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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We found 23711 matches on Performance Comments, 8020 matches on Event Comments, 4645 matches on Performance Title, 39 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King And No King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Politiques

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance ison the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 68: Sr Phoplyn. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350. The Earl of Middleton to Sir George Etherege, 7 Dec. 1685: Every week there are plays at court. The last time Sir Fopling appeared with the usual applause, and the King was pleased to tell me that he expected you should put on your socks (Letterbook of Sir George Etherege, ed. Rosenfeld, p. 345)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode Or Sir Fopling Flutter

Event Comment: The United Company. An order (L. C. 5@147, p. 52, in Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 356), dated 19 Dec. 1685, calls for a payment of #20 for the King and Queen at Alexander, but the order does not indicate whether the performance occurred on this date

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens Or The Death Of Alexander The Great

Performance Comment: . Possibly Goodman acted Alexander after the death of Hart on 18 Aug. 1683; or Mountfort may have succeeded to the role.
Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350. Peregrine Bertie to the Countess of Rutland, 31 Dec. 1685: Yesterday was acted The Committee. The King and Queen were there and all the whole Court went to see it, but coming a little after it was begun [I] could not get any roome (HMC, 12th Report, Appendix, Rutland MSS., Part V, Vol. II, p. 100). Bridget Noel to the Countess of Rutland, ca. 6 Jan. 1685@6: [Last Wednesday] my Lady Exeter engaged us to goe to a play with her...which was a Commity. The King and Queen was at it, and the house as full as ever I saw it (ibid.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duchess Of Malfi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love Or The World Well Lost

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350. Peregrine Bertie to the Countess of Rutland, 28 Jan. 1685@6: Last night was acted, the Chances at Whitehall, and to-night should have been a musicke meeting at Yorke Buildings, which I am jest now told is to bee put of till next weeke. The French Opera will begin the weeke after the next (HMC, 12th Report, Appendix, Rutland MSS., Part V, Vol. II, p. 102)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

Event Comment: Peregrine Bertie to the Countess of Rutland, 11 Feb. 1685@6: To-day was the French opera. The King and Queen were there, the musicke was indeed very fine, but all the dresses the most wretched I ever saw; 'twas acted by none but French. A Saturday the Court goes to another play, to take their leaves of those vanitys till after Lent (HMC, 12th Report, Appendix, Rutland MSS., Part V, Vol. II, p. 104). [This performance is on the L. C. list 5@147, p. 125: The King & Queene & a Box for ye Maydes of honor at ye French Opera [the charge for the royal box was increased from #20 to #25 on this occasion]. W. J. Lawrence conjectured that this French opera was Cadmus et Hermione and that Jacques Rousseau, a scene painter of Paris, provided the decor. See W. J. Lawrence, The French opera in London; A Riddle of 1686, TLS, 28 March 1936, p. 268

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cadmus Et Hermione

Performance Comment: By J. B.? Quinault and John Baptist Lully. By French performers.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 125: The King & Queene & a Box for ye Maydes of honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351. General Patrick Gordon, 6 May 1686: I saw the Scots Batallion exercized in the Hide Park before the King and Queen, and saw the comedy, Rehearsal, acted (Passages from the Diary of General Patrick Gordon of Auckleuchbies [Aberdeen, 1859], p. 133)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on L. C. list, 5@147, p. 260: The King & Queene & a Box for ye Maydes of honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351. Langhans, New Restoration Theatre Accounts, pp. 127-28, thinks that acting resumed on 27 Sept. 1686 and continued to 25 June 1687, with 30 Performances from 25 June to 12 Oct

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mustapha

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Evenings Love Or The Mock Astrologer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Martin Marall Or The Feignd Innocence

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens Or Alexander The Great

Performance Comment: but possibly Goodman acted Alexander. See16860216@7.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ir Courtly Nice

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant