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1937 results for: Keyword - Company of Grocers
We found 1837 matches on Event Comments, 91 matches on Performance Comments, 24 matches on Performance Title, 1 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

626
09 May 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid's Tragedy

627
15 May 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

628
16 May 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sea Voyage

629
20 May 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mulberry Garden

630
22 May 1668 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Feign'd Innocence; Or, Sir Martin Marall

631
29 May 1668 @ Whitehall or St. James's

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Would If She Could

632
30 May 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Philaster; Or, Love Lies A Bleeding

633
31 May 1668 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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

Performances

634
03 June 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

635
12 June 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Evening's Love[; Or, the Mock Astrologer

636
18 June 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Evening's Love

637
19 June 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: By and by comes my wife and Deb. home, have been at the King's playhouse to-day, thinking to spy me there; and saw the new play, Evening Love, of Dryden's, which, though the world commends, she likes not. Evelyn, Diary: To a new play, with severeall of my Relations, the Evening Lover, a foolish plot, & very Prophane, so as it afflicted me to see how the stage was. degenerated & poluted by the licentious times

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Evening's Love

638
20 June 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: And so she [Mrs Pepys] and I alone to the King's house, and there I saw this new play my wife saw yesterday, and do not like it, it being very smutty, and nothing so good as The Maiden Queen, or The Indian Emperour, of his making, that I was troubled at it; and my wife tells me wholly (which he confesses a little in the epilogue) taken out of the Illustre Bassa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Evening's Love

639
22 June 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: [Creed] and I to the King's playhouse, and saw an act or two of the new play again, but like it not. Calling this day at Herringman's, he tells me Dryden do himself call it but a fifth-rate play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Evening's Love

640
24 June 1668 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: With wife, Mercer, Deb., and W. Hewer to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw The Impertinents, a pretty good play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sullen Lovers; Or, The Impertinents

641
27 June 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: My wife, and Deb., and I to the King's playhouse, and saw The Indian Queene, but do not doat upon Nan Marshall's acting therein, as the world talks of her excellence therein

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Queen

642
29 June 1668 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: With my wife to the King's playhouse--The Mulberry Garden, which she had not seen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mulberry Garden

643
11 July 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, to see an old play of Shirly's called Hide Parke; the first day acted; where horses are brought upon the stage: but it is but a very moderate play, only an excellent epilogue spoke by Beck Marshall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hyde Park

644
14 July 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hyde Park

645
29 July 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I with my wife and two girls to the King's house, and saw The Mad Couple, a mean play altogether

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All Mistaken; Or, The Mad Couple

646
31 July 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This play was apparently acted by 1665--see Dec. 1664--and was now revived, although it was not published until 1672. This play is on the L. C. lists, 5@139, p. 129, and 5@12, p. 17. The second list adds: king here. Pepys, Diary: To the King's house, to see the first day of Lacy's Monsieur Ragou, now new acted. The King and Court all there, and mighty merry--a farce

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Troop; Or, Monsieur Raggou

647
01 August 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: My wife, and Deb., and I, to the King's house again, coming too late yesterday to hear the prologue, and do like the play better now than before; and, indeed, there is a good deal of true wit in it, more than in the common sort of plays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Troop; Or, Monsieur Raggou

648
05 August 1668 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Guardian

649
12 August 1668 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Duke of York's house, and saw Mackbeth, to our great content

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

650
15 August 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, and there saw Love's Mistresse revived, the thing pretty good, but full of variety of divertisement

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Mistress; Or, The Queen's Masque