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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.

1851
23 August 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. As 16 Aug. Being positively the last time of Acting till Winter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Titus Andronicus

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Song: Sally, as17170806

1852
28 September 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. At 6 p.m. Post Boy, 28 Sept.: We hear that last Week Mr Rich made an Assignment of the New Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, and his Patent granted by King Charles II to Mr Keene and Mr Bullock jun. and that they open on Saturday next, with a celebrated Play of Shakespear's call'd, Cimbiline, which will be entirely new dress'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

1853
03 October 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

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

1854
05 October 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Not acted these Twenty Years. Written by Shakespear, and since revis'd with several Alterations. The whole Play being new dress'd. N.B. The Play will begin exactly at Six a-Clock. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 5 Oct., reports a rumor that J. J. Heidegger has sent to France to recruit a set of comedians to act French plays at the king's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cimbeline; Or, The Fatal Wager

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Cook, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Schoolding, Miss Smith

1855
09 October 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear, and since revis'd with several Alterations. The whole Play being new dress'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cimbeline

Dance: As17171005

1856
11 October 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens; Or, The Man Hater

1857
17 October 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. With all the Songs, Dances, and other Decorations proper to the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

1858
19 October 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: With an entire Sett of New Scenes from the Opera, never us'd here before, and proper to this Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

1859
26 October 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: With an entire Set of New Scenes from the Opera never us'd here before, and proper to the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan; Or, The Unhappy Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

1860
31 October 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. The Scenes, Machines, Dances, and all the other Decorations proper to the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess; Or, The History Of Dioclesian

Music: With all the Original Music-Leveridge, Cook, Newberry, Reading, Laurence, Jones

1861
01 November 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit John and Ch. Rich. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Estcourt. Receipts: #36 8s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Example

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Doctor

Dance: Dupre, Mlle Gautier; particularly a Chacone-; Harlequin-

1862
02 November 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Adventures Of Five Hours

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

1863
05 November 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

1864
07 November 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wake

Dance: Mrs Santlow, Mrs Teno, Miss Lindar, a Scholar of Mr Shirley's

1865
08 November 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit John and Ch. Rich. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #60 10s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

Music: As17171031

Dance: In the Opera: Dupre, Thurmond Jr, Boval, Cook, Newhouse, Pelham, Cook Jr, Mrs Bullock, Mlle Gautier, Mrs Schoolding, Miss Smith

1866
09 November 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

1867
09 November 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical History Of Don Quixote, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Doctor

1868
12 November 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Adventures Of Five Hours

Dance: Dame Ragonde And Her Eight Children- (new)

1869
12 November 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

1870
14 November 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

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

1871
14 November 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperor; Or, The Conquest Of Mexico By The Spaniards

Song: A Gentlewoman for her 2d appearance

Dance: As17171022

1872
15 November 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit J. and Ch. Rich. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: #46 6s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess; Or, The Generous Portuguese

Music: With all the Original Music and Dialogues to be sung-Leveridge, Pack, Cook

Dance: Dupre, Moreau, Thurmond Jr, Boval, Cook, Lully, Newhouse, Cook Jr, Mrs Bullock, Mlle Gautier, Mrs Schoolding, Miss Smith

1873
16 November 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

1874
19 November 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sophonisba; Or, Hannibal's Overthrow

Dance: As17171022

1875
20 November 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse; Or, Virtue In Danger

Dance: As17171101