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We found 9643 matches on Event Comments, 3145 matches on Performance Comments, 1214 matches on Performance Title, 30 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@145, p. 120. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 020. The date of the first performance is not known, but it may well have been about this time, as the Prologue refers to Michaelmas Term and the reopening of the playhouses ("Theatres are up"). The play was entered in the Term Catalogues in February 1681@2

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Performance Comment: Edition of 1682: Prologue by a Friend-Mrs Barry; Wiseacre-Underhill; Doodle-Nokes; Townly-Williams; Ramble-Smith; Loveday-Wilshire; Dashwell-Leigh; Tom-Richards; Eugenia-Mrs Corer [Currer]; Arabella-Mrs Barry; Peggy-Mrs Petty; Aunt-Mrs Norris; Engine-Mrs Leigh; Jane-Mrs Osborne; Epilogue [spoken by several actors]-.
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Role: Loveday Actor: Wilshire
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. A performance of this play is on the L. C. list, 5@145, p. 120. The entry is not clear, but it appears to be Jany 24, although Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349, reads it as June 24

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Mainpiece Title: The Royalist

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@145, p. 120. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is known by a L. C. order, 5@144, p. 303 (see Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 356), dated 11 Nov. 1682, that Rule a Wife and Have a Wife be given at court on 15 Nov. 1682. The union of the Companies apparently became fully effective on this date

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@145, p. 120: with ye Queene & a box for ye Maides of honor. [It is not certain in which theatre this play was given, but dl seems to have been preferred for drama, dg for operatic pieces. This play was reprinted in 1683.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@145, P. 120: with ye Q: & a box for ye Maides of honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duke Of Guise

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@145, p. 120. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@145, p. 120: with Ye Q: & a box for ye Maides of honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349. This play was reprinted in 1682, but without actors' names. Langbaine (English Dramatick Poets, 1691, p. 207) may refer to a performance around this period: Being acted with extraordinary applause at the Theatre in Dorset-Garden, and printed with the Alterations London. 40 1682

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@145, p. 120: at ye Wanton Wife with ye Q. & a box for ye Maides of honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow Or The Wanton Wife

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@145, p. 120: At Othelo with ye Queene & a box for ye Maydes of Honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@145, p. 120. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Event Comment: The Prince of Orange's company of foreign comedians was apparently expected in England on this evening (HMC, 5th Report, Part I, 1876, p. 186). They were under the management of Francis Duperier and apparently remained in England for some four months. See Lawrence, Early French Players in England, p. 150. See also an order, L. C. 5@145, p. 90 (Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 253n), to prepare the Cockpit for the Prince of Orange's players

Performances

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@145, p. 120. with ye Queene & a box for the Maydes of honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Duke And No Duke

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@145, p. 120. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list,"5@145, p. 120. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Duke And No Duke

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@145, p. 120: At ye Leiutenant. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The humorous Lieutenant

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 68: The Queene at Jerusalem ye secd part. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Destruction Of Jerusalem Part Ii

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 68: The King & Queene at the Silent Woman. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350. Matthew Prior, Satire Upon the Poets: @Mountfort how fit for Politicks and Law@That play'd so well Sir Courtly and Jack Daw.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 68: The Queene at Rolo. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350. Although it is certain that the cast in this edition is that for this performance, there are no actors' names on the list which can not pertain to this time

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rollo

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 68: The King & Queene. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 68: The King & Queene. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350. See also Evelyn's Diary for some private concerts at this time

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Disappointment

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 68: The King & Queene & a Box for ye Maydes of Honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rollo