London Stage Event: 15 February 1662 at Lincoln's Inn Fields

15 February 1662

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Theatre: Lincoln's Inn Fields

Theatrical Season: 1661-1662

Volume: 1

Comments: This performance was attended by Jacques Thierry and Will Schellinks, who stated: Judged to be their best play (Seaton, Literary Relationships, pp. 334-36). This performance may have been the premiere. The Duke's Company. BM Add. Mss. 34217, in Hotson (Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 247): @Then came the Knight agen with his Lawe@Against Lovers the worst that ever you sawe@In dressing of which he playnely did shew it@Hee was a far better Cooke then a Poet@And only he the Art of it had@Of two good Playes to make one bad.

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*p�lif The Law against Lovers. [Altered from $William Shakespeare='s Measure for Measure and Much Ado About Nothing by $Sir William Davenant=.] [$Downes= (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 26) and the edition of 1673 have no actors' names. But see 18 Feb. 1661@2.% *c�lif This performance was attended by $Jacques Thierry= and $Will Schellinks=, who stated: Judged to be their best play ($Seaton=, Literary Relationships, pp. 334-36). This performance may have been the premiere. The Duke's Company. BM Add. Mss. 34217, in $Hotson= (Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 247): @Then came the Knight agen with his Lawe@Against Lovers the worst that ever you sawe@In dressing of which he playnely did shew it@Hee was a far better Cooke then a Poet@And only he the Art of it had@Of two good Playes to make one bad.@
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*p1662 02 15 lif The Law against Lovers. [Altered from $William Shakespeare='s Measure for Measure and Much Ado About Nothing by $Sir William Davenant=.] $Downes= (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 26) and the edition of 1673 have no actors' names. But ^see16610218^@2.*c1662 02 15 lif This performance was attended by $Jacques Thierry= and $Will Schellinks=, who stated: Judged to be their best play ($Seaton=, Literary Relationships, pp. 334-36). This performance may have been the premiere. The Duke's Company. BM Add. Mss. 34217, in $Hotson= (Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 247): @Then came the Knight agen with his Lawe@Against Lovers the worst that ever you sawe@In dressing of which he playnely did shew it@Hee was a far better Cooke then a Poet@And only he the Art of it had@Of two good Playes to make one bad.@
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Event: 229 | 16620215 | lif | This performance was attended by $Jacques Thierry= and $Will Schellinks=, who stated: Judged to be their best play ($Seaton=, Literary Relationships, pp. 334-36). This performance may have been the premiere. The Duke's Company. BM Add. Mss. 34217, in $Hotson= (Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 247): @Then came the Knight agen with his Lawe@Against Lovers the worst that ever you sawe@In dressing of which he playnely did shew it@Hee was a far better Cooke then a Poet@And only he the Art of it had@Of two good Playes to make one bad.

Performance: 229 | 229 | p | The Law Against Lovers | [Altered from $William Shakespeare='s Measure for Measure and Much Ado About Nothing by $Sir William Davenant=.] $Downes= (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 26) and the edition of 1673 have no actors' names. But see16610218@2.

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Title: The Law Against Lovers

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[Altered from William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and Much Ado About Nothing by Sir William Davenant.] Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 26) and the edition of 1673 have no actors' names. But see16610218@2.

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