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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Puritans"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Puritans")') 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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77 results for: Keyword - Puritans
We found 76 matches on Roles/Actors, 29 matches on Performance Comments, 2 matches on Performance Title, 1 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

76
25 June 1714 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: The Puritan; Or, Widow Of Walting Street

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04 September 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: My wife having a mind to see the play Bartholomew-Fayre, with puppets. Which we did, and it is an excellent play; the more I see it, the more I love the wit of it; only the business of abusing the Puritans begins to grow stale, and of no use, they being the people that, at last, will be found the wisest. And here Knepp come to us, and sat with us. [Earlier that day Pepys had been to the Fair briefly, but saw none of the entertainments.

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Mainpiece Title: Bartholomew Fair