28 March 1667

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Theatre: Lincoln's Inn Fields
Theatrical Season: 1666-1667
Volume: 1
Comments: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@139, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346. The play, licensed on 27 Nov. 1667, was not printed until 1667. There is no certainty that this is the premiere, but it may well have been, as Pepys saw it on 30 March and on 11 April suggested that it had recently had its first showing: [The Duchess of Newcastle] was the other day at her own play, The Humourous Lovers; the most ridiculous thing that ever was wrote, but yet she and her Lord mightily pleased with it; and she, at the end, made her respects to the players from her box, and did give them thanks

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    *p \lif The Humourous Lovers. [Edition of 1667: No actors' names, no prologue, no epilogue. A Prologue is in <i>British Museum Harleian MS. 7367</i>.% *c \lif The <i>Duke's Company</i>. This performance is on the <i>L. C. list</i>, 5@139, p. 125. See also <i>Nicoll, Restoration Drama</i>, p. 346. The play, licensed on 27 Nov. 1667, was not printed until 1667. There is no certainty that this is the premiere, but it may well have been, as $Pepys= saw it on 30 March and on 11 April suggested that it had recently had its first showing: [<i>The Duchess of Newcastle</i>] was the other day at her own play, <i>The Humourous Lovers</i>; the most ridiculous thing that ever was wrote, but yet she and her Lord mightily pleased with it; and she, at the end, made her respects to the players from her box, and did give them thanks.

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    *p1667 03 28 lif The Humourous Lovers. Edition of 1667: No actors' names, no prologue, no epilogue. A Prologue is in <i>British Museum Harleian MS. 7367</i>.*c1667 03 28 lif The <i>Duke's Company</i>. This performance is on the <i>L. C. list</i>, 5@139, p. 125. See also <i>Nicoll, Restoration Drama</i>, p. 346. The play, licensed on 27 Nov. 1667, was not printed until 1667. There is no certainty that this is the premiere, but it may well have been, as $Pepys= saw it on 30 March and on 11 April suggested that it had recently had its first showing: [<i>The Duchess of Newcastle</i>] was the other day at her own play, <i>The Humourous Lovers</i>; the most ridiculous thing that ever was wrote, but yet she and her Lord mightily pleased with it; and she, at the end, made her respects to the players from her box, and did give them thanks.

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    Event: 523 | 16670328 | lif | The <i>Duke's Company</i>. This performance is on the <i>L. C. list</i>, 5@139, p. 125. See also <i>Nicoll, Restoration Drama</i>, p. 346. The play, licensed on 27 Nov. 1667, was not printed until 1667. There is no certainty that this is the premiere, but it may well have been, as $Pepys= saw it on 30 March and on 11 April suggested that it had recently had its first showing: [<i>The Duchess of Newcastle</i>] was the other day at her own play, <i>The Humourous Lovers</i>; the most ridiculous thing that ever was wrote, but yet she and her Lord mightily pleased with it; and she, at the end, made her respects to the players from her box, and did give them thanks
    Performance: 523 | 523 | p | The Humourous Lovers | Edition of 1667: No actors' names, no prologue, no epilogue. A Prologue is in <i>British Museum Harleian MS. 7367</i>.

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Title: The Humourous Lovers
Comments:
Edition of 1667: No actors' names, no prologue, no epilogue. A Prologue is in British Museum Harleian MS. 7367.
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Baptism: 1593
Death: 1676

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