SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "P Smith"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "P Smith")') 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 Man's The Master

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Virtuoso

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

Event Comment: This work is advertised in The Loyal Protestant 22, 27, and 29 Aug. 1682: at Mrs Saffry's, a Dutch Woman's booth, over against the Greyhound Inne in West Smithfield. [Her first announcement calls the company "By an Approved Company"; the other two notices refer to it as "the first New-market Company." See Rosenfeld, The Theatre of the London Fairs, p. 6.] John Coysh paid #6 for a booth at the Fair (Rosenfeld, The Theatre of the London Fairs, p. 6). See also Morley, Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair, p. 222, for notice of the Indian Water Worksv. In Wit and Drollery (1682), p. 304, are verses on the Fair: @Here's the Whore of Babylon the Devil and the Pope,@The Girl is just agoing on the Rope@Here's Dives and Lazarus and the World's Creation,@Here's the Tall Dutch Woman the like's not in the Nation,@Here is the Booth where the High-Dutch Made is@Hear are the Bears that dance like any Ladies,@Tat, tat, tat, tat, tat says the little penny Trumpet@Here's Jacob Hall, that does so jump it, jump it.@Sound Trumpet Sound, for Silver Spoon and Fork,@Come here's your dainty Pit and Pork.@ [See also August 1680.

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Mainpiece Title: The Irish Evidence, The Humours Of Tiege; Or, The Mercenary Whore

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Albion And Albanius

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bellamira; Or, The Mistress

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deborah

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Mainpiece Title: Timanthes

Performance Comment: Parts-Smith, Bensley, Clarke, Wroughton, Gardner, Davis, R. Smith, Mrs Bulkley, Mrs Yates. Prologue and Epilogue in Act III a Procession. The Vocal parts-Reinhold, Mrs Baker, Mrs DuBellamy, Baker, Fox. Timanthes-Smith; Demaphoon-Bensley; Mathusius-Clarke; Cherinthus-Wroughton; Adrastus-Gardner; Orcanes-Davis; Cephisa-Mrs Bulkley; Ismena-Mrs Yates; playbill matched with 1770 Edn. The 1770 Edn. includes Olinthus-;,a child but specifies no actor. Playbill includes R. Smith; but assigns no part. In Act III, a Procession-; the Vocal Parts-Reinhold, Mrs Baker, DuBellamy, Baker, Fox; Prologue-Bensley; Epilogue-Mrs Bulkley.

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Entertainment: II: Concert on Hautboy-Simpson

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Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Unidentified Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mustapha

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love; Or, The Maiden Queen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love; Or, The Maiden Queen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bartholomew Fair