SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Widow of Thomas Williams"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Widow of Thomas Williams")') 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: Henry The Second, King Of England; With The Death Of Rosamond

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Related Work: Alfred the Great, King of England Author(s): Thomas Arne
Related Work: Henry the Second; or, The Fall of Rosamond Author(s): Thomas Hull

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Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or, The Death Of Alexander The Great

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Related Work: The Rival Queens; or, Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden Author(s): Thomas Holcroft

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Mainpiece Title: The Maid's Last Prayer; Or, Any Rather Than Fail

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Related Work: The Maid's last Prayer; or Any rather than Fail Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Event Comment: This celebration of the Queen's Birthday presumably was given on 30 April, her birthday. The music in the Royal Society of Music gives the singers as Mrs Ayliff, The Boy, Turner, Snow, Edwards, Howell, Bowman, Damascene, Bouchier, Williams, Woodeson, Roberts. See Purcell's Works, Purcell Society, XXIV (1926), ii

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

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Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

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Related Work: The Triumphs of London: Performed on Monday, October XXIX Author(s): Thomas Jordan

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Mainpiece Title: The Ambitious Slave; Or, A Generous Revenge

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Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

Performance Comment: Prepared for the Entertainment of Sir ThomasLane, Knight....Containing a full Description of the Pageants, Speeches, Songs, and the whole Solemnity of the Day. Performed on Monday the 29 of October, 1694. Set forth at the Proper Cost and Charges of the...Clothworkers.
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Related Work: The Triumphs of London: Performed on Monday, October XXIX Author(s): Thomas Jordan
Event Comment: See Cibber, Apology, I, 201-2, for his account of the mistake Betterton's Company made in not retaining Williams and Mrs Mountfort-Verbruggen, and of the problems of Rich's Company. In this passage Cibber implies that Hamlet, Othello, and Julius Caesar were acted at Drury Lane soon after the division of the companies

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Mainpiece Title: Cyrus The Great; Or, The Tragedy Of Love

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Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

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Related Work: The Honest Thieves; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Thomas Knight

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Mainpiece Title: Europe's Revels For The Peace

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Mainpiece Title: Jephtha's Rash Vow

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Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

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Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo And Armida

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

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Mainpiece Title: Fryar Bacon; Or, The Country Justice : With The Humours Of tolfree The Miller, And His Son ralph

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Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

Event Comment: Post Man, 16-19 March 1700: For the benefit of Mrs Hudson and Mr Williams, to morrow being Wednesday the 20th instant, in the Great Room in York Buildings, will be performed an extraordinary entertainment of Vocal and Instrumental Musick. At the desire of several Ladies of Quality, with a new Prologue to be performed by Jo. Haines

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: Benefit Dan Williams. At Mr Reason's Musick Room in York Buildings. At 8 p.m

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-. Compos'd by Dr John Blow, for the late Anniversary Feast of St Cecilia

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Mainpiece Title: The Committee

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Mainpiece Title: The Judgment Of Paris