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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "E L"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "E L")') 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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1032 results for: Keyword - E. L.
We found 509 matches on Event Comments, 313 matches on Performance Comments, 234 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

851
05 December 1676 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love; Or, The Maiden Queen

852
13 December 1676 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

853
01 January 1677 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Shoemaker A Gent

854
12 January 1677 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Destruction Of Jerusalem By Titus Vespasian, Part I

855
18 January 1677 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Destruction Of Jerusalem By Titus Vespasian, Part Ii

856
05 February 1677 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

857
12 February 1677 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antony And Cleopatra

858
24 February 1677 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Rhodes, Part Ii

859
17 March 1677 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359: The Rivall Queene. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346. That this is the premiere is indicated by a letter from the Marquis of Worcester to the Marchioness, 17 March 1676@7: Sir Charles Sedley's Cleopatra has been acted often, and to-day a new play of the death of Alexander, but I have not been to see either, living a mighty drudging life (HMC, 12th Report, Appendix, Beaufort MSS., IX, 66). Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 11), has a cast which agrees (except for omissions) with that in the edition of 1677. Downes adds (p. 16): [Hart in] Alexander, towards the latter End of his Acting; if he Acted in any one of these but once in a Fortnight, the House was fill'd as at a New Play, especially Alexander, he Acting that with such Grandeur and Agreeable Majesty, That one of the Court was pleas'd to Honour him with this Commendation; That Hart might Teach any King on Earth how to Comport himself

Performances

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

860
24 March 1677 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover; Or, The Banish't Cavaliers

861
02 April 1677 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Captain; Or, Town Miss

862
05 May 1677 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Scaramouch A Philosopher; Harlequin A School-boy, Bravo, Merchant And Magician

863
31 May 1677 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Fond Husband; Or, The Plotting Sisters

864
08 June 1677 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Fond Husband

865
28 July 1677 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sullen Lovers; Or, The Impertinents

866
30 July 1677 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

867
05 November 1677 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

868
15 November 1677 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

869
17 November 1677 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Popular Wisdom; Or, The Politician

870
04 December 1677 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

871
17 January 1678 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@145, p. 120. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349. There is no certainty that this is the first performance, but a licensing date of 28 Jan. 1677@8 and Mrs Behn's statement in the Preface that she hurried the play into print suggest a premiere not far from this date. Edition of 1678: To the Reader: I Printed this Play with all the impatient haste one ought to do, who would be vindicated from the most unjust and silly aspersion, Woman could invent to cast on Woman; and which only my being a Woman has procured me, That it was Bawdy, the least and most Excusable fault in the Men Writers, to whose Plays they all crowd, as if they came to no other end then to hear what they condemn in this: but from a Woman it was unnaturall. One song, Sitting by yonder river side, with music by Thomas? Farmer, is in Choice Ayres and Songs, The Second Book, 1679

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Patient Fancy

872
March 1678 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Wells; Or, A Day's Courtship

873
11 March 1678 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Kind Keeper; Or, Mr Limberham

874
11 February 1680 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

875
13 February 1680 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife