Event Comment: The King's company. On 31 Aug. or 1 Sept. 1664
Orrery wrote to
Sir Henry Bennett: Ther was noe Play of myne Acted, they are now but Studyinge it; I hope within less then a Fortnight twill be on ye Theater And if you are not surfetted, with what of mine you have already seene [
Henry V], I will beg ye honour to wait on you when tis Acted (see
The Dramatic Works of Roger Boyle, ed.
W. S. Clark@II [
Cambridge, Mass., 1937], 1, 102). The play is also on the list of
Herbert,
Dramatic Records, p. 138.
Boswell,
Restoration Court Stage, p. 281, lists it among the plays given
at court, but
Sir Heneage Finch's note (see below) seems to indicate an afternoon performance. Sir Heneage Finch to
Sir Edward Dering, 15 Sept. 1664: Yesterday was acted, in the Greatest and noblest presence wch ye
Court can make, before ye fullest Theatre, & with the highest applause imaginable, my Lo Orerys new play calld
ye Generall formerly acted in
Ireland by the name of
Altamira, but much altered & improved. From thence the whole
Court went to
Wallingford house, where the
Earl of Arran and the
Lady Mary Stuart were that night before Supper marryd in the Gallery (
Dramatic Works of Roger Boyle, I, 103, from
Stowe MS 744 f. 81)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Generall