SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr and Mrs L Hallam"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr and Mrs L Hallam")') 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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Mainpiece Title: The Soldiers Fortune

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Mainpiece Title: The Royalist

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Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This play was also reprintdd in 1683. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@145, p. 120: Wth ye Q: & a box for ye Maides of honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349. On this day Drury Lane was leased for nineteen years to Charles Davenant and his associates in furthering the union of the two companies. See Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 277

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Mainpiece Title: The Souldiers Fortune

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Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

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Mainpiece Title: The Duke Of Guise

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Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@145, p. 120: with Ye Q: & a box for ye Maides of honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349. This play was reprinted in 1682, but without actors' names. Langbaine (English Dramatick Poets, 1691, p. 207) may refer to a performance around this period: Being acted with extraordinary applause at the Theatre in Dorset-Garden, and printed with the Alterations London. 40 1682

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Mainpiece Title: The Chances

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Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow Or The Wanton Wife

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Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Event Comment: Charles II had begun negotiations for bringing Italian players to England again. See the correspondence in HMC, 7th Report, Appendix, pp. 285, 286, 331; and L. C. 5@144, p. 407, in Boswell, Restoration Court Stage, p. 61. See also HMC, 7th Report, p. 288 (1 May 168O) and Boswell, Restoration Court Stage, p. 125

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Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Event Comment: The Prince of Orange's company of foreign comedians was apparently expected in England on this evening (HMC, 5th Report, Part I, 1876, p. 186). They were under the management of Francis Duperier and apparently remained in England for some four months. See Lawrence, Early French Players in England, p. 150. See also an order, L. C. 5@145, p. 90 (Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 253n), to prepare the Cockpit for the Prince of Orange's players

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Duke And No Duke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Duke And No Duke

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Mainpiece Title: The humorous Lieutenant

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Mainpiece Title: The Destruction Of Jerusalem Part Ii

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 68: The King & Queene at the Silent Woman. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350. Matthew Prior, Satire Upon the Poets: @Mountfort how fit for Politicks and Law@That play'd so well Sir Courtly and Jack Daw.

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Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Disappointment

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Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

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Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice