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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "the Sir Williams"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "the Sir 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
We found 11545 matches on Author, 6982 matches on Performance Comments, 1316 matches on Event Comments, 1129 matches on Roles/Actors, and 512 matches on Performance Title.
Event Comment: G. Berkeley to Sir John Percival: Mr Addison's play has taken wonderfully, they have acted it now almost a month, and would I belive act it a month longer were it not that Mrs Oldfield cannot hold out any longer, having had for several nights past, as I am informed, a midwife behind the scenes (Rand, p. 115)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Event Comment: Written by Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband; Or, The Accomplished Fools

Song: As17151028

Dance: Wade, Prince

Related Works
Related Work: The Fairy Prince, with the Installation of the Knights of the Garter Author(s): George Colman, the elder
Related Work: The Loyal Brother; or, The Persian Prince Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: Trappolin Supposed a Prince Author(s): Sir Aston Cokayne
Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By John Hughes.] A New Musical Masque, perform'd all in English. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: As17151122

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler of Preston

Dance: As17151029

Event Comment: Never acted on the British Stage. One of Terence's Comedies. Translated by Mr Echard and Sir Roger L'Estrange

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Eunuch

Event Comment: Ndt acted these Eight Years [but see dl 15 July 1712]. Written by the late Mr Crown, Author of Sir Courtly Nice. Receipts: #25 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Politicks

Dance:

Event Comment: Translated by Mr Echard and Sir Roger L'Estrange

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Eunuch

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Crown, Author of Sir Courtly Nice. Receipts: #16 10s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Politicks

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit Cook and Wilkins, Boxkeepers. Afterpiece: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Tickets for Sir Mannerly Shallow taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Royal Slave Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Event Comment: See a letter from John Dennis to Sir Richard Steele for comments upon dl, Dennis' Coriolanus, All for Love, Caesar Borgia, The Masquerade in Dennis, II, 162-65

Performances

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Knight. Written by Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Wives Confederacy

Dance: As17190209

Event Comment: Benefit Thurmond Jr. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Tickets for Sir Courtly Nice and She Would and She Would Not taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Performance Comment: With the Original Epilogue-Mrs Oldfield.

Afterpiece Title: The Dumb Farce

Event Comment: Benefit C. Bullock. At the Request of several Persons of Quality. Three Rows of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes at 5s. Receipts: money #26 1s. 6d.; tickets #71 19s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Performance Comment: As17201227, but Southampton-Boheme; Queen-Mrs Giffard; Nottingham-Mrs Gulick; Sir Walter Raleigh-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats; or, The Tavern Bilkers

Event Comment: Benefit Spiller. Afterpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: money #29 1s.; tickets #38 16s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist; Or, The Sham Doctor

Dance:

Event Comment: Written by Sir Richard Steel, Knight

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A La Mode

Dance: Mrs Booth, Shaw, Denoyer, Mrs Younger

Event Comment: Written by Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Denoye, Miss Tenoe, Mrs Booth, Mrs Younger

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Horton. Written by Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A La Mode

Dance:

Event Comment: Written by Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A La Mode

Dance:

Event Comment: Written by Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Dance:

Event Comment: Mainpiece: [Edition of 1722 gives Louis Legrand as author.] Afterpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrug. Receipts: #82 18s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cartouche; Or, The French Robbers

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit Chr. M. Rich. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Middlepiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: money #38 6s.; tickets #54 9s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cartouche

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Afterpiece Title: Amadis

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #25 13s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Woman's Revenge; Or, A Match In Newgate

Performance Comment: Corinna-Mrs Parker; Bevil-Walker; Freeman-Diggs; Thinkwell-Bullock Sr; Mixem-Hall; Vizard-Egleton; Tom-Spiller; Mother Griffin-Hippisley; Mrs Mixem-Mrs Egleton.
Cast
Role: Mother Griffin Actor: Hippisley
Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance:

Event Comment: At the Dog Tavern near Billingsgate. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medley

Performance Comment: Lorenzo, Gomez, Elvira in The Spanish Fryar, Belmour, Fondlewife, Laetitia in The Old Batchelor, Roger in Aesop, Woodcock, Hillaria, Squib in The Yeoman of Kent, Hob in The Country Wake, Sir Toby, the Philosophers in Love's Contrivance-Tony Aston.
Related Works
Related Work: The Medley; or, Harlequin At-All Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Spaniard Outwitted Author(s): Lewis Theobald

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medley

Performance Comment: Valentine, Jeremy in Love for Love, Riot, Arabella in The Wife's Relief, The Humours of Hob in Country Wake, Ben, Prue in Love for Love, Sir Sampson, Angelica, Foresight in Love for Love, The Gravediggers in Hamlet, Prologue, Epilogue-Tony Aston.
Related Works
Related Work: The Medley; or, Harlequin At-All Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Spaniard Outwitted Author(s): Lewis Theobald

Song:

Music: A fine forced Wind@Instrument-an Anonymous Person

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #23 9s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cartouche; Or, The French Robbers

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: Dupre, Nivelon Sr, Nivelon Jr, Glover, Mrs Rogeir, Mrs Wall, Mrs Bullock