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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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.
Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the late Mr Rowe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Song: Original Song-Mrs Hill

Dance:

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

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Event Comment: [By John Gay.] True Briton, 22 Jan.: I was a Spectator, the first Night, at...The Captives; when I was Witness to a Ceremony, which I can never judge to be either beneficial to the Author, or contribute much to the Entertainment of the Town. There were large Quantities of Brandy distributed amongst the Footmen in the Boxes, and that in so plentiful a manner, that several of them were carried out of the House dead drunk. This, it seems, is call'd, Christening a Play

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Mainpiece Title: The Captives

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Dance:

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by the late Mr Dryden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Song: Singing in Italian-Mrs Weekly

Dance: Myrtillo-

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #133 16s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Pit and Boxes laid together at 5s. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Dance:

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. As it was alter'd from Shakespear, by the late Mr Otway

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The History And Fall Of Caius Marius

Song: As17240201

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [For an essay on this play and this pantomime, see Pasquin, 18 Feb.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Constancy

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mithridates, King Of Pontus

Song: As17240201

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Song: As17240201

Event Comment: [Author unknown. Apparently not printed.] Benefit the Author. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. No Persons to be admitted into the Boxes, Pit, or Gallery, But by printed Tickets

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of Milan

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Event Comment: Benefit Hawker and Thomas. By Subscription. Written by the late Mr Farquhar. At 6 p.m. N.B. Several Gentlemen and Ladies have complained of the coldness of the House, particular Care will be taken that Night to make the House much warmer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And A Bottle

Music: Between the Acts: Select Pieces-

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bullock, Topham, Miss Tenoe

Event Comment: Benefit Milward, Mrs Herold, Mrs Bryan, and Mrs Smith. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Dance: Pierro Courting a Bottle or The Drunken Pierro-Russau; Shepherd and Shepherdess-Two Scholars of Russau

Event Comment: Benefit Aston's Family. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. @'Tis a pitifull Age@And Puppet-shew Stage,@True Humour and Comedy've lost us;@Yet by Fools some still thrive@There's Punch all Alive,@A windmill, the Devil and Faustus@

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medley

Entertainment: New Songs-; Drunken Man-

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Families. At the Horshoe Tavern in Queen's Street by little Tower Hill. At 6 p.m. Admission 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medley

Entertainment: Comical Songs-; The Drunken Man-

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Chambers. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: money #65 8s. 6d.; tickets #91

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Song: Singing in Italian and English-Mrs Chambers; particularly a Song-Mrs Chambers; accompanied with the Harp-

Dance: Flag Dance-Nivelon Sr

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies and Gentlemen. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medley

Entertainment: Songs-; Drunken Man-