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Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: To Whitefriars and saw The Spanish Curate, in which I had no great content

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Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Curate

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: Mr Creed and I to White-Fryars, where we saw The Bondman acted most excellently, and though I have seen it often, yet I am every time more and more pleased with Betterton's action

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Mainpiece Title: The Bondman

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. See 2 March 1661. Pepys, Diary: I and Captain Ferrers to Salisbury Court, by water, and saw part of the Queen's Maske

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Mainpiece Title: The Queen's Mask

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: Mrs Pierce and her husband and I and my wife to Salisbury Court, where coming late he and she light of Col. Boone that made room for them, and I and my wife sat in the pit, and there met with Mr Lewes and Tom Whitton, and saw The Bondman done to admiration

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Mainpiece Title: The Bondman

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: Then with Mr Shepley to the Theatre and saw Rollo ill acted

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Mainpiece Title: Rollo Duke Of Normandy

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: Then to Whitefryars, and there saw part of Rule a wife have a wife, which I never saw before, but do not like it

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Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. An edition dated 1661 lists no cast, no prologue, and epilogue. Pepys, Diary: And so to White-fryars and saw The Little Thiefe, which is a very merry and pretty play, and the little boy do very well

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Mainpiece Title: The Little Thief

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: Then by water, Creed and I, to Salisbury Court and there saw Love's Quarrell acted the first time, but I do not like the design or words

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Mainpiece Title: Love's Quarrel

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: After dinner with Mr Creed and Captain Ferrers to the Theatre to see The Chances

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Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Event Comment: See Herbert (Dramatic Records, p. 117) for The Mayd in the Mill acted in May and A Wife for a Monthe and The Bondman acted by the King's Company at an unspecified time following May

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Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, and there saw the latter end of The Mayd's Tragedy, which I never saw before, and me thinks it is too sad and melancholy

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Mainpiece Title: The Maid's Tragedy

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, wher I saw a piece of The Silent Woman, which pleased me

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Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Event Comment: The Prologue, with the date of performance given as 28 May 1661, is in Thomas Jordan's A Royal Arbour of Loyal Poesie, 1664. See also Wiley, Rare Prologues and Epilogues, p. 326. This is possibly George Jolly's company. See also 23 March 1660@1

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Mainpiece Title: The Poor Man's Comfort

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Role: Prologue Actor: .
Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, and saw Harry the 4th, a good play

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Mainpiece Title: Henry The Fourthe Part I

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I went to the Theatre and there saw Bartholomew Faire, the first time it was acted now-a-days. It is a most admirable play and well acted, but too much prophane and abusive

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Mainpiece Title: Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, The Alchymist, which is a most incomparable play

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Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: With my Lady Batten, Mrs Rebecca Allen, Mrs Thompson, &c., two coaches of us, we went and saw Bartholomew Fayre, acted very well

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Mainpiece Title: Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: Elizabeth Bodvile, ca. July 1661: One Monday I was at the new apprer [opera] (Camden Society, 1878, XXII, 21). The Duke's Company

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Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Rhodes, Part I

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: To Sir William Davenant's Opera; this being the fourth day that it hath begun, and the first that I have seen it. To-day was acted the second part of The Siege of Rhodes. We staid a very great while for the King and the Queen of Bohemia. And by the breaking of a board over our heads, we had a great deal of dust fell into the ladies' necks and the men's hair, which made good sport. The King being come, the scene opened; which indeed is very fine and magnificent, and well acted, all but the Eunuch, who was so much out tha he was hissed off the stage

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Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Rhodes, Part Ii

Event Comment: On the assumption that the run began on 28 June and extended twelve days (as Downes states), it would continue through 11 July. On 3 July a group of players entitled the Red Bull Company began a series of performances at Oxford. The performances are known through the entries in Anthony Wood's journal. For a discussion of the problems as to what actors these were, see Sybil Rosenfeld, "Some Notes on the Players in Oxford, 1661-1713", Review of English Studies, XIX (1943), 366. On this day the players acted Tu Quoque, in which, according to Richard Walden (Io Ruminans, 1662) Anne Gibbs acted Gertrude

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Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Rhodes, Part I

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I went to the Theatre, and there I saw Claracilla (the first time I ever saw it), well acted. But strange to see this house, that used to be so thronged, now empty since the Opera begun; and so will continue for a while, I believe

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Mainpiece Title: Claracilla

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, and saw Brenoralt, I never saw before. It seemed a good play, but ill acted; only I sat before Mrs Palmer, the King's mistress, and filled my eyes with her, which much pleased me

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Mainpiece Title: Brenoralt [or, the Discontented Colonel]

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, and saw The Jovial Crew, the first time I saw it, and indeed it is as merry and the most innocent play that ever I saw, and well performed

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Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, and there I saw The Tamer Tamed well done

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Mainpiece Title: The Tamer Tamed

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre,...The Merry Devill of Edmunton, which is a very merry play, the first time I ever saw it, which pleased me well

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Mainpiece Title: The Merry Devil Of Edmunton

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Role: Smug Actor: Clun?
Role: Thorn Actor: