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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "The Duke"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "The Duke")') 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 3568 matches on Roles/Actors, 1162 matches on Performance Comments, 1039 matches on Event Comments, 402 matches on Author, and 331 matches on Performance Title.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: As17330927, but Sir Jealous-Morgan; Marplot-Chapman; Isabinda-Mrs Salle, the first time of her appearing on that stage; Scentwell-Miss Horsington; Whisper omitted . Whisper omitted .

Afterpiece Title: The Strollers

Performance Comment: Carbine-Miss Binks; Buskin-Aston; Sir Barnaby-Smith; Macahone-Morgan; Truncheon-Lacy; Spangle-Neale; Jeremy-James; Mrs Buskin-Mrs Cantrell; Betty Kimbow-Salway; Fidelia-Miss Norsa. A new Prologue to the Farce attempted by Mrs Cantrell .

Dance: II: A Single Dance by Mlle Salle. III: French Peasant by Malter. V: Pigmalion by Malter, Mlle Salle, Dupre, Pelling, Duke, Le Sac, Newhouse, De la Garde. End Afterpiece: Bacchus and Ariadne: Bacchus-Malter; Ariadne-Mlle Salle

Performance Comment: III: French Peasant by Malter. V: Pigmalion by Malter, Mlle Salle, Dupre, Pelling, Duke, Le Sac, Newhouse, De la Garde. End Afterpiece: Bacchus and Ariadne: Bacchus-Malter; Ariadne-Mlle Salle .
Event Comment: This will be the last Performance. [Their Majesties, Prince, Duke, and all the Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aeneas

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Mainpiece: Written by Ben. Johnson. Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s. [Their Majesties, Duke, and Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: A Burgo-Master Trick'd

Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd Author(s): Lewis Theobald

Dance: I: The Black Joke. II: Revellers. III: Pierots. IV: Les Bergeries. By Poitier, Nivelon, Essex, Pelling, Chose, Davenport, Janno, Mrs Walter, Mrs Pelling, Miss Mann, Miss Brett

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift; Or, The Fool In Fashion

Afterpiece Title: The Devil To Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: Tambourine by Miss Rogers. Les Arnarn Consentants by Duke and Miss Baston. 'Richmond Maggot by Lesac and Miss Rogers

Performance Comment: Les Arnarn Consentants by Duke and Miss Baston. 'Richmond Maggot by Lesac and Miss Rogers .
Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Princess Amelia and Princess Caroline. [King, Duke, and all the Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Le Misantrope

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Hulla

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Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and the Princesses Amelia and Caroline

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Astrologue, Statue, Enfant, Ramoneur, Perroquet: With The Scene Of The Moor

Afterpiece Title: Les Amours de Nanterre

Music: Mr Job Baker will perform a Preamble on the Kettle Drums, accompanied by other Instruments

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness the Duke. Mainpiece: Taken from the French of Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mother-in-law

Performance Comment: As17341019, but Opium omitted; Gallipot-Harper. And the Original Epilogue (by Desire) by Cibber and Mrs Clive .

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trick'd

Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd Author(s): Lewis Theobald

Dance: By Poitier, Mlle Roland, &c

Related Works
Related Work: The Test of Love Author(s): John Edwin, the younger
Event Comment: Afterpiece: Intermix'd with Songs and Dances. [The Duke and Princesses Amelia, Mary, and Louisa present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Misantrope

Afterpiece Title: Le Carillon de Maitre Gervaise et Dame Alison

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Dance: Pigmalion by Lally, Mlle Salle, S. Lally, Le Sac, Duke, Dupre, De la Garde, Richardson

Performance Comment: Lally, Le Sac, Duke, Dupre, De la Garde, Richardson .
Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness the Duke, their Highnesses the Princess Amelia, the Princess Caroline, the Princess Louisa, and the Princess Maria. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Voltaire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zaire

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Always Harlequin

Dance:

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness the Duke, their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Amelia and Caroline

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Double Inconstance

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Sauvage

Dance:

Event Comment: [The Duke and Princess Caroline present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariodante

Event Comment: Benefit a Family in Distress. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke, the Princesses Maria and Louisa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'heureux Naufrage

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Esprit Folet

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit Michael Lally. By Command of Her Royal Highness the Princess Amelia. Tickets to be had at Mr Lally's House in Southampton-Row, Bloomsbury. Two Rows of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Dance: I: English Maggot by S. Lally, De la Garde, Miss Baston. II: Grand Pastoral Dance by Lally, Mlle Salle, Miss Rogers, S. Lally, Le Sac, Delagarde, Duke, Mrs De l'Orme, Miss Baston, Miss Norsa. III: Glover's Scotch Dance. IV: Minuet by Lally and Mlle Salle. V: Pigmalion by Lally and Mlle Salle

