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2718 results for: Keyword - Diary of Isaac Reed
We found 1378 matches on Event Comments, 1326 matches on Author, 116 matches on Performance Comments, 4 matches on Performance Title, and 1 matches on Roles/Actors.

1601
10 August 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Devil Of Edmunton

1602
14 August 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Captain Ferrers and I to the Theatre, and there saw The Alchymist

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

1603
15 August 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Opera, which begins again to-day with The Witts, never acted yet with scenes; and the King and Duke and Duchess were there...and indeed it is a most excellent play, and admirable scenes. Downes (p. 21): All the other Parts being exactly Perform'd; it continu'd 8 Days Acting Successively

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wits

1604
17 August 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: Captain Ferrers and I to the Opera, and saw The Witts, again, which I like exceedingly. The Queen of Bohemia was here, brought by my Lord Craven

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wits

1605
23 August 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. If the play was acted on eight successive days, as Downes states, this would be the eighth, and last, performance in this run Pepys, Diary: I took her [Mrs Pepys] to the opera, and shewed her The Witts, which I have seen already twice, and was most highly pleased with it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wits

1606
24 August 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. If the run of The Wits occurred as it is outlined above, this would presumably be the first day of Hamlet. Pepys, Diary: To the Opera, and there saw Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, done with scenes very well, but above all, Betterton did the prince's part beyond imagination. Downes (p. 21): The Tragedy of Hamlet: Hamlet being Perform'd by Mr Betterton, Sir William (having seen Mr Taylor of the Black-Fryars Company Act it, who being Instructed by the Author Mr Shakespear) taught Mr Betterton in every Particle of it; which by his exact Performance of it, gain'd him Esteem and Reputation, Superlative to all other Plays...No succeeding Tragedy for several Years got more Reputation, or Money to the Company than this

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

1607
26 August 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, and saw the Antipodes, wherein there is much mirth, but no great matter else

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antipodes

1608
27 August 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Hence my wife and I to the Theatre, and there saw The Joviall Crew, where the King, Duke and Duchess, and Madame Palmer, were; and my wife, to her great content, had a full sight of them all the while. The play full of mirth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

1609
30 August 1661 @ The Cockpit in Drury Lane

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: Then my wife and I to Drury Lane to the French comedy, which was so ill done, and the scenes and company and everything else so nasty and out of order and poor, that I was sick all the while in my mind to be there. See also Boswell (Restoration Court Stage, p. 280). W. J. Lawrence (Early French Players in England, The Elizabethan Playhouse and Other Studies (1912), pp. 139-40) argues that the play was Chapoton's Le Mariage d'Orphee et d'Eurydice. See also The Description of the Great Machines of the Descent of Orpheus into Hell. Presented by the French Comedians at the cockpit in Drury Lane. The Argument Taken out of the Tenth and Eleventh Books of Ovid's Metamorphosis (1661). Rugg's Diurnal the French players (BM Add. Mss. 10116, f243v)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A French Comedy

1610
31 August 1661 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: At noon comes Luellin to me, and he and I to the tavern and after that to Bartholomew fair, and there upon his motion to a pitiful alehouse, where we had a dirty slut or two come up that were whores, but my very heart went against them, so that I took no pleasure but a great deal of trouble in being there and getting from thence in fear of being seen. From hence he and I walked towards Ludgate and parted. I back to the fair all alone , and there met with the ladies Jemimah and Paulina, with Mr Pickering and Madamoiselle, at seeing the monkeys dance, which was much to see, when they could be brought to do so, but it troubled me to sit among such nasty company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

1611
05 September 1661 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: My wife and I to the fair, and I showed her the Italians dancing the ropes, and the women that do strange tumbling tricks

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

1612
06 September 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I went to the Theatre, and saw Elder Brother ill acted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Elder Brother

1613
07 September 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: My wife and I...to the Theatre, where we seated ourselves close by the King, and Duke of York, and Madame Palmer, which was great content; and, indeed, I can never enough admire her beauty. And here was Bartholomew Fayre, with the puppet-show, acted to-day, which had not been these forty years (it being so satyricall against Puritanism, they durst not till now, which is strange they should already dare to do it, and the King to countenance it), but I do never a whit like it the better for the puppets, but rather the worse

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bartholomew Fair

1614
09 September 1661 @ Salisbury Court

Event Comment: 'It is not certain what company played at this theatre ont his day Pepys, Diary: To Salisbury Court play house, where was acted the first time 'Tis pity Shee's a Whore, a simple play and ill acted, only it was my fortune to sit by a most pretty and ingenious lady, which pleased me much

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 'tis A Pity She's A Whore

1615
11 September 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: Walking through Lincoln's Inn Fields observed at the Opera a new play, Twelfth Night, was acted there, and the King there; so I, against my own mind and resolution, could not forbear to go in, which did make the play seem a burthen to me, and I took no pleasure at all in it; and so after it was done went home with my mind troubled for my going thither, after my swearing to my wife that I would never go to a play without her

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

1616
25 September 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Much against my nature and will, yet such is the power of the Devil over me I could not refuse it, to the Theatre, and saw The Merry Wives of Windsor, ill done

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

1617
26 September 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Abroad with my wife by coach to the Theatre to shew her King and no King, it being very well done

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King And No King

1618
28 September 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. An edition, undated but possibly issued about this time, refers to its being acted at Vere Street. The edition has no cast, no prologue, no epilouge. Pepys, Diary: Sir W. Pen and his daughter and I and my wife to the Theatre, and there saw Father's own Son, a very good play, and the first time I ever saw it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Father's Own Son

1619
04 October 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: Captain Ferrers and I to the Theatre, and there came too late, so we staid and saw a bit of Victoria, which pleased me worse than it did the other day. So we staid not to see it out

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Vittoria Corombona

1620
08 October 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: And late after dinner took Mrs Martha out by coach, and carried her to the Theatre in a frolique, to my great expense, and there shewed her part of the Beggar's Bush, without much pleasure, but only for a frolique

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Beggar's Bush

1621
09 October 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, and Shewed [Mrs Pierce and Mrs Clifford] The Chances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

1622
10 October 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: My wife and I to the Theatre...where the King came to-day, and there was The Traytor most admirably acted; and a most excellent play it is

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Traytor

1623
21 October 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: Against my judgment and conscience (which God forgive, for my very heart knows that I offend God in breaking my vows therein) to the Opera, which is now newly begun to act again, after some alteracion of their scene, which do make it very much worse; but the play, Love and Honour, being the first time of their acting it, is a very good plot, and well done. Downes (pp. 21-22): This Play was Richly Cloath'd; The King giving Mr Betterton his Coronation Suit;...The Duke of York giving Mr Harris his...and my Lord of Oxford gave Mr Joseph Price his...and all the other Parts being very well done: The Play having a great run, Produc'd to the Company great Gain and Estimation from the Town

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Honour

1624
23 October 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary So back to the Opera, and there I saw again Love and Honour, and a very good play it is

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Honour

1625
25 October 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: My wife and I to the Opera, and there saw again Love and Honour, a play so good that it has been acted but three times and I have seen them all, and all in this week; which is too much, and more than I will do again a good while

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Honour