SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Van Richardson"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Van Richardson")') 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 4245 matches on Event Comments, 1351 matches on Performance Comments, 633 matches on Performance Title, 43 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

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Mainpiece Title: The Maid's Tragedy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Goblins

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Princess; Or, The Death Of Richard The Third

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Mainpiece Title: [the Virgin Queen

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Mainpiece Title: Secret Love; Or, The Maiden Queen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

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Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

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Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

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Mainpiece Title: Catiline's Conspiracy

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Mainpiece Title: Henry The Eighth

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Mainpiece Title: Horace

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Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage," p. 14. Pepys, Diary: My wife and I to White Hall; and there, by means of Mr Cooling, did get into the play, the only one we have seen this winter: it was The Five Hours' Adventure: but I sat so far I could not hear well, nor was there any pretty woman that I did see, but my wife, who sat in my Lady Fox's pew with her. The house very full; and late before done, so that it was past eleven before we got home

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Mainpiece Title: The Adventures Of Five Hours

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Mainpiece Title: Tyrannic Love; Or, The Royal Martyr

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 15. The play was not printed, and the only source of information concerning it is in Downes, Roscius Anglicanus, p. 30: The Woman made a Justice: Wrote by Mr Betterton: Mrs Long, Acting the Justice so Charmingly; and the Comedy being perfect and justly Acted, so well pleased the Audience, it continu'd Acting 14 Days together: The Prologue being spoke to it each Day. [It is possible that this date represents the premiere, since Saturday was frequently a day on which plays were first acted, but there is no certainty on this point.

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Mainpiece Title: The Woman Made A Justice

Event Comment: The King's Company. The date of the premiere is not known, but the play was entered in the Term Catalogues, June 1670, and the Prologue refers to the arrival of French royalty at Dover (May 1670); hence, it is likely that the play was first produced in the late spring. Edition of 1670: Written in French by Moliere; and rendered into English with much Addition and Advantage By Mr Medbourne, Servant to His Royal Highness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tartuffe; Or, The French Puritan

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 16. Whether this is the premiere is not known. A song, Amintas that true-hearted swain, with music by John Bannister, is in Choice Ayres, Songs, and Dialogues, 2d. Ed., 1675. Downes, Roscius Anglicanus, p. 34: The Jealous Bridegroom, Wrote by Mrs Bhen, a good Play and lasted six Days; but this made its Exit too, to give Room for a greater. The Tempest. Note, In this Play, Mr Otway the Poet having an Inclination to turn Actor; Mrs Bhen gave him the King in the Play, for a Probation Part, but he being not us'd to the Stage; the full House put him to such a Sweat and Tremendous, Agony, being dash't, spoilt him for an Actor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Forc'd Marriage; Or, The Jealous Bridegroom

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conquest Of Granada By The Spaniards

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conquest Of Granada, Part Ii

Related Works
Related Work: Aesop, Part II Author(s): John Vanbrugh