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23 March 1661

Event Information
Theatre: The Red Bull Theatre
Theatrical Season: 1660-1661
Volume: 1
Comments: Pepys, Diary: And then out to the red bull (where I had not been since plays come up again)...where I was led by a seaman that knew me, but is here as a servant, up to the tireing-room, where strange the confusion and disorder that there is among them in fitting themselves, especially here, where the clothes are very poor, and the actors but common fellows. At last into the pitt, where I think there was not above ten more than myself, and not one hundred in the whole house. And the play, which is called All's lost by Lust, poorly done; and with so much disorder, among others, that in the musique-room the boy that was to sing a song, not singing it right, his master fell about his ears and beat him so, that it put the whole house in an uprore. Nicoll (Restoration Drama, p. 309) argues that George Jolly probably occupied the red bull in St John's Street, Clerkenwell. When Richard Walden saw the red bull players at Oxford in July 1661, Anne Gibbs acted Dionysia in All's Lost by Lust. It is possible that she played that role on this day. See Walden's Io Ruminans, 1662

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  • Original Data

    Source: London Stage Information Bank

    *pWredbull All's Lost by Lust. [see below.% *cWredbull <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: And then out to the <i>red bull</i> (where I had not been since plays come up again)...where I was led by a seaman that knew me, but is here as a servant, up to the tireing-room, where strange the confusion and disorder that there is among them in fitting themselves, especially here, where the clothes are very poor, and the actors but common fellows. At last into the pitt, where I think there was not above ten more than myself, and not one hundred in the whole house. And the play, which is called <i>All's lost by Lust</i>, poorly done; and with so much disorder, among others, that in the musique-room the boy that was to sing a song, not singing it right, his master fell about his ears and beat him so, that it put the whole house in an uprore. $Nicoll= (<i>Restoration Drama</i>, p. 309) argues that $George Jolly= probably occupied the <i>red bull</i> in <i>St John's Street</i>, <i>Clerkenwell</i>. When $Richard Walden= saw the red bull players at <i>Oxford</i> in July 1661, $Anne Gibbs= acted <i>Dionysia</i>r in <i>All's Lost by Lust</i>. It is possible that she played that role on this day. See Walden's <i>Io Ruminans</i>, 1662.

  • Cleaned Data

    *p1661 03 23 redbull All's Lost by Lust. see below.*c1661 03 23 redbull <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: And then out to the <i>red bull</i> (where I had not been since plays come up again)...where I was led by a seaman that knew me, but is here as a servant, up to the tireing-room, where strange the confusion and disorder that there is among them in fitting themselves, especially here, where the clothes are very poor, and the actors but common fellows. At last into the pitt, where I think there was not above ten more than myself, and not one hundred in the whole house. And the play, which is called <i>All's lost by Lust</i>, poorly done; and with so much disorder, among others, that in the musique-room the boy that was to sing a song, not singing it right, his master fell about his ears and beat him so, that it put the whole house in an uprore. $Nicoll= (<i>Restoration Drama</i>, p. 309) argues that $George Jolly= probably occupied the <i>red bull</i> in <i>St John's Street</i>, <i>Clerkenwell</i>. When $Richard Walden= saw the red bull players at <i>Oxford</i> in July 1661, $Anne Gibbs= acted <i>Dionysia</i>r in <i>All's Lost by Lust</i>. It is possible that she played that role on this day. See Walden's <i>Io Ruminans</i>, 1662.

  • Parsed Data

    Event: 94 | 16610323 | redbull | <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: And then out to the <i>red bull</i> (where I had not been since plays come up again)...where I was led by a seaman that knew me, but is here as a servant, up to the tireing-room, where strange the confusion and disorder that there is among them in fitting themselves, especially here, where the clothes are very poor, and the actors but common fellows. At last into the pitt, where I think there was not above ten more than myself, and not one hundred in the whole house. And the play, which is called <i>All's lost by Lust</i>, poorly done; and with so much disorder, among others, that in the musique-room the boy that was to sing a song, not singing it right, his master fell about his ears and beat him so, that it put the whole house in an uprore. $Nicoll= (<i>Restoration Drama</i>, p. 309) argues that $George Jolly= probably occupied the <i>red bull</i> in <i>St John's Street</i>, <i>Clerkenwell</i>. When $Richard Walden= saw the red bull players at <i>Oxford</i> in July 1661, $Anne Gibbs= acted <i>Dionysia</i> in <i>All's Lost by Lust</i>. It is possible that she played that role on this day. See Walden's <i>Io Ruminans</i>, 1662
    Performance: 94 | 94 | p | All's Lost By Lust | see below.

Mainpiece

Title: All's Lost By Lust
Comments:
see below.
Cast:
None Listed

Related Works

Publish Date: 1633
Birth: 1585?
Death: 1626

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Chicago: "London Stage Event: 23 March 1661 at The Red Bull Theatre." London Stage Database. Accessed March 31, 2025. https://londonstagedatabase.uoregon.edu/event.php?id=94.
MLA: "London Stage Event: 23 March 1661 at The Red Bull Theatre." London Stage Database, https://londonstagedatabase.uoregon.edu/event.php?id=94. Accessed 31 March 2025.