23 August 1661
Event Information
Theatre:
Lincoln's Inn Fields
Theatrical Season:
1660-1661
Volume:
1
Comments:
The Duke's Company. If the play was acted on eight successive days, as Downes states, this would be the eighth, and last, performance in this run Pepys, Diary: I took her [Mrs Pepys] to the opera, and shewed her The Witts, which I have seen already twice, and was most highly pleased with it
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*p�lif The Wits. See 15 Aug. *c�lif The <i>Duke's Company</i>. If the play was acted on eight successive days, as $Downes= states, this would be the eighth, and last, performance in this run <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: I took her [$Mrs Pepys=] to the opera, and shewed her <i>The Witts</i>, which I have seen already twice, and was most highly pleased with it. -
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*p1661 08 23 lif The Wits. ^See16610815^.*c1661 08 23 lif The <i>Duke's Company</i>. If the play was acted on eight successive days, as $Downes= states, this would be the eighth, and last, performance in this run <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: I took her [$Mrs Pepys=] to the opera, and shewed her <i>The Witts</i>, which I have seen already twice, and was most highly pleased with it. -
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Event: 146 | 16610823 | lif | The <i>Duke's Company</i>. If the play was acted on eight successive days, as $Downes= states, this would be the eighth, and last, performance in this run <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: I took her [$Mrs Pepys=] to the opera, and shewed her <i>The Witts</i>, which I have seen already twice, and was most highly pleased with itPerformance: 146 | 146 | p | The Wits | See16610815.
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