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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Benj May"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Benj May")') 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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7131 results for: Keyword - Mr Benj. May
We found 5678 matches on Event Comments, 1309 matches on Performance Comments, 607 matches on Performance Title, 19 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1426
November 1693 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

1427
07 December 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: By Poitier and Mlle Roland

1428
19 September 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: TThe German Hunters, as17580916

1429
17 December 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Dance: End: Reviv'd The Prussian Camp-Grimaldi, Aldridge, Lauchery, Miss Baker

1430
31 March 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: The Irish Lilt, as17630922

1431
05 October 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

1432
13 January 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

1433
05 February 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Blackamoor

1434
08 June 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

1435
15 August 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Song: In course of Entertainment: his favourite Planxty [descriptive of Ireland-Johnstone (in the character of Murtough Delany) [see The Irishman in London, cg, 21 Apr.]

1436
21 April 1682 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

1437
January 1690 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: The Successful Strangers

1438
June 1690 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess; Or, The History Of Dioclesian

1439
June 1697 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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Mainpiece Title: The Innocent Mistress

1440
December 1702 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: The Patriot; Or, The Italian Conspiracy

1441
22 January 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: Friendship In Fashion (reviv'd)

1442
01 October 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

1443
07 February 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

1444
02 September 1757 @ Haymarket Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: A Medley Concert; Or, An Impromptu Of Whim And Novelty

Afterpiece Title: With a Lilliputian Pantomime call'dHarlequin's Frolic; or, A Voyage to Prussia

1445
27 July 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: The Wishes; Or, Harlequin's Mouth Opened

Dance: Master Rogier, Miss Capitani

1446
08 October 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: Philaster

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

1447
02 December 1769 @ Covent Garden

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Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Performance Comment: Parts by Woodward, Smith, Yates, Clarke, Dyer, Bensley, Hull, Dunstall, Perry, Quick, Fox, Wignell, Bates, Holtom, Mrs Bulkley, Mrs Mattocks, Mrs Green, Miss Ward, Miss Valois, Mrs Yates. With Prologue and Epilogue. Captain Ironsides-Woodward; Belfield Jun-Smith; Sir Benjamin Dove-Yates; Belfield Sen-Clarke; Paterson-Dyer; Philip-Bensley; Old Goodwin-Hull; Jonathan-Dunstall; Francis-Perry; Skiff-Quick; Lady Dove-Mrs Green; Violetta-Mrs Bulkley; Lucy Waters-Mrs Mattocks; Fanny Goodwin-Miss Ward; Kitty-Miss Valois; Sophia-Mrs Yates (playbill matched with Edition of 1770); Playbill also lists Fox, Wignell, Bates, Holtom (presumably as sailors.); With Prologue-Smith; Epilogue-Mrs Yates (playbill and 1770 Edn.). See Bill for 25 Jan. 1770.
Cast
Role: Sir Benjamin Dove Actor: Yates

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

1448
09 December 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

1449
05 June 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Lord Mayor Actor: Griffith

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

1450
26 August 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Foote, Weston, and Shuter in the Shades

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Dance: In Act III of 2nd piece Hornpipe by Byrne

Monologue: 1784 08 26 As 10 Aug