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11551
26 June 1671 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: I went home, steping in at the Theater, to see the new Machines for the intended scenes, which were indeede very costly, & magnificient

Performances

11552
January 1672 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. The date of the first performance is not known, but the premiere probably occurred during this month. The Preface states: This Play, as it was wrote in less than a moneth, and was the last Play that was Acted at the King's Theatre in Covent-Garden, before the fatal Fire there. [The Preface may mean that this was the last new play acted before the fire.] Two songs for this play, with music by Robert Smith, are in Choice Songs and Ayres, The First Book, 1673

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

11553
25 January 1672 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Journal of the Earl of Anglesey, 25 Jan. 1671@2: At eight of the clock The King's playhouse took fire, and most of that side of Russell Street and many other houses thereabout were burnt down, and we in Drury Lane and all about in great danger; but the Lord had mercy, and by great industry and blowing up houses the fire was overcome: I had no rest, but sat up almost all night, even till six in the morning. The Lord pardon sin, which brings judgements (HMC, 13th Report, Part VI [London, 1893], p. 270. The Bulstrode Papers (I, 217): About 8 hapened a sad and violent fire, which begun in the King's Theater, and in a few howers burnt down that...severall were hurt and killed, amongst which was Mr Bell, one of the actors in that house. For a poem, On the Unhappy Conflagration of the Theatre Royal, January 25th, 1672, see Fitzgerald, A New History of the English Stage, I, 137

Performances

11554
26 February 1672 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The King's Company. This day marks the resumption of acting by the King's Company after the disastrous fire at Bridges Street, Drury Lane; the players turned to the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields which the Duke's Company had recently left. The Prologue was printed in Covent Garden Drollery, 1672. Sloane MS. 4455 folio 26 verso: The Prologue of a Play entitled Witt without Money-Spoken at the Dukes old Theatre (after the Kings was burnt) by the King's players, Feb. 26 1671. The Curtaine being drawne up all the Actors were discover'd on the stage in Melancholick postures, & Moone [Mohun] advancing before the rest speaks as follows, addressing chiefly to ye King then [present]. Langbaine (English Dramatick Poets, p. 216): Wit Without Money: a Comedy which I have seen acted at the Old House in little Lincolns-Inn-Fields with very great Applause: the part of Valentine being Play'd by that compleat Actor Major Mohun deceas'd. This was the first Play that was acted after the Burning the King's House in Drury-lane: a New Prologue being writ for them by Mr Dryden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Performance Comment: Valentine-Mohun; The Prologue by John Dryden-Mohun.

11555
21 April 1673 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: A troupe of foreign comedians under Tiberio Fiorelli had arrived by this date, for on this day the Customs Commissioners were ordered to admit their clothes, scenes, and other equipment. See CSP, Treasury Books, 1672-1675, p. 119 (in Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 119; Boswell, Restoration Court Stage, p. 118). E. Cholmeley to Lady Harley, April 1673: Pray tell Sir Edward that I now want him to go to the new play 'for the Italian comedian Scarramouch is come, which are things I know hee delights in not a little' (HMC, 14th Report, Appendix, Part II [1894], p. 337)

Performances

11556
January 1674 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The King's Company. The date of the first production is not known, but, as the play was entered in the Term Catalogues, May 1674, it was probably first presented not later than the early months of 1674

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mall Or The Modish Lovers

Performance Comment: Edition of 1674: The Prologue- An Epilogue is in Duffett's New Poems, 1675.
Cast
Role: The Prologue Actor: An Epilogue is in Duffett's New Poems, 1675.

11557
12 January 1674 @ Music School, White Fryars

Event Comment: London Gazette, No 878, 8-12 Jan. 1673@4: At the Musick-school in White-Fryers, this present Monday, several new Ayres will be performed, beginning at seven of the clock in the evening; the usual publick room to be wholly abated, and the other rooms and boxes the one halfe; this is to continue till Michaelmasse next

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

11558
20 April 1674 @ Music School, White Fryars

Event Comment: London Gazette, No. 878, 16-20 April 1674: At the Musick-School in White-Fryers, this Present Monday, several new Ayrs will be performed, beginning at seven of the clock in the evening; the usual Publick Room to be wholly abated, and the other Rooms and Boxes the one half; this to continue till Michaelmas next

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

11559
January 1675 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: A letter, written in January 1674@5, mentions the hissing Admiral Van Tromp received when "he was conducted over the stage to get to his place" at a performance of "a new play" at one of the London theatres. See Lady Newton, The House of Lyme (London, 1917), p. 271

Performances

11560
July 1675 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. The Prologue and Epilogue are in New Poems, Songs, Prologues and Epilogues. Written by Thomas Duffett, 1676. See also Langbaine, English Dramatick Poets, p. 291

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man Out His Humour

11561
March 1676 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the premiere is not known, but the date of licensing, 4 May 1676, suggests a production not later than March or April 1676. The Dedication indicates that the play was also acted privately at the residence of the Duchess of Albemarle, New-Hall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ibrahim The Illustrious Bassa

