SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales")') 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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We found 1695 matches on Event Comments, 1196 matches on Performance Title, 1009 matches on Performance Comments, 402 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: London Post, 4-6 Dec. 1699: At the Request of several Persons of Quality, on Thursday next, being the 7th Inst. at the Theatre in Dorset Garden, the Famous Kentishmen, Wm. and Rich. Joy, design to show to the Town before they leave it, the same Tryals of Strength both of them, that Wm. had the Honour of showing before His Majesty, and their Royal Highnesses, with several other Persons of Quality; for which, he receiv'd a considerable Gratuity....Beginning exactly at 2, and Ending at 4. The Boxes 4s. the Pit 2s. 6d. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gall. 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Elizabetta Pilotti Schiavonetti, Servant to Her Royal Highness. By Command. Admission as 1 Feb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hydaspes

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. By Command, to begin at half an Hour after Six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Dance: As17170307

Event Comment: [Author unknown. Apparently not printed.] A new Opera. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. Admission as 5 Jan. N.B. Servants will be allow'd to keep Places. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wenceslaus

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. Pit and Boxes put together at 5s. by Seal'd Tickets. Galleries: 2s., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Event Comment: By His Royal Highnesses' Command. By the Company of Comedians from both Theatres. The Pit and Boxes to be laid together

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Dance: Moreau, Mrs Moreau, Cook Sr, Cook Jr, Pelling, Spiller; An Italian Night Scene between a Harlequin and a Countryman-Cook, Spiller

Event Comment: At Spiller and Lee Booth. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 20 Aug.: On Tuesday Night about Ten [25 Aug.]...His Royal Highness came thither incognito, with only one Nobleman and a Footman attending; he was well pleased with the Performance, and was very liberal to the Actors

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Egbert, King Of Kent And Monarch Of England; Or, The Union Of The Seven Kingdoms

Event Comment: For The Entertainment of their Royal Highnesses the Young Princesses. [The Princesses present.] For comment on the current theatrical scene, see The Letters of the Late Thomas Rundle, pp. 18-22

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Harlequin A Sham Astrologer, A Parrot, A Child, A Statue, And A Chimney Sweeper

Related Works
Related Work: The Children; or, Give Them Their Way Author(s): Prince Hoare

Dance: Danjeville

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. Written by the late Mr Dryden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperor; Or, The Conquest Of Mexico By The Spaniards

Dance:

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. Mainpiece: Written by Monsieur de Racine

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phedra & Hippolite

Afterpiece Title: Les Funerailles de la Foire & Son Rapel a la Vie

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses' Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Cartouche

Afterpiece Title: L'Usurier Gentilhomme et les Vendanges de Suresne

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. By their Royal Highnesses' Command. Written by Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. [Theodosius advertized, but Booth's illness deferred it. Daily Courant lists The Man of Mode, but Rich's Register lists The Earl of Essex.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode or The Earl Of Essex

Event Comment: [Author unknown.] A new Dramatick Entertainment. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. Benefit Penkethman. N.B. The Boxes will be illuminated with Wax Candles

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Distress'd Beauty; Or, The London Prentice

Dance: Dutch Dance between a Dutch Boor and his Frow-Newhouse, Mrs Willis; French Peasant-Newhouse, Miss Francis; Drunken Man-Harper

Song: The Dame of Honour, Mimick Song in Praise of a Country Life-Mrs Willis; Mrs Boman

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses' Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman under Misfortunes. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. For a Prologue designed for this occasion, see St. James's Journal, No. 28, p. 166

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Dance: As17221015

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses' Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Constancy

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Event Comment: By command of their Royal Highnesses, the young Princesses. Receipts: #151 19s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. The Pit and Front Roxes put together by tickets at 5s. Gallery Box 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Booth, Thurmond, Mrs Bullock, Topham, Miss Tenoe

Event Comment: Benefit Chetwood. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. N.B. Tickets given out for The Merry Wives of Windsor will be taken at this Play. [See Daily Post, 3 Aug., for Penkethman's celebration at Richmond on 1 Aug., the anniversary of the Hanoverian succession to the throne, and British Journal, 8 Aug., for an account of William Marshall, of lif, as an anti-Hanoverian demonstrator on 1 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: Drunken Man-Harper

Song:

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses' Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. Receipts: #146 16s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Of A Wife; Or, A Comical Transformation

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin a Sorcerer

Cast
Role: Prometheus Actor: Newhouse
Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin a Sorcerer: With the Loves of Pluto and Proserpine Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Dance: Mrs Booth, Miss Robinson, Young Rainton

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. Pit and Front Boxes put together by Tickets at 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Dance: As17250304