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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Royal Highness"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Royal Highness")') 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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2123 results for: Keyword - Royal Highness
We found 1227 matches on Event Comments, 689 matches on Performance Title, 323 matches on Performance Comments, 3 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

226
06 November 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. [Prince of Wales, attended by Lord Ashburnham and Colonel Townshend, attended. In Daily Post, 5 Nov., The Conscious Lovers had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

227
08 November 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

228
15 November 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

229
22 November 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Receipts: #82 15s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

230
27 November 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Receipts: money #51 15s.; tickets #44

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rape

231
29 November 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: Lovers Opera

232
03 December 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By Ebenezer Forrest.] By Command of His Royal Highness. After the Manner of the Beggar's Opera. All the Habits and Scenes entirely New. Receipts: #161 18s. 6d. [For a comment on this performance, see Thomas Edwards to John Clerke, "Unrecorded Comments on John Gay, Henry Travers, and Others", N & Q (August 1953), p. 338.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Momus Turn'd Fabulist; Or, Vulcan's Wedding

233
08 December 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Receipts: #93 8s. [Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Momus Turn'd Fabulist

234
18 December 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Receipts: money #77 16s.; tickets #50 14s. [Prince of Wales and Princess Amelia present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Momus Turn'd Fabulist

Afterpiece Title: Flora

235
27 December 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [The Prince, attended by Lord Charles Cavendish and Colonel Townshend, and Princess Caroline, attended by the Countess of Suffolk, present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Wedding

236
31 December 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Her Royal Highness the Princess Caroline

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: Hob; or, The Country Wake

Dance:

237
05 January 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Benefit John Rich. Receipts: #158 10s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country House

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

238
08 January 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. [Prince and Princesses Amelia and Carolina were present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

239
19 January 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Strollers

240
12 February 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Benefit J. Rich. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #177 7s. [The Prince present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

241
05 March 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sophonisba

242
09 March 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [The Prince present.] Benefit the Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ophonisba

243
12 March 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #166 10s. 6d. By Command of His Royal Highness. The Recruiting Officer for the benefit of Mrs Younger is deferred to Tuesday 17

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

244
17 March 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Younger. By Command of His Royal Highness. Written by Mr Farquhar. Receipts: money #75 17s.; tickets #119 6s. Daily Journal, 21 March: After the Play...the Prince of Wales and a great Number of the Nobility being Present, Mr Leveridge (whose Benefit is also to come very shortly) advanced upon the Stage, and after paying his Honours to the Audience, invited them to his Benefit, by a humorous Song set to the merry Tune of the Black Joke; which was receiv'd by the whole House with a universal Encore

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Music: Preamble on the Kettle Drum-Poitier

Dance: End I: Pierrots-Nivelon, Poitier; II: French Sailor-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; III: Numidian-Glover, Miss LaTour; IV: Highlander and Mistress=-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; V: Polonese-Poitier, Miss LaTour

245
02 April 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bullock. By Command of His Royal Highness. Receipts: money #56 1s.; tickets #98 10s. [The Prince present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Music: A Preamble on the Kettle@Drums-Job Baker

Dance:

246
30 April 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Hollyday. By Command of His Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: money #35 4s. 6d.; tickets #70 19s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Rivals

Dance: End V: Grand Comic Dance in Camilla-Nivelon, Pelling, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Ogden, Miss LaTour; End I of School Boy: French Peasant-Poitier; End of Farce: Two Pierrots-Poitier, Nivelon

247
11 November 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #63 4s. By Command of His Royal Highness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sylvia

248
19 November 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [The Prince present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach Opera

Dance: Roger, Essex, Lally, Rainton, Mrs Booth, Mrs Delorme, Mrs Walter

249
26 November 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [Prince of Wales, Princess Amelia, and Princess Caroline present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode; Or, Sir Fopling Flutter

Afterpiece Title: Patie and Peggy

250
16 December 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #76 17s. [The Prince and Princess Caroline present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne