SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "her present Majesty"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "her present Majesty")') 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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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander

Related Works
Related Work: The Court of Alexander Author(s): John A. Fisher
Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. [The King, Prince and Princess of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Prince By Enchantment; With His Comical Cavalcade And Taken Up In The Air By Daemons; Or, The Loves Of Pantalon And Argentine, His Imprisonment And Condemnation To The Gallies

Dance: As17260928

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. N.B. For the better Information of those who do not thoroughly understand the Italian Language, a Book with the Argument and Explanations in English, of what is transacted in every Scenes, may be had...at the usual Places in the Opera-House. Price 6d. [The King, Prince, and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Enchanted Island Of Arcadia; Or, The Magician Doctor, With Harlequin King Of The Woods; Flights, Decorations And Transformations Of Harlequin, Cupid, Pantalon, Venus, And Brighella, Jupiter, And The Sacrifice Of Harlequin

Related Works
Related Work: Love Despised Author(s): John Fletcher

Dance: Furies, Nymphs, Shepherds, Statues-; , the latter performing the Labours of Hercules-Statues , after the Manner of the Venetian Gondaliers at Venice: The whole full of Variety

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these Ten Yeats. Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Afterpiece: A Masque in Two Interludes. Receipts: #76 10s. Probable attendance: boxes, 74 paid and 17 by orders; balcony, 1 paid; pit, 218 paid and 20 by orders; slips, 11 paid and 14 by orders; first gallery, 161 paid and 7 by orders; second gallery, 101 paid. The Prince and Princess of Wales present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: Pan and Syrinx

Dance: Dancing proper to the Masque-Nivelon, Salle, DuPre, Lally, Pelling, Newhouse, Lanyon, DuPre Jr, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Ogden

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. N.B. This being the first Time of Acting on Account of Subscriptions, the General Tickets will be sent to the Subscribers. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Most Knowing, Least Understanding; Or, Harlequin's Metamorphosis; Viz

Afterpiece Title: The Pleasant Marriage; Concluding with The Singing Deities

Dance: Dancing and other Decorations proper to the Play , entirely new and diverting-

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Diana's Madness; Or, Fatime, A Favourite Slave In The Seraglio, Mad For Love, And Crown'd Empress By The Grand Signior: With Pantlon And Harlequin Eunuchs Elected Kaimcan And Ciguir, The One Impaled And The Other Sawed Asunder, The Bashas Selim And Achmet Ript Open, Rabca Strangled, And Chistar Beheaded

Entertainment: Carneval-after the Venetian Manner; Dancing-Masqueraders in divers Characters, Madmen, Turks Men and Women being the Invention of Mr Poictiers

Related Works
Related Work: The Nice Valour Author(s): John Fletcher
Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. [The King and Prince Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pantalon A Broker Broken Merchant And Desperately In Love, Harlequin His Shopkeeper: With A Ridotto After The Venetian Manner, Songs, And A Serenata In A Venetian Gondola

Entertainment: As17261105

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. With Flyings, Apparitions, &c. [The King, Prince, and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Argentina A Magician, Disguised, Serving Diana, Transformed Into A Gipsie, Armenian, Footman, Fiend, Lady, And Counsellour

Related Works
Related Work: The Scornful Lady Author(s): John Fletcher
Related Work: The Capricious Lady Author(s): John Fletcher

Dance: As17260928

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Mercante Prodigo; Or, Harlequin A Prodigal Merchant, Persecuted By Silvio, Basilisk Of Bernagasso

Dance: As17260928

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Furbarie Per Vendetta; Or, Brighella's Revenge Thwarted By Argentina: With Divers Transformations Of Harlequin, Viz

Performance Comment: Physician, Musick-Master, Madam Pantaska, or Lady Pancake, Swaggerer, Cyant and Grand Bashaw, Together with the Comical Egress and Regress from and to the Twon. Edition of 1726 lists no cast.

Dance: Turkish Men and Women, being the Invention of Mr Poitier

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Disgrazie D'arlechino: Viz

Dance: As17260928

Event Comment: Mainpiece: [Author unknown. Apparenyly not published.] By Reason of the Length of the Entertainment...the Savage is...to be Acted with it; and, for Brevity, will be presented without Prologue or Epilogue. Receipts: #198 7s. 6d. Benefit J. Rich. Probable attendance: boxes and pit, 516 paid and 6 orders; slips, 47 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 400 paid; second gallery, 180 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Savage

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: A few days before 7 June the Drury Lane comedians presented Tamerlane at the Dutchess Dowager of Marlborugh's House in St. James's. See St. James's Evening Post, 10 June

Performances

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Present: King and Queen. [In Daily Post, 27 Sept., Macbeth had been advertised for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: Aimwell-Mills; Arcner-Wilks; Sullen-Harper; Foigard-Miller; Bonniface-Shepard; Scrub-Norris; Gibbet-Oates; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Oldfield; Dorinda-Mrs Porter; Lady Bountiful-Mrs Moore; Cherry-Mrs Mills.
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Role: Cherry Actor: Mrs Mills.
Event Comment: TThe King and Queen present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard The First, King Of England

Event Comment: His Royal Highness the Duke present. Mainpiece: By Terence. Afterpiece: Imitated from the Phormio by Moliere, and translated into English by Mr Otway, with some Alterations; acted by the younger King's Scholars

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phormio

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Event Comment: TThe King, Queen, Princess Royal, and Princess Carolina present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Event Comment: [Music by Handel. Text by Haym.] The King, Queen, Princess Amelia, and Princess Carolina present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

Event Comment: Receipts: #163 14s. 6d. King, Queen, Princess Royal, and Princess Carolina present. Probable attendance: boxes, 228 paid and 28 orders; stage, 11 paid and 1 order; pit, 302 paid and 1 order; slips, 43 paid and 24 orders; first gallery, 443 paid; second gallery, 199 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Event Comment: KKing, Queen, Princess Carolina, and Princess Royal present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

Event Comment: KKing, Queen, Princess Royal, Princess Carolina present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

Event Comment: KKing, Queen, Princesses Amelia and Carolina present. (Delany, Autobiography, I, 165-66): Operas are somewhat mended within this fortnight; they are much fuller than they have been any time this Winter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

Event Comment: TThe King, Queen, Princess Royal, and Princess Amelia present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

Event Comment: TThe King, Queen, Princess Royal, Princess Amelia present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

Event Comment: TThe King, Queen, Princess Royal, and Princess Carolina present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ptolemy