SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "T C"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "T C")') 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 2824 matches on Roles/Actors, 1326 matches on Event Comments, 797 matches on Performance Comments, 110 matches on Performance Title, and 12 matches on Author.

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Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Although this performance is not certainly the premiere, it is the earliest known acting of the play. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 14. John Boyle, Fifth Earl of Orrery: Master Anthony too the sequel of Guzman was after Lord Orrery's Death brought upon the Stage, but being disrelish'd by the Audience appear'd only one Night. It is probable The Author had not supervis'd and corrected It sufficiently before he died (The Dramatic Works of Roger Boyle, ed. W. S. Clark II, II, 950). If these private notes, written some fifty years after the premiere, are correct, this performance may have been the premiere and the only day of acting it

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Mainpiece Title: Mr Anthony

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Mainpiece Title: The Gentleman Of Venice

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Mainpiece Title: The Sophy

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 15. The play was not printed, and the only source of information concerning it is in Downes, Roscius Anglicanus, p. 30: The Woman made a Justice: Wrote by Mr Betterton: Mrs Long, Acting the Justice so Charmingly; and the Comedy being perfect and justly Acted, so well pleased the Audience, it continu'd Acting 14 Days together: The Prologue being spoke to it each Day. [It is possible that this date represents the premiere, since Saturday was frequently a day on which plays were first acted, but there is no certainty on this point.

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Mainpiece Title: The Woman Made A Justice

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Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

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Mainpiece Title: Sir Salomon; Or, The Cautious Coxcomb

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Mainpiece Title: She Would If She Could

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Mainpiece Title: The Forc'd Marriage; Or, The Jealous Bridegroom

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Mainpiece Title: She's Jealous Of Herself

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Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

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Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

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Mainpiece Title: The Humorists

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Mainpiece Title: The Humorists

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Mainpiece Title: The Humorists

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Mainpiece Title: Love Tricks; Or, The School Of Compliments

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Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Prince; Or, The Curious Husband

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Mainpiece Title: The Six Days' Adventure; Or, The New Utopia

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Mainpiece Title: The Town-shifts; Or, The Suburb-justice

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Mainpiece Title: Cambyses, King Of Persia

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This date marks the opening of the new theatre in Dorset Garden. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 31): The new Theatre in Dorset-Garden being Finish'd, and our Company after Sir William's Death, being under the Rule and Dominion of his Widow the Lady Davenant, Mr Betterton and Mr Harris, (Mr Charles Davenant her Son Acting for her) they remov'd from Lincolns-Inn-Fields thither. And on the Ninth Day of November 1671, they open'd their new Theatre with Sir Martin Marral, which continu'd Acting 3 Days together, with a full Audience each Day; notwithstanding it had been Acted 30 Days before in Lincolns-Inn-Fields, and above 4 times at court. [This play is also on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 18: Sir Martin.

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Mainpiece Title: Feign'd Innocence; Or, Sir Martin Marall