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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Rylands"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Rylands")') 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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190 results for: Keyword - Rylands
We found 189 matches on Event Comments, 1 matches on Performance Title, 1 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

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22 October 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat. Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s. Receipts: #47 3s. (Account Book); #50 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift; Or, The Fool In Fashion

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Doctor Faustus

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23 October 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #35 1s. (Account Book); #50 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: MMiller and His Wife-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Je ne scay quoy-Villeneuve, Richardson, Miss Oates; The Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Drunken Peasant-Phillips

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24 October 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Receipts: #31 (Account Book); #30 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: Nancy; or, The Parting Lovers

Dance: As17401023

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25 October 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mrs Centlivre. 'Tis humbly hop'd no Person will take it ill their being refused Admittance to the Music Room; the Dances depending greatly on the same being kept entirely clear. Receipts: #173 (Account Book); #200 (Rylands MS.). [King, Duke, and Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Dance: Desnoyer, Signora Barberini the first time of her appearing on the English stage, Glover, Mlle Roland

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28 October 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #57 9s. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Dance: As17401027

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29 October 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #126 17s. (Account Book); #130 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

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30 October 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of There Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s. 6d. No Latter Account will be taken. The Performance of the above Entertainment depending greatly on the Orchestra and the Stage being kept entirely clear, tis hoped no Persons will take it ill that they are refused Admittance behind the Scenes, it being impossible for the Scene-Men to make their Shifts and proper Changes, if they are interrupted by any Obstructions in the Passages. Receipts: #184 3s. 6d. (Account Book); #220 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Dance: Desnoyer, Signora Barberini

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31 October 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #49 5s. 6d. (Account Book); #50 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: MMiller and his Wife, The Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Drunken Peasant-Phillips

34
01 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #80 15s. 6d. (Account Book); #80 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple; Or, A Trip To The Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: As17401027

35
03 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by George Duke of Buckingham. Receipts: #75 9s. 6d. (Account Book); #60 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: TThe Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Italian Peasants-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini

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04 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #81 5s. 6d. (Account Book); #75 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

37
05 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Desire. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Receipts: #53 5s. 6d. (Account Book); #30 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Music: As17400926

Dance: As17400926

38
06 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. Receipts: #161 8s. (Account Book); #200 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call it

Dance: As17401027

39
07 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies. Benefit Henry Plowman. Receipts: Money #34 14s. 6d.; Tickets #85 7s. (Account Book); #150 (Rylands MS.). [Account Book states that Plowman was charged #80 for his benefit. See a letter by Plowman in Daily Advertiser, 7 Nov., on his acting in this play.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan; Or, The Unhappy Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Tanner of York

Dance: PPeasants-Mechel, Mlle Mechel; Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Drunken Peasant-Phillips

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08 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. Receipts: #130 16s. 6d. (Account Book); #190 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: As17401027

41
10 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By particular Desire. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. Receipts: #96 6s. (Account Book); #110 (Rylands MS.). See London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 10 Nov., for a poem on Mrs Woffington as Sylvia

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: As17401027

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11 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. Receipts: #73 2s. 6d. (Account Book); #80 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Tanner of York

Dance: As17401027

43
12 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: Money #78 10s.; tickets #24 2s., the latter for Mrs Gould and Mrs Shelton, each of whom received half the value of the tickets (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

44
14 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #85 3s. 6d. (Account Book); #80 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A La Mode

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

45
15 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #86 7s. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses; Or, The Custom Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: MMiller and His Wife-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; The Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell

46
17 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece Written by George Duke of Buckingham. Receipts: #109 17s. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Dance: Desnoyer, Signora Barberini

47
18 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of Sir Roger DeCoverley [Joseph Dorman]. Receipts: money #38 8s. 6d.; tickets #120 3s. (Account Book); #170 (Rylands MS.). [On 19 Nov. Dorman paid the Treasurer #15.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: W Wooden Shoe-Mechel; Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Drunken Peasant-Phillips

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19 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentlewoman under Misfortunes. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. Receipts: money #74 5s.; tickets #46 14s. (Account Book); #120 (Rylands MS.). [According to the Account Book, the individual for whom it was a benefit received half the value of the ticekts.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: CComic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Wooden Shoe-Mechel; Drunken Peasant-Phillips; Le Bergeres Fidelle (new)-Villeneuve, Miss Oates

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20 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. For the Benefit of the Brave and Unfortunate Capt John Peddie, of the Prince of Orange, who, after defending his Ship, and saving her by the most Gallant Behaviour, against a Spanish Privateer, had the Misfortune to lose her, and all he had on Board, in the late Storm. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Addison. Pit and Boxes 5s. Galleries 2s. and 1s. Receipts: money #52 1s.; tickets #295 (Account Book); #350 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Nancy

Dance: CComic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Wooden Shoe-Mechel

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21 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #186 1s. 6d. (Account Book); #180 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Dance: particularly a Gparticularly a Grand Serious Ballet called Mars and Venus, a Comic Dance called The Italian Peasants-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini