SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Sir Edward Smith"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Sir Edward Smith")') 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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Mainpiece Title: Londons Anniversary Festival Performed On Monday October The 29th 1688 For

Performance Comment: .Sir John Chapman, Kt. Lord Mayor....Being Their Great Year of Jubilee. With a Panegyrick upon the Restoring of the Charter. And a Sonnet provided for the Entertainment of the King.

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Mainpiece Title: The Fortune Hunters Or Two Fools Well Met

Performance Comment: Sir Wm. Wealthy-Bullock; Elder Wealthy-Mills; Young Wealthy-Wilks; Sham Town-Pack; Littlegood-Bowman; Spruce-Norris; Maria-Mrs Oldfield; Sophia-Mrs Bradshaw; Widow Sly-Mrs Lee; Mrs Spruce-Mrs Bicknel.
Event Comment: Sir John Perceval to Elizabeth Stockwell, 20 Sept.: We should have languished for want of diversion but for Othello, which drew all the stragglers in town together, and our number was greater than I imagined....Meanwhile I declare that they who cannot be moved at Othello's story so artfully worked up by Shakespeare, and justly played by Betterton, are capable of marrying again before their husbands are cold, of trampling on a lover when dying at their feet, and are fit converse with tigers only (Egmont MS, II, 240)

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Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

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Mainpiece Title: The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: Sir John Loverule, with the Early Horn-Mahoon; Jobson-Vandermere; Lady Loverule-Mrs Pitt; Nell-Mrs Saunders.

Dance: As17680530

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Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

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Role: Loveless Actor: Smith
Role: Sir Tunbelly Clumsey Actor: Moody

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton or High Life above Stairs

Performance Comment: Sir J. Trotley (with the original Prologue)-King; Col. Tivy-Brereton; Davy-Parsons; Jessamy-Lamash; Lord Minikin-Dodd; Lady Minikin-Miss Pope; Gymp-Mrs Colles; Miss Tittup-Mrs Brereton (1st appearance in that character).

Dance: End: New Dance-the Miss Stageldoirs

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Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: Valentine-Holman; Tattle-Macready; Scandal-Murray; Sir Sampson Legend-Davenport; Ben-Haymes; Jeremy-Farley; Trapland-Powel; Snap-Thompson; Buckram-Simmons; Foresight-Quick; Miss Prue-Mrs Jordan (of dl); Angelica-Miss Chapman; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Gilbert; Mrs Frail-Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Sir Sampson Legend Actor: Davenport

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: Sir J. Loverule (with a favorite Hunting Song)-Incledon; Butler-Townsend; Cook-Abbot; Coachman-Street; Jobson (1st time)-Munden; Lady Loverule-Mrs Fawcett; Lettice-Mrs Norton; Lucy-Miss Leserve; Nell-Mrs Jordan.

Song: End II piece: The Storm-Incledon; End: The Beggar-Townsend

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Mainpiece Title: The Birth Day

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: Sir J. Loverule (with Old Towler)-Incledon; Butler-Townsend; Cook-Abbot; Coachman-Gardner; Conjuror-Thompson; Jobson-Munden; Lady Loverule-Mrs Dibdin; Lucy-Mrs Norton; Lettice-Miss Leserve; Nell-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Mrs Beaumont]).Mrs Beaumont]).

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Princess Of Parma

Related Works
Related Work: The Princess of Parma Author(s): Henry Smith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Teraminta

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Related Work: Teraminta Author(s): John Christopher Smith

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Mainpiece Title: The Fairies

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Related Work: The Fairies Author(s): John Christopher Smith

Dance: As17550203

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Mainpiece Title: The Fairies

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Related Work: The Fairies Author(s): John Christopher Smith

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Mainpiece Title: The Fairies

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Related Work: The Fairies Author(s): John Christopher Smith

Dance: See17550203

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Mainpiece Title: The Fairies

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Related Work: The Fairies Author(s): John Christopher Smith

Dance: TThe Shepherd's Holiday- , by desire. [See17541008.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fairies

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Related Work: The Fairies Author(s): John Christopher Smith

Dance: SShepherd's Holiday, as17541008

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Mainpiece Title: The Fairies

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Related Work: The Fairies Author(s): John Christopher Smith

Dance: As17550203

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Mainpiece Title: The Fairies

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Related Work: The Fairies Author(s): John Christopher Smith

Dance: See17550203

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Mainpiece Title: What Is She

Cast
Role: Sir Caustic Oldstyle Actor: Munden
Related Works
Related Work: What is She? Author(s): Charlotte Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Oak

Cast
Role: Sir Fidget Fearful Actor: Emery

Performances

Mainpiece Title: What Is She

Cast
Role: Sir Caustic Oldstyle Actor: Munden
Related Works
Related Work: What is She? Author(s): Charlotte Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Performances

Mainpiece Title: What Is She

Cast
Role: Sir Caustic Oldstyle Actor: Munden
Related Works
Related Work: What is She? Author(s): Charlotte Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Oak

Cast
Role: Sir Fidget Fearful Actor: Emery

Performances

Mainpiece Title: What Is She

Cast
Role: Sir Caustic Oldstyle Actor: Munden
Related Works
Related Work: What is She? Author(s): Charlotte Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Horse and the Widow

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: What Is She

Cast
Role: Sir Caustic Oldstyle Actor: Munden
Related Works
Related Work: What is She? Author(s): Charlotte Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Dance: I: a Masquerade, Dance-Henry, Miss Armstrong

Song: Mainpiece: the Funeral Procession-; Vocal Parts-Gaudry, Edwards, Fawcett, Holcroft, Chaplin, Shaw, Miss Field, Miss Collett, Miss Kirby, Mrs Granger, Mrs Booth, Mrs Smith, the Miss Stageldoirs, Miss Simson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Universal Passion

Related Works
Related Work: The Law Against Lovers Author(s): Sir William Davenant

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Song: The Favourite Airs out of L'Allegro il Penseroso by Handel-Miss Edwards; I: Miss Edwards; IV: Miss Edwards

Dance: II: L'Arlequine deux visages-Mlle Chateauneuf; III: La Tambourine Matelote-Maltere, Mlle Maltere; V: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Clive. Mainpiece: At the Desire of Several Ladies of Quality. Never acted there before. [Amphitheatre on stage as described 11 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ladys Last Stake Or The Wifes Resentment

Performance Comment: Miss Notable-Mrs Clive; Lord Wronglove-Hale; Sir Friendly Moral-Cashell; Lord George Brilliant-Cibber; Lady Wronglove-Mrs Horton; Lady Gentle-Mrs Vincent; Mrs Hartshorn-Miss Hippisley; Mrs Conquest-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Sir Friendly Moral Actor: Cashell

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Beard

Song: II: Wanton Breezes, from the Oratorio Love and Friendship-Miss Edwards; IV: (by particular desire) the Irish Song Ellen a Roon-Mrs Clive; V: The Favourite Duette Let Caesar and Urania Live (compos'd by the late Henry Purcell)-Mrs Clive, Miss Edwards

Dance: III: Cooke, Sga Campioni

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Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

Song: As17160206

Dance: delaGarde, Moreau, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Schoolding, Mrs Cross, Miss Smith; Swedish Dal Karle-delaGarde, Mrs Bullock; New Dance-Thurmond Jr, Miss Smith, his Scholar