Event Comment: The
King's Company.
Pepys, Diary:
Sir W. Pen, my wife and I to the Theatre, and there saw
The Country Captain, the first time it hath been acted this twenty-five years, a play of my
Lord Newcastle's, but so silly a play as in all my life I never saw, and the first that ever I was weary of in my life.
Herbert (
Dramatic Records, p. 118) lists
Love's Mistress for this date for
Vere St., but the item is out of the normal order of the entries. To move it to 26 Oct. 1662 would place it on a Sunday. The play had been given previously (2 March 1661, 11 March 1661, 25 March 1661) by both the
Duke's Company and
King's Company. Possibly Herbert entered it on the wrong day. On Herbert's list, following
Love's Mistress, are two plays,
The Contented Collinell [Brenoralt] and
Love at First Sight, each listed without a date. The former, under the title
Brenoralt, had been acted at Vere St. on 23 July 1661; the second was soon to be acted there on 29 Nov. 1661
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Country Captain