SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Rev Mr Franklin"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Rev Mr Franklin")') 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 4247 matches on Event Comments, 1142 matches on Performance Comments, 529 matches on Performance Title, 59 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

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Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus King Of Epirus

Performance Comment: Edition of 1695: Prologue by Mr Congreve-; Epilogue-.
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Role: Mr Congreve Actor:

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Mainpiece Title: Bonduca; Or, The British Worthy

Event Comment: Rich's Company. The date of the first performance of this revision is uncertain. Although the play was not entered in the Term Catalogues until June 1696, the edition is date 1695. The production was certainly before May 1696, when Horden died, but the only fact which suggests a performance as early as December is the date on the title page. When the play was revived at Drury Lane on 13 Oct. 1711, the bill bore the heading: Not Acted these Fifteen Years

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Mainpiece Title: Philaster; Or, Love Lies A Bleeding

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. The date of the premiere is not known, but the fact that the play was advertised in the London Gazette, No. 3151, 20-23 Jan. 1695@6, and entered in the Term Catalogues, February 1695@6, suggests that it was probably acted not later than December 1695. According to the Edition of 1696, the music was set by John Eccles: Come, Thyrsis, come was sung by Reading and Mrs Hodgson; the other songs in the edition lack the names of the singers. In addition, Rich mines of hot love are rooted here, sung by Bowman, was in Deliciae Musicae, The First Book of the Second Volume, 1696; and Let us revel and roar, set by John Eccles and sung by Curco and Reading, was published in Thesaurus Musicus, The Fifth Book, 1696. Downes, Roscius Anglicanus, p. 44: Lovers Luck, a Comedy, Wrote by Captain Dilks, which fill'd the House 6 Days together, and above 50# the 8th, the Day it was left off. A Comparison Between the Two Stages (1702), p. 20, lists it among the plays under the heading: Damn'd

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Mainpiece Title: The Lover's Luck

Performance Comment: Edition of 1696: Prologue-Mr Hodgson; Sir NicholasPurflew-Bright; Alderman Whim-Underhil; Bellair-Betterton; Breviat-Freeman; Goosandelo-Bowman; Eager-Bowen; Sapless-Dogget; Jacona-Mrs Ayloff; Mrs Purflew-Mrs Bracegirdle; Mrs Plyant-Mrs Bowman; Vesuvia-Mrs Lee; Sprightly-Mrs Lawson; Landlady-Mrs Perin.
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Role: Breviat Actor: Freeman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus The Great; Or, The Tragedy Of Love

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Mainpiece Title: Cleomenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lost Lover; Or, The Jealous Husband

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Mainpiece Title: Woman's Wit; Or, The Lady In Fashion

Event Comment: Post Boy, 2-4 Feb. 1696@7: On Monday the King visited the Princess of Denmark and invited her to Whitehall on Saturday next, it being her Royal Highnesses Birth Day, and his Majesty has been pleased to give the Right Honourable the Lord Chamberlaine Orders to have the Play called Love for Love, written by Mr Congreve, Acted there the better to Celebrate the Day. Post Boy, 6-9 Feb. 1696@7: Last Saturday being the Anniversary of her Royal Highness the Princess Ann of Denmark's birth...at night the King was pleased to Entertain her with a fine Comedy, call'd Love for Love, Written by Mr Congreve, Acted by his Majesty's servants at Whitehall, where the Court appeared very gay and splendid, suitable to the occasion. [Somewhat similar references appear also in Luttrell, A Brief Relation, IV, 180, and The Flying Post, 6-9 Feb. 1696@7.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Related Works
Related Work: Love for Love Author(s): William Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Italian Husband

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Europe's Revels For The Peace

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

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Mainpiece Title: Heroick Love

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: Rich's Company. The date of the premiere is not known, but the fact that the play was advertised in the Post Man, 3-5 March 1697@8, suggests that the first performance occurred probably not later than early February 1697@8. The Preface is signed by George Powell, who refers to the author of the play as unknown. In addition, Powell mentions that his company has recently revived some of Dryden's plays: Don Sebastian, Secret Love; or, The Maiden Queen, Marriage a la Mode, King Arthur, and adds: 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 Fatal Discovery; Or, Love In Ruines

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caligula

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

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Mainpiece Title: Queen Catharine; Or, The Ruines Of Love

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

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Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

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Mainpiece Title: Love And A Bottle

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Mainpiece Title: Xerxes