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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Besford"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Besford")') 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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502 results for: Keyword - Besford
We found 431 matches on Roles/Actors, 122 matches on Performance Comments, 82 matches on Performance Title, 32 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

226
14 December 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Romance of an Hour

Dance: II: The Frolick-Aldridge, Mrs Stephens, Miss Besford See17740416; End: A New Dance call'd The Generous Pirate-Dagueville, his Pupil, Mas. Blurton, Mrs Stevens, Helme, Sga Vidini

227
03 May 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Druids

Dance: II: A New Double Hornpipe-Harris, Miss Besford [See17730929]; IV: The Pilgrim-Harris, Miss Mathews [see17740416]

228
17 February 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: End Opera: The Frolick-Aldridge, Miss Besford, Sga Vidini. [See17741214.

229
19 March 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Imposters; or, A Cure for Credulity

Dance: I: A New Hornpipe-Miss Besford; End Comedy: Mirth and Jollity, as17760102

230
27 September 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: News From Parnassus

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Miss Besford; To conclude with: Country Dance-the characters. [Both these were danced, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.

231
15 October 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

Dance: End: Mirth and Jollity-Aldridge, Master Langrish, Master Jackson, Miss Besford

232
20 November 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: End: The Frolick-Aldridge, Miss Besford, Miss Valois

233
08 October 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Dance: End III: The Humours of Leixlip-Aldridge, Master Jackson, Miss Besford

Song: II: song [I have lost my Anna]-Leoni

234
17 October 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: End: As17771008; III: a Hornpipe-Miss Besford

235
25 November 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Thomas Overbury

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Dance: Afterpiece: Dancing-Aldridge, Dagueville, Miss Besford, Miss Valois

236
22 December 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Percy

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: End: The Humours of Leixlip-Aldridge, Miss Besford

237
28 January 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Dance: End III: The Garden of Love-Dagueville, Sga Tinte; End IV: a new Dance, The Cricketters-Aldridge, Langrish, Master Jackson, Miss Besford, Miss Nichols, Miss Valois

238
23 February 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Dance: In: As17770929; In afterpiece: Langrish, Miss Besford [who danced in all subsequent performances]

Song: End IV: Solemn Dirge, as17770929, but _Reinhold, Battishill

239
25 November 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: The Invasion

Dance: End II: The Embarkment for Cytherea-Dagueville, Harris, Master Holland, Master Dagueville, Miss Matthews, Miss Besford, Miss Valois

240
12 December 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: III: a Hornpipe-Miss Besford; Afterpiece: a Minuet-Dagueville, Mrs Mattocks

241
25 February 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Liverpool Prize

Dance: End: The Humours of Leixlip-Aldridge, Master Jackson, Miss Besford

242
20 March 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Prelude And Prologue

Afterpiece Title: Calypso

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: In: Incidental Dances-Dagueville, Miss Besford, Miss Valois

243
28 April 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: to conclude with: Country Dance-the characters; End I: new Comic Dance-Langrish, Jackson, Miss Parish, Miss Lings; End II: a Minuet-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley; In III: Hornpipe, as17781212; End I afterpiece: a new Pantomimical Dance, The Sports of the Green-Aldridge, Langrish, Jackson, Miss Besford, Miss Parish, Miss Valois; in which his celebrated Tambourine Dance-Aldridge

244
22 October 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: Plymouth In An Uproar

Dance: End: The Embarkment for Cythera-Dagueville, Harris, Master Holland, Langrish, Miss Matthews, Miss Besford, Miss Valois

245
08 February 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Miss Besford. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

246
06 May 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Gazette Extraordinary

Afterpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Dance: 3rd piece: Dancing-Dagueville, Langrish, Miss Besford, Miss Matthews

Entertainment: [Vaudeville.]3rd piece: a Leap through a Cask on Fire-

247
20 September 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: End: The Frolick-Aldridge (1st appearance here these 2 years), Miss Besford, Miss Valois

248
21 September 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: End II: As17800920; III: Hornpipe-Miss Besford. [The Hornpipe was omitted on 24 Apr. 1781, but was otherwise danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

249
25 September 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Dance: As17800921; Afterpiece: Dancing-Harris, Langrish, Miss Besford, Miss Matthews

250
27 September 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Dance: End: The Humours of Leixlip-Aldridge, Langrish, Miss Besford; Afterpiece: Dancing, as17800925, but Miss _Matthews, Miss Valois

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