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Event Comment: [The King's Company. Settings by Alphonso Marsh the Elder of two of the songs are in Choice Songs and Ayres, 1673. This performance, which may have been the first one, is one the L. C. list 5@139, p. 129: An Evening Love his Mate and the Queene at the Theatre. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344

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Mainpiece Title: An Evenings Love Or the Mock Astrologer

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists, 5@139, p. 129, and 5@12, p. 17. The second list adds: the king here. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344

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Mainpiece Title: Hyde Park

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. L. C. list 5@139, p. 125, lists this play for 9 August, a Sunday; possibly "9" is an error for "5". Pepys, Diary: To the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw The Guardian; formerly the same, I find, that was called Cutter of Coleman Street; a silly play

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Mainpiece Title: The Guardian

Performance Comment: For this play under the title The Cutter of Coleman Street, see16611216.
Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@12, p. 17: King & Queene. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344

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Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess Or The Generous Portuguese

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@12, p. 17. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344. Newsletter, 9 Nov.: A play, The tanner tanned, is appointed for this evening in the new theatre at Whitehall (HMC, Fleming MSS., 12th Report, Appendix, Part VII, p. 60)

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Mainpiece Title: The Tamer Tamed

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This is on an L. C. list in the Harvard Theatre Collection. See William vanLennep, Plays on the English Stage 1669-1672, Theatre Notebook, XVI (1961), 13

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Mainpiece Title: Feignd Innocence Or Sir Martin Marall

Event Comment: The King's Company. This play is on the L. C. list, 5@12, p. 17: The Scornfull Lady at court. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344

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Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list at Harvard. See William VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 13. The edition of 1668 states: As it was Acted (with great Applause) by the Servants of His Royal Highness the Duke of York, at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn Fields

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Mainpiece Title: The Changeling

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list 5@12, p. 17: King here. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344

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Mainpiece Title: The Usurper

Event Comment: The King's Company. This play is on the L. C. list, 5@12, p. 17: at court. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344

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Mainpiece Title: The Usurper

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This play is on the L. C. list at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage," p. 13. Pepys, Diary: To the Duke's playhouse, and saw Macbeth. The King and Court there; and we sat just under them and my Lady Castlemayne, and close to the woman that comes into the pit, a kind of a loose gossip, that pretends to be like her, and is so, something...The King and Duke of York minded me, and smiled upon me, at the handsome woman near me: but it vexed me to see Moll Davis, in the box over the King's and my Lady Castlemayne's head, look down upon the King, and he up to her; and so did my Lady Castlemayne once, to see who it was; but when she saw her, she looked like fire; which troubled me

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list at Harvard: the King and Queen [present]. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage," p. 13

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Mainpiece Title: The Sullen Lovers Or The Impertinents

Event Comment: The King's Company. This play is on the L. C. list, 5@12, p. 17: Catilines Conspiracie. King & Queene here. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344

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Mainpiece Title: Catiline

Event Comment: The King's Company. This play is on the L. C. list, 5@12, p. 17: The King & Queene. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344

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Mainpiece Title: Horace

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This play is on the L. C. list at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage," p. 14

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Mainpiece Title: The Guardian

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@12, p. 17. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344

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Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Event Comment: The King's Company. This play is on the L. C. list, 5@12, p. 17: ye King here. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344

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Mainpiece Title: The Coxcomb

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This play is on the L. C. list at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 14

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Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge Or Love In A Tub

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance, apparently the premiere, is on the L. C. list at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 14. Downes (p. 28): After this my Lord Orrery, Writ Two Comedies: The first call'd Guzman...took very well

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Mainpiece Title: Guzman

Performance Comment: Downes (Roscius Anglicanus) gives no cast; and the first publication of the play, in 1693, lists no actors' names.
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 14

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Mainpiece Title: Feignd Innocence Or Sir Martin Marall

Event Comment: The King's Company. This play is on the L. C. list, 5@12, p. 17. See also Nicoll. Restoration Drama, p. 344

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Mainpiece Title: King And No King

Event Comment: The news of the death of Henrietta-Maria, the Queen Mother, reached London ca. 3 Sept. 1669. There may well have been an order forbidding playing, although it is not extant; but an order, L. C. 5@12, p. 251 (in Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 322) directs the two companies to act again on Monday, 18 Oct. 1669. Probably the theatres were closed for approximately six weeks

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Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 15

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Mainpiece Title: The Gentleman Of Venice

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, Plays on the English Stage, p. 15

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Mainpiece Title: The Sophy