SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Shields"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Shields")') 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 1587 matches on Author, 259 matches on Roles/Actors, 117 matches on Event Comments, 52 matches on Performance Comments, and 24 matches on Performance Title.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lie Of The Day

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 0

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 1

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 2

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bank Note

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Faulknor; or, British Heroism

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Song: Incidental to 1st piece: The Irishman's Peep at the Continent-Johnstone; In course: Black Eyed Susan-Incledon; In course 2nd piece: [Larpent MS 1079 states, correctly, that most of the songs were "Sung in Arrived at Portsmouth"] Glee-Incledon, Linton, Bowden (Shield); With pride we steer for Britain's Coast-Incledon (Shield); O bring me wine-Bowden (Shield); A description of the Irish way of settling a Quarrel-Johnstone (Reeve); Negro Song-Mrs Martyr (Reeve); Description of a Cockney-Munden (Reeve); Hail to the Brave-Johnstone, Bowden, Incledon (Shield)

Entertainment: End II: Imitations of several favorite Vocal Performers-Mrs Wells; End 1st piece: Imitations of two celebrated Tragic Actresses-Mrs Wells (positively her last appearance in public)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speculation

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Campaign; Or, Love In The East Indies

Afterpiece Title: Retaliation

Dance: As17841116

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Coeur De Lion

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Castle

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Czar

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Song: III: The Prince unable to conceal his Pain, from Alexander's Feast-Mrs Billington. [This was included, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainville Forest

Afterpiece Title: NETLEY ABBEY

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Entertainment: Monologue.End: Collins's Ode on the Passions (1st and only time)-Mrs Pope

Song: After the monologue: My Mother had a Maid called Barbara (words by Shakespeare, music by Shield)-Incledon, Bowden, Townsend, Linton, Mrs Clendining; The Minstrel's Song [Where is that tow'ring spirit fled?] from The Days of Yore-Mrs Clendining; [accompanied on the harp-Weippert; O why to be happy (music by Shield)-Incledon, Linton, Bowden; Ye Gentlemen of England-Incledon, Bowden, Townsend, Linton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He's Much To Blame

Afterpiece Title: Joan of Arc

Music: As17980214

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Crisis; or, Love and Fear

Dance: As17780109

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bonduca

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Illumination

Afterpiece Title: The Funeral; or, Grief a-la-Mode

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer's Return from London

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler of Castlebury

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Device; or, The Deaf Doctor

Dance: End III: The Dockyard, as17790924

Song: II: The Cottage on the lawn (set by Michael Arne)-Mrs Kennedy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Delphi

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Siege Of Gibraltar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Song: In mainpiece To thee, O, gentle sleep by Brett

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Magic Picture

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Song: In Act II of mainpiece a Grand Chorus [Crowned with conquest] by Bannister, Reinhold, Johnstone, Mattocks, Brett, Mahon, Doyle, Darley; Mrs Bannister, Mrs Johnstone, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Kennedy. [For songs, see below.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Afterpiece Title: Friar Bacon; or, Harlequin's Adventures in Lilliput, Brobdignag, &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Rambler; or, The Convent in an Uproar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood; Or, Sherwood Forest

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Rambler

Dance: End of mainpiece a New Dance by Le Bccuf and Mlle Constance (from the King's Theatre in Paris; 1st appearance)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Noble Peasant

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Rambler; or, The Convent in an Uproar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior; or, The Magic Cestus

Dance: End of Act IV of mainpiece The Sportsmen's Return, as17840916