Performance Comment: Lally, De la Garde, Miss Baston. II: Grand Pastoral Dance by Lally, Mlle Salle, Miss Rogers, S. Lally, Le Sac, Delagarde, Duke, Mrs De l'Orme, Miss Baston, Miss Norsa. III: Glover's Scotch Dance. IV: Minuet by Lally and Mlle Salle. V: Pigmalion by Lally and Mlle Salle .
Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness the Duke, their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, Mary, and Louisa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tartuffe

Related Works
Related Work: Tartuffe; or, The French Puritan Author(s): Matthew Medbourne

Afterpiece Title: Attendez Moy Sous l'Orme

Dance:

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the Duke, their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Amelia, Carolina, Maria and Louisa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Harlequin Astrologer, Infant, Ch1mney-sweeper, Statue, Parrot, & Skeleton

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but with the Scene of the Elbow-Chair .

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Hulla

Music: Select Pieces. Solo on the German Flute by Burk Thumoth

Performance Comment: Solo on the German Flute by Burk Thumoth .

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit Wood. [For a further discussion of licensing the stage, see Prompter, 2 May.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Cast
Role: : Master of the Shop Actor: Chapman

Music: Select Pieces, particularly Mr Handel's Overture to Ariadne

Dance: By Mlle Salle. Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Miss Rogers. The Flanderkins (new) by Duke and Mrs Ogden. Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers, &c

Performance Comment: Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Miss Rogers. The Flanderkins (new) by Duke and Mrs Ogden. Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers, &c.

Song: By Leveridge and Mrs Wright, particularly Leveridge's Song in Praise of English Roast Beef

Event Comment: Benefit Morgan and Miss Bincks. Tickets for Aston, Dukes, Delagarde, Miss Horsington taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Royal Slave Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers, &c

Related Works
Related Work: The Test of Love Author(s): John Edwin, the younger

Song: Leveridge's Song In Praise of English Roast Beef. And Tony Aston's Hodge Podge

Event Comment: Benefit Two Orphans, Mines (Gallery Officekeeper), and others

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: Tambourine by Miss Rogers. Flanderkins by Duke and Mrs Ogden. Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Miss Rogers

Performance Comment: Flanderkins by Duke and Mrs Ogden. Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Miss Rogers .
Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Duke, their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Carolina, Amelia, Louisa, and Maria

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Balourd

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Scaramouch Deserteurs

Dance:

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: I: Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Miss Rogers. III: Grecian Sailors by Glover, Le Sac, Dukes, Delagarde, Dupre. IV: A new dance by Le Sac and Miss Rogers. Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers, &c. Mainpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh

Performance Comment: III: Grecian Sailors by Glover, Le Sac, Dukes, Delagarde, Dupre. IV: A new dance by Le Sac and Miss Rogers. Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers, &c. Mainpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh .

Song: II: As17350422

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Cast
Role: : Master of the Shop Actor: Chapman

Music: The Overture of Ariadne

Dance: I: Les Bergers Champetre by Mlle Grognet, Miss Rogers, Mlle Delorme. III: Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Miss Rogers. IV: Flanderkins by Duke and Mrs Ogden. V: Tambourine by Glover and Miss Rogers. End Afterpiece: Minuet by Mlle Grognet in Men's Cloths, and Miss Baston

Performance Comment: III: Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Miss Rogers. IV: Flanderkins by Duke and Mrs Ogden. V: Tambourine by Glover and Miss Rogers. End Afterpiece: Minuet by Mlle Grognet in Men's Cloths, and Miss Baston .

Song: II: As17350422

Event Comment: Benefit Wilmer, Laurence, Warriner, Boxkeepers. Mainpiece: Written by Sir George Etheridge

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd If She Cou'd

Related Works
Related Work: She Would If She Could Author(s): Sir George Etherege

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Countess

Dance: II: Tambourine by Miss Rogers. IV: Flanderkins by Duke and Mrs Ogden. Iv: Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Miss Rogers

Performance Comment: IV: Flanderkins by Duke and Mrs Ogden. Iv: Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Miss Rogers .

Song: As17350422

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Lawyer

Dance: Tambourine by Miss Rogers. Flanderkim by Duke and Mrs Ogden

Performance Comment: Flanderkim by Duke and Mrs Ogden .

Song: As17350422

Event Comment: [The Queen, Duke, Princess Amelia, and Princess Caroline present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alcina