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Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Sir W. Pen and I to the Theatre, and there saw The Country Captain, a dull play

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Mainpiece Title: The Country Captain

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: [The Country Captain] being done I...went to the Opera, and saw the last act of The Bondman

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Mainpiece Title: The Bondman

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Captain Ferrers and Mr Moore and I to the Theatre, and there saw Hamlett very well done

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Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Event Comment: The King's Company. This play appears on Herbert's List, following the entry for 26 Oct. 1661. (See William VanLennep, "Thomas Killigrew prepares his Plays for Production," J. Q. Adams Memorial Studies (Washington, D. C., 1948, p. 803.) Pepys, Diary: W. Pen and I to the Theatre, but it was so full that we could hardly get any room, so he went up to one of the boxes, and I into the 18d. places, and there saw Love at first sight, a play of Mr Killigrew's and the first time that it hath been acted since before the troubles, and great expectation there was, but I found the play to be a poor thing, and so I perceive every body else do. BM Add. Mss. 34217, fol. 31b, in Hotson Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 246: @First then to speake of his Majestys Theatre@Where one would imagine Playes should be better@Love att the first sight did lead the dance@But att second sight it had the mischance@To be so dash'd out of Countenance as@It never after durst shew itts face@All though its bashfullnesse as tis thought@Be far from being the Authors ffault.

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Mainpiece Title: The Princess; Or, Love At First Sight

Performance Comment: An edition in 1663 (in Killigrew's Comedies and Tragedies) lists no actors' names, no prologue, no epilogue.
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: By and by called on by Mr Sanchy and his mistress, and with them by coach to the Opera, to see The Mad Lover, but not much pleased with the play

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Mainpiece Title: The Mad Lover

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: My wife and I to the Opera, and saw Hamlett well performed

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Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

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Mainpiece Title: The Dancing Master

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Mainpiece Title: Vittoria Corombona

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Mainpiece Title: The Country Captain

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Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

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Mainpiece Title: Bartholomew Fair

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Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Curate

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Mainpiece Title: The Tamer Tamed

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Mainpiece Title: Aglaura

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118. Pepys, Diary: And so home to Sir W. Pen, who with his children and my wife has been at a play to-day and saw D'Ambois, which I never saw

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Mainpiece Title: Bussy D'ambois

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Mainpiece Title: The Merry Devil Of Edmonton

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Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Rhodes, Part Ii

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Mainpiece Title: The Virgin Martyr

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Mainpiece Title: Philaster

Event Comment: Possibly this was acted by the King's Company, which had given it on 16 Nov. 1660 and 8 Jan. 1661. Evelyn, Diary: This Night was acted before his Majestie the Widow, a lewd play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow

Related Works
Related Work: The Widow of Delphi; or, The Descent of the Deities Author(s): Richard Cumberland
Related Work: A School for Widows Author(s): Richard Cumberland
Related Work: The Horse and the Widow Author(s): August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue

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Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Event Comment: This play was seen at the red bull by Jacques Thierry and Will Schellinks (Seaton, Literary Relationships, pp. 333, 335). Seaton speculates that the play may be: (1) Rowley's A Shoemaker a Gentleman; (2) a droll made out of the Christopher Sly prologue of The Taming of the Shrew; (3) Tourneur's lost The Nobleman or Great Man. William VanLennep ("The new-made Nobleman," Times Literary Supplement, 20 June 1936, p. 523) thinks that it may be Beaumont and Fletcher's Noble Gentleman. Nicoll (Restoration Drama, pp. 309-10) believes that this was Jolly's Company acting at the red bull

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Mainpiece Title: The New Made Nobleman

Event Comment: This play was seen by Jacques Thierry and Will Schellinks (Seaton, Literary Relationships, pp. 333, 335). Jolly's company acted this play at Norwich

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Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

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Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife