16 November 1667
Event Information
Theatre:
The (first) Drury Lane Theatre
Theatrical Season:
1667-1668
Volume:
1
Comments:
The King's Company, This performance is on the L. C. lists 5@139, p. 129, and 5@12, p. 17. The latter states: The King here. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344. Elkanah Settle's Prologue to his revision of Philaster (1695): @The good old Play Philaster ne're can fail@But we Young Actors, how shall we prevail?@Philaster and Bellario, let me tell ye,@For these Bold Parts we have no Hart, no Nelly;@Those Darlings of the Stage, that charm'd you there.
Performance List
Mainpiece
Comments:
Philaster-Hart?; Bellario-Nell Gwyn.
Philaster-Hart?; Bellario-Nell Gwyn.