SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Dan Williams"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Dan Williams")') 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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Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Duke of York's house, to the play, The Tempest, which we have often seen, but yet I was pleased again, and shall be again to see it, it is so full of variety, and particularly this day I took pleasure to learn the tune of the seaman's dance, which I have much desired to be perfect in, and have made myself so

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Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, and there saw The Spanish Gypsys, the second time of acting, and the first that I saw it. A very silly play, only great variety of dances, and those most excellently done, especially one part by one Hanes [Jo. Haynes], only lately come thither from the Nursery, an understanding fellow, but yet, they say, hath spent #1,000 a-year before he come thither

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Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Gypsies

Performance Comment: dancing-see below.
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Role: dancing Actor: see below.

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Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

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Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

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Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

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Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

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Mainpiece Title: The Country Captain

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

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Mainpiece Title: The Maid In The Mill

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Mainpiece Title: The Queen Of Arragon

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Mainpiece Title: The Queen Of Arragon

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

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Mainpiece Title: Henry The Eighth

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: With my wife to the King's playhouse, and there saw The Joviall Crew; but ill acted to what it was heretofore, in Clun's time, and when Lacy could dance

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Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

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Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

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Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

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Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

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Mainpiece Title: The Moor Of Venice

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Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

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Mainpiece Title: The Roman Empress

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

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Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. There is no indication as to whether this is the premiere. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, Plays on the English Stage, p. 19. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 32): The third new Play Acted there [dg] was the Gentleman Dancing-Master, Wrote by Mr Witcherly, it lasted but 6 Days, being like't but indifferently, it was laid by to make Room for other new ones. A song, with music by John Bannister, for this play is in Choice Songs and Ayres, The First Book, 1673

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Mainpiece Title: The Gentleman Dancing Master