The London Stage Database team will be retiring the Legacy Search on May 1, 2025. Please take a moment before that date to reproduce any pre-2021 searches and export any resulting datasets you may wish to preserve for future use. We are making this change in order to free up computational resources for new features and data, currently in development with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Watch this space for more updates and, coming soon, new ways to keep up with the latest project developments!

28 August 1675

Event Information
Theatre: Dorset Garden Theatre
Theatrical Season: 1674-1675
Volume: 1
Comments: The Duke's Company. This performance is known from a disturbance which occurred on this day; Langbaine states that the play was Macbeth. John Verney to Sir Ralph Verney, 30 Aug. 1675: On Saturday last, at the Duke's playhouse, Sir Tho. Armstrong killed Mr Scrope....Their quarrel is said to [be] about Mrs Uphill, the player, who came into the house maskt, and Scrope would have entertained discourse with her, which Sir T. Armstrong would not suffer, so a ring was made wherein they fought (HMC Verney MSS., 7th Report, 1879, p. 465). See also The Hatton Correspondence, Camden Society, XXII (1878), 121

Performance List

Event Downloads

JSON XML CSV

  • Your web browser doesn't have a PDF plugin. Instead, click here to download the PDF file

  • Original Data

    Source: London Stage Information Bank

    *p?dg Macbeth. [See 18 Feb. 1672@3.% *c?dg The <i>Duke's Company</i>. This performance is known from a disturbance which occurred on this day; $Langbaine= states that the play was <i>Macbeth</i>. $John Verney= to $Sir Ralph Verney=, 30 Aug. 1675: On Saturday last, at the Duke's playhouse, $Sir Tho. Armstrong= killed $Mr Scrope=....Their quarrel is said to [be] about $Mrs Uphill=, the player, who came into the house maskt, and Scrope would have entertained discourse with her, which Sir T. Armstrong would not suffer, so a ring was made wherein they fought (<i>HMC Verney MSS., 7th Report</i>, 1879, p. 465). See also The <i>Hatton Correspondence</i>, <i>Camden Society</i>, XXII (1878), 121.

  • Cleaned Data

    *p1675 08 28 dg Macbeth. ^See16720218^@3.*c1675 08 28 dg The <i>Duke's Company</i>. This performance is known from a disturbance which occurred on this day; $Langbaine= states that the play was <i>Macbeth</i>. $John Verney= to $Sir Ralph Verney=, 30 Aug. 1675: On Saturday last, at the Duke's playhouse, $Sir Tho. Armstrong= killed $Mr Scrope=....Their quarrel is said to [be] about $Mrs Uphill=, the player, who came into the house maskt, and Scrope would have entertained discourse with her, which Sir T. Armstrong would not suffer, so a ring was made wherein they fought (<i>HMC Verney MSS., 7th Report</i>, 1879, p. 465). See also The <i>Hatton Correspondence</i>, <i>Camden Society</i>, XXII (1878), 121.

  • Parsed Data

    Event: 1177 | 16750828 | dg | The <i>Duke's Company</i>. This performance is known from a disturbance which occurred on this day; $Langbaine= states that the play was <i>Macbeth</i>. $John Verney= to $Sir Ralph Verney=, 30 Aug. 1675: On Saturday last, at the Duke's playhouse, $Sir Tho. Armstrong= killed $Mr Scrope=....Their quarrel is said to [be] about $Mrs Uphill=, the player, who came into the house maskt, and Scrope would have entertained discourse with her, which Sir T. Armstrong would not suffer, so a ring was made wherein they fought (<i>HMC Verney MSS., 7th Report</i>, 1879, p. 465). See also The <i>Hatton Correspondence</i>, <i>Camden Society</i>, XXII (1878), 121
    Performance: 1180 | 1177 | p | Macbeth | See16720218@3.

Mainpiece

Title: Macbeth
Comments:
See16720218@3.
Cast:
None Listed

Related Works

Work Title: Macbeth
Publish Date: 1674
Birth: 1606
Death: 1668
Work Title: Macbeth
Publish Date: 1794
Birth: 1757
Death: 1823
Work Title: Macbeth
Publish Date:
Birth: 1564
Death: 1616

Cite this page

Chicago: "London Stage Event: 28 August 1675 at Dorset Garden Theatre." London Stage Database. Accessed March 28, 2025. https://londonstagedatabase.uoregon.edu/event.php?id=1177.
MLA: "London Stage Event: 28 August 1675 at Dorset Garden Theatre." London Stage Database, https://londonstagedatabase.uoregon.edu/event.php?id=1177. Accessed 28 March 2025.