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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Widow Edwards"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Widow Edwards")') 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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2749 results for: Keyword - Widow Edwards
We found 1011 matches on Performance Comments, 939 matches on Author, 512 matches on Event Comments, 507 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2626
06 October 1699 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

2627
19 March 1700 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

2628
14 February 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tragical History Of King Richard The Third

2629
02 January 1714 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tragical History Of King Richard The Third

2630
22 April 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperour

Dance: Serious and Comic Dancing-

2631
24 August 1719 @ Bartholomew Fair

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Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

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2632
29 April 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

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2633
20 April 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Ivth, Part I

Song: Leveridge, Mrs Chambers

Dance: DuPre, Lally, Pelling, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Wall, Mrs Ogden; particularly a new Polonese-Lally, Mrs Wall; Myrtillo-

2634
21 February 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #170 9s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 236 paid; stage, 44 paid; balcony, 2 paid; Pit, 290 Paid and 3 orders; slips, 47 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 419 paid and 1 order; second gallery, 189 paid. For a comment on the play by Thomas Edwards, see V. M. Gilbert, Unrecorded Comments on John Gay, Henry Travers, and Others, Notes and Queries, August 1953, pp. 337-38

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

2635
03 December 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By Ebenezer Forrest.] By Command of His Royal Highness. After the Manner of the Beggar's Opera. All the Habits and Scenes entirely New. Receipts: #161 18s. 6d. [For a comment on this performance, see Thomas Edwards to John Clerke, "Unrecorded Comments on John Gay, Henry Travers, and Others", N & Q (August 1953), p. 338.

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Mainpiece Title: Momus Turn'd Fabulist; Or, Vulcan's Wedding

2636
31 March 1732 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

2637
05 May 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius; Or, The Force Of Love

Afterpiece Title: The Livery Rake; or, The Intriguing Servants

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant-LeBrun; II: Saraband, Minuet-Lally Jr, Miss Mears; IV: English Maggot-Haughton, Mrs Walter; V: The Watteau-Miss Robinson; End of Afterpiece: Bartholomew Fair-F. Tench, Mrs Delorme

2638
16 May 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: SScot's Dance-Mrs Bullock; Pierrot and Pierraite-deVallois, J. Delagarde; Friendly Lasses-Miss Wherrit, Miss Sandham; Masquerade Dance-

Song: Excell

2639
05 May 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: IV: Pastoral by Mrs Bullock. V: La Follette c'est Ravizee by Tench and Mrs Woodward

Song: II: old Anacreon (composed by Leveridge) sung by Nicholls in the Character of an Old Man. III: Waterman's Song, as17350502

2640
26 April 1736 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

2641
16 September 1738 @ Goodman's Fields

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2642
27 March 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses; Or, The Custom Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: GGrand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland; Two Pierots-Lalauze, Desse; Comic Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates

2643
08 May 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Leviez, Edwards, Beckham

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Dance: I: Miller's Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Morrison; II: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg; III: French Peasants-Leviez, Mrs Walter; IV: Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

2644
31 January 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: As 10 Dec. 1740. [For a discussion of recent Shakespearean performances, see Thomas Edwards to Richard Owen Cambridge, 31 January 1740@41 in Bodleian MS. 1009, pp. 140-41.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Dance: LLes Masons & Les Sabotiers-Fausan, Signora Fausan; Les Matelotes-Fausan, Signora Fausan

2645
28 May 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Edwards, Fenn, Fulwood, Fuller

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song: I: Blow Blow-Lowe; IV: The Noon@Tide Air-Lowe; V: Revenge Timotheus Cries (a favourite song in Alexander's Feast)-Savage

Dance: II: Minuet-Liviez, Miss Story; III: Le Matelote Tambourine-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

Music: IV: The March in Zara-; end Afterpiece: Preamble on Kettle Drum-Jo. Woodbridge

2646
01 April 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved; Or, A Plot Discover'd

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: TThe Leek, as17420224

2647
19 April 1742 @ James Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

2648
25 May 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: RRylands MS.: Benefit for Numberers &c, Mrs Marshall, Miss Lee, Miss Budgell, Miss Wright, Miss Cole, and Mr Walker. Tickets deliver'd out by Edwards, Owen, Brooks, Rumball, and others will be taken. Receipts: #120

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: IV: Celladon and Phyllis-Master Matthews, Miss Wright; V: The Medley of Jokes-Master Matthews, Miss Wright

2649
23 March 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Messiah

Performance Comment: . Sopranos-Signora Avogli (or Miss Edwards), Mrs Clive; Contralto-Mrs Cibber; Tenor-Beard; Bass-Reinhold. (Deutsch, p. 564.)

Music: Concerto on Organ-; Violin Solo-DuBourg

2650
26 April 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine