SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr William Mills"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr William Mills")') 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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Event Comment: [By William Burnaby. Date of premiere unknown. Published 11 Feb.

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Mainpiece Title: Love Betrayed Or The Agreeable Disappointment

Related Works
Related Work: Love Betray'd; or, The Agreable Disapointment Author(s): William Burnaby
Related Work: Twelfth Night Author(s): William Shakespeare
Event Comment: [By William Taverner.] Never Acted before. The Dresses for all the Characters being entirely new. Receipts: #58 4s

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Mainpiece Title: The Artful Husband

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Related Work: The Artful Husband Author(s): William Taverner
Event Comment: Benefit Miss Smith, Kellom's Scholar, Buck, Cross, Williams. Receipts: money #9 8s.; tickets #61 4s

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Mainpiece Title: The Taming Of The Shrew

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Related Work: The Taming of the Shrew Author(s): William Shakespeare

Dance: Thurmond, Miss Smith; particularly a new Swedish Dale Karle-

Event Comment: [By William Taverner.] Never Acted before. All the Characters being new Drest

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Mainpiece Title: The Artful Wife

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Related Work: The Artful Wife Author(s): William Taverner
Event Comment: Benefit Shepherd, Williams, and Oates. Written by Shakespear

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

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Role: Macbeth Actor: Mills
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Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): William Shakespeare
Event Comment: '[By William Taverner.] Never Acted before

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Mainpiece Title: tis Well If It Takes

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Related Work: Tis Well if it Takes Author(s): William Taverner
Event Comment: Benefit Corey and Williams. Written by Shakespear

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Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

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Related Work: Henry VIII Author(s): William Shakespeare

Dance: Weaver, Thurmond Jr, Lallie, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bicknell, Miss Tenoe

Event Comment: [By William Phillips.] Never Acted before. The Characters all new Dress'd. Receipts: #57 10s. 6d

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Mainpiece Title: Hibernia Freed

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Related Work: Hibernia Freed Author(s): William Philips
Event Comment: Benefit Williams

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Mainpiece Title: Marplot

Performance Comment: Marplot-Williams.
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Role: Marplot Actor: Williams.

Afterpiece Title: The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus

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Related Work: The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Author(s): William Mountfort
Related Work: The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Made into a Farce Author(s): William Mountfort

Music: Between the Acts: Select Pieces-

Event Comment: [By William Philips.] Receipts: #26 19s. 6d. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 18 April: But how contemptible an Opinion must the next Generation have of this Age, if it should be known amongst them; that the first Night this Tragedy appear'd upon the Stage, it did not Bring half a House, because it happen'd to be upon a Masquerade Night

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Mainpiece Title: Belisarius

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Related Work: Belisarius Author(s): William Philips

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Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

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Role: Attendants on Andromeda Actor: Mrs _Mills, Mrs Houghton
Role: Hours of Sleep Actor: Mrs _Mills, Mrs +Houghton.
Event Comment: [By William Hatchett.] With New Habits

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Mainpiece Title: The Rival Father Or The Death Of Achilles

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Related Work: The Rival Father; or, The Death of Achilles Author(s): William Hatchett
Event Comment: Benefit Chetwood and Miss Williams. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

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Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

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Role: Cranmer Actor: Mills
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Related Work: Henry VIII Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

Event Comment: A New Tragedy. [By William Havard.] Boxes 3s. Boxes and Balconies on the Stage 4s. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s

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Mainpiece Title: Scanderbeg

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Related Work: Scanderbeg Author(s): William Havard
Event Comment: Benefit: The Deceas'd Author's Friend or The Author [the bills vary]. A new Tragedy. [By William Bond. For a discussion of the play, see a letter from Hill to Victor, in Victor, History of the Theatres, II, 196-97. Hill states that the youth who speaks the Prologue is Harvey, a young man of eighteen or nineteen.

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Mainpiece Title: The Tuscan Treaty Or Tarquins Overthrow

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Related Work: The Tuscan Treaty; or, Tarquin's Overthrow Author(s): William Bond

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Mutineers

Dance: As17330814

Event Comment: [P$Peter Promptwell writes a letter (Daily Gazetteer) commenting on William Hint's two letters. (See 13, 20, 23 Oct. He discourses on the history of the English stage, emphasizing that theatres were better directed heretofore than they are at present.

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Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

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Related Work: Richard III Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Columbine Courtezan

Event Comment: fterpiece by William Shirley; music by Arne.

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Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: King Pepins Campaign

Event Comment: By Command. Present The King, Prince and Princess of Wales, The Prince George, Prince Edward and Prince William, and the Lady Augusta (Account Books, Egerton 2268) Receipts: #103 18s. 6d

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Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

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Related Work: Othello Author(s): William Shakespeare
Event Comment: By Command. Present the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Prince George, Prince Edward, and Prince William, with the Lady Augusta and Lady Elizabeth (Account Books, Egerton 2268). Receipts: #87 7s. 6d

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Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

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Related Work: Henry VIII Author(s): Sir William Davenant

Dance: The English Boy and Girl

Event Comment: Play by Command of their Royal highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince George, Prince Edward, Prince William, Lady Augusta and Lady Elizabeth

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Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

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Related Work: Henry VIII Author(s): William Shakespeare
Event Comment: Benefit for Quin. Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Highnesses Prince George, Prince Edward, Prince William, Prince Henry, Lady Augusta and the Lady Elizabeth. Six rows of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Stage will be Enclosed and form'd into an Amphitheatre. Paid Quin in full of his agreement #122; Advanced Servandoni #5 5s. [The Account Book itemizes the income this night as #93 15s. in money; #99 5s. in tickets, a total of #193 without stage (i.e., presumably without counting money to Quin gained from friends invited to sit in the Amphitheatre on stage.) This was also a "Free Benefit," i.e., clear of costumary house charges.] Receipts: #193

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Mainpiece Title: All For Love Or The World Well Lost

Related Works
Related Work: Love in a Wood; or, St. James's Park Author(s): William Wycherley
Related Work: Love Betray'd; or, The Agreable Disapointment Author(s): William Burnaby
Related Work: The British Enchanters: or, No Magick like Love Author(s): William Corbett
Related Work: Anthony and Cleopatra Author(s): William Shakespeare
Event Comment: This day is publish'd Much Ado About Nothing. Price 1s. Written by William Shakespear. Printed for J. and P. Knapton, &c. [14 printers]. Receipts: #100 (Cross)

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Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

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Related Work: Romeo and Juliet Author(s): William Shakespeare
Event Comment: Benefit for Old Cole [William Cole] Citizen of London and Family, under Misfortunes, who has been a Free Mason these thirty years, and Master of several Lodges. Being the last time of performing till the Christmas Holidays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

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Related Work: The Merchant of Venice Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: As17561217

Song: By the Desire of the Friends of Old Cole we will endeavor to sing a Song at the End of the Play (Public Advertiser)

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pritchard. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. This day publish'd, Price 1s. Brief Remarks on the Original and Present State of the Drama. To which is added Hecate's Prophecy, being a characteristic Dialogue between future Mangers and their Dependents. [William Shirley? A most virulent attack on Garrick's management as well as Rich's Quotes from the Herald No. XX, a denunciatory article on the managers, deplores the pamphleteering attempt to praise Garrick, asks "Shall he shine the God of our Idolatry, merely for excluding every other emulous and aspiring candidate?"] Receipts: #170 (Cross)

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Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

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Related Work: The Roman Father Author(s): William Whitehead

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: II: The Italian Peasants, as17571004; End: By Desire, a Minuet-Noverre, Miss Pritchard

Event Comment: Benefit for Philips and Mrs Lee. Tickets deliver'd by Miss Williams and Miss Berkeley will be admitted. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire, and Dress'd in the Habits of the Times

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Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: End: The Medley, as17641120