SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Moll Davis whom I never saw act be"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Moll Davis whom I never saw act be")') 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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Event Comment: Benefit Estcourt. Not Acted there these Six Years. Written by Sir George Etheridge

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd If She Cou'd

Song: As17050226

Dance: As17050303

Event Comment: Benefit Cave Underhill. Mainpiece: Not Acted these Five Years. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. It being the last time of Acting at this House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Virtuoso

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea

Dance: Mlle delaVal, Mrs Elford, Firbank, others

Event Comment: [The theatres, closed during Passion Week, did not act again until Monday, 9 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Passion Week

Event Comment: Not Acted these six Years. Written by the late Mr Dryden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Evening's Love; Or, The Mock Astrologer

Song: As17050104

Dance: As17041118

Event Comment: [By Mary Griffith Pix. Date of premiere unknown. Downes (p. 48) states that it was acted at the beginning of May 1705 and that it expired on the sixth day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conquest Of Spain

Performance Comment: No actors' names listed in edition of 1705; Prologue-; Epilogue-.
Event Comment: [This play was advertised on 1 May, not later, as "Not Acted these Four Years," but the performance may have been deferred by the apparent closing of the theatres until after May Fair.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth; With The Fall Of Cardinal Wolsey

Event Comment: Not Acted these Five Years. Written by Mr Otway

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldier's Fortune

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Event Comment: Not Acted these Three Years. Written by those Celebrated Authors, Beaumont and Fletcher

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Song: The dialogue, Thus at Height of Love We Live, set by Henry Purcell-

Event Comment: Not Acted these Five Years [but see 28 May]. Written by Mr Otway

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldier's Fortune

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Event Comment: Not Acted these Six Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Adventures Of Five Hours

Event Comment: Not Acted by that Company these Nine Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

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

Song: As17050428

Dance: As17041124

Event Comment: Not Acted these many Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Virtuous Wife; Or, Good Luck At Last

Event Comment: Not Acted these Twenty Years. Written by those Ingenious Authors, Beaumont and Fletcher. Preface:... Revived in its own Native and Original Simplicity, without being dismembred, curtail'd, or passing the Index Expurgatorius of any of our Modern Refiners

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Loyal Subject

Song: Ramondon

Dance: As17050718

Event Comment: Not Acted these Twenty Years. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Politiques

Event Comment: Not Acted these Five Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Unhappy Choice; Or, The Dutchess Of Malfey

Song: Entertainments-

Dance: Extraordinary entertainments, to be expressed in the Bills-

Event Comment: Not acted these six Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Night Walkers; Or, The Little Thief

Song:

Dance:

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. And an Act of a Comedy to be perform'd before the Opera begins

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arsinoe, Queen Of Cyprus

Dance: duRuel, Mrs duRuel, Mrs Evans

Event Comment: Not Acted there these Twelve Years. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Song: As17051201

Dance: duRuel, Mrs duRuel, Cherrier, Mrs Moss

Event Comment: Benefit Wilks. Not acted these Six Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bonduca; Or, The British Heroine

Music: All the Original Musick by the late Mr Henry Purcell-

Dance: As17051201

Event Comment: Benefit Corbett. [Luttrell, 21 March, states: "This being Passion week, there was a new opera acted last Monday at the old playhouse, which her majestie being informed of resented the same, and ordered the lord chamberlain to suffer no more till after Easter Sunday" (VI, 29). There is no known advertisement of the performance to which Luttrell refers.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: New Vocal and Instrumental music-the best Masters and Voices; with pieces for trumpet and violins composed by William Corbett-

Event Comment: [According to the Poetical Courant, 6 April, a private performance of Caius Marius by several Gentlemen for their Diversion" had been acted by this date. A Prologue by Mrs Phillips is printed in that issue of the Poetical Courant.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonders In The Sun

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Santlow. Not Acted these 12 Years [but see lif 3 Feb. 1704]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Valentinian: With The Rape Of Lucina

Song: Hughs, Newberry, the Boy

Dance: As17060309

Event Comment: Note that Mr Johnson was last Night engag'd to Act only in this Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Platonick Lady

Event Comment: Not Acted these five Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sea Voyage; Or, The Commonwealth Of Women

Song: The Mad Dialogue-Leveridge, Mrs Lindsey

Dance: duRuel, deBarques, Mrs Evans, others