11562
04 November 1676 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p.408. It is not certain that this was the premiere, but, as the play was licensed for publication on 20 Nov. 1676, the first performance may well have been on this day. A song, Away with the causes of riches and cares, with music by Matthew Lock, is in Catch that Catch Can, No. 64, 1685. Another, Beneath a shady willow, with music by William Turner, is in A New Collection of Songs and Poems...by Thomas D'Urfey, 1683. Edition of 1677: That its only good Fortune was, in being the Subject of the Courts Diversion, where their Noble Clemency and Good Nature were extremely requisite, in covering its defects from the too Censorious; His Majesty, according to His accustomed Royal and Excellent Temper, was pleas'd to descend so far, as to give it a particular Applause, which was seconded by your Grace [The Duke of Ormond]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Madam Fickle Or The Witty False One

11563
November 1677 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: A new band of French Comedians came to London, probably in this month (see Treasury Books, 1672-1675, p. 803), and remained until early 1678. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 253. See also 5 and 17 Dec. 1677

Performances

11564
26 December 1677 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is known from a document in The Theatrical Inquisitor and Monthly Mirror, July 1816, p. 26, and in Fitzgerald, A New History, I, 145. This document lists the receipts and attendance: The King's box, #1 10s., possibly six persons; Mr Hayles' boxes, #2 16s., possibly 14 persons; Mr Mohun's boxes, #3 16s., possibly 19 persons; Mr Yate's boxes, #1 15s. 6d., possibly 9 persons; James' boxes, #2 4s., possibly 11 persons. Mr Kent's pit, 112 persons; and Mr Britan's pit, 79 persons; a total of 191 persons paying #23 17s. 6d. Mr Bracy's gallery, 100 persons; Mr Johnson's gallery, 44 persons; a total of 144 persons, paying #10 16s. Upper Gallery, 119 persons, paying #5 19s. Mrs Kempton (upper gallery?), 5s. The house rent is listed as #5 14s. The attendance appears to total at least 513 persons. Compare these data with those for 12 Dec. 1677

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens Or Alexander The Great

11565
18 January 1678 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The Earl of Arran to the Duchess of Ormond, 19 Jan. 1677@8: I met her Lord [Lord Cavendish] last night at the French play (HMC, Ormonde MSS., New Series, 1906, IV, 90). Henri Forneron, Louise de Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth (London, 1887): [The Duchess of Portsmouth] was at the last extremity when a slight change for the better took place, and she got up, had herself dressed, and dragged herself to her Sedan chair, to be carried to the French play, where she heard the king was to be with Madame Mazarin. The players had come to London for a short time, and Charles attended all their representations (pp. 197-98). Forneron apparently drew this information from a letter dated 20 Jan. 1677@8

Performances

11566
March 1678 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first production is not known. It was not entered in the Term Catalogues until May 1678, but the very large number of new plays acted by the Duke's Company in the spring of 1678, many of them more precisely dated, makes it probable that this was an early spring production which had title success. The title page states: Written by a Person of Quality. Langbaine (English Dramatick Poets, 1691, p. 554) ascribes it to "Mr Rawlins." A Library of Congress copy has on the title page: "by L. Baker.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Wells Or A Days Courtship

11567
June 1678 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first performance is not known, but a licensing date of 28 June 1678 suggests June as the latest probable date of the premiere. Two songs, Close in a hollow silent cave and How frail is old age to believe, with music by Louis Grabu, are in (the first first) Choice Songs and Ayres, The Third Book, 1681, and (the second) A New Collection of Songs and Poems, 1683

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Squire Oldsapp Or The Night adventurers

11568
September 1678 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first production is uncertain. The date of licensing was 3 Jan. 1678@9, but Wilson (Six Restoration Play-Dates, p. 222) has argued that it may well have been the first new play of the season. The Prologue refers to it as "The first Play bury'd since the Wollen Act," the Act going into effect on 1 Aug. 1678. For Sandford as Creon, see Cibber, Apology, ed. Lowe, I, 131. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 37): Oedipus King of Thebes, Wrote by Mr Nat. Lee and Mr Dryden: The last Writing the first two Acts, and the first the 3 last. This play was Admirably well Acted; especially the Parts of Oedipus and Jocasta: One by Mr Betterton, the other by Mrs Betterton; it took prodigiously being Acted 10 Days together

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus

11569
January 1680 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first production is not known. The play was entered in the Term Catalogues, May 1680, and advertised in the True News, 12-15 May 1680, suggesting a production not later than April 1680. Nevertheless, the fact that the Prologue refers to the attack on John Dryden in Rose Street (18 Dec. 1679) and to the petitions to Parliament--Luttrell, A Brief Relation, I, 31, on 13 Jan. 1679@80, refers to petitions subscribed by several thousands--suggests that the play appeared during January 1679@80

