SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "TThe Queen"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "TThe Queen")') 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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Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Performance Comment: Marc Antony-Betterton; Ventidius-Verbruggen; Dolabella-Wilks; Alexas-Booth; Cleopatra-Mrs Barry; Octavia-Mrs Bracegirdle [Downes, p. 47]; A Prologue to the Court on the Queen's Birthday [1704 [Congreve, IV, 72-73]-.
Event Comment: Elizabeth Coke to Thomas Coke: They say the Queen and Prince was both extremely diverted with it. There was a great deal of Company, but no finery, the Court being in mourning. [Cowper MS, III, 163.

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Mainpiece Title: Sir Solomon Single

Event Comment: [Librettist unknown. Premiere. For the identification of this opera, see Loewenberg, pp. 58-59. Downes (p. 48) says that the opera lasted five days; Cibber (I, 325) states that it was given only three days, and those not crowded. This day marked the opening of the Queen's Theater in the Haymarket, the first new theatrical construction of the century. For a discussion of it, see Cibber, I, 319-22.

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Mainpiece Title: The Loves Of Ergasto

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By George Farquhar. The preface is a semi-serious, semi-humorous apology for having the play open on the night of D'Urfey's benefit at the Queen's

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Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Event Comment: [By Colley Cibber.] Never Acted before. By Subscription. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and none to be admitted but by the Subscribers' Tickets. [In the preface to The Double Gallant Cibber states that in Marriage a la Mode he joined "the Comical Episodes of the Maiden Queen, and Marriage alamode...the Alteration cost me but six days trouble; and not calling it a new Play, we found the Town very favourable to it."

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Mainpiece Title: Marriage A La Mode; Or, The Comical Lovers

Event Comment: [This performance probably marked the opening of the summer season at the queen's.

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Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Event Comment: At 7 p.m. Tickets 2s. 6d. At Queen Street and Frith Street

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

Event Comment: [An order of this date by the Lord Chamberlain restricted the queen's to operas, Drury Lane to plays; the change became effective after 10 Jan. 1708.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Event Comment: Not Acted these Five Years [but see queen's, 14 Dec. 1706 and dl, 12 Oct. 1705]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge; Or, Love In A Tub

Song: the best Performers

Dance: the best Performers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: See dl, 18 Oct. 1707 and queen's, 31 Dec. 1707.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid's Tragedy

Performance Comment: Betterton and Mrs Barry acting their own parts, but see queen's, 6 Nov. 1707.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Performance Comment: See queen's 18 Oct. 1707.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Performance Comment: See queen's 1 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Performance Comment: See queen's 6 Dec. 1707.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Performance Comment: See queen's 25 Oct. 1707.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fortune Hunters

Performance Comment: See queen's 31 Oct. 1707.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part I

Performance Comment: See queen's 19 Nov. 1707.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: See queen's 10 Nov. 1707.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Performance Comment: See queen's and dl, 21 Oct. 1707.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Performance Comment: As at queen's 23 Oct. 1707, but Crack-Penkethman.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Performance Comment: As at queen's 11 Nov. 1707, but Humphrey-Penkethman; Pounce-Estcourt; Fainlove-Mrs Porter; Aunt-_.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Performance Comment: As at queen's, 24 Nov. 1707.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: As at queen's, 10 Nov. 1707, but Cherry-_; Lady Bountiful-_.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marriage A La Mode

Performance Comment: As at queen's, 20 Nov. 1707, but Doralice-Mrs Porter; Flavia-Mrs Moor; Philotis-Mrs Bicknell; Melissa-Mrs Powell; Sabina-Mrs Norris; Olinda-Mrs Saunders.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd If She Cou'd

Performance Comment: As at queen's, 18 Nov. 1707, but Sir Oliver-Dogget; Sir Joslin-Estcourt; Rakish-_; Sentry-_.