SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "ye Ds Players"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "ye Ds Players")') 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 589 matches on Event Comments, 490 matches on Performance Comments, 98 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Newdigate newsletters (Folger Shakespeare Library), 29 Jan. 1680@1: Upon some disgust given to his Matie by ye Ds Players acting plays he likd not does intend its said to take away yr pattent (Wilson, Theatre Notes from the Newdigate Newsletters, p. 80)

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: No Fool Like Ye Old Fool

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eastward Hoe; Or, Ye Prentices

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: HHornpipe-Mathews; The Little Swiss

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Schemers; Or, Ye City Match

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: II: The Fingalian Dance-; III: New Hornpipe-; End Opera: The Italian Peasants-Miss Froment

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Event Comment: The King's Company. Newdigate newsletters (Folger Shakespeare Library), 15 Nov. 1681: This being ye Q.s birthday ye K.s players acted Alexdr ye great after wch was a ball & entertainment given to ye Ct. (Wilson, Theatre Notes from the Newdigate Newsletters, p. 80). Luttrell, 15 Nov. 1681: The 15th, being the birth day of her majestie, was kept with ringing of bells, bonefires, &c.; and at night there was a play acted at Whitehall before the king and queen, where the court appeared in great splendor (A Brief Relation, I, 144). The Earl of Arran to Ormond, 15 Nov. 1681: I am going to a play at court (HMC, Ormonde MSS., New Series, VI, 230). L. C. 5@144, p. 246, 22 Nov. 1681: Whereas Jeoffrey Ayleworth, Thomas ffarmer, Thomas ffinall & Richard Tomlinson foure of his Mates Musitians have neglected their dury in attending at ye play acted before his Mate at Whitehall on Tuesday night last for which I have suspended them (L. C. to the Treasurer of the Chamber, in Boswell, Restoration Court Stage, p. 100)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or, Alexander The Great

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

Dance: II: The Prussian Sailors, as17580601 End Opera: The Faggot Binders, as17580601

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: On this date a payment was made to the foreign performers who had come in the spring: To Francis Duperier, for the charge and expences of ye French players attending his Majestie at Windsor and Winchester, and returning to London (Moneys Received and Paid for Secret Services, ed. J. Y. Akerman, Camden Society, LII [1851], 93)

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Event Comment: Benefit the Author of the Farce. Afterpiece: a Farce. [Author not known.] Preface to edition of 1737: The Misrepresentation of this little Piece upon the Stage, and the proper Indifference with which it was received by the Audience, made it necessary, for my Reputation sake, to publish it with all convenient Expedition. My Friends, who had read the Thing, did not know it again, it was in so disastrous a Plight; and they that had not read it (from a Prepossession in my Favour) imputed its Aukwardness to the Mismanagement, or Incapacity of the Players

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Author's Triumph; or, The Manager Manag'd

Dance: End Afterpiece: Pierrots-Vallois, Delagarde

Song: II: Dialogue by Purcell-the Masters Hamilton; III: Miss Jones; IV: Singing in Italian-Mrs Chambers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Goddess

Event Comment: Last Tuesday Signior Pasquali, Master of the Band of Music at the Theatre Royal, Mr Cibber and some other prominent players arriv'd from England to act the ensuing season [in Dublin]. Mrs Bland arriv'd [in Dublin] last Sunday from England and will appear tomorrow night in the character of Miranda in the Busy Body. Receipts: #180

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Mathews

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ye Country Knight

Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 14 Jan.: The Gentleman who perform'd the Character of Osman .. . the first Night, having since declin'd it, that Part was read last Night; and it being submitted to the Determination of the Audience, whether the Play should be continu'd, or the Repetition of it deferr'd till somebody was study'd in the Part, they unanimously declar'd for the Continuation of the Play; and 'twas desir'd the Part might be read till one of the Players could be studied in it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection [of Sacred Music 0; Messiah

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Music: End II: concerto on the Piano Forte-Clementi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Dance: II: L'Entree de Flore, as17521106, but Piettro, Miss +Rayner, Mad Auretti; III: A +Hornpipe-Mathews

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Second Grand Selection 0 Of Sacred Music From The Works Of handel

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: II: Pierots Dance-; III: A Hornpipe-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orators

Performance Comment: Players-Foote, Weston, Davis, Palmer, Death, Lewis, Parsons, Brown, Castle, Hayes, Taylor, Granger.

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: As17640705, but order reversed%

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Shepherd's Lottery

Dance: III: Les Caprices de la Dance, as17511212; IV: Will be introduced a Comic Dance-Harvey, Sga Piettero

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Redemption 0; Triumph Of Truth 0

Afterpiece Title: Redemption 1

Afterpiece Title: Redemption 2

Afterpiece Title: Redemption 3

Music: As17890311

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Redemption, A Sacred Oratorio Selected From The Great And Favourite Works Of handel That Were Performed At His Commemoration, In westminster-abbey And At The pantheon On 26 And 27 May 1784 0; Messiah

Afterpiece Title: Redemption 1

Afterpiece Title: Redemption 2

Afterpiece Title: Redemption 3

Music: As17900219