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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Thomas Linley Sen"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Thomas Linley Sen")') 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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Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Force of Ridicule; afterpiece of Richard Coeur de Lion, both advertised on playbill of 28 Nov.] "The new Comedy last night was deferred upon the pretext of Miss Farren's illness...The Manager sent after Mrs Siddons, who was found at Covent-Garden Theatre, seeing Abroad and at Home. Brandon, however, ordered her a chair, and she kindly performed Isabella. Wroughton read the Father" (Oracle, 30 Nov.). "For near an hour the audience waited patiently...At half past seven Palmer addressed the audience" He said that Miss Farren was ill, that to those who preferred to leave the theatre their money would be returned, and that instead of the new play Mrs Siddons would act Isabella, "as soon as the dresses could be prepared for that purpose. This address was by no means favourably received, and hundreds of persons immediately left the house. A few minutes after eight, the Curtain drew up to the tragedy, which was well performed, and much applauded by the few who remained to witness it" (Morning Herald, 30 Nov.). "November 30. Miss Farren last night refused to appear in a new Play at Drury Lane which made much confusion in the House. The cause assigned was indisposition but that was not believed by the audience; and the fact Lysons says is, that as she cannot obtain payment from the Theatre, she resolutely told them she wd. not appear unless her demands were paid...Such is the unprincipled conduct of Sheridan" (Diary of Joseph Farington, 1922, I, 174). [On 1 Dec. Morning Herald prints a letter from Miss Farren, from Green-street, Grosvenor-square. saying that she really was ill. The editor of the paper adds a note in which he affirms his positive knowledge that rumours about a dispute as to Miss Farren's unpaid salary were without foundation.] Receipts: #134 2s. (82.2; 50.18; 1.2)

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Mainpiece Title: Isabella

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Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

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Mainpiece Title: The Prisoner

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Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

Afterpiece Title: The Adopted Child

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Mainpiece Title: Abroad And At Home

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

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Mainpiece Title: The Way To Get Married

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Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Get Married

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon

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Role: Postman Actor: Townsend

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Mainpiece Title: A Cure For The Heart Ache

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon

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Role: Postman Actor: Townsend

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Mainpiece Title: A Cure For The Heart Ache

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon

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Role: Postman Actor: Townsend

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Mainpiece Title: A Cure For The Heart Ache

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon

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Role: Postman Actor: Townsend

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Cure For The Heart Ache

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon

Cast
Role: Postman Actor: Townsend

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Cure For The Heart Ache

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon

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Role: Postman Actor: Townsend

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Cure For The Heart Ache

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon

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Role: Postman Actor: Townsend

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Cure For The Heart Ache

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon

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Role: Postman Actor: Townsend

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Cure For The Heart Ache

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon

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Role: Postman Actor: Townsend

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Cure For The Heart Ache

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon

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Role: Postman Actor: Townsend
Event Comment: [This was Mrs Pope's last appearance on the stage. She dies on 15 Mar. 1797. "Her talents...were of the first order. She studied no model; she played from her own understanding and feeling. Perhaps her chief forte was comedy. Her elegance, her playfulness, her understanding had here fuller scope" (Monthly Mirror, Mar. 1797, p.200). "There is a certain peculiarity in her action which I never could reconcile to my notions of grace and propriety, viz. a constant outstretching of the arms at the close of a sentimental or a declamatory speech, accompanied with a lowly inclination of the head, like that of the oriental sage when he pays reverence to his prophet" (ibid, p. 170).] Receipts: #431 5s. 6d. (423.0.6; 8.5.0)

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Mainpiece Title: A Cure For The Heart Ache

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon

Cast
Role: Postman Actor: Townsend

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Cure For The Heart Ache

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon

Cast
Role: Postman Actor: Townsend

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Cure For The Heart Ache

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Related Work: A Cure for the Heart Ache Author(s): Thomas Morton

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon

Cast
Role: Postman Actor: Townsend

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Cure For The Heart Ache

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon

Cast
Role: Postman Actor: Townsend

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Get Married

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Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Cure For The Heart Ache

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon

Cast
Role: Postman Actor: Townsend

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Cure For The Heart Ache

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Related Work: A Cure for the Heart Ache Author(s): Thomas Morton

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon

Cast
Role: Postman Actor: Townsend

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Cure For The Heart Ache

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon

Cast
Role: Postman Actor: Townsend

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Cure For The Heart Ache

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon

Cast
Role: Postman Actor: Townsend

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Cure For The Heart Ache

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon

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Role: Postman Actor: Townsend