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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 Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: To Arms; or, The British Recruit

Afterpiece Title: Two Strings to Your Bow

Dance: In 2nd piece: Byrn, Mme Rossi

Song: End 2nd piece: The Sea Storm-Incledon

Entertainment: Monologue. As17930410

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wild Oats; Or, The Strolling Gentlemen

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge; or, The Skirts of the Camp

Dance: In afterpiece: The Lucky Escape-Byrn, Holland, Mrs Watts, Mme Rossi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Dance: As17931020

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris, Taken in the Year 1790

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Redemption: A Sacred Oratorio Selected From The Great And Favourite Works Of Handel

Music: As17940409

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian

Afterpiece Title: THE NEW DIVERTISEMENT

Afterpiece Title: THE SHIPWRECK; or, French Ingratitude

Music: End of Act II of 1st piece a Solo on the Union Pipes by Courtney; In the course of the Evening a Duetto on the Union Pipes and Harp by Courtney and Weippert

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Thespian Panorama; Or, Three Hours Heart's Ease

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bonduca, Queen Of The Britons

Afterpiece Title: He Wou'd be a Soldier

Entertainment: Monologues and Singing. III: [in the Temple of the Druids Britons Strike Home- [by Purcell for this Play; Vocal Parts-Incledon, Bowden, Linton, Street, Williamson, Sawyer, Tett, Kenrick, Little, Miss Stuart, Mrs Watts, Miss Leserve, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Bayzand; End: [Recitation and Music, selected from the Performances at Free-Masons Hall. Sally in our Alley-Incledon; [Dryden's Ode of Alexander's Feast [monologue]-Holman; My mother had a maid called Barbara (words from Shakespeare [Othello, IV, iii], composed by Shield)-Incledon, Townsend, Linton, Mrs Clendining; The Equivalent (composed by Reeve)-Fawcett; Black@ey'd Susan-Incledon; [Collins's Ode on the Passions [monologue]-Pope; The Waiter (composed by Reeve)-Fawcett; Old Towler-Incledon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bank Note; Or, Lessons For Ladies

Afterpiece Title: The Sailor's Prize; or, May-Day Wedding

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: 2nd piece to conclude with: a Garland Dance (composed by Byrn)-Byrn, Mlle St.Amand, Mme Rossi

Song: Incidental to 1st piece: The Irishman's Peep at the Continent-Johnstone; End II: Old Towler-Incledon; In course 2nd piece: New Ballad-Mrs Martyr; Fat Dolly-Munden; Battle Song-Bowden; Let us love and let us drink-Munden; Bowden, Mrs Martyr; Teddy O'Shaughnessey's History-Johnstone; When 'tis Night and the Mid@Watch is come, Admiral Benbow-Incledon; Now landed from the Ocean-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: England's Glory; or, The British Tars at Spithead

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Song: End II: Sally in our Alley-Incledon; End: Black Ey'd Susan-Incledon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speculation

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day; or, A Flight from Lapland

Dance: I afterpiece: The Long Minuet- taken from the Caricature Print of that title [The Long Minuet as Danced at Bath, by H. W. Bunbury; see17951116]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, First Part

Afterpiece Title: St

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Dryden's Ode of Alexander's Feast-Holman

Song: After the monologue: My Mother had a Maid called Barbara, as17960314The Minstrel's Song, Where is that tow'ring spirit fled? as17960314Tho' Hurricanes rattle (composed by Shield)-Incledon, Bowden; Ye Gentlemen of England, as17960314

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: The Witch of the Wood; or, The Nutting Girls

Dance: In: The Spanish Fandango-Byrn, Mlle St.Amand; II afterpiece: The Humours of a Country Fair-Holland, Platt, Bayzand, Cranfield, Ratchford, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Blurton, Miss Smyth, Mrs Watts

Song: End: Sally in our Alley-Incledon

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke; or, Trapolin's Vagaries

Afterpiece Title: Oscar and Malvina

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Cambro' Britons; or, Fishguard in an Uproar

Afterpiece Title: Animal Magnetism

Song: In 2nd piece: Together let us range the fields-Incledon, Mrs Mountain; Gallant Soldiers born to Arms, Old England will be England still-Incledon; To arms! Britons strike Home!-Incledon, Bowden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: In the course of the evening: The Storm-Incledon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Italian Villagers; Or, The Bride Groom

Afterpiece Title: The Round Tower

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Afterpiece Title: Forecastle Fun; or, Saturday Night at Sea

Song: End 1st piece: All I wish in her obtaining-Mme Mara, Incledon; In the course of the Evening: Black Ey'd Susan, Old Towler, Young William, The Storm-Incledon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Song: End: Patents all the Rage-Munden; A Mock Italian Song-Fawcett; The Group of Lovers ; or, Beauty at her Levee-Munden; a new song, The British Volunteers-Johnstone; with Chorus-Trueman, D'Arcy, Linton, Waldron Jun., Abbot, Lyons

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: An Egeirophadron

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Dance: II: Negro Dance-Bologna Jun., Platt, King

Song: End I: Black Ey'd Susan-Incledon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Egyptian Festival

Afterpiece Title: The Strangers at Home

Dance: In: a favorite Pas Seul-Sga Bossi DelCaro