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16 August 1667

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Theatre: Lincoln's Inn Fields
Theatrical Season: 1666-1667
Volume: 1
Comments: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: After dinner my wife and I to the Duke's playhouse, where we saw the new play acted yesterday, The Feign Innocence, or Sir Martin Marr-all; a play made by my Lord Duke of Newcastle, but, as every body says, corrected by Dryden. It is the most entire piece of mirth, a complete farce from one end to the other, that certainly was ever writ. I never laughed so in all my life. I laughed till my head [ached] all the evening and night with the laughing; and at very good wit therein, not fooling. The house full, and in all things of mighty content to me

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    Source: London Stage Information Bank

    *p ?lif Feign'd Innocence; or, Sir Martin Marall. see 15 Aug. *c ?lif The <i>Duke's Company</i>. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: After dinner my wife and I to the Duke's playhouse, where we saw the new play acted yesterday, <i>The Feign Innocence, or Sir Martin Marr-all</i>; a play made by my Lord $Duke of Newcastle=, but, as every body says, corrected by $Dryden=. It is the most entire piece of mirth, a complete farce from one end to the other, that certainly was ever writ. I never laughed so in all my life. I laughed till my head [ached] all the evening and night with the laughing; and at very good wit therein, not fooling. The house full, and in all things of mighty content to me.

  • Cleaned Data

    *p1667 08 16 lif Feign'd Innocence; or, Sir Martin Marall. ^see16670815^.*c1667 08 16 lif The <i>Duke's Company</i>. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: After dinner my wife and I to the Duke's playhouse, where we saw the new play acted yesterday, <i>The Feign Innocence, or Sir Martin Marr-all</i>; a play made by my Lord $Duke of Newcastle=, but, as every body says, corrected by $Dryden=. It is the most entire piece of mirth, a complete farce from one end to the other, that certainly was ever writ. I never laughed so in all my life. I laughed till my head [ached] all the evening and night with the laughing; and at very good wit therein, not fooling. The house full, and in all things of mighty content to me.

  • Parsed Data

    Event: 562 | 16670816 | lif | The <i>Duke's Company</i>. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: After dinner my wife and I to the Duke's playhouse, where we saw the new play acted yesterday, <i>The Feign Innocence, or Sir Martin Marr-all</i>; a play made by my Lord $Duke of Newcastle=, but, as every body says, corrected by $Dryden=. It is the most entire piece of mirth, a complete farce from one end to the other, that certainly was ever writ. I never laughed so in all my life. I laughed till my head [ached] all the evening and night with the laughing; and at very good wit therein, not fooling. The house full, and in all things of mighty content to me
    Performance: 562 | 562 | p | Feign'd Innocence; Or, Sir Martin Marall | see16670815.

Mainpiece

Title: Feign'd Innocence; Or, Sir Martin Marall
Comments:
see16670815.
Cast:
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Related Works

Publish Date: 1668
Author: John Dryden
Birth: 1631
Death: 1700

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