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

Result Options

Download:
JSON XML CSV

Search Filters

Event

Date Range
Start
End

Performance

?
Filter by Performance Type










Cast

?

Keyword

?
We found 4703 matches on Event Comments, 1656 matches on Performance Comments, 1492 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 24 Jan.: Sir Walter Raleigh has been acted with Success; ...the Author, having, for his first Attempt in the Dramatick Way, shewn an uncommon Genius: The Diction seems to be extreamly just; the Sentiments noble; and, were it not for some Irregularities in working up the Catastrophe, it would be the best Tragedy that has appeared these many Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Walter Raleigh

Event Comment: Not Acted these Twenty Years. With new Scenes, Machines, Flyings, and other Decorations. The Musick compos'd by Mr Galliard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Circe

Event Comment: At Common Prices. N.B. Part of the Company will continue to Act two Days in a Week during the Summer Session. Original Weekly Journal, 6 June: A Quarrel happening in Drury-Lane Play-House, betwixt a Gentleman and an Officer, they immediately drew their Swords, and the Latter was wounded in the Arm

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don John; Or, The Libertine Destroy'd

Music: With the Original Shepherd's Musick by the late Henry Purcell-Birkhead, Bowman

Event Comment: Not Acted these Seven Years [but see 12 Oct. 1714]. Weekly Packet, 8 Aug.: We hear that the celebrated Tragedian, Mr Booth, was Yesterday Se'nnight marry'd to Mrs Santlow

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Solomon Single; Or, The Cautious Coxcomb

Song: As17190703

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Miss Smith, Miss Tenoe, Miss Lindar

Event Comment: Not Acted these Three Years. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Row, late Poet Laureat. Being the last time of Acting this Summer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command. An ancient Story, written by Mr Phillip Massinger, and Acted but twice since the Reign of King Charles the First; now revis'd with Alterations. [The Prince present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bondman; Or, Love And Liberty

Dance: Weaver, Shaw, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bicknell

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command. Lord Chamberlain's Office, 5@157, p. 287: I do hereby Order and direct that Mr Gay s Pastorall Tragedy be imediately Acted after Mr Hugh's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Dance: As17200210

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. Post Boy, 5 March: On Thursday Morning the King's Company of Comedians, belonging to the Play-House in Drury-Lane, were sworn at the Lord Chamberlain's Office in Whitehall, pursuant to an Order occasion'd by their Acting in Obedience to his Majesty's Licence, lately granted Exclusive of a Patent formerly obtained by Sir Richard Steele Kt. The Tenor of the Oath was, That as his Majesty's Servants, they should act Subservient to the Lord Chamberlain, Vice-Chamberlain, and Gentleman Usher in Waiting

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode; Or, Sir Fopling Flutter

Event Comment: Mainpiece: [Author unknown. Apparently not published.] A new Farce of three Acts. Benefit Ryan. By His Royal Highness's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mississippi

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wake

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Joueur

Performance Comment: Wherein an Actress belonging to the King of Shweden's French Company of Comedians will act a Part, the First in England.

Afterpiece Title: Attendez Moy Sous L'Orme

Entertainment: Tumbling-; Dancing-Danjeville

Event Comment: Benefit Roger, who acted the Part of Piero. By their Royal Highness's Command. [The Prince present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Docteur Chinois

Afterpiece Title: Letourdy

Afterpiece Title: The Reasonable Animals

Dance: As17200531

Event Comment: Translated from the Latin, as it was acted before King James the First by the Students at Cambridge

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ignoramus; Or, The English Lawyer

Song: As17200611

Dance: As17200714

Event Comment: Not Acted these Five Years. All the Characters being new dress'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Lovers; Or, Marriage A La Mode

Event Comment: Not Acted these Six Years [i.e., at dl]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Event Comment: Not Acted these Twelve Years. Written by Shakespear. Receipts: #86 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Troilus And Cressida

Event Comment: Not Acted these Twenty Years. Written by Mr Wilson. Receipts: #59 17s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cheats

Event Comment: Not Acted these Twenty Years. Written by Shakespear. Receipts: #34 10s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Event Comment: [Not Acted these Sixteen Years. Written by Shakespear, and revis'd by the late Mr Betterton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Second Part Of The History Of King Henry The Fourth; With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaffe Henry Iv, Part Ii

Event Comment: Not Acted these Sixteen Years [i.e., at dl]. Written by the late Mr Wycherley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Event Comment: Mainpiece: [By Thomas Odell.] A new Farce of one Act. Benefit J. and Ch. Rich. Receipts: money #112 5s.; tickets #14 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chimera; Or, An Hue And Cry To Change Alley

Afterpiece Title: The Emperor of the Moon

Afterpiece Title: Amadis

Event Comment: As 26 Jan. Receipts: #42 15s. Daily Journal, 27 Jan.: A New Tragedy, call'd, Friendship Betray'd; Or, the Injured General, was to have been Acted on Tuesday next...but is deferred, on Account of Mrs Bullock's hourly Expectation of being brought to Bed, she having the Principal Part in the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler of Preston

Event Comment: Not Acted these Thirty Years. Written by Shakespear. Receipts: #26 11s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Event Comment: Benefit Quin. Not Acted these Ten Years. Receipts: money #60 19s.; tickets #60 14s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Abra Mule; Or, Love And Empire

Music: With a Lesson on Harpsichord-Mr Cole

Event Comment: Benefit Roger, who acts the Part of Pierot

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Peroqut

Afterpiece Title: Les Animaux Raisonables

Dance:

Event Comment: [Music by Ariosti, Bononcini, Handel. Text by P. A. Rolli.] Admission as 19 Nov. 1720. De Fabrice to Flemming, 21 April (in Deutsch, Handel, p. 126): The Princess of Wales was safely delivered of a son last Saturday. The news was taken to the King by Lord Herbert during...Mutius Scevola, where there was a particularly large audience on account of its being the first performance. The audience celebrated the event with loud applause and huzzas. Each act of this opera is by a different composer, -the first by a certain Pipo, the second by Bononcini, and the third by Hendell, who easily triumphed over the others

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mutius Scaevola