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25 February 1669

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Theatre: Lincoln's Inn Fields
Theatrical Season: 1668-1669
Volume: 1
Comments: The Duke's Company. This play is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 14. A song in this play, Thus all our Lives, with music by John Banister, is in Choice Songs and Ayres, 1673. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 31): [Concerning several plays] All which Expir'd the third Day, save the Royal Shepherdess, which liv'd Six. Pepys, Diary: To the Duke of York's house, and there before one, but the house infinite full, where, by and by, the King and Court come, it being a new play, or an old one new vamped, by Shadwell, called The Royal Shepherdesse!; but the silliest for words and design, and evepything, that ever I saw in my whole life, there being nothing in the world pleasing in it, but a good martial dance of pikemen, where Harris and another do handle their pikes in a dance to admiration; but never less satisfied with a play in my life

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    *p9lif The Royal Shepherdess. [Adapted by $Thomas Shadwell= from $John Fountain=, <i>The Rewards of Virtue</i>.] [Edition of 1669:% Prologue-; Epilogue-. *c9lif The <i>Duke's Company</i>. This play is on the <i>L. C. lists</i> at <i>Harvard</i>. See $VanLennep=, "<i>Plays on the English Stage</i>", p. 14. A song in this play, <i>Thus all our Lives</i>, with music by $John Banister=, is in <i>Choice Songs and Ayres</i>, 1673. $Downes= (<i>Roscius Anglicanus</i>, p. 31): [Concerning several plays] All which Expir'd the third Day, save <i>the Royal Shepherdess</i>, which liv'd Six. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: To the Duke of York's house, and there before one, but the house infinite full, where, by and by, the $King= and $Court= come, it being a new play, or an old one new vamped, by $Shadwell=, called <i>The Royal Shepherdesse</i>!; but the silliest for words and design, and evepything, that ever I saw in my whole life, there being nothing in the world pleasing in it, but a good martial dance of pikemen, where $Harris= and another do handle their pikes in a dance to admiration; but never less satisfied with a play in my life.
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    *p1669 02 25 lif The Royal Shepherdess. [Adapted by $Thom^as^Shadwell= from $John Fountain=, <i>The Rewards of Virtue</i>.] Edition of 1669: Prologue-; Epilogue-.*c1669 02 25 lif The <i>Duke's Company</i>. This play is on the <i>L. C. lists</i> at <i>Harvard</i>. See $VanLennep=, "<i>Plays on the English Stage</i>", p. 14. A song in this play, <i>Thus all our Lives</i>, with music by $John Banister=, is in <i>Choice Songs and Ayres</i>, 1673. $Downes= (<i>Roscius Anglicanus</i>, p. 31): [Concerning several plays] All which Expir'd the third Day, save <i>the Royal Shepherdess</i>, which liv'd Six. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: To the Duke of York's house, and there before one, but the house infinite full, where, by and by, the $King= and $Court= come, it being a new play, or an old one new vamped, by $Shadwell=, called <i>The Royal Shepherdesse</i>!; but the silliest for words and design, and evepything, that ever I saw in my whole life, there being nothing in the world pleasing in it, but a good martial dance of pikemen, where $Harris= and another do handle their pikes in a dance to admiration; but never less satisfied with a play in my life.
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    Event: 829 | 16690225 | lif | The <i>Duke's Company</i>. This play is on the <i>L. C. lists</i> at <i>Harvard</i>. See $VanLennep=, "<i>Plays on the English Stage</i>", p. 14. A song in this play, <i>Thus all our Lives</i>, with music by $John Banister=, is in <i>Choice Songs and Ayres</i>, 1673. $Downes= (<i>Roscius Anglicanus</i>, p. 31): [Concerning several plays] All which Expir'd the third Day, save <i>the Royal Shepherdess</i>, which liv'd Six. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: To the Duke of York's house, and there before one, but the house infinite full, where, by and by, the $King= and $Court= come, it being a new play, or an old one new vamped, by $Shadwell=, called <i>The Royal Shepherdesse</i>!; but the silliest for words and design, and evepything, that ever I saw in my whole life, there being nothing in the world pleasing in it, but a good martial dance of pikemen, where $Harris= and another do handle their pikes in a dance to admiration; but never less satisfied with a play in my life
    Performance: 829 | 829 | p | The Royal Shepherdess | [Adapted by $ThomasShadwell= from $John Fountain=, <i>The Rewards of Virtue</i>.] Edition of 1669: Prologue-; Epilogue-.
    Cast:
    666 | 829 | Prologue
    667 | 829 | Epilogue | .

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[Adapted by ThomasShadwell from John Fountain, The Rewards of Virtue.] Edition of 1669: Prologue-; Epilogue-.
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