SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "the Widow Yeates"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "the Widow Yeates")') 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 449 matches on Performance Comments, 433 matches on Performance Title, 383 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116. The King's Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I took my Lord Hinchinbroke and Mr Sidney to the Theatre, and shewed them The Widdow, and indifferent good play, but wronged by the women being to seek in their parts

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Mainpiece Title: The Widow

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard, but the entry does not specify the day. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 16. The play was not published until 1706, and the cast in an edition of that year represents one for performances nearer the date of publication. There is no indication of the date of the premiere

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Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 2. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 2. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347

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Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date for this performance is based upon Lump's remark in Act I: "Upon the one and twentieth of March..." Since the dedication bears a date of 16 Feb. 1678@9, the assumption is that the play was first acted on 21 March 1677@8. References in the Prologue also fit the public events of March 1678. Dedication, Edition of 1679: This Play...met not with that Success from the generality of the Audience, which I hop'd for, and you thought, and still think, it deserved

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Mainpiece Title: A True Widow

Performance Comment: Edition of 1679: Prologue by Mr Dryden-; Epilogue by the Author-.
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Role: Epilogue by the Author Actor: .
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@145, p. 120: The Wanton Wife. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350. For difficulties in dating this performance, see 11 Feb. 1679@80

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Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@145, p. 120: at ye Wanton Wife with ye Q. & a box for ye Maides of honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Event Comment: The United Company, Lord Ashburnham's Diary: I went to visit Ld Sussex, and Mr Campion, neither of them at home, I went into the Play (the Wanton Wife) [Ashburnham MS 932; see 14 Dec. 1686]

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Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. See A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, III, 357

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

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Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Entertainment: As17040417

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Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Dance: Mlle delaVal, Mrs Elford, l'Abbe's Brother, l'Abbe's Scholar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Dance: Mrs Elford

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Dance: l'Abbe, deBarques, Mrs Elford, Mlle Noisy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Dance: deBarques, Mrs Elford; with a Comical Dance-Firbank, Mrs Bignal

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Song: A new Comical Dialogue between-Dogget, Cooke; humorous songs-Mrs Willis, Pack

Dance: deBarques, Mrs Elford, others; comical dances-Fairbank, Mrs Bignal, Layfield

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wanton Wife; The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea (comic part only)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea (comic part only)

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea (Comic Part)

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Event Comment: [Benefit Bullock. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Queenborough

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife