Event Comment: The
United Company. This performance is known by one of the rare playbills extant from this period. It is in
HMC, Verney MSS., 7th Report, p. 509, and reproduced opposite page 240 in
Lawrence,
Elizabethan Playhouse, 2d Series: Never Acted but once. At the Theatre Royal, in
Drury-Lane, this present Wensday being the Nineth day of November, will be presented, A New Play called,
Henry the Second King of England. No money to be return'd after the curtain is drawn. By their Majesties Servants. Vivant Rex & Regina.
Lady Margaret Russell to
Katherine Russell, 10 Nov. 1692: You will be surprised that
Lady Cavendish has been hindered by a little sore throat from going yesterday to a new play of
King Henry and Rosamond, which is much commended (
HMC, 12th Report, Appendix, Part V,
Rutland MSS., p. 124)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: Henry The Second