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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Several"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Several")') 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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4695 results for: Keyword - Several
We found 4159 matches on Event Comments, 341 matches on Performance Title, 195 matches on Roles/Actors, 171 matches on Performance Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

801
14 October 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted there these Nine Years. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mithridates, King Of Pontus

Dance: The famous duRuel, Mrs duRuel

802
16 October 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Evans and Miss Mountfort. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Tickets given out for Hannibal taken at this play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Mannerly Shallow; Or, The Country Wit

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Song: Spinning Wheel Dialogue-Cook, another

Dance: Chacone-Miss Evans

803
19 October 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

804
21 October 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. At 5 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover; Or, The Banish'd Cavaliers

805
24 October 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice; Or, It Cannot Be

806
25 October 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of several Foreign Ministers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Song: As17041023

Dance: As17041023

807
26 October 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. At 5:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

808
28 October 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Estcourt. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Dance: As17041014

809
02 November 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Dance: As17041014

810
03 November 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sophonisba; Or, Hannibal's Overthrow

Song:

Music: Instrumental Music-

811
04 November 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Song:

Dance:

812
07 November 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Dance: As17041014

813
11 November 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd; Or, A Plot Discover'd

Dance: duRuel, Cherrier, Mrs duRuel

814
14 November 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Dance: As17041014

815
15 November 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear And His Three Daughters

Dance:

816
18 November 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted there these five Years. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Music: Italian sonatas on the violin-

Dance: duRuel, Mrs duRuel, Mrs Mosse

817
22 November 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens; Or, The Death Of Mary Queen Of Scotland

818
23 November 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Song: Leveridge

Dance: Cherrier

819
25 November 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted [there] these five Years. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth; Part I With The Humours Of sir John Falstaffe

Dance: Cherrier

820
28 November 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part I

Song: As17041123

Dance: As17041023

821
30 November 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mithridates, King Of Pontus

Song: As17041123

Dance: duRuel

822
01 December 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. And on Wednesday next a Play will be Acted at the Theatre in Dorset-Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Dance: Cherrier, Mrs duRuel, Laferry, Mrs Bicknell

823
02 December 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mackbeth

Music: Vocal and instrumental Music by Leveridge-Leveridge

Dance: Cherrier, Mrs duRuel

824
04 December 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit the Author [Nicholas Rowe]. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [Announced as the last new farce, it had been originally scheduled for the week of 6-11 Nov. (Diverting Post, 4 Nov.), but postponed. It probably was acted before 25 Nov., for the Diverting Post of that date published the Prologue.] Thomas Davies: Did not the tragic Rowe write The Biter, a comedy; and was he not the only person of the audience that laughed during the acting of it [Dramatic Miscellanies, I, 94]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Biter

825
05 December 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. By reason of the badness of the Weather, we shall defer Acting in Dorset Garden for some time

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Dance: As17041202