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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.

276
14 January 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Dance: In Act I of afterpiece a Dance by Harris, Miss Matthews, Miss Besford

277
06 April 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece Hornpipe by Miss Besford; After 2nd song, The Mountaineers, as17841201

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece The Sorrows of Charlotte at the Tomb of Werter (the music composed by Percy, and never before sung in public) sung in character by Miss Wheeler; End of mainpiece The Soldier tir'd of War's Alarms by Miss Wheeler

278
09 April 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fashionable Levities

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Dance: End of mainpiece Damon and Musidora by Harris and Miss Besford

279
30 September 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece Hornpipe by Miss Besford

280
10 October 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Dance: End of mainpiece Leap Year; or, A New Way of Wooing (composed by Byrn) by Byrn, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Goodwin; In Act I of afterpiece Dance by Byrn, Miss Andre, Miss Besford

281
02 November 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: In Act II of mainpiece a Masquerade Dance incident to the Play; End of mainpiece The Wapping Landlady by Blurton, Rayner, Miss Besford

282
04 March 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Last Stake

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Dance: End of Act IV of mainpiece a new dance, The Drunken Sailor Reclaim'd, by Byrn, Ratchford, Mrs Goodwin, Miss Besford

283
28 March 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Percy

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: After Epilogue: All in the Downs; or, Farewell to Deal, as17780309but _Besford, Mrs White

284
05 April 1764 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Cast
Role: Joyce Actor: Master Besford

Dance: I: A Hornpipe-Miss Twist; End: The Calabrian Peasants, as17631222

285
12 November 1764 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Duke of York Actor: Mas. Besford

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

286
01 January 1765 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Duke of York Actor: Mas. Besford

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

287
03 May 1765 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Duke of York Actor: Mas. Besford

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

Dance: IV: The Sicilian Peasants, as17641001; End: a Hornpipe-Miss Pitt

288
18 November 1765 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Duke of York Actor: Mas. Besford

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

289
21 December 1765 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Cast
Role: Page Actor: Mas. Besford

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: III: The Venetian Gardeners, as17650925; End: Rural Love, as17651115

290
06 January 1766 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Duke of York Actor: Mas. Besford

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

291
03 February 1766 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Cast
Role: Lucius Actor: Mas. Besford

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: End: The Village Romps, as17651019

292
07 February 1766 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Cast
Role: Lucius Actor: Mas. Besford

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: End: The Village Romps, as17651019

293
24 February 1766 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Cast
Role: Lucius Actor: Mas. Besford

Afterpiece Title: Midas

294
10 March 1766 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Duke of York Actor: Mas. Besford

Afterpiece Title: Midas

295
21 April 1766 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Duke of York Actor: Mas. Besford

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: II: The Drunken Peasant-Miles (Peasant), Bennet (Clown); IV: A Comic Dance-Master King, Miss Pitt; End: The Village Romps, as17651019; Between acts of Farce: A Double Hornpipe (for this Night Only)-Walker (From Drury Lane Theatre), Miss Pitt, his scholar

Entertainment: End: The Cries of London-Shuter

296
03 May 1766 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virtue Betrayed

Cast
Role: Princess Elizabeth Actor: Miss Besford

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-Miss Daw; End: The Village Romps, as17651019

297
24 October 1766 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Duke of York Actor: Miss Besford.

Afterpiece Title: Coronation

298
27 October 1766 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Duke of York Actor: Miss Besford.

Afterpiece Title: Coronation

299
10 November 1766 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Duke of York Actor: Miss Besford.

Afterpiece Title: Coronation

300
27 May 1767 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Prince Edward Actor: Mas. Besford
Role: Duke of York Actor: Miss Besford.

Afterpiece Title: Coronation

Dance: II: A New Tambourine-Mas. Blurton, as17670427 III: by Desire, A Serious Dance-Miss Capon, as17670427