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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Shields"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Shields")') 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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1722 results for: Keyword - Shields
We found 1587 matches on Author, 259 matches on Roles/Actors, 117 matches on Event Comments, 52 matches on Performance Comments, and 24 matches on Performance Title.

1651
23 May 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Malabar

Afterpiece Title: Reformed in Time

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Thieves

Song: In course: Old Towler, Black Ey'd Susan-Incledon

Monologue: Monologue. End 1st piece: (for that night only) a humourous, satirical Recitation, Kraniographon; selected from the favourite parts of G. A. Stevens's Lecture on Heads. in which: The Head of Alexander the Great-; The Head of a Lawyer-; The Head of a Cherokee-; Every Body's Coat of Arms-; The Head of a Quack Doctor-; The Head of Flattery-; Girdle of Venus-; The Quack Doctor's Coat of Arms-; The Head of Nobody-Mrs Mountain in the Character of a Student

1652
25 May 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: Reformed in Time

Song: In course of Evening: The Bells of Aberdovy-Townsend; accompanied on the harp-Weippert; The Mid Watch-Incledon; The Beggar, in character,-Townsend; The Pledge of Love, as17980515; a favorite Comic Song-Fawcett

Entertainment: Imitations.An Exhibition of Theatrical Portraits-Townsend

1653
29 May 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Reformed in Time

1654
31 May 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Raft

Afterpiece Title: Reformed in Time

1655
25 November 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day; or, A Flight from Lapland

1656
31 December 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Second; Or, The Fall Of Rosamond

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: End of mainpiece new Dance, composed by Harris, Damon and Musidora, by Harris, Miss Besford, and others

1657
02 October 1793 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: How To Grow Rich

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Entertainment: Afterpiece: [To conclude with Three Entire New Scenes, representing the Town and Harbour of Toulon; with a View of the Manoeuvring of the British, Spanish, and French Fleets, after the Surrender of the Town and Fortifications to the English] on the Twenty-ninth of August [1793]. In which, When in War on the Ocean-Davies; an Entire New Song [composed by Shield,-Incledon; The Music- [Selected by Shaw from Pepusch, Dr Arne, Arnold, Fisher, [Michael] Arne, Vincent, Dibdin, Reeve, Shield; The Dances-Byrn, Holland[; The Scenery-Hodgins, Walmsley, Phillips

1658
18 October 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Afterpiece Title: England's Glory; or, The Defeat of the Dutch Fleet by the Gallant Admiral Duncan on the Memorable Eleventh of October

Dance: In Scene V 3rd piece: a Triple Hornpipe-Blurton, Mrs Watts, Mlle St.Amand

1659
06 February 1673 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dutch Lover

1660
09 October 1767 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Dance: III: A new dance call'd The Merry Sailors-Aldridge

1661
28 December 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces By Command. Gave the Yeoman of the Guard #2 2s.; The King's Footmen Xmas Box by Heron #2 2s.; The Queen's Footmen Xmas Box by Shields #2 2s; King's Chairmen Xmas Box by Jupp #2 2s,; Queen's Chairmen Xmas Box by Jones #2 2s. (Account Book). Receipts: #274 4s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

Dance: III: The Dutch Milkmaid, as17671114; IV: The Female Archer, as17671029; End: The Irish Lilt, as17670921

1662
05 September 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Henry and Emma

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-law

Dance: End 1st piece: As17800615

1663
30 October 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of an Election

Song: III: song-Mrs Kennedy

1664
23 April 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lord Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: Henry and Emma

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Dance: As17810312

1665
27 October 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jupiter And Alcmena

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

1666
10 November 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Song: As17811022

1667
16 March 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Positive Man

1668
24 April 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Henry and Emma

Afterpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

Dance: End of Act I of afterpiece The Irish Fair, as17820406

1669
18 January 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day

1670
07 April 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: The Shamrock; or, The Anniversary of St

Dance: As17830221

1671
07 January 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior; or, The Magis Cestus

Song: In Act II of mainpiece a song by Miss Phillips

1672
12 October 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood

Afterpiece Title: St

1673
27 December 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Cavern; or, Virtue's Triumph

Song: In Act I of mainpiece song by Brett

1674
01 April 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Israelites; or, The Pamper'd Nabob

Dance: As17841116

Song: Preceding afterpiece a Trio, composed by an English composer in 1540 [unidentified], by Davies, Darley, Brett. The new Words by Holcroft, the new Accompaniments by Shield

1675
12 April 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Nunnery