comment: Benefit Norris. By His Royal Highness's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Dance: Serious Dance-Shaw, Mrs Santlow; Comic Dance-Topham, Mrs Bicknell

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Circe

Event Comment: Chetwood, A General History of the Stage, p. 198: Yet a blind Man might have borne with Norris in the Roman Patriot , for he spoke it with all the Solemnity of a suffering Hero; while Penkethman, and the rest of the motley Tribe, made it as ridiculous by Humour and Action: And yet some of the first Rank in the Kingdom seemed highly diverted whilst others invoked the...dead Roman and Briton to rise, and avenge their own Cause. Lady Bristol in. Letter Books of John Hervey, II, 74-75: I had no patience to see [Addison's] play burlesqued as it was last night for the entertainment of their Royal Highnesses...their Audience was much too good for them, for there was a great many people of quality

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Mainpiece Title: Cato Burlesqued

Event Comment: At Spiller and Lee Booth. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 20 Aug.: On Tuesday Night about Ten [25 Aug.]...His Royal Highness came thither incognito, with only one Nobleman and a Footman attending; he was well pleased with the Performance, and was very liberal to the Actors

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Mainpiece Title: King Egbert, King Of Kent And Monarch Of England; Or, The Union Of The Seven Kingdoms

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant; Or, The Sick Lady's Cure

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command. [The Prince present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Booth, Thurmond, Topham, Mrs Tenoe, Miss Smith, Miss Lindar

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command. An ancient Story, written by Mr Phillip Massinger, and Acted but twice since the Reign of King Charles the First; now revis'd with Alterations. [The Prince present.

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Mainpiece Title: The Bondman; Or, Love And Liberty

Dance: Weaver, Shaw, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bicknell

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command. [The Prince present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Quaker's Wedding

Dance: As17191022

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command. [The Prince present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Chit Chat

Dance:

Event Comment: A meeting of the Court of Directors of the Royal Academy of Music initiated arrangements for a new season. For details, see Lord Chamberlain's Office, 7@3, Nicoll, p. 286, and Deutsch, p. 97

Performances

Event Comment: For further deliberations of the Court of Directors of the Royal Academy of Music, see Lord Chamberlain's Office, 7@3 or Deutsch, p. 97

Performances

Event Comment: For further deliberations of the Royal Academy of Music, see Lord Chamberlain's Office, 7@3 or Deutsch, Handel, p. 97

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

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Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Dance:

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command. [The Prince present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don John; Or, The Libertine Destroy'd

Dance: As17191007

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command. Lord Chamberlain's Office, 5@157, p. 287: I do hereby Order and direct that Mr Gay s Pastorall Tragedy be imediately Acted after Mr Hugh's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Dance: As17200210

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bullock. By His Royal Highness's Command. Three Rows of the Pit will be rail'd into the Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Song: As17200213

Dance: Topham Jr

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Follies

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin a Man of Good Fortune

Dance:

Event Comment: [By Paolo Antonio Rolli. The Scenes by Roberto Clerici, Engineer to the Royal Academy.] A New Opera. Pit and Boxes by tickets only at half a guinea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Numitor

Event Comment: Mainpiece: [Author unknown. Apparently not published.] A new Farce of three Acts. Benefit Ryan. By His Royal Highness's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mississippi

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wake

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue

Event Comment: Benefit Roger, who acted the Part of Piero. By their Royal Highness's Command. [The Prince present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Docteur Chinois

Afterpiece Title: Letourdy

Afterpiece Title: The Reasonable Animals

Dance: As17200531

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command. Written by Shakespear. Receipts: #92. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 29 Oct.: Where was acted...The Merry Wives of Windsor, with universal Applause; that Company having improved themselves so much, during the long Vacation, they now equal, if not exceed their Brethren of Drury-Lane in their Theatrical Performances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Event Comment: [Text by P. A. Rolli. Music by G. Bononcini.] A New Opera. Four Hundred Tickets (for Pit and Boxes) will be deliver'd out, and after they are disposed of, no Person whatsoever will be admitted for Money. Neither Director nor Subscribers will be admitted on the Stage. A proper Officer will attend at each Door, to deliver Every Subscriber his Ticket, without which he will not be admitted. Pit and Boxes at a half guinea. Gallery 5s. The Doors to be open'd at Five a Clock. To Begin exactly at Six. [The Royal Family present.

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Mainpiece Title: Astartus

Event Comment: Admission as 19 Nov. Whereas Offence was taken last Saturday at the Opera, to the Misbehaviour of the Upper Gallery: This is to advertise, that unless they behave themselves more quietly and decently for the future, the Director of the Royal Academy of Musick will order that Gallery to be taken away

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Astartus