30 August 1661

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Theatre: The Cockpit in Drury Lane
Theatrical Season: 1660-1661
Volume: 1
Comments: Pepys, Diary: Then my wife and I to Drury Lane to the French comedy, which was so ill done, and the scenes and company and everything else so nasty and out of order and poor, that I was sick all the while in my mind to be there. See also Boswell (Restoration Court Stage, p. 280). W. J. Lawrence (Early French Players in England, The Elizabethan Playhouse and Other Studies (1912), pp. 139-40) argues that the play was Chapoton's Le Mariage d'Orphee et d'Eurydice. See also The Description of the Great Machines of the Descent of Orpheus into Hell. Presented by the French Comedians at the cockpit in Drury Lane. The Argument Taken out of the Tenth and Eleventh Books of Ovid's Metamorphosis (1661). Rugg's Diurnal the French players (BM Add. Mss. 10116, f243v)

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    *p?cockpit A French Comedy. *c?cockpit <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: Then my wife and I to <i>Drury Lane</i> to the <i>French comedy</i>, which was so ill done, and the scenes and company and everything else so nasty and out of order and poor, that I was sick all the while in my mind to be there. See also $Boswell= (<i>Restoration Court Stage</i>, p. 280). $W. J. Lawrence= (<i>Early French Players in England</i>, <i>The Elizabethan Playhouse and Other Studies</i> (1912), pp. 139-40) argues that the play was $Chapoton='s <i>Le Mariage d'Orphee et d'Eurydice</i>. See also <i>The Description of the Great Machines of the Descent of Orpheus into Hell</i>. Presented by the <i>French Comedians</i> at the <i>cockpit</i> in <i>Drury Lane</i>. The Argument Taken out of the Tenth and Eleventh Books of <i>Ovid's Metamorphosis</i> (1661). <i>Rugg's Diurnal</i> the <i>French players</i> (<i>BM Add. Mss. 10116</i>, f243v).

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    *p1661 08 30 cockpit A French Comedy.*c1661 08 30 cockpit <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: Then my wife and I to <i>Drury Lane</i> to the <i>French comedy</i>, which was so ill done, and the scenes and company and everything else so nasty and out of order and poor, that I was sick all the while in my mind to be there. See also $Boswell= (<i>Restoration Court Stage</i>, p. 280). $W. J. Lawrence= (<i>Early French Players in England</i>, <i>The Elizabethan Playhouse and Other Studies</i> (1912), pp. 139-40) argues that the play was $Chapoton='s <i>Le Mariage d'Orphee et d'Eurydice</i>. See also <i>The Description of the Great Machines of the Descent of Orpheus into Hell</i>. Presented by the <i>French Comedians</i> at the <i>cockpit</i> in <i>Drury Lane</i>. The Argument Taken out of the Tenth and Eleventh Books of <i>Ovid's Metamorphosis</i> (1661). <i>Rugg's Diurnal</i> the <i>French players</i> (<i>BM Add. Mss. 10116</i>, f243v).

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    Event: 150 | 16610830 | cockpit | <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: Then my wife and I to <i>Drury Lane</i> to the <i>French comedy</i>, which was so ill done, and the scenes and company and everything else so nasty and out of order and poor, that I was sick all the while in my mind to be there. See also $Boswell= (<i>Restoration Court Stage</i>, p. 280). $W. J. Lawrence= (<i>Early French Players in England</i>, <i>The Elizabethan Playhouse and Other Studies</i> (1912), pp. 139-40) argues that the play was $Chapoton='s <i>Le Mariage d'Orphee et d'Eurydice</i>. See also <i>The Description of the Great Machines of the Descent of Orpheus into Hell</i>. Presented by the <i>French Comedians</i> at the <i>cockpit</i> in <i>Drury Lane</i>. The Argument Taken out of the Tenth and Eleventh Books of <i>Ovid's Metamorphosis</i> (1661). <i>Rugg's Diurnal</i> the <i>French players</i> (<i>BM Add. Mss. 10116</i>, f243v)
    Performance: 150 | 150 | p | A French Comedy

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