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Loving Enemies

11570
February 1680 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the premiere is not known. Pepys saw it on 6 March 1679@80, calling it a "New Play," and that may have been the first day. The Prologue alludes also to the Duke of York's triumphant return from Scotland on 24 Feb. 1679@80, and the play was entered in the Term Catalogues, May 1680. For Mrs Bracegirdle as the "little Girl," see Edmund Curll, History of the English Stage (1741), p. 26, and Lucyle Hook, Anne Bracegirdle's First Appearance, Theatre Notebook, XIII (1959), 134. For Betterton as Castalio and Mrs Barry as Monimia, probably as they performed in the next decade, see Cibber, Apology, ed. Lowe, I, 116, 160. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 37) gives the same cast except for omissions and except for Serina-The Fatal Marriage] These three Parts, gain'd her the Name of Famous $Mrs Barry">Mrs Mountfort, who acted it later. Downes (pp. 37-38) adds: [Monimia, Belvidera in Venice Preserved, and Isabella in The Fatal Marriage] These three Parts, gain'd her the Name of Famous $Mrs Barry, both at court and City; for when ever She Acted any of these three Parts, she forc'd Tears from the Eyes of her Auditory, especially those who have any Sense of Pity for the Distress't. These 3 Plays, by their Excellent Performances, took above all the Modern Plays that succeeded. A song for this play, Come all the youths whose hearts have bled, the music by Forcer, is in Choice Ayres and Songs, The Third Book, 1681

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Or The Unhappy Marriage

Performance Comment: Edition of 1680: Acasto-Gillow; Castalio-Batterton; Polydore-Jo. Williams; Chamont-Smith; Ernesto-Norris; Paulino-Wiltshire; Cordelio-the little Girl [Anne Bracegirdle]; Chaplain-Percivall; Monimia-Mrs Barry; Serina-Mrs Boteler; Florella-Mrs Osborn; Prologue-; Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: Cordelio Actor: the little Girl

11571
06 March 1680 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: March 6 Saturday: See 2 acts of the New Play Orphan (Mornamont MS II, f. 1207, Cambridge University Library)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Or The Unhappy Marriage

11572
30 July 1680 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: A new agreement, intended to improve affairs in the King's Company, was signed this day. See Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, pp. 264-65

Performances

11573
August 1680 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: A poem, Bartholomew-Fayr, is in A Choice Compendium; or, An Exact Collection of the Newest, and most Delightful Songs (entered in the Term Catalogues, February 1680@1); it refers to some of the activities at the Fair: @Here's that will Challenge all the Fayr,@Come buy my Nuts, Damzens, my Burgamy Pears;@Here's the Whore of Babylon, the Devil and the Pope,@The Girl is just a going on the Rope:@Here's Dives and Lazarus, and the Worlds Creation,@Here's the Tall Dutch Woman, the like's not i'th Nation.@Here is the Booth where the High-Dutch Maid is,@Here are Bares that Dance like any Ladies.@Tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, says the little Penny Trumpet.@Here's Jacob Hall that does Jump it, Jump it.@Sound Trumpets, sound, for Silver Spoon and Fork,@Come here's your Dainty Pigg and Pork.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Coronation Of Queen Elizabeth With The Restauration Of The Protestant Religion Or The Downfal Of The Pope

11574
29 October 1680 @ The City, London

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Londons Glory Or The Lord Mayors Show

Performance Comment: Containing an Illustrious Description of the several Triumphant Pageants, on which are represented Emblematical Figures, Artful Pieces of Architecture, and Rural Dancing, with the Speeches spoken in each Pageant; Also, Three new Songs, the first in praise of the Merchant-Taylors, the second the Protestant Exhortation, and the third the plotting Papists Litany, with their proper Tunes either to be Sung or Play'd Perform'd on Friday, October XXIX. 1680. For the Entertainment of the Right Honourable Sir Patience Warde, Knight. Lord Mayor of the City of London. At the proper Cost and Charges of the Right Worshipful Company of Merchant-Taylors. Invented and Compos'd by Tho. Jordan.
Cast
Role: the first in praise of the Merchant Actor: Taylors, the second the Protestant Exhortation, and the third the plotting Papists Litany, with their proper Tunes either to be Sung or Play'd Perform'd on Friday, October XXIX. 1680. For the Entertainment of the Right Honourable Sir Patience Warde, Knight. Lord Mayor of the City of London. At the proper Cost and Charges of the Right Worshipful Company of Merchant-Taylors. Invented and Compos'd by Tho. Jordan.

11575
18 January 1681 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. After the banning of The Sicilian Usurper, it was brought on again under a new title and survived two days before it also was banned. Tate's statement concerning its reception--see 11 Dec. 1680--may refer to these two performances rather than to the sequence in December. Newdigate newsletters (Folger Shakespeare Library), 20 Jan. 1680@1: K. Richd ye 2.d a play, being forbid acting att ye Ks house the Poet put the name Tyrant of Sicily upon it by wch means it was acted twice this weeke, but the Cheate being found out it was forbid acting againe (Wilson, Theatre Notes from the Newdigate Newsletters, p. 80)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tyrant Of Sicily

Performance Comment: See The Sicilian Usurper, 11 Dec. 1680.