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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "R Bentley"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "R Bentley")') 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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1803 results for: Keyword - R. Bentley
We found 1737 matches on Performance Comments, 236 matches on Event Comments, 24 matches on Author, 21 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

26
28 April 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man's Bewitch'd; Or, The Devil To Do About Her

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Turn'd Dancing-Master

Dance: TThe White Joke (new)-Eaton

27
08 May 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

28
15 May 1754 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Song: I: No Never-Lowe, Mrs Chambers; III: Song-Mrs Chambers

Dance: V: Dutch Dance, as17531018

29
09 May 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Schoolboy

Dance: IItalian Peasants-Granier and Mrs Granier

30
05 May 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

31
02 May 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: Drunken Peasants-Miles; Comic Ballet-Guerin, Dumay, Gosly, Miss Dawson, Miss Viviez, Mrs Guerin, Mlle Jansolin

32
11 May 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: TThe Milkmaid's Holiday, as17590421

33
29 April 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: The Last New Comic Dance-Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

34
05 May 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: TThe Taylors, as17620107

35
09 May 1763 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: IV: The Jealous Woodcutter, as17621023

36
14 May 1764 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; End: The Dutch Skippers, as17640509

37
07 May 1765 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; End of Play: Rural Love, as17641212

38
29 January 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Good Natured Man

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

39
08 May 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Ballet: End: The Wapping Landlady. As17710422[with Double Hornpipe, as17710422

40
13 May 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: III: Comic Dance, as17711031; IV: A Tambourine, as17720501

41
30 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: Grand Naval Review, As17761109; End I afterpiece: a Hornpipe-Walker

Song: As17761109

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Bucks have at ye All-R. Palmer

42
18 May 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End II: Hornpipe-Walker; End I afterpiece: Minuet de la Cour, as17780512

Song: As17780515

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Bucks have at ye All-R. Palmer

43
29 April 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Liverpool Prize

Dance: As17790302

Music: End IV: trumpet concerto-Sarjant

44
09 May 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Entertainment: Monologue.End: Bucks have at ye all-R. Palmer; Vaudeville. In Pantomime: (for that night only) Jump through a Tub of Fire-Wright

45
24 May 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

46
30 October 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: As17821005

47
16 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Afterpiece Title: Box-Lobby Loungers

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

48
14 April 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: (End of Act I of mainpiece) Jewish Education

Afterpiece Title: 'Tis an Ill Wind Blows Nobody Good; or, The Road to Odiham

Dance: End: a Minuet-Master D'Egville, Miss Blanchet

49
17 June 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seeing Is Believing

Afterpiece Title: Vimonda

Afterpiece Title: As It Should Be

Entertainment: Monologue. End 2nd piece: British Loyalty or A Squeeze for St. Paul's-Bannister Jun.; conclude with: God save the King-Chapman, Chambers, Mathews

50
06 August 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Opposition

Afterpiece Title: Ways and Means

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer