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We found 4212 matches on Author, 1897 matches on Event Comments, 1418 matches on Performance Comments, 284 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: The King's Company. This play is on the L. C. list, 5@12, p. 17: the King here. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344. Mrs John Evelyn to Mr Terryll, 10 Feb. 1668@9: one of my Lord of Newcastle's for whch printed apoligies are scattered in the assembly by Briden's order, either for himself who had some hand in it, or for the author most; I think both had right to them (Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, ed. William Bray, IV, 14)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Performance Comment: The play was not published.
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This play is on the L. C. list at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage," p. 14

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Guardian

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@12, p. 17. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage," p. 14. Pepys, Diary: My wife and I to White Hall; and there, by means of Mr Cooling, did get into the play, the only one we have seen this winter: it was The Five Hours' Adventure: but I sat so far I could not hear well, nor was there any pretty woman that I did see, but my wife, who sat in my Lady Fox's pew with her. The house very full; and late before done, so that it was past eleven before we got home

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Adventures Of Five Hours

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This play is on the L. C. list at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage," p. 14

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Event Comment: The King's Company. This play is on the L. C. list, 5@12., p. 17. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344. Pepys, Diary: And in the evening I do carry them to White Hall, and there did without much trouble get into the playhouse, there in a good place among the Ladies of Honour, and myself also sat in the pit; and there by and by come the King and Queen, and they begun Bartholomew Fayre. But I like no play here so well as at the common playhouse; besides that, my eyes being very ill since last Sunday and this day se'nnight, with the light of the candles, I was in mighty pain to defend myself now from the light of the candles

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This play is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 14. A song in this play, Thus all our Lives, with music by John Banister, is in Choice Songs and Ayres, 1673. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 31): [Concerning several plays] All which Expir'd the third Day, save the Royal Shepherdess, which liv'd Six. Pepys, Diary: To the Duke of York's house, and there before one, but the house infinite full, where, by and by, the King and Court come, it being a new play, or an old one new vamped, by Shadwell, called The Royal Shepherdesse!; but the silliest for words and design, and evepything, that ever I saw in my whole life, there being nothing in the world pleasing in it, but a good martial dance of pikemen, where Harris and another do handle their pikes in a dance to admiration; but never less satisfied with a play in my life

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherdess

Performance Comment: [Adapted by ThomasShadwell from John Fountain, The Rewards of Virtue.] Edition of 1669: Prologue-; Epilogue-.
Event Comment: The King's Company. This play is on the L. C. list, 5@12, p. 17: ye King here. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Coxcomb

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance, apparently the premiere, is on the L. C. list at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 14. Downes (p. 28): After this my Lord Orrery, Writ Two Comedies: The first call'd Guzman...took very well

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Guzman

Performance Comment: Downes (Roscius Anglicanus) gives no cast; and the first publication of the play, in 1693, lists no actors' names.
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 14

Performances

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

Event Comment: The King's Company. This play is on the L. C. list, 5@12, p. 17. See also Nicoll. Restoration Drama, p. 344

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King And No King

Performance Comment: Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 5): Arbaces-Hart; Tygranes-Burt; Mardonius-Mohun; Gobrias-Wintersel; Lygones-Cartwright; Bessus-Shotterel; Arane-Mrs Corey; Panthea-Madam Gwin.
Cast
Role: Panthea Actor: Madam Gwin.
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This play is on the L. C. list at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", pp. 12-14. The play seems to be a translation by Shadwell of Moliere's Tartuffe. Elkanah Settle, in the Preface to his Ibrahim (licensed 4 May 1676) attacks Shadwell and refers to Shadwell's translation of Tartuffe into The Hypocrite, which, according to Settle, was acted six days

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Performance Comment: The play was not published.
Related Works
Related Work: Tartuffe; or, The French Puritan Author(s): Matthew Medbourne
Event Comment: The news of the death of Henrietta-Maria, the Queen Mother, reached London ca. 3 Sept. 1669. There may well have been an order forbidding playing, although it is not extant; but an order, L. C. 5@12, p. 251 (in Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 322) directs the two companies to act again on Monday, 18 Oct. 1669. Probably the theatres were closed for approximately six weeks

Performances

Event Comment: On this day the Lord Chamberlain issued an order (L. C. 5@12, p. 252; in Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 252) signifying the King's pleasure that: "ye french Comoedians haue liberty to Act and Play And that noe Persons pr[e]sume to molest or disturbe them in their Acting & playing.

Performances

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Although this performance is not certainly the premiere, it is the earliest known acting of the play. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 14. John Boyle, Fifth Earl of Orrery: Master Anthony too the sequel of Guzman was after Lord Orrery's Death brought upon the Stage, but being disrelish'd by the Audience appear'd only one Night. It is probable The Author had not supervis'd and corrected It sufficiently before he died (The Dramatic Works of Roger Boyle, ed. W. S. Clark II, II, 950). If these private notes, written some fifty years after the premiere, are correct, this performance may have been the premiere and the only day of acting it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mr Anthony

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 15

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentleman Of Venice

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, Plays on the English Stage, p. 15

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sophy

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 15. The play was not printed, and the only source of information concerning it is in Downes, Roscius Anglicanus, p. 30: The Woman made a Justice: Wrote by Mr Betterton: Mrs Long, Acting the Justice so Charmingly; and the Comedy being perfect and justly Acted, so well pleased the Audience, it continu'd Acting 14 Days together: The Prologue being spoke to it each Day. [It is possible that this date represents the premiere, since Saturday was frequently a day on which plays were first acted, but there is no certainty on this point.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woman Made A Justice

Performance Comment: The Justice-Mrs Long; Prologue-.
Cast
Role: The Justice Actor: Mrs Long
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 15

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 15

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Salomon; Or, The Cautious Coxcomb

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 16. Whether this is the premiere is not known. A song, Amintas that true-hearted swain, with music by John Bannister, is in Choice Ayres, Songs, and Dialogues, 2d. Ed., 1675. Downes, Roscius Anglicanus, p. 34: The Jealous Bridegroom, Wrote by Mrs Bhen, a good Play and lasted six Days; but this made its Exit too, to give Room for a greater. The Tempest. Note, In this Play, Mr Otway the Poet having an Inclination to turn Actor; Mrs Bhen gave him the King in the Play, for a Probation Part, but he being not us'd to the Stage; the full House put him to such a Sweat and Tremendous, Agony, being dash't, spoilt him for an Actor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Forc'd Marriage; Or, The Jealous Bridegroom

Performance Comment: Edition of 1671: Prologue-; Epilogue-a Woman; King-Westwood [ThomasOtway, however, played it the first night]; Philander-Smith; Alcippus-Betterton; Orgulious?-Norris; Alcander-Young; Pisaro-Cademan; Fallatius-Angel; Cleontius-Crosby; Gallatea-Mrs Jennings; Erminia-Mrs Betterton; Aminta-Mrs Wright; Olinda-Mrs Lee; Isilia-Mrs Clough.
Event Comment: The Duke's Theatre. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", pp. 12, 16

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She's Jealous Of Herself

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard, but the entry does not specify the day. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 16. The play was not published until 1706, and the cast in an edition of that year represents one for performances nearer the date of publication. There is no indication of the date of the premiere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard: and two Boxes for H. Prince of Orange. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 16

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 16

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest