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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Thomas Sowdon"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Thomas Sowdon")') 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 5466 matches on Author, 4534 matches on Event Comments, 1789 matches on Performance Comments, 586 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Related Works
Related Work: The Squire of Alsatia Author(s): Thomas Shadwell

Song: As17241008

Dance: As17241230

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Related Works
Related Work: The Squire of Alsatia Author(s): Thomas Shadwell

Dance: Young Rainton, Miss Robinson; Drunken Peasant-Nivelon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldier's Fortune

Related Works
Related Work: The Touchstone of Invention; or, The Soldier's Fortune Author(s): Thomas Otway
Related Work: The Soldier's Fortune Author(s): Thomas Otway
Related Work: The Soldiers' Fortune Author(s): Thomas Otway

Dance: PPolonese-Lally, Mrs Wall; Shepherd and Shepherdess-LeSac, Miss LaTour; French Peasant-Nivelon, Mrs Bullock; French Sailor and Wife-Salle, Mlle Salle

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Related Works
Related Work: Venice Preserv'd; or, A Plot Discover'd Author(s): Thomas Otway
Related Work: Venice Preserv'd Author(s): Thomas Otway

Afterpiece Title: Hob

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Related Work: Hob; or, The Country Wake Author(s): Thomas Doggett

Dance: Lally, Mrs Walter, Young Rainton, Miss Robinson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Royal Slave Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Dance: WWooden Shoe Dance in the Character of a Clown-Nivelon; French Sailor and his Wife-Salle, Mlle Salle; French Peasant-Poitier, Mrs Bullock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd; Or, A Plot Discover'd

Related Works
Related Work: Venice Preserv'd; or, A Plot Discover'd Author(s): Thomas Otway
Related Work: Venice Preserv'd Author(s): Thomas Otway

Song: TThe Lass of Patie's Mill-Miss Warren

Dance: WWooden Shoe Dance-Nivelon; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock; Fingalian Dance-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; The Humours of Marriage-Salle, Mlle Salle

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phormio

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Related Works
Related Work: The Cheats of Scapin Author(s): Thomas Otway

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd; Or, A Plot Discover'd

Related Works
Related Work: Venice Preserv'd; or, A Plot Discover'd Author(s): Thomas Otway
Related Work: Venice Preserv'd Author(s): Thomas Otway

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Anna Bullen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Related Works
Related Work: Venice Preserv'd; or, A Plot Discover'd Author(s): Thomas Otway
Related Work: Venice Preserv'd Author(s): Thomas Otway

Music: Kontzen, a Youth of 7 Years of Age, lately arriv'd from Germany, being the first Time of his Appearance on the Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd; Or, A Plot Discover'd

Related Works
Related Work: Venice Preserv'd; or, A Plot Discover'd Author(s): Thomas Otway
Related Work: Venice Preserv'd Author(s): Thomas Otway

Dance: Sandham, Mrs Hill

Song: DDear Pretty Maid-Nicholls, Mrs Mountfort

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks

Related Works
Related Work: Tunbridge-Walks: or, The Yeoman of Kent Author(s): Thomas Baker

Song: Between the Acts: New Comical Songs-; particularly A Dissertation on the Famous Beggar's Opera-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Related Works
Related Work: The Cheats of Scapin Author(s): Thomas Otway

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Nivalon, Poitier

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Related Works
Related Work: The Fatal Marriage Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Fatal Marriage; or, The Innocent Adultery Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: The Clown's Stratagem; or, A New Way to get a Wife

Music: III: Sonata of Corelli, proper to the Play-

Song: End III: A New Ballad to the tune of the Second Joke,-Mrs Roberts

Dance: IV: La Matellote-Miss Robinson; V: Last new Comic Dance-Rainton, Mrs Walter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Related Works
Related Work: The Orphan; or, The Unhappy Marriage Author(s): Thomas Otway

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Related Works
Related Work: The Amorous Widow; or, The Wanton Wife Author(s): Thomas Betterton

Afterpiece Title: A Journey to Bristol; or, The Faithful Welshman

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Poitier, Nivelon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd; Or, A Plot Discover'd

Related Works
Related Work: Venice Preserv'd; or, A Plot Discover'd Author(s): Thomas Otway
Related Work: Venice Preserv'd Author(s): Thomas Otway

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler of Preston

Dance: FFingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Related Works
Related Work: Venice Preserv'd; or, A Plot Discover'd Author(s): Thomas Otway
Related Work: Venice Preserv'd Author(s): Thomas Otway

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Britannia

Related Works
Related Work: Britannia Author(s): Thomas Lediard
Related Work: Britannia Author(s): Thomas Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Related Works
Related Work: The Orphan; or, The Unhappy Marriage Author(s): Thomas Otway

Afterpiece Title: The Country Revels

Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin Restor'd; or, The Country Revels Author(s): Thomas Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Related Works
Related Work: The Miser Author(s): Thomas Shadwell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Related Works
Related Work: Venice Preserv'd; or, A Plot Discover'd Author(s): Thomas Otway
Related Work: Venice Preserv'd Author(s): Thomas Otway

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Cast
Role: Sir Thomas Actor: Hippisley
Related Works
Related Work: Hob; or, The Country Wake Author(s): Thomas Doggett

Dance: II: Tambourine-Miss Rogers; IV: Mock Minuet-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre, introduced by Pelling, Mrs Pelling, Newhouse, Miss LaTour, Delagarde, Mrs Ogden, Lesac, Miss Baston; End I of Afterpiece: Scottish Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre, Dupre, Mrs Pelling, Delagarde, Mrs Ogden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Related Works
Related Work: The Amorous Widow; or, The Wanton Wife Author(s): Thomas Betterton

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Countess

Dance: II: Irish Trot-a Youth of Ten, scholar to Davenport; III: Dutchman and his Wife-Davenport, Miss Price; IV: Long Whitson Holiday-Davenport, Miss Price; V: Les Bergeries-Essex, Haughton, Miss Robinson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Related Works
Related Work: The Amorous Widow; or, The Wanton Wife Author(s): Thomas Betterton

Afterpiece Title: The Opera of Operas

Related Works
Related Work: The Opera of Operas; or Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): Thomas Arne

Dance: In Afterpiece: Les Bergeries, as17331108

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Related Works
Related Work: The Miser Author(s): Thomas Shadwell

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

Dance: Scotish Dance, as17330922 The Nassau, as17331112

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Royal Slave Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: The Punches by F. Tench and Janno. La Bagetelle by Essex and Miss La Tour