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Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is assumed from Downes' statement that the play was given on eight days consecutively

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Psyche

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list 5@141, p. 215. the Kings Mate. See also Nicoll. Restoration Drama, p. 345

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Catiline

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is assumed from Downes' statement that the play was acted eight days. If it was not given on Friday 5 March, it presumably was then given on 9 March

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Psyche

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this play. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407, where VanLennep speculates that it might have been John Crowne's The Country Wit, which is not otherwise known to be acted until 10 Jan. 1675@6. It should be noted that this performance falls on a Friday in Lent

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ye Country Knight

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, 407. This day may well have been the premiere; the play was not licensed until 5 July 1675

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woman Turned Bully

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 215. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 345

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rollo, Duke Of Normandy

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 215: King and Queene. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 345

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A King And No King

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 215. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 345. Although there is no certainty that this is the premiere, the two performances in early May 1675 suggest that this performance and the two following represent the initial run. Dedication to edition of 1676: If Sophonisba receiv'd some applause upon the stage, I arrogate nothing from the merit of the Poem

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Mainpiece Title: Sophonisba; Or, Hannibal's Overthrow

Event Comment: The King's Company. There is no certainty as to when this play was first performed. As it was licensed on 27 May 1675, the month of May is the latest for its premiere, but it was quite possibly presented before May, as the known performances for Drury Lane in May do not provide much opportunity for another play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mock Duellist; Or, The French Vallet

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 215: King & Queene. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 345

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sophonisba

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 215: King & Queene. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 345

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sophonisba

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 215. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 345. There is no certainty that this is the premiere, but it or the preceding Saturday may well be, since Sophonisba seems to have dominated the preceding week

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In The Dark; Or, The Man Of Bus'ness

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 81. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 348. There is no certainty as to whether this is the date of the first performance. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 35): Then the Conquest of China by the Tartars, by Mr Settle; in this Play Mr Jevon Acting a Chinese Prince and Commander in it, and being in the Battle, Vanquisht by the Tartars; he was by his Part to fall upon the point of his Sword and Kill himself, rather than be a Prisoner by the Tartars: Mr Jevon instead of falling on the point of his Sword, laid it in the Scabbard at length upon the Ground and fell upon't, saying, now I am Dead; which put the Author into such a Fret, it made him speak Treble instead of Double Jevons answer was; did not you bid me fall upon my Sword

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conquest Of China By The Tartars

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 215. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 345. Marquis of Worcester to the Marchioness, 8 June 1675: I sate up last night at the play in Court--which was to entertaine the Prince of Newbough--till one of the clock in the morning (HMC, 12th Report, Appendix, Beaufort MSS., IX, 65)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@142, p. 81. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 348. Nell Gwyn also attended this performance; see VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Libertine

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 345

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marriage A La Mode

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance; see VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conquest Of China By The Tartars

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance; see VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Herod And Mariamne

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance; see VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Psyche

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The Diary of Robert Hooke: Mr Hoskins and I at Shadwell. Atheistical wicked play 2 1!2 sh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Libertine

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance; see VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Event Comment: The King's Company. The date of the first production is not known. Although the play was not entered in the Term Catalogues until February 1675@6, the references to "Miss-Non-so-Fair," prince Nick, and t'other House Gallants" suggest that it capitalized upon the appearance of Psyche Debauched at dg

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Piso's Conspiracy

Event Comment: The King's Company. The Diary of Robert Hooke, 27 Aug. 1675: Saw Psyche Grand foppery

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Psyche Debauched

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is known from a disturbance which occurred on this day; Langbaine states that the play was Macbeth. John Verney to Sir Ralph Verney, 30 Aug. 1675: On Saturday last, at the Duke's playhouse, Sir Tho. Armstrong killed Mr Scrope....Their quarrel is said to [be] about Mrs Uphill, the player, who came into the house maskt, and Scrope would have entertained discourse with her, which Sir T. Armstrong would not suffer, so a ring was made wherein they fought (HMC Verney MSS., 7th Report, 1879, p. 465). See also The Hatton Correspondence, Camden Society, XXII (1878), 121

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Doctor Faustus