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04 May 1665

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Theatre: no theater listed
Theatrical Season: 1664-1665
Volume: 1
Comments: W. S. Clark (Works of Orrery, 1, 40-41) believes that this is Thomas Middleton's play, not one by Orrery. Henry Savile to George Savile: I am come newly from my Lord of Orrery's new play called The Widow, whose character you will receive from better hands. I will only say that one part of it is the humour of a man that has great need to go to the close stool, where there are such indecent postures as would never be suffered upon any stage but ours, which has quite turn'd the stomach of so squeamish a man as I am, that am used to see nothing upon a theatre that might not appear in the ruelle of a fine lady (Savile Correspondence, ed. W. D. Cooper, Camden Society, LXXI [1858], 4)

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  • Original Data

    Source: London Stage Information Bank

    *p ?none The Widow. *c ?none $W. S. Clark= (<i>Works of Orrery</i>, 1, 40-41) believes that this is $Thomas Middleton='s play, not one by Orrery. $Henry Savile= to $George Savile=: I am come newly from my $Lord of Orrery='s new play called <i>The Widow</i>, whose character you will receive from better hands. I will only say that one part of it is the humour of a man that has great need to go to the close stool, where there are such indecent postures as would never be suffered upon any stage but ours, which has quite turn'd the stomach of so squeamish a man as I am, that am used to see nothing upon a theatre that might not appear in the ruelle of a fine lady (<i>Savile Correspondence</i>, ed. $W. D. Cooper=, <i>Camden Society</i>, LXXI [1858], 4).

  • Cleaned Data

    *p1665 05 04 none The Widow.*c1665 05 04 none $W. S. Clark= (<i>Works of Orrery</i>, 1, 40-41) believes that this is $Thomas Middleton='s play, not one by Orrery. $Henry Savile= to $George Savile=: I am come newly from my $Lord of Orrery='s new play called <i>The Widow</i>, whose character you will receive from better hands. I will only say that one part of it is the humour of a man that has great need to go to the close stool, where there are such indecent postures as would never be suffered upon any stage but ours, which has quite turn'd the stomach of so squeamish a man as I am, that am used to see nothing upon a theatre that might not appear in the ruelle of a fine lady (<i>Savile Correspondence</i>, ed. $W. D. Cooper=, <i>Camden Society</i>, LXXI [1858], 4).

  • Parsed Data

    Event: 456 | 16650504 | none | $W. S. Clark= (<i>Works of Orrery</i>, 1, 40-41) believes that this is $Thomas Middleton='s play, not one by Orrery. $Henry Savile= to $George Savile=: I am come newly from my $Lord of Orrery='s new play called <i>The Widow</i>, whose character you will receive from better hands. I will only say that one part of it is the humour of a man that has great need to go to the close stool, where there are such indecent postures as would never be suffered upon any stage but ours, which has quite turn'd the stomach of so squeamish a man as I am, that am used to see nothing upon a theatre that might not appear in the ruelle of a fine lady (<i>Savile Correspondence</i>, ed. $W. D. Cooper=, <i>Camden Society</i>, LXXI [1858], 4)
    Performance: 456 | 456 | p | The Widow

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Title: The Widow
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Work Title: The Widow
Publish Date: 1652
Baptism: 1580
Death: 1627

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