SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Edward Shepherd"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Edward Shepherd")') 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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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speculation

Afterpiece Title: Marian

Performance Comment: Sir Henry Freeman (with Old Towler)-Incledon; Edward-Hill; Robin-Simmons; Thomas-Denman; Peggy-Mrs Chapman; Patty-Miss Wheatley; Kitty-Mrs Iliff; Fanny-Mrs Sydney; Marian (with a New Song) He has left me-the Youth, the dear youth I adore (Dramatic Censor, II, 198), written by T. Dutton, the Music by Mazzinghi-Miss Waters (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Edward Actor: Hill

Afterpiece Title: The Soldiers Festival

Song: End II 1st piece: a Musical Address Mark when beneath the western main (Dramatic Censor, II, 197), Written expressly for the occasion by T. Dutton, A. M., and composed by Mazzinghi-Miss Waters; End III: O Strike the Harp-Incledon, Linton, Miss Waters; accompanied on the Harp-Weippert; End IV: Happy were the Days-Miss Waters; End 1st piece: Sigh no more Ladies-Incledon, Townsend, Linton, Master Slape, Miss Waters

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Mainpiece Title: The Surrender Of Calais

Performance Comment: King Edward-Caulfield; Harcourt-Abbot; Sir Walter Manny-Whitmore; John de Vienne-Davenport; Ribbemont-Barrymore; Eustache de St. Pierre-C. Kemble; Officer-J. Palmer; John d'Aire-Trueman; Old Man-Waldron; Crier-Ledger; Citizens-Farley, Atkins, Chippendale; O'Carrol-Johnstone; Serjeant-Wathen; La Gloire-Fawcett; Carpenters-Suett, Klanert; Queen-Miss Chapman; Julia-Miss DeCamp; Madelon-Mrs Bland.
Cast
Role: King Edward Actor: Caulfield

Afterpiece Title: Tis All a Farce

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Iron Chest

Performance Comment: Sir Edward Mortimer-Barrymore; Fitzharding (1st time)-Davenport; Wilford-C. Kemble; Adam Winterton-Fawcett; Rawbold (1st time)-Emery; Samson Rawbold-Suett; David Rawbold-Master Suett; Armstrong-Trueman; Orson-Palmer; Servants-Abbot, Chippendale, Atkins; Robbers-Caulfield, Bannister, Klanert; Helen (1st time)-Miss Chapman; Blanch-Mrs Gibbs; Barbara-Mrs Mountain; Judith (1st time)-Miss DeCamp.

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: Cook, Anne Auretti, Mathews, Mrs Addison

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Matilda

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: I: The Grand Garland Dance as17760410 but-Slingsby, Sga Crespi, Mrs Sutton

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: My wife and I to the Duke of York's house, and there saw Love Trickes, or the School of Compliments; a silly play, only Miss Davis?'s dancing in a shepherd's clothes did please us mightily

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Tricks Or The School Of Compliments

Event Comment: In L. C. 5@139, p. 373, is a list of plays allowed to the Duke's Company: The Poetaster [by Ben Jonson]. Cupids Reuenge [by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. See 17 Aug. 1668]. Timon of Athens [by William Shakespeare]. Troyolus and Grisseida [by William Shakespeare]. Three parts of H. ye 6 [by William Shakespeare]. The honest mans fortune [by John Fletcher and others]. Woemen pleas'd [by John Fletcher]. Witt at Seuerall Weapons [by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher]. The Woemen Hater or The hungry Courtier [by Francis Beaumont]. All fooles [by George Chapman]. Birons Conspiracy [by George Chapman]. Broken heart [by John Ford]. Bird in a Cage [by James Shirley]. Chabot Admirall of ffranse [by James Shirley, with George Chapman]. ffaithful Shepherd [possibly Guarini's Il Pastor Fido]. Herod and Antipater [by Gervase Markham with William Sampson]. Humor out of breath [by John Day]. Jealous Louers [by Thomas Randolph]. Loues Melancholy [Lover's Melancholy, by John Ford]. Muliasses the Turke [by John Mason]. Queene of Arragon [by William Habington]. Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois [by George Chapman]. Revenge for Honor [or The Parricide, by Henry Glapthorne]

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Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 408. It is not known when the premiere occurred, but this is the earliest known performance. The Prologue, missing in the 1677 edition, is in the 1693 edition. A song, Make haste, my shepherd, come away, with music by Francis Forcer, is in Choice Ayres and Songs, Second Book, 1679

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Abdelazer Or The Moors Revenge

Event Comment: [By Niccola Haym. Apparently never printed.] Colman's Opera Register: A new Pastorall Opera called Dorinda. The musick of this is taken out of Severall Italian operas by Nico Haym. In this Sigra Margarita had no part. The other Singers the same as in the former [The Faithful Shepherd], the Same Scene & Habits also & the same prices. It was performed 4 times on the opera days successively

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dorinda

Event Comment: Benefit Shepherd and Chetwood (Prompter)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Northern Lass

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Song: Singing In Italian and English (for this Night Only)-Carey

Dance: Dupre Jr, Mrs Santlow, Mrs Bicknell, Miss Younger; Harlequin-Dupre, Mrs Santlow; Mimic Dance and Song-Mrs Willis

Event Comment: Benefit Robinson and Shepherd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Music: A Solo and Sonata on the Violin-Matthew Dubourg, others

