Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Took Mrs Turner out and carried her to the King's house, and saw The Indian Emperour

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@139, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's play-house, and there saw a piece of Beggar's Bush, which I have not seen some years

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw Sir Martin Marr-all, which, the more I see, the more I like

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, and there saw most of The Cardinall, a good play

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's house, and there did see Love in a Maze, wherein very good mirth of Lacy, the clown, and Wintersell, the country-knight, his master

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: I to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw The Tempest, which still pleases me mightily

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, and there saw The Surprizall: and a disorder in the pit by its raining in, from the cupola at top, it being a very foul day, and cold

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Although Downes refers to the play's being acted "12 Days together" [see below], these were not consecutive, as Pepys saw another play at lif on 7 May. Pepys, Diary: To the Duke of York's playhouse, at a little past twelve, to get a good place in the pit, against the new play, and there setting a poor man to keep my Place, I out...and so back again, where I find the house quite full. But I had my place, and by and by the King comes and the Duke of York; and then the play begins, called The Sullen Lovers; or, The Impertinents, having many good humours in it, but the play tedious, and no design at all in it. But a little boy, for a farce, do dance Polichinelli, the best that ever anything was done in the world, by all men's report: most pleased with that, beyond anything in the world, and much beyond all the play. Thence to the King's house to see Knepp, but the play done. Downes (p. 29): This Comedy being Admirably Acted:...This Play had wonderful Success, being Acted 12 Days together

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Duke of York's house, and there saw The Impertinents again, and with less pleasure than before, it being but a very contemptible play, though there are many little witty expressions in it; and the pit did generally say that of it. Thence, going out, Mrs Pierce called me from the gallery

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: [Creed] and I to the Duke of York's playhouse; and there coming late, he and I up to the balcony-box, where we find my Lady Castlemayne and several great ladies; and there we sat with them, and I saw The Impertinents once more, now three times, and the three only days it hath been acted. And to see the folly how the house do this day cry up the play more than yesterday! and I for that reason like it, I find, the better, too: by Sir Positive At-all, I understand, is meant Sir Robert Howard. My Lady [Castlemayne] pretty well pleased with it

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I back to the King's playhouse, and there saw The Virgin Martyr, and heard the musick that I like so well

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: I carried [Mercer and Mrs Turner] to the Duke of York's house, and there saw The Man's the Master, which proves, upon my seeing it again, a very good play

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Thence called Knepp from the King's house, where going in for her, the play being done, I did see Beck Marshall come dressed, off of the stage, and looks mighty fine, and pretty, and noble: and also Nell Gwyn?, in her boy's clothes, mighty pretty. But, Lord! their confidence! and how many men do hover about them as soon as they come off the stage, and how confident they are in their talk! Here I did kiss the pretty woman newly come, called Pegg Hughes?, that was Sir Charles Sidly's mistress, a mighty pretty woman, and seems, but is not, modest. Here took up Knepp into our coach, and all of us with her to her lodgings, and thither comes Bannister with a song of her's, that he hath set in Sir Charles Sidly's play [The Mulberry Garden] for her, which is, I think, but very meanly set; but this he did, before us, teach her, and it being but a slight, silly, short ayre, she learnt it presently. But I did get him to prick me down the notes of the Echo in The Tempest, which pleases me mightily. Here was also Haynes, the incomparable dancer of the King's house, and a seeming civil man, and sings pretty well

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: [Sir W. Pen] and I into the King's house, and there The Mayd's Tragedy, a good play, but Knepp not there

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I to the King's house, and there saw the last act of The Committee, thinking to have seen Knepp there, but she did not act

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, and there saw the best part of The Sea Voyage, where Knepp I see do her part of sorrow very well

Event Comment: The King's Company. This play may also have been given on Tuesday 19 May. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, and saw The Mulberry-Garden again, and cannot be reconciled to it, but only to find here and there an independent sentence of wit, and that is all

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Duke of York's house to a play, and saw Sir Martin Marr-all, where the house is full; and though I have seen it, I think, ten times, yet the pleasure I have is yet as great as ever, and is undoubtedly the best comedy ever was wrote

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This play is on the L. C. list, 5@139, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347. Pepys, Diary, 31 May: At the play at court the other night, Mrs Davis was there; and when she was to come to dance her jigg, the Queene would not stay to see it, which people do think it was out of displeasure at her being the King's whore, that she could not bear it

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, and there saw Philaster; where it is pretty to see how I could remember almost all along, ever since I was a boy, Arethusa, the part which I was to have acted at Sir Robert Cooke's; and it was very pleasant to me, but more to think what a ridiculous thing it would have been for me to have acted a beautiful woman

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: I hear that Mrs Davis is quite gone from the Duke of York's house, and Gosnell comes in her room, which I am glad of

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's house, and there saw good part of The Scornful Lady, and that done, would have taken out Knepp, but she was engaged

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

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: So my wife not speaking a word, going nor coming, nor willing to go to a play, though a new one