SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Sir Robert Cooke"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Sir Robert Cooke")') 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 7048 matches on Performance Comments, 2113 matches on Author, 1244 matches on Event Comments, 794 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: TThe Peasant-Cooke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor With Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke

Dance: LLe Gondalier-Cooke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry V

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance: DDrunken Tyrolese-Sodi; New Comic Ballet (never performed) call'd The Italian Peasants-Cooke, Sga Campioni, Sodi

Event Comment: Benefit Ryan. Mainpiece: At the desire of several persons of Quality. Tickets at Ryan's Lodgings in Great Queen St

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: Shylock (By particular Desire)-Ryan; Antonio-Cashell; Bassanio-Hale; Gratiano-Cibber; Lorenzo-Beard (with the usual songs in the character, likewise the song of Diana from Dryden's Secular Masque, set to music by Mr Boyce); Lancelot-Chapman; Solarino-Ridout; Morochius-Carr; Leonardo-Anderson; Gobbo-Arthur; Balthazar-Hayman; Salanio-Gibson; Duke-Marten; Tubal-Stoppelaer; Jessica-Mrs Vincent; Nerissa-Miss Hippisley; Portia-Mrs Pritchard; 1st time. 1st time.

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance: DDrunken Tyrolese-Sodi; Peasant-Cooke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance: PPeasant-Cooke; Les Allemandes, as17451109

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Related Works
Related Work: The Law Against Lovers Author(s): Sir William Davenant

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Cast
Role: Rural Swain Actor: Cooke

Dance: DDrunken Tyrolese-Sodi; also Comic Ballet call'd the Bird Catchers-Cooke, Sga Campioni, Sodi

Event Comment: Benefit Woodward. Mainpiece: An Historical Play, never acted there before [see 20 March 1738]. At the Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. As written by Shakespear. Containing the wars of Cymbeline with the Romansr, in the reign of Augustus Caesar; the various distresses and Adventures of Imogen the King's Daughter; the noble repulse the Romans met with, on their invading Britain; their defeat, and many other historical passages. Ladies are desired to send their servants early to prevent mistakes. To be Lett, and enter'd upon on Monday next, the 7th instant Commodious Places in the Front and Upper Boxes...for the excellent reviv'd play of Shakespear... For further Particulars enquire of Mr Woodward, at his house near the theatre [in advance bills]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline King Of Britain

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Dance: BBird Catchers-Cooke, Sga Campioni

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Campioni. Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Cast
Role: Sir Charles Actor: Ryan

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance: I: The Italian Peasants, as17460306 II: Drunken Tyrolese-Sodi; III: Grand Dance in Momus-Villeneuve, Sga Campioni; V: a Grand Ballet reviv'd, call'd Pigmalion-Cooke, Sga Campioni

Song: IV: Song of Diana, as17460313

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Cast
Role: Sir Peter Actor: Rosco

Afterpiece Title: Loves of Mars and Venus

Performance Comment: Mars-Cooke; Followers-Villeneuve, DuPre, Destrade, Vandersluys; Venus-Sga Campioni; The Graces-Miss Vandersluys, Mrs Gondou, Mrs Vaughan; Vulcan-Essex; Bacchus-Sodi; Cyclops-Bencraft, Vaughan, Smith.
Cast
Role: Mars Actor: Cooke

Dance: II: Pigmalion-Cooke, Signora Campioni; III: The Revellers-Essex, Miss Vandersluys, Sodi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Sir Sampson Actor: Marten

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: PPigmalion, as17460409 Peasant-Cooke

Event Comment: Benefit Hale and Rosco. Mainpiece not acted these 40 years. Afterpiece By Particular Desire. A farce never acted there before. Tickets that could not be admitted last night will be taken on Friday next

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Liberty Asserted Or French Perfidy Displayed

Afterpiece Title: A Plot or no Plot or Jacobite Credulity

Dance: PPeasant-Cooke; Les Allemandes, as17460421

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Merlins Cave Royal Chace

Dance: I: Peasant-Cooke; II: Pigmalion, as17460409

Event Comment: At the Particular desire of several persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Related Works
Related Work: Hamlet Author(s): Sir William Davenant

Dance: A Peasant-Cooke, Villeneuve, Delagarde, Destrade, Dupre, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Gondou; The Gondaliers-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved Or A Plot Discoverd

Dance: II: Salomon, Mlle Violette, Cook, Salomon's Son; III: Muilment; V: Grand Comic Dance-Salomon, Mlle Violette, Cooke, Sga Padouana

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: II: New Dance-Cooke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Related Works
Related Work: Hamlet Author(s): Sir William Davenant

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: DDance-Cooke

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Powel: Rec'd of the Orange Woman for selling Fruit in the House, in part of #80 for the Season-#10. Receipts: #100 (Cross); #88 14s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Cast
Role: Sir Simon Loveit Actor: Arthur

Dance: IV: Dance-Cooke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Song: New Sailor's Song-; Chorus call'd Tit for Tat-

Dance: New Ballet, call'd %The Gardner's Revels-Cooke, Mathews, Leviez, Pelling, Shawford, Royer, Mrs Addison, Miss Thompson, Mrs Shawford, Miss Cole

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of some Persons of Quality. [The song, apparently by Cibber, upon the victory off Cape Finisterre displeased Cross the night before, but met with sufficient popular appeal to have a run.] Receipts: #82 (Cross); #88 14s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Albumazar

Dance: II: The Gardner's Revels-Cooke, Mathews, Mrs Addison

Song: fter the dance, an Entertainment of singing and dancing call'd The Sailors Rendezvous at Portsmouth-. [See17471116]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Cast
Role: Sir John Brute Actor: Garrick

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: By Particular Desire aDutch Dance-Cooke, Anne Auretti

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Sir John Bevil Actor: Winstone

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

Dance: II: The Gondoliers-Cooke; V: Dutch Dance, as17471128

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Afterpiece: A Tragi@Comi@Pastoral Farce not acted these 7 years. [See 9 May 1739.] Receipts: #80 (Cross); #90 8s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Dance: II: Gondoliers-Cooke; V: Savoyards, as17471219

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Cast
Role: Sir Simon Loveit Actor: Arthur

Dance: New Comic Dance, call'd The May@Game-Mathews, Mrs Addison; also a Dew Pastoral Dance call'd Hymen's Temple, or The Shepherd's Wedding-Cooke, Janeton Auretti, Mathews, Mrs Addison, Master Harrison

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Sir Sampson Actor: I. Sparks

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

Dance: II: Tambourine-Anne Auretti; III: Hymen's Temple-Cooke, Janneton Auretti; V: Dutch Dance, as17471128

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Sir Charles Freeman Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: A Will and No Will

Song: II: Mrs Mozeen

Dance: III: Savoyards, as17471215; IV: Dance-Cooke, Janeton Auretti