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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "his Mae Author The Spartan Dame"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "his Mae Author The Spartan Dame")') 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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2474 results for: Keyword - his Mae Author. The Spartan Dame
We found 1929 matches on Event Comments, 356 matches on Performance Title, 264 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2176
28 November 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #182 16s. 6d. (177.12.0; 5.4.6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Wou'd Be A Soldier

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: As17861116

2177
01 December 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With new Songs by the Author [John O'Keeffe], and composed by Shield. Receipts: #182 9s. (179.18.6; 2.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainbleau; Or, Our Way In France

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: As17861116

2178
05 December 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #168 (161.8.6; 6.11.6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Wou'd Be A Soldier

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performance Comment: Midas-Edwin; Sileno-Davies; Damaetas-Brown; Pan-Cubitt; Jupiter-Darley; Apollo-Johnstone; Daphne-Mrs Martyr; Mysis-Mrs Webb; Juno-Miss Stuart; Nysa-Miss Wilkinson.
Cast
Role: Damaetas Actor: Brown

2179
06 December 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by John Scawen. Prologue by the author (European Magazine, Dec. 1786, p. 435). Larpent MS 749; not published; composer of songs unknown]; A Farce with Songs [for which see Morning Chronicle, and Morning Herald, both 8 Dec.]. Receipts: #237 2s. (233.16.6; 3.5.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: As17861117, but Madge [i.e. Margery ] (1st time at this theatre)-Mrs Wells.

Afterpiece Title: The Girl in Style

Dance: As17861117

2180
08 December 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #129 1s. (106.3.0; 21.6.6; 1.11.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A School For Grey-beards

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

2181
16 December 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #179 11s. 6d. (150.7.0; 27.7.0; 1.17.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A School For Grey-beards

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

2182
20 December 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by Frederick Reynolds. Larpent MS 750; not published; synopsis of plot in Universal Magazine, Dec. 1786, pp. 333-34. Prologue by the author (London Chronicle, 23 Dec.). Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews (World, 4 Jan. 1787); and see Epilogue to Such Things Are, 10 Feb. 1787]. Receipts: #165 14s. (156.1; 9.13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eloisa

Afterpiece Title: Hob in the Well

Cast
Role: Hob's Mother Actor: Mrs Pitt

Dance: As17861212

2183
22 December 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #121 6s. 6d. (113.1.6; 8.5.0; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eloisa

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Dance: As17861116

2184
13 January 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by James Cobb. Prologue by the author (see text)]. Public Advertiser, 22 Jan. 1787: This Evening be published The First Floor (1s.). Receipts: #227 (187.0; 39.4; 0.16)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Baddeley, Suett, R. Palmer, Chaplin, Jones, Alfred, Spencer, Whitfield, Burton, Bannister Jun., Mrs Wilson, Miss Collins, Mrs Hopkins. [Cast from text (C. Dilly, 1787): Whimsey-Baddeley; Furnish-Suett; Young Whimsey-R. Palmer; Landlord-Chaplin; Snap-Jones; Postboy-Alfred; Frank-Spencer; Monford-Whitfield; Simon-Burton; Tim Tartlett-Bannister Jun.; Nancy-Mrs Wilson; Charlotte-Miss Collins; Mrs Pattypan-Mrs Hopkins; Prologue-Bannister Jun. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]

Dance: End III: a new Dance, La Soiree Provencalle-the two young D'Egvilles, Miss DeCamp

2185
22 January 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Farce. Receipts: #266 16s. 6d. (229.3.0; 34.0.6; 3.13.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Ward.
Role: The Country Girl Actor: Mrs Jordan.

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

2186
01 February 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #206 13s. 6d. (200.2.6; 6.11.0; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Wou'd Be A Soldier

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Dance: As17870131

2187
14 February 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #263 14s. 6d. (258.14.0; 5.0.6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Such Things Are

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Cast
Role: Father Luke Actor: Booth

2188
22 February 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill. Afterpiece in place of The Two Misers, announced on playbill of 20 Feb.]. Receipts: #289 12s. 6d. (283.4.6; 6.8.0; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Such Things Are

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Cast
Role: Father Luke Actor: Booth

2189
27 February 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #249 1s. (246.12; 2.9; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Such Things Are

Afterpiece Title: Barataria

Cast
Role: Mary the Buxom Actor: Mrs Brown.

