London Stage Event: 08 December 1668 at Lincoln's Inn Fields

08 December 1668

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Theatre: Lincoln's Inn Fields

Theatrical Season: 1668-1669

Volume: 1

Comments: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage," p. 13. Diary of Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington: Heer dined with mee my lord of Canterbury my ld Sandwich and my brother and sister Orrery, and in the afternoone wee all went but his Grace to see my brothers new play cald Tryphon which was much applauded (Volume IV, in the Library at Chatsworth. This excerpt supplied by Kathleen Lynch). Pepys, Diary: My wife tells me of my Lord Orrery's new play "Tryphon," at the Duke of York's house...and [we] went thither, where, with much ado, at half-past one, we got into a blind hole in the 18d. place, above stairs, where we could not hear well, but the house infinite full, but the prologue most silly, and the play, though admirable, yet no pleasure almost in it, because just the very same design, and words, and sense, and plot, as every one of his plays have, any one of which alone would be held admirable, whereas so many of the same design and fancy do but dull one another; and this, I preceive, is the sense of every body else, as well as myself, who therefore showed but little pleasure in it

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*p?lif Tryphon. [The edition of 1669 lists no actors' names.% The Prologue-Mr Nokes, Mr Angell; Epilogue-. *c?lif The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list at Harvard. See $VanLennep=, "Plays on the English Stage," p. 13. Diary of Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington: Heer dined with mee my $lord of Canterbury= my $ld Sandwich= and my $brother and sister Orrery=, and in the afternoone wee all went but his Grace to see my brothers new play cald Tryphon which was much applauded (Volume IV, in the Library at Chatsworth. This excerpt supplied by $Kathleen Lynch=). Pepys, Diary: My wife tells me of my $Lord Orrery='s new play "Tryphon," at the Duke of York's house...and [we] went thither, where, with much ado, at half-past one, we got into a blind hole in the 18d. place, above stairs, where we could not hear well, but the house infinite full, but the prologue most silly, and the play, though admirable, yet no pleasure almost in it, because just the very same design, and words, and sense, and plot, as every one of his plays have, any one of which alone would be held admirable, whereas so many of the same design and fancy do but dull one another; and this, I preceive, is the sense of every body else, as well as myself, who therefore showed but little pleasure in it.
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*p1668 12 08 lif Tryphon. The edition of 1669 lists no actors' names. The Prologue-Mr Nokes, Mr Angell; Epilogue-.*c1668 12 08 lif The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list at Harvard. See $VanLennep=, "Plays on the English Stage," p. 13. Diary of Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington: Heer dined with mee my $lord of Canterbury= my $ld Sandwich= and my $brother and sister Orrery=, and in the afternoone wee all went but his Grace to see my brothers new play cald Tryphon which was much applauded (Volume IV, in the Library at Chatsworth. This excerpt supplied by $Kathleen Lynch=). Pepys, Diary: My wife tells me of my $Lord Orrery='s new play "Tryphon," at the Duke of York's house...and [we] went thither, where, with much ado, at half-past one, we got into a blind hole in the 18d. place, above stairs, where we could not hear well, but the house infinite full, but the prologue most silly, and the play, though admirable, yet no pleasure almost in it, because just the very same design, and words, and sense, and plot, as every one of his plays have, any one of which alone would be held admirable, whereas so many of the same design and fancy do but dull one another; and this, I preceive, is the sense of every body else, as well as myself, who therefore showed but little pleasure in it.
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Event: 782 | 16681208 | lif | The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list at Harvard. See $VanLennep=, "Plays on the English Stage," p. 13. Diary of Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington: Heer dined with mee my $lord of Canterbury= my $ld Sandwich= and my $brother and sister Orrery=, and in the afternoone wee all went but his Grace to see my brothers new play cald Tryphon which was much applauded (Volume IV, in the Library at Chatsworth. This excerpt supplied by $Kathleen Lynch=). Pepys, Diary: My wife tells me of my $Lord Orrery='s new play "Tryphon," at the Duke of York's house...and [we] went thither, where, with much ado, at half-past one, we got into a blind hole in the 18d. place, above stairs, where we could not hear well, but the house infinite full, but the prologue most silly, and the play, though admirable, yet no pleasure almost in it, because just the very same design, and words, and sense, and plot, as every one of his plays have, any one of which alone would be held admirable, whereas so many of the same design and fancy do but dull one another; and this, I preceive, is the sense of every body else, as well as myself, who therefore showed but little pleasure in it

Performance: 782 | 782 | p | Tryphon | The edition of 1669 lists no actors' names. The Prologue-Mr Nokes, Mr Angell; Epilogue-.
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647 | 782 | The Prologue | Mr Nokes, Mr Angell

648 | 782 | Epilogue | .

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