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Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350. Peregrine Bertie to the Countess of Rutland, 31 Dec. 1685: Yesterday was acted The Committee. The King and Queen were there and all the whole Court went to see it, but coming a little after it was begun [I] could not get any roome (HMC, 12th Report, Appendix, Rutland MSS., Part V, Vol. II, p. 100). Bridget Noel to the Countess of Rutland, ca. 6 Jan. 1685@6: [Last Wednesday] my Lady Exeter engaged us to goe to a play with her...which was a Commity. The King and Queen was at it, and the house as full as ever I saw it (ibid.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duchess Of Malfi

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love; Or, The World Well Lost

Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege
Related Work: Love the Leveller: or, The Pretty Purchase Author(s): George Bowes
Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350. Peregrine Bertie to the Countess of Rutland, 28 Jan. 1685@6: Last night was acted, the Chances at Whitehall, and to-night should have been a musicke meeting at Yorke Buildings, which I am jest now told is to bee put of till next weeke. The French Opera will begin the weeke after the next (HMC, 12th Report, Appendix, Rutland MSS., Part V, Vol. II, p. 102)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350. On this date the Stationers' Register has a reference to a play called Love's Martyr; or, Witt Above Crownes, apparently by Mrs Anne Wharton, forbidding anyone from entering this play in the Stationers' Register

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Event Comment: The United Company. Peregrine Bertie to the Countess of Rutland. 6 Feb. 1685@6: Thursday was acted Mithridates? for the Queen and Goodman played (HMC, 12th Report, Appendix, Rutland MSS., Part V, Vol. II, p. 104). [In L. C. 5@147, is a warrant to pay Mrs Barry for two plays-Valentinian and Mithridates-acted before the King and Queen, #40. The date of the warrant is 8 May 1686. If this warrant represents payment for this performance of Mithridates, probably Valentinian was acted in 1686.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mithridates

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 125: The King & Queene & a Box for ye Maydes of honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350. A reprint of this play in 1687 has the cast of the 1674 edition

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

Event Comment: Peregrine Bertie to the Countess of Rutland, 11 Feb. 1685@6: To-day was the French opera. The King and Queen were there, the musicke was indeed very fine, but all the dresses the most wretched I ever saw; 'twas acted by none but French. A Saturday the Court goes to another play, to take their leaves of those vanitys till after Lent (HMC, 12th Report, Appendix, Rutland MSS., Part V, Vol. II, p. 104). [This performance is on the L. C. list 5@147, p. 125: The King & Queene & a Box for ye Maydes of honor at ye French Opera [the charge for the royal box was increased from #20 to #25 on this occasion]. W. J. Lawrence conjectured that this French opera was Cadmus et Hermione and that Jacques Rousseau, a scene painter of Paris, provided the decor. See W. J. Lawrence, The French opera in London; A Riddle of 1686, TLS, 28 March 1936, p. 268

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cadmus Et Hermione

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 125: The King & Queene & a Box for ye Maydes of honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 125: The K: & Q: & a Box for ye Maydes of honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on L. C. list, 5@147, p. 260: The King & Queene & a Box for ye Maydes of honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351. Langhans, New Restoration Theatre Accounts, pp. 127-28, thinks that acting resumed on 27 Sept. 1686 and continued to 25 June 1687, with 30 Performances from 25 June to 12 Oct

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mustapha

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 260: The King & Queene & a box for ye Maydes of Honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Evening's Love; Or, The Mock Astrologer

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 260. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

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

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 260. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or, Alexander The Great

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 260. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ir Courtly Nice

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 260. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351. This play was reprinted in 1687

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 260. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 260. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 260: The Beggars at Whitehall. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351. A song, Bring out your cony-skins fair? maids to me, set for this play by Samuel Ackroyde, is in Vinculum Societatis, 1687

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Bush

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 260: A King & no King at Whitehall. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A King And No King

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 260: the Maiden Queene at Whitehall. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love; Or, The Maiden Queen

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 361. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Fond Husband; Or, The Plotting Sisters