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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "His Royal Highness the Duke"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "His Royal Highness the Duke")') 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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4635 results for: Keyword - His Royal Highness the Duke
We found 2115 matches on Event Comments, 1466 matches on Performance Comments, 1017 matches on Performance Title, 402 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1326
April 1696 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. The date of the first performance is not known, but the fact that the play was advertised in the Post Man, 4-6 June 1696, suggests that it was acted not later than May 1696, possibly that it was given in late April. In III is a song, Unguarded lies the wishing maid, set by John Eccles and sung by Leveridge. In IV is a song, The secrets of peace, set by Finger and sung by Mrs Hudson. A Comparison Between the Two Stages (1702), p. 20: This is Mrs Manley's; it made a shift to live a half a dozen Days, and then expir'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Mischief

1327
25 April 1702 @ Chelsea College

Event Comment: To all the Nobility and Gentry: In Honour of the Queen s Coronation. At 5 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Mr Abell's new Consort of English Musick-; [composed on the Royal Subject [the Queen's Coronation]: With other Songs in several Languages-; accompanied-the greatest Masters [of Instrumental Musick

1328
12 June 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Wilks. Not acted these Twenty Years. [A revision by Henry Norris of the Beaumont and Fletcher Beggar's Bush.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant; Or, Beggar's Bush

Performance Comment: Merchant-Wilks; The edition of ca. 1706 lists also: Woolfort-Williams; Gerrard-Keen; Hubert-Mills; Hemskirk-Bickerstaff; Vandunck-Bullock; Merchants-Carnaby, Phillips, Kent, Toms; Higgen-Estcourt; Prig-Norris; Snap-Kent; Ferret-Fairbank; Ginks-Tom. Wright; Boors-Sherman, Harris, Cross; Jaculine-Mrs Cox; Bertha-Mrs Rogers; Epilogue-Pinkeman mounted on an ass; a long wig on the ass's head. a long wig on the ass's head.

Song: As17050428

Dance: As17041124

1329
19 June 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Song: As17050428

Dance:

1330
30 June 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Newman. [In Daily Courant, 29 June, The Committee had been advertised for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Song: Frost Music from King Arthur (Act III), with the proper Scenes and Habits belonging to it-

Dance: The best Performers

1331
06 October 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant; Or, Beggar's Bush

Song:

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1332
09 November 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Music: As17051105

Song: Hughs, Ramondon, Mrs Lindsey

Dance: As17050929

1333
01 December 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Song: Singing in Italian and English-Mrs del'Epine

Dance: duRuel, Mrs duRuel

1334
26 December 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Song: Hughs, Mrs Lindsey, Ramondon, the Boy; particularly the Prologue to The Indian Queen-

Dance: As17051218

1335
01 February 1706 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Music: As17051105

Dance: As17051105

Song: Leveridge, Ramondon, the Boy

1336
14 March 1706 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Dance: duRuel, Mrs Evans

Song: As17060112

1337
25 May 1706 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Song: Ramondon, Holcomb

Dance: As17060325

1338
22 October 1706 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant; Or, Beggar's Bush

1339
08 November 1706 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

1340
14 February 1707 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

1341
14 November 1707 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant; Or, Beggar's Bush

1342
25 November 1707 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Performance Comment: Edition of 1708 lists: Hengist-Booth; Aribert-Wilks; Offa-Husbands; Seofrid-Mills; Oswand-Keen; Rodogune-Mrs Barry; Ethelinda-Mrs Oldfield; Prologue-Betterton; Epilogue-Mrs Oldfield.
Cast
Role: Ethelinda Actor: Mrs Oldfield

1343
26 November 1707 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

1344
27 November 1707 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

1345
28 November 1707 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

1346
29 November 1707 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

1347
01 December 1707 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

1348
18 December 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Thomyris, Queen Of Scythia; Or, The Royal Amazon

Performance Comment: Valentini, Mrs Tofts, Signiora Margarita, Leveridge, Mrs Lindsey, Laurence performing their Parts as formerly.

Dance:

1349
03 January 1708 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Cast
Role: Ethelinda Actor: Mrs Oldfield

1350
23 March 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant