SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Theatres Royal in London"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Theatres Royal in London")') 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 3936 matches on Event Comments, 1330 matches on Performance Title, 826 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

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Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of Doctor Faustus

Event Comment: An order by Sunderland, the Lord Chamberlain, required the theatres to bring each new play before him (L. C. 5@152, in Krutch, Comedy and Conscience, p. 181). Luttrell, A Brief Relation, IV, 235-36, 5 June 1697: Several new playes having been lately acted, contrary to good manners, the lord chamberlain has given orders that nore be acted hereafter till his secretary has perused them

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Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

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Mainpiece Title: Troilus And Cressida; Or, Truth Found Too Late

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

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Mainpiece Title: Play Not Known

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Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

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Mainpiece Title: The Comical History Of Don Quixote

Event Comment: Benefit William Bowen, the famous Comedian...who has for some months discontinued Acting, on account of some Difference between him and the rest of the Sharers in the New Theatre;...it's the Opinion of the best Judges in Town, that no person in either of the Theatres, can come so near the Performance of the famous Original Mr Lacy as he can

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Mainpiece Title: The Committee

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Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

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Mainpiece Title: The Gentleman Cully

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Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage; Or, The Innocent Adultery

Song: Leveridge, Mrs Campion, Mrs Shaw

Dance: DuRuell, others

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Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

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Mainpiece Title: The Empress Of Morocco

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Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Music: Several Italian sonatas on the violin-Gasperini

Dance: Spanish Dance, Punchanello-Cherrier; Other Dances-Mrs Lucas, Mrs Bicknell

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Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Dance: Cherrier, Mrs duRuel, Laferry, Mrs Bicknell

Event Comment: [The theatres, closed during Passion Week, did not act again until Monday, 9 April.

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Mainpiece Title: Passion Week

Event Comment: [This play was advertised on 1 May, not later, as "Not Acted these Four Years," but the performance may have been deferred by the apparent closing of the theatres until after May Fair.

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Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth; With The Fall Of Cardinal Wolsey

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Mainpiece Title: Passion Week

Performance Comment: [The theatres were closed Monday 18 through Saturday 23. Passion Week.]

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Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Song: As17061030

Dance: As17061102

Event Comment: The theatres remained closed until 14 Dec

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Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

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Mainpiece Title: None

Performance Comment: The theatres were closed until 4 Nov.