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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(perftitleclean,performancetitle) "A Lecture On Heads"/1)') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=150, performancetitle=100), ranker=wordcount

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Mainpiece Title: Comic Lectures

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief; Or, The Husband's Cure

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: II: (By Desire) Hornpipe-Poitier Jr

Entertainment: End: A Comic Lecture; or, Tea a-la-Mode, in the manner of Foote-Wilkinson; The Cries of London-Shuter; End Afterpiece: the Origin, Nature, and Progress of the Order of British Bucks-Mr Shuter; with the whimsical behaviour of Choice Spirits, and Mons Thurot's Trip to Carrickfergus-

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Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The English Tars in America; or, The Good Woman Without a Head

Dance: III: A Comic Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville; After Play: An Epilogue on the Humours of tne Age in Imitation of Shakespeare's Stage-Cresswick

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Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: HHornpipe-Miss Baker

Song: Vernon, Miss Young

Entertainment: A Lecture on Life, or all is a lottery-King, for that night only

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Mainpiece Title: Lectures On English Oratory

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Morning Lectures

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Mainpiece Title: Morning Lectures

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Mainpiece Title: Morning Lectures

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Mainpiece Title: Morning Lectures

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Mainpiece Title: Morning Lectures

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Mainpiece Title: Morning Lectures

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Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Dance: III: The Medley, as17641120

Entertainment: For that Night Only, a short Epilogic Lecture on Conjurors-King; By Particular Desire, a Picture of the Playhouse; or, Bucks Have at Ye All-King

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Mainpiece Title: Lecture On Macbeth, And Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Second act of Falstaff's Wedding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lecture On King Henry Iv, Part I

Song: To keep my gentle Jessy-DuBellamy; Where the Bee sucks-Miss Wewitzer

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Mainpiece Title: Lecture On Mimicry