Song: Mad Dialogue by Purcell-Turner, Mrs Fitzgerald

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Event Comment: Benefit Shepherd, Williams, and Oates. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A New Night Scene. The Scenes being all painted from tne real Place of Action. [By John Thurmond.] Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 5 Dec.: [It] was dismiss'd with a universal hiss.-And, indeed, if Shepherd had been as wretched, and as silly a Rogue in the World, as the ingenious and witty Managers have made him upon the Stage, the lower Gentry, who attended him to Tyburn, wou'd never have pittied him when eh was hang'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shepard

Event Comment: There will be no Action on the Stage, but the Scene will represent, in a Picturesque Manner, a Rural Prospect, with Rocks, Groves, Fountains and Grotto's, amongst which will be disposed a Chorus of Nymphs and Shepherds, the Habits and every other Decorations suited to the Subject

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud If She Coud

Dance: I: Harlequin by Maker. II: The Nassau, as17340117 III: French Shepherd and Shepherdess by Maker and Mlle Salle. V: Pigmalion: Pigmalion-Maker; Statue-Mlle Salle; others by Dupre, Pelling, Duke, Le Sac, Newhouse, De la Garde

Performance Comment: II: The Nassau, as17340117 III: French Shepherd and Shepherdess by Maker and Mlle Salle. V: Pigmalion: Pigmalion-Maker; Statue-Mlle Salle; others by Dupre, Pelling, Duke, Le Sac, Newhouse, De la Garde . others by Dupre, Pelling, Duke, Le Sac, Newhouse, De la Garde .

Song: I: English Cantata by Mrs Wright. IV: The Black and White Joke by Leveridge and Laguerre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: II: A new Peasant Dance by Lalauze, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann. V: Shepherd's Mount, as17350218

Performance Comment: V: Shepherd's Mount, as17350218.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mother in law

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: I: Russian Sailor by Denoyer, &c. II: By Denoyer's Apprentice. III: Shepherd's Mount by Denoyer, Mlle Salle, &c, with a new Scene, and New Habits. V: Minuet (in modern Habits) by Denoyer and Mlle Salle

Performance Comment: II: By Denoyer's Apprentice. III: Shepherd's Mount by Denoyer, Mlle Salle, &c, with a new Scene, and New Habits. V: Minuet (in modern Habits) by Denoyer and Mlle Salle .

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Mainpiece Title: Henry IV Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Dance: Pierrots by Delagarde and Dukes. Grecian Sailors (from orestes) by Glover, Le Sac, S. Lally, Delagarde, Dukes. Ball Dance and Minuet by Glover and Miss Rogers. Grand Ballet of The Faithful Shepherd (from Pastor Fido) by Glover, Le Sac, Dukes, Delagarde, Dupre, Miss Rogers, Mrs Ogden, Mrs Delorme, Miss Baston, Mrs Villepierre. Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers

Performance Comment: Grecian Sailors (from orestes) by Glover, Le Sac, S. Lally, Delagarde, Dukes. Ball Dance and Minuet by Glover and Miss Rogers. Grand Ballet of The Faithful Shepherd (from Pastor Fido) by Glover, Le Sac, Dukes, Delagarde, Dupre, Miss Rogers, Mrs Ogden, Mrs Delorme, Miss Baston, Mrs Villepierre. Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers .

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Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Music: II: Solo on Violin by Charke

Dance: I: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. III: Amorous Swain, as17350327 V: Shepherd's Mount, as17350218

Performance Comment: III: Amorous Swain, as17350327 V: Shepherd's Mount, as17350218.

Song: II: De Lascia un tell desio and I love Sounds the Alarm by Mrs Roberts. IV: A Mock Italian Air from The Livery Rake

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Dance: I: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. II: Newmarket's Delight (new) by Delamagne, Pelling, Davenport, Rector, Janno. III: Revellers by Essex and Mrs Walter. IV: Two Pierrots by Poitier and Pelling. V: Shepherd's Mount by Denoyer, Essex, Mrs Walter, Mrs Anderson, Pelling, Villeneuve, Davenport, Miss Mann, Mrs Davenport, Miss Brett

Performance Comment: II: Newmarket's Delight (new) by Delamagne, Pelling, Davenport, Rector, Janno. III: Revellers by Essex and Mrs Walter. IV: Two Pierrots by Poitier and Pelling. V: Shepherd's Mount by Denoyer, Essex, Mrs Walter, Mrs Anderson, Pelling, Villeneuve, Davenport, Miss Mann, Mrs Davenport, Miss Brett .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Dance: Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers, Desse, Mrs Ogden, Tench, Mlle Delorme. Two Pierrots by Nivelon and Lalauze, the first time of his appearing on that stage. The Faithful Shepherd by Glover, Miss Rogers, Tench, Desse, Dupre, Livier, Mrs Ogden, Mlle Delorme, Miss Sandham, Miss Norman

Performance Comment: Two Pierrots by Nivelon and Lalauze, the first time of his appearing on that stage. The Faithful Shepherd by Glover, Miss Rogers, Tench, Desse, Dupre, Livier, Mrs Ogden, Mlle Delorme, Miss Sandham, Miss Norman .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Dance: Two Pierrots by Nivelon and Lalauze. Faithful Shepherd, as17351003

Performance Comment: Faithful Shepherd, as17351003.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Dance: Two Pierrots by Nivelon and Lalauze. Scot's Dance, as17351013 The Faithful Shepherd, as17351003

Performance Comment: Scot's Dance, as17351013 The Faithful Shepherd, as17351003.