SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mrs Cibber gave it up some days ago Cross"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mrs Cibber gave it up some days ago Cross")') 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 23849 matches on Performance Comments, 8748 matches on Event Comments, 4828 matches on Performance Title, 3733 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Afterpiece Title: Tumble Down Dick

Cast
Role: Clymene Actor: Mrs Charke
Role: Aurora Actor: Mrs Egerton
Role: Schoolmistress Actor: Mrs Egerton
Event Comment: At Lee's Playhouse. 10 a.m. to 9 P.M. [Advertised 7, 10, 13, 14 Sept. Daily Advertiser, 6 Sept., reported that SF would be limited to three days, but Lee advertised that he would perform until 20 Sept. On 13 Sept., Daily Advertiser stated that the booths had been pulled down on 11 Sept., but on 14 Sept. stated that this report was in error.]

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Mainpiece Title: The Birth Of Merlin

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 19 Feb.: To the Author, &c. Sir, In a late Paragraph in one of your Papers [4 Feb.] it was insinuated, that there was a Design on foot for erecting a New Theatre, which by some Wise Heads was suppos'd to come from a certain Manager, in order to revive the Playhouse Bill this Session of Parliament; I think it proper therefore, in Justice to the Gentleman levell'd at, to inform the Publick, that it is actually intended for a Company of Comedians every Day expected here, late Servants to their Majesties Kouli Kan and Theodore, who in the mean time will entertain the Town in the true Eastern manner, at the New Theatre in the Hay-Market, with a celebrated Piece call'd A Rehearsal of Kings. I am, Sir, Yours, &c. Agent for the Company

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Historical Register

Afterpiece Title: Eurydice Hissd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dido

Event Comment: For discussion of the Licensing Act, see Craftsman, 4 June, and Common Sense, 4 June. London Evening Post, 4 June: We hear that by the Bill now in the House of Peers against Players of Interludes, &c. all Copies of Plays, Farces, or any Thing wrote in the Dramatick Way, are to lie fourteen Days before his Grace the Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's Household for the Time being, for his Grace's Perusal and Approbation, before they shall be exhibited on the Stage

Performances

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 26 July: To be Sold by Auction, On Tuesday, August 1, and the following Days, At the Great-House the Corner of Carlisle-street, Soho-Square...A Large Quantity of Theatrical Goods...late the Property of Mr Henry Giffard...By Bernard Warren, Auctioneer

Performances

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 17 Aug.: Yesterday Morning died at his House at Strand on the Green after three Days Illness, Mr Joseph Miller, a celebrated Comedian

Performances

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 14 Feb.: Two chief Singers being taken ill...Acis and Galatea...must therefore be put off performing a few Days longer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Davids Lamentation Over Saul And Jonathan

Music: As17400222

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Israel In Egypt

Music: Witha New Concerto for several Instruments-; and a Concerto on the Organ-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Fool Made Wise

Afterpiece Title: Sir John Falstaff in Masquerade

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler of Preston

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Cast
Role: Lady Pliant Actor: Mrs James
Role: Cynthia Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Lady Froth Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Lady Touch Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Cast
Role: Jessica Actor: Mrs Ridout.
Role: Portia Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Nerissa Actor: Mrs Woffington

Song: I: See from the Silent Groves-Beard

Dance: II: Les Matelotes, as17411110

Ballet: V: Les Satires Puny. As17420106

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Cast
Role: Sir John Brute Actor: Cibber Sr
Role: Lady Brute Actor: Mrs Woffington
Role: Lady Fanciful Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Mrs Macklin

Song: I: Bright Author of my present Flame-Lowe

Dance: II: Le Boufon, as17411030; V: Les Jardiniers Suedois, as17411128

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Cast
Role: Amaryllis Actor: Mrs Dunstall
Role: Chloris Actor: Mrs Yates
Role: Orbis Actor: Mrs Bishop

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: As17420213

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gianguir

Dance: Barbara Campanini (Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann, I, 191)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sampson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lallegro E Il Penseroso With Additions Drydens Ode On St

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Enrico