Event Comment: The
Duke's Company.
Pepys, Diary: I alone out and to the Duke of York's play-house, where unexpectedly I come to see only the
young men and women of the house act; they having liberty to act for their own profit on Wednesdays and Fridays this
Lent; and the play they did yesterday, being Wednesday, was so well-taken, that they thought fit to venture it publickly to-day; a play of my
Lord Falkland's called
The Wedding Night, a kind of tragedy, and some things very good in it, but the whole together, I thought, not so. I confess I was well enough pleased with my seeing it: and the people did do better, without the great actors, than I did expect, but yet far short of what they do when they are there, which I was glad to find the difference of
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Marriage Night
Performance Comment: See16670320 young actors of the company.