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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(perftitleclean,performancetitle) "No Wit No Help Like a Womans"/1)') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=150, performancetitle=100), ranker=wordcount
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651
10 May 1779
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Douglas
Afterpiece Title:
Wit
's Last Stake
Afterpiece Title:
The Brave Irishman
Dance:
End Monologue:
Hornpipe
-Lapper
Song:
End III:
He's aye kissing me
-Miss Harris; End:
Hunting Song
-Miss Harris
Music:
Between the Acts: The original
Scotch Music
-
Entertainment:
Monologue
.End 2nd piece:
Hippisley's Drunken Man
-Lewis (1st appearance on that stage these 3 years)
652
03 January 1780
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Modish Wife
Afterpiece Title:
Wit
's Last Stake
Dance:
End II: Miller
Entertainment:
End: Variety of
Rhetorical Imitations
-a Gentleman (1st appearance [unidentified])
653
03 April 1780
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Woman's
A Riddle; Or, The Way To Win A Widow
Afterpiece Title:
The Spaniards Dismayed
Afterpiece Title:
Poor Vulcan
Dance:
As17800401
654
24 April 1780
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Amphitryon
Afterpiece Title:
The Lyar
Song:
Interlude between Plutus and
Wit,
as17800412
Dance:
Interlude, as17800412; End:
Cupid Recruiting
, as17800417
655
18 April 1781
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
A New Way To Pay Old Debts
Afterpiece Title:
A Fete
Afterpiece Title:
Barnaby Brittle; or, A Wife at her
Wit
's End
656
04 April 1782
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Duenna
Afterpiece Title:
Barnaby Brittle; or, A Wife at her
Wit
's End
Dance:
As17820402
657
30 September 1782
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Love In A Village
Afterpiece Title:
Barnaby Brittle; or, A Wife at her
Wit
's End
Dance:
End of Act II of mainpiece, as17820925
658
25 November 1782
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Wit
Wit
hout Money
Afterpiece Title:
The Taylors
Dance:
End of mainpiece a Hornpipe (over 12 eggs blindfold) by Middleton
Song:
End of Act III of mainpiece a favourite song by Mrs Coxe; End of Act IV a favourite song by Miss Hemet
Monologue:
1782 11 25 After the Hornpipe John Bull, Half Seas Over (a new Scene) by Ryder
659
16 October 1783
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Artaxerxes
Afterpiece Title:
Barnaby Brittle; or, A Wife at her
Wit
's End
660
09 February 1784
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Gentle Shepherd; Or, Patie And Roger
Afterpiece Title:
Wit
's Last Stake
Dance:
End of Act III of mainpiece a new composed Reel (performers not listed); In Act IV a Hornpipe by Middleton
Monologue:
1784 02 09 The Edinburgh Buck by a Genleman [unidentified]
661
26 April 1784
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman
Afterpiece Title:
M id as
Song:
End of Act II of mainpiece A Description of the Curiosities of the Tower of London; End of mainpiece Four and Twenty Fiddlers all on a Row, both by Edwin
662
17 May 1784
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Amphitryon; Or, The Two Sosias
Afterpiece Title:
Who's the Dupe
Song:
dl
Dance:
Plutus-Staunton;
Wit
-Miss George; the Dance by Mr and Miss Hamoir. End of Act I of mainpiece New Hornpipe by Master Butler (Scholar of Miller); End of Act III The Soldier Tir'd, as17840414; End of mainpiece The Minuet de la Cour and Allemande by the Miss Stageldoirs
Song:
In mainpiece an Interlude of
663
11 April 1785
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Women Pleas'd
Afterpiece Title:
The Devil to Pay
Song:
In Act IV of mainpiece a song by Mrs Martyr; End of Mainpiece Four and Twenty Fidlers all on a Row by Edwin
Monologue:
1785 04 11 End of Act II of mainpiece A Description of the Curiosities of the Tower of London by Edwin
664
17 June 1785
@ Windsor Castle Inn, King Street, Hammersmith
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Wonder: A Woman Keeps A Secret
Afterpiece Title:
The Lying Valet
Song:
After the Monologue, by Miss Cranford
Monologue:
1785 06 17 End of mainpiece an Occasional Address to the Audience by Wright
665
26 March 1787
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Orphan Of China
Afterpiece Title:
Barnaby Brittle; or, A Wife at her
Wit
's End
Entertainment:
End: a variety of
Imitations
-Kelly;
Monologue
. After which:
A Monody on the late Mr Henderson
-the Gentleman who performs Zamti
666
27 March 1787
@ Red-Lion Inn, Lordship Road, Stoke Newington
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Orphan; Or, The Unhappy Marriage
Afterpiece Title:
The Miller of Mansfield
Song:
End I:
The Wedding Day
-Wilson; End III:
Ma chere amie
-Wilson; End Monologue:
The Old Woman of 80
-Wilson
Entertainment:
Monologue
. End:
The Picture of a Playhouse
; or,
Bucks have ye all
-Marriot
667
30 September 1788
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Miss In Her Teens
Afterpiece Title:
Barnaby Brittle; or, A Wife at her
Wit
's End
Afterpiece Title:
The Citizen
Entertainment:
Monologue
. End 1st piece:
Scrubb's Trip to the Jubilee
(as altered by the late
David Garrick
, Esq., in character,)-Death;
Vaudeville
. End 2nd piece: a new favourite
song
-Birkett;
Dance
-the Miss Simonets;
A Pantomimical Interlude
:
Harlequin
(
wit
h the celebrated Dying Scene)-Follett Jun.,
Clown- Follett Sen.; +A martial song
-Birkett
668
28 April 1792
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Notoriety
Afterpiece Title:
Robin Hood
Entertainment:
Monologues
Preceding: [a New Address,
She Couldn't
Help
It
-[by
Harley
]; End: Collins's
Ode on the Passions
-Mrs Esten; [
Imitations
End II:
Dramatic Imitations
[Comic, Vocal and Tragic,-Mrs Wells
669
30 June 1792
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Suicide
Afterpiece Title:
Young Men, and Old Women
670
02 July 1792
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Surrender Of Calais
Afterpiece Title:
Young Men, and Old Women
671
04 July 1792
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
I'll Tell You What
Afterpiece Title:
Young Men, and Old Women
672
10 July 1792
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Young Quaker
Afterpiece Title:
Young Men, and Old Women
673
12 July 1792
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Battle Of Hexham
Afterpiece Title:
Young Men, and Old Women
Dance:
End: As17920627
674
17 July 1792
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Inkle And Yarico
Afterpiece Title:
Young Men, and Old Women
675
09 August 1792
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Hail Fellows Well Met
Afterpiece Title:
Ways and Means
Afterpiece Title:
The Rehearsal
Afterpiece Title:
The Rights of Women
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