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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Prince Brunswick his wife and Louisa"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Prince Brunswick his wife and Louisa")') 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 2800 matches on Performance Title, 1487 matches on Performance Comments, 1345 matches on Event Comments, 402 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Betterton's Company. The date of the first performance is not known, but the fact that the play was advertised in the Post Boy, 11-13 May 1697, suggests that it was first acted about mid-April, a month before publication. For an account of the history of the play before its production, see Cibber, Apology, I, 217-18

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Performance Comment: Edition of 1697: Prologue-Mistress Bracegirdle; Epilogue [Written] by another Hand-Lady Brute, Bellinda; Constant-Verbrugen; Heartfree-Hudson; Sir John Brute-Betterton; Treble-Bowman; Rasor-Bowen; Justice of the Peace-Bright; Lady Brute-Mrs Barry; Bellinda-Mrs Bracegirdle; Lady Fancyfull-Mrs Bowman; Mademoiselle-Mrs Willis.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Event Comment: Rich's Company. The date of the premiere is not known, but the second edition (1700) states: The first appearance of this Play was on a Wednesday in Lent; for then (it seems) the Town look for a bad Entertainment. [As the play was advertised in the Flying Post, 2 April 1700, the first performance probably occurred in early March.] A Prologue by Sir Charles Sedley which may have been intended for this play is in Sedley's Works, ed. V. de Sola Pinto (London, 1928), I, 46-47, 288-89. A song in this play, separately printed ca. 1700, indicates that the music was composed by Daniel Purcell and that the song was sung by Mrs Erwin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Reform'd Wife

Event Comment: Written by the most Ingenious William Wycherly Esq. And for the Reputation of the most Judicious Author, care is taken to have each part performed to the best advantage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Dance: The Mad/Man's Dance . A new Dance perform'd-16 Persons in Grotesque Habits; in which Variety of Postures-a Black will perform to Admiration; Roger a Coverly-Weaver , as it was done Originally after the Yorkshire manner

Song: The Chimney Sweeper's Dialogue-; A Trumpet Song never sung but twice on the Stage-; Mrs Hodgson, Mrs Willis

Music: The Turkey/Cock Music-. An Entertainment performed before the Doge and Senate of Venice at the last Carnival

Performance Comment: An Entertainment performed before the Doge and Senate of Venice at the last Carnival.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Wives

Entertainment: As17030705

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

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Mainpiece Title: The Conquest Of Granada By The Spaniards: With The Loves Of Almanzor And Almahide

Song: As17031102

Dance: duRuel, duRuel's Wife

Music: As17040404

Event Comment: [Downes lists this performance for Sunday 23, a very unlikely day for an offering at Court. Since both dl and lif were closed on Monday 24 and since the dl advertisment for Tuesday 25 refers to dances performed "last night" at St. James's, Monday 24 seems the probable date.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Dance: duRuel, Cherrier, Mrs duRuel

Event Comment: Benefit Betterton. [Genest, II, 309, lists this for 16 May.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music , to be expressed in the large Bills-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Song: Let the Dreadful Engines-Leveridge

Dance: Country Frenchman and his Wife, Dutch Skipper-duRuel, Mrs duRuel

Entertainment: Diverting ones Clinch of Barnet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King And No King

Performance Comment: King/and/no/King-Wilks.
Cast
Role: KingandnoKing Actor: Wilks.

Dance: As17040613 particularly a French Peasant and his Wife-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Song: Purcell's From Rosy Bowers-Leveridge

Dance: A French Peasant and his Wife-duRuel, Mrs duRuel; Punchanello-Cherrier

Event Comment: Benefit Short and Mrs Willis. Mainpiece: Not Acted these Five Years. Afterpiece: in four Musical Entertainments

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Transformation; Or, The Devil Of A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

Song: Mrs Willis' two Daughters

Dance: Mrs Willis's two Daughters, who never perform'd before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Dance: Mlle delaVal, Mrs Elford, l'Abbe's Brother, l'Abbe's Scholar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Dance: As17050109Mlle delaVal, Mrs Elford

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Virtuous Wife; Or, Good Luck At Last

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Virtuous Wife

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Virtuous Wife

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Dance: Mrs Elford

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Song: As17051011

Dance:

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Dance: deBarques, Mrs Elford, Prince, Mrs Bignal; Chacone-Miss Bruce; Italian Scaramouch-Layfield

Related Works
Related Work: Mahmoud; or, The Prince of Persia Author(s): Prince Hoare

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

Dance: Comical dances-deBarques, Mrs Elford