2190
06 March 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #121 19s. (97.7; 24.9; 0.3; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A School For Grey-beards

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

2191
12 March 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Thomas Holcroft. Prologue by the author (Public Advertiser, 19 Mar.). Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews (Knapp, 81)]: With new Scenery, Dresses, &c. Public Advertiser, 31 Mar. 1787: This Day is published Seduction (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #187 15. (162.14.0; 24.1.6; 0.17.0; ticket not come in: 0.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seduction

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

2192
17 March 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #216 12s. 6d. (196.5.0; 19.17.0; 0.10.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seduction

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

2193
24 March 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #199 13s. 6d. (174.17.0; 21.7.6; 3.9.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seduction

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

2194
13 April 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of afterpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts; #120 1s. 6d. (113.18.6; 6.3.0; tickets; none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Cast
Role: Host of the Garter Actor: Thompson

Afterpiece Title: Love and War

2195
16 April 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick. 3rd piece [1st time; F 1, author unknown. Not in Larpent MS; not published]: Altered from [the same by] Farquhar. Public Advertiser, 6 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Quick, No. 99, High Holbourn. Receipts: #324 1s. (156.4; 2.17; tickets: 165.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: Annette and Lubin

Performance Comment: Lubin-Mrs Martyr; Lord of the Manor-Helme; Bailiff-Booth; Annette (1st time)-Miss Wilkinson.
Cast
Role: Lord of the Manor Actor: Helme

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach; or, Inn in an Uproar

Entertainment: Monologue Before: Mother Shipton's Review of the Audience (Written By D. Garrick, Esq., with Alterations and Additions) (for that night only)-Quick

2196
23 April 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Baddeley. 2nd piece [1st time; INT 1, probably by Robert Baddeley. Larpent MS 765; not published]. 3rd piece [1st time; MF 1, author unknown. Larpent MS 766; not published]: The Overture and Music entirely new. Public Advertiser, 5 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Baddeley, No. 2, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #285 (96.3.0; 14.1.6; 0.18.6; tickets: 173.17.0) (charge: #105 9s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: (End of Act II mainpiece) Jewish Courtship

Afterpiece Title: The Mistake of a Minute

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Bannister Jun., Dignum, Miss Romanzini, Mrs Crouch. Larpent MS lists the parts: Tim, Tom, Daisey, Nettle.
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Bannister Jun., Dignum, Miss Romanzini, Mrs Crouch. Larpent MS lists the parts: Tim, Tom, Daisey, Nettle.

2197
25 April 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. [Author of 1st Prologue unknown. 2nd Prologue by James Cobb.] Public Advertiser, 31 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., Frith-street, Soho. Receipts: #297 1s. 6d. (162.4.0; 13.13.6; 0.6.0; tickets: 120.18.0) (charge: #109 3s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Transformation; Or, The Manager An Actor In Spite Of Himself

Afterpiece Title: The Strangers at Home

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Performance Comment: As17861213, but the Prologue-Bannister Jun.
Cast
Role: the Prologue Actor: Bannister Jun.
Related Works
Related Work: The Humourists Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Song: End 2nd piece: Stand to your Guns-Bannister

Entertainment: After Singing: various Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical, -Bannister Jun

2198
02 May 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #218 2s. (213.5; 4.17; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Such Things Are

Afterpiece Title: Bonds without Judgement

2199
03 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces Isabella, with Mrs Siddons as Isabella. But she was indisposed, and "the play was changed into The Winter's Tale" (World, 4 May).] Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Charles Stuart. Prologue by the author (Public Advertiser, 17 May)]. Receipts: #137 17s. 6d. (93.2.0; 43.7.6; 1.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Distress'd Baronet

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Palmer, Suett, Packer, Waldron, Burton, Wilson, Jones, Alfred, Spencer, Baddeley, Mrs Wilson, Miss Collins, Miss Tidswell, Mrs Hopkins. [Cast from text (J. Debrett, 1787): Sir George Courteous-Palmer; Pop-Suett; Prywell-Packer; La Roche-Waldron; Aminadab-Burton; Porpoise-Wilson; Servants-Jones, Alfred [in text: Newbold], Spencer; Quirk-Baddeley; Sophia-Mrs Wilson; Ninny-Miss Collins; Lady-Miss Tidswell; Mrs Termagant-Mrs Hopkins; Maid-Miss Dancer; Prologue-Bannister Jun. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]

2200
05 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #153 3s. 6d. [120.18.0; 28.15.6; 3.10.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seduction

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe