SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Rich"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Rich")') 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 4550 matches on Event Comments, 1190 matches on Performance Comments, 676 matches on Author, 556 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Benefit J. and Ch. Rich</a>. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Afterpiece: A New Dramatick Entertainment of Vocal and Instrumental Musick after the Italian Manner, in Grotesque Characters. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: #56 7s

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The School of Folly

Dance: Dances for the afterpiece composed by DuPre-DuPre, Boval, Cook, Pelling, Cook Jr, Newhouse, Mlle Gautier, Mrs Schoolding, Mlle Corail, Miss Schoolding Jr

Event Comment: Benefit J. and Ch. Rich</a>. By His Royal Highness's Command. Written by Mons le Noble. Receipts: #86 6s. 6d

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Mainpiece Title: Les Deux Arlequins

Dance: Drunken Dance-; Proper Entertainments-

Event Comment: Benefit Arlequin [Francisque, according to Rich's Register]

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Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Esprit Folet

Afterpiece Title: Les Filles Errantes

Entertainment: Vaulting, Tumbling-

Event Comment: Macbeth with cast as 27 Nov. 1718 was advertised in the Daily Courant, but Rich's Register lists The Mourning Bride. On 14 Jan. The Mourning Bride is advertised with the heading: Acted but twice these Two Years, suggesting either that it was not given on 13 Jan. or that the bill, already made up, was not changed for the printer, an unlikely event

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth or The Mourning Bride

Event Comment: Not advertised in Daily Courant, but listed in Rich's Register

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Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Event Comment: Benefit Knapp. Not Advertised in DC, but listed in Rich's Register

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Of A Wife; Or, A Comical Transformation