28 December 1667

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Theatre: The (first) Drury Lane Theatre
Theatrical Season: 1667-1668
Volume: 1
Comments: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: With my wife and girle to the King's house, and there saw The Mad Couple, which is but an ordinary play; but only Nell's and Hart's mad parts are most excellently done, but especially her's: which makes it a miracle to me to think how ill she do any serious part, as the other day [26 Dec.], just like a fool or changeling; and, in a mad part, do beyond all imitation almost. It pleased us mightily to see the natural affection of a poor woman, the mother of one of the children brought on the stage: the child crying, she by force got upon the stage, and took up her child and carried it away off of the stage from Hart. Many fine faces here today

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    *pbridges All Mistaken; or, The Mad Couple. As 20 Sept. 1667. *cbridges The <i>King's Company</i>. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: With my wife and girle to the King's house, and there saw <i>The Mad Couple</i>, which is but an ordinary play; but only $Nell='s and $Hart='s mad parts are most excellently done, but especially her's: which makes it a miracle to me to think how ill she do any serious part, as the other day [26 Dec.], just like a fool or changeling; and, in a mad part, do beyond all imitation almost. It pleased us mightily to see the natural affection of a poor woman, the mother of one of the children brought on the stage: the child crying, she by force got upon the stage, and took up her child and carried it away off of the stage from Hart. Many fine faces here today.

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    *p1667 12 28 bridges All Mistaken; or, The Mad Couple. ^As16670920^.*c1667 12 28 bridges The <i>King's Company</i>. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: With my wife and girle to the King's house, and there saw <i>The Mad Couple</i>, which is but an ordinary play; but only $Nell='s and $Hart='s mad parts are most excellently done, but especially her's: which makes it a miracle to me to think how ill she do any serious part, as the other day [26 Dec.], just like a fool or changeling; and, in a mad part, do beyond all imitation almost. It pleased us mightily to see the natural affection of a poor woman, the mother of one of the children brought on the stage: the child crying, she by force got upon the stage, and took up her child and carried it away off of the stage from Hart. Many fine faces here today.

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    Event: 641 | 16671228 | bridges | The <i>King's Company</i>. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: With my wife and girle to the King's house, and there saw <i>The Mad Couple</i>, which is but an ordinary play; but only $Nell='s and $Hart='s mad parts are most excellently done, but especially her's: which makes it a miracle to me to think how ill she do any serious part, as the other day [26 Dec.], just like a fool or changeling; and, in a mad part, do beyond all imitation almost. It pleased us mightily to see the natural affection of a poor woman, the mother of one of the children brought on the stage: the child crying, she by force got upon the stage, and took up her child and carried it away off of the stage from Hart. Many fine faces here today
    Performance: 641 | 641 | p | All Mistaken; Or, The Mad Couple | As16670920.
    AsSeeDate: 641 | bridges | p | As | 16670920
    Cast:
    218200 | 641 | refers to Philidor | Hart
    218201 | 641 | Mirida | Nell Gwyn. The edition of 1672, the first one known, lists no prologue, no epilogue, no actors' names.

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Title: All Mistaken; Or, The Mad Couple
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