SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Several"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Several")') 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 4159 matches on Event Comments, 341 matches on Performance Title, 195 matches on Roles/Actors, 171 matches on Performance Comments, and 0 matches on Author.
Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by Beaumont and Fletcher

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Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

Event Comment: Not Acted these Three Years. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Containing the Distresses and Deathv of King Henry the Sixth; the Murther of Young King Edward the Fifth, and his Brother, in the Tower; with the Landingv of the Earl of Richmond, and the Memorable Battle of Bosworth Fieldv, being the last that was fought between the Houses of York and Lancaster

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Mainpiece Title: The Tragical History Of King Richard The Third

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. As 14 Feb

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Mainpiece Title: Richard The Third

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: The Heroick Daughter

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by Sir George Etheridge

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Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Event Comment: Benefit Powell. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: Virtue Betray'd; Or, Anna Bullen

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens; Or, The Death Of Mary, Queen Of Scotland

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: Heroick Love

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperor

Event Comment: Benefit Booth. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Event Comment: Benefit Lawrence. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. At 6 p.m. Tickets 2s. 6d

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the best Masters; Irish Song-a young Gentlewoman that never sung in Publick before, a Scholar of Lawrence's

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: The Orphan; Or, The Unhappy Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wake

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. And at the Desire of several Ladies of Quality the Pit and Boxes will be put together, and no Persons to be admitted but by printed Tickets...at 4s. N.B. The Tickets delivered out for the Pit, will be taken at the Gallery, and accounted for, at the Price of the Gallery

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Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bicknell. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. As 14 Feb

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Mainpiece Title: Richard The Third

Event Comment: Benefit Cavaliero Valeriano Pellegrini. With an Addition of several new Songs, particularly an English one sung by Signor Cavaliero Valeriano Pellegrini. Admission as 21 March. [Valeriano received #73 19s. See Deutsch, p. 59.

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Mainpiece Title: Ernelinda

Event Comment: G. Berkeley to Sir John Percival: Mr Addison's play has taken wonderfully, they have acted it now almost a month, and would I belive act it a month longer were it not that Mrs Oldfield cannot hold out any longer, having had for several nights past, as I am informed, a midwife behind the scenes (Rand, p. 115)

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Mainpiece Title: Cato

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bradshaw. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by Mr Otway

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

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: Aurengzebe

Event Comment: Benefit Pack. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by Beaumont and Fletcher

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Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

Event Comment: Benefit Norris. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Dance: Mrs Bicknell, others

Event Comment: Benefit Bickerstaff. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: Mackbeth

Music: The Witches' Musick by Mr Leveridge-Mr Leveridge, Mr Renton, others

Dance: Prince, Mrs Bicknell, others

Event Comment: Benefit Birkhead. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue; or, The Devil in the Wine Cellar

Dance: Scaramouch-Jubilee Dicky's Youngest Son [Norris, Jr]; Hornpipe-a Gentleman for his Diversion