SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Back"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Back")') 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 4266 matches on Event Comments, 1141 matches on Performance Comments, 528 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant; Or, The Way To Win Him

Afterpiece Title: Merlin (Harlequin Skeleton)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Merlin (Harlequin Skeleton)

Dance: JJovial Coopers, as17571107

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar; Or, The Double Discovery

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

Dance: IV: The Italian Peasants, as17571004

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: III: The Market, as17571126

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: FFingalian Dance, by Desire, as17571013

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Song: I: Miss Young

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: As17571214

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Ballet: TThe Prussian Camp. As17571223

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Ballet: The Judgment of Paris. As17571217

Dance: As17571217

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Agis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: SSicilian Peasants, as17571217

Event Comment: During this month was published The Case of Authors...Stated with Regard to Booksellers, the Stage, and the Public by James Ralph. Pages 23-31 condemn both Garrick and Rich for their treatment of authors: "Those who have custody of the stage claim also custody of the Muse...There is no drawback on the profit of the night in old plays....To fly from Garrick in case of any contempt or neglect to Mr Rich, is enough to deter any man in his senses from embarking a second time on such a hopeless voyage.

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Agis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Afterpiece Title: The Sheep Shearing

Dance: As17571217

Ballet: TThe Judgment of Paris. As17571217

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: III: (By Desire) Cymon and Iphigenia-Beard; [It had been advertised in advance, but this night in Act III] Cantata-Miss Young

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: SSicilian Peasants, as17571217

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: As17571217

Ballet: TThe Judgment of Paris. As17571217

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: The Anniversary : Being a Sequel to Lethe

Dance: SSicilian Peasants, as17571217; Fingalian Dance, by Desire, as17571013

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Music: First Violin-Brown; Second Violin-Froud; First Violoncello-Gordon; Harpsichord-Cooke; Between I and II: a Concerto on Hautboy-Vincent

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Afterpiece Title: Lady Moore; or, The Dragoness

Ballet: JJudgment of Paris. As17580407 but only Paris-Gallinni; Venus-Mlle Capdeville

Dance: SSavoyards, as17580408 Tambourine, as17580330

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alzira

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue; or, The Jealous Farmer Deceiv'd

Dance: I: Fingalian Dance-Miss Toogood, Apprentice to Lalauze; III: The Provincial Sailors, as17580408 IV: By Desire, Louvre, Minuet-Lalauze, Miss Toogood; V: Savoyards, as17580408