SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "M P King"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "M P King")') 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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We found 2868 matches on Performance Comments, 2862 matches on Event Comments, 2650 matches on Performance Title, 25 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

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Mainpiece Title: The New Made Nobleman

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Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

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Mainpiece Title: The Adventures Of Five Hours

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Mainpiece Title: An Unidentified Play

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Mainpiece Title: The Playhouse To Be Let

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Mainpiece Title: The Exposure

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first performance is not known. As Evelyn saw it on 27 April, it seems likely that it was first performed before Easter (April 10). It was not licensed for printing until 8 July 1664. Preface to edition of 1664: I Cou'd not have wish'd my self more fortunate than I have been in the success of this Poem:...The Acting of it has lost me no Reputation. Downes, Roscius Anglicanus, p. 25: @Sir Nich'las, Sir Fred'rick, Widow and Dufoy, Were not by any so well done, Mafoy.@ The clean and well performance of this Comedy, got the Company more Reputation and profit than any preceding Comedy; the Company taking in a months time at it #1000

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Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge Or Love In A Tub

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pompey The Great

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Worse And Worse

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

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Mainpiece Title: Comment

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Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperour Or The Conquest Of Mexico By The Spaniards

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Mainpiece Title: The Ghosts

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Mainpiece Title: The Valiant Cid

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Mainpiece Title: Puppetry

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 31) lists it as one of several plays whose runs expired on the third day. Pepys, Diary: To the Duke of York's playhouse, but the house so full, it being a new play, The Coffee House, that we could not get in...The Journals of John Lauder Lord Fountainhall (ed. Donald Crawford, 1900), pp. 174-75: heir is the Dukes playhouse, wheir we saw Tom Sydserfes Spanish Comedie Tarugo's Wiles, or the Coffee House, acted....He could not forget himselfe: was very satyricall sneering at the Greshamers for their late invention of the transfusion of blood, as also at our covenant, making the witch of Geneva to wy it and La Sainte Ligue de France togither

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Mainpiece Title: Tarugos Wiles Or The Coffee House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tarugos Wiles Or The Coffee House

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: [After looking in at lif], to Charing Cross, there to see Polichinelli. [It being begun, Pepys did not stay. See Speaight, English Puppet Theatre, p. 75.

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Mainpiece Title: Puppetry

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Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

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Mainpiece Title: The Guardian