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2331 results for: Keyword - Her Majesty's United Company of Comedians
We found 2144 matches on Event Comments, 162 matches on Performance Comments, 45 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1476
15 March 1671 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage," pp. 18-19: The Town Shifts. There is no indication as to whether this is the premiere, and it should be noted that this date is a Wednesday in Lent

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Town-shifts; Or, The Suburb-justice

Performance Comment: Edition of 1671: Prologue-; Lovewell-Cademan; Friendly-Medbourn; Faithfull-Westwood; Leftwell-Angel; Pett-Norris; Frump-Sandford; Stingey-Sherwood; Runwell-Whaley; Moses-Williams; Leticia-Mrs Lee; Fickle-Mrs Long; Betty-Mrs Dixon; Goody Fells-Mrs Norris; Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: Stingey Actor: Sherwood

1477
02 April 1671 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The King's Company. See 2 and 3 Jan. 1670@1 for the difficulties in dating this performance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conquest Of Granada, Part Ii

1478
12 April 1671 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 17. There is no indication as to whether this is the premiere. The play was licensed 6 March 1670 [1671]. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 27) refers to it as being the first "new Play" acted at Dorset Garden in 1666, an error as to both place and time of presentation. Downes adds: All the other Parts, being perfectly well Acted, Succeeded six Days with a full Audience. It seems unlikely that Cambyses was given six days consecutively at this time. A performance of The Forc'd Marriage on Monday 9 Jan. 1670@1 and one of The Humorists on Saturday 14 Jan. 1670@1 do not permit six uninterrupted days for Cambyses at this time

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cambyses, King Of Persia

Performance Comment: Edition of 1671 Cambyses-Betterton; Prexaspes-Harris; Otanes-Crosby; Darius-Smith; Artaban-Norris; Osiris-Mrs Long; Smerdis-Medbourne; Parasithes-Sandford; Theramnes-Young; Phedima-Mrs Jennings; Orinda-Mrs Dixon; Mandana-Mrs Betterton; Prologue-; Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: Theramnes Actor: Young

1479
May 1671 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: In the Term Catalogues a new edition of John Wilson's The Cheats was announced as licensed on 30 May 1671. This play had previously been given in March 1663. The edition of 1671 states that it has been given by the King's Company at the Theatre Royal, and it may have been revived at this time

Performances

1480
June 1671 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. The date of the first performance is not known, but the fact that the play was licensed for printing on 30 Aug. 1671 suggests an early summer production

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Generous Enemies; Or, The Ridiculous Lovers

1481
July 1671 @ Oxford University

Event Comment: The Duke's Company acted at Oxford during this month, offering Cambyses and, presumably, other plays of which we have no record. See W. J. Lawrence, "Oxford Restoration Prologues," Times Literary Supplement, 16 Jan. 1930, p. 43, and Sybil Rosenfeld, "Some Notes on the Players in Oxford, 1661-1713," Review of English Studies, XIX (1943), 368

Performances

1482
30 October 1671 @ The City, London

Performances

Mainpiece Title: London's Resurrection To Joy And Triumph

Performance Comment: Celebrious to the much meriting Magistrate Sir George Waterman Knight, Lord Mayor of the City of London. At the Peculiar and Proper Expences of the Worshipful Company of Skinners. Jacob Hall (the rope dancer).

1483
November 1671 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first performance is not known, but Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 32) states: The first new Play Acted there, was King Charles the VIII. of France; it was all new Cloath'd, yet lasted but 6 Days together, but 'twas Acted now and then afterwards. Two songs for this play, Too justly alas, set by James Hart, and O love if e'er thou'lt ease a heart, set by Pelham Humphrey, are in Choice Songs and Ayres, First Book, 1673

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The History Of Charles The Eighth Of France; Or, The Invasion Of Naples Of The French

1484
01 November 1671 @ Inner Temple

Event Comment: It is uncertain what play was acted on this day. In A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 81, there is an unnamed play in the accounts for 6 Nov. 1670 to 29 Oct. 1671, with Philaster as the next play in the sequence. Philaster has been assigned to 1 Nov. 1672, laaving the play for this day unknown. The King's Company

Performances

1485
01 November 1671 @ Middle Temple

Event Comment: An entry in A Calendar of the Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood, p. 174, indicates a performance but does not name the play. The Duke's Company

Performances

1486
13 November 1671 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage," p. 18: Love in a Tubb. Downes, Roscius Anglicanus, p. 32: [After Sir Martin Marall] Next was Acted Love in a Tub, it was perform'd 2 Days together to a full Audience

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge; Or, Love In A Tub

Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege

1487
15 November 1671 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard: the King and Queen &c Two Boxes. See VanLennep, Plays on the English Stage," p. 18. See also Tuesday 14 Nov. 1671

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge; Or, Love In A Tub

Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege

1488
18 November 1671 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, Plays on the English Stage, p. 18. British Museum Add. Mss. 36916, folio 233: 18 Nov. 1671: The new playhouse in Salisbury Court opened on the 9th instant, since which his Majesty hath been often there, and likes it so well that he hath given the players #1000 towards the building of it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sullen Lovers; Or, The Impertinents

1489
07 December 1671 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. There is uncertainty as to the date of the first performance, but in A Bibliography of John Dryden, p. 193, Macdonald cites as evidence for this date, Wood's Ath. Ox., IV, 209. The play was certainly first acted not later than this month, because John Evelyn saw it on 14 Dec. 1671. For further details, see 14 Dec. 1671

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal; or, Bayes in Petticoats Author(s): Katherine Clive

1490
14 December 1671 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Evelyn, Diary: Whence to see the Duke of Buckingam's ridiculous farce & Rhapsody called the Recital, bouffoning all Plays yet prophane enough. In a collection of broadsides (Bodleian Wood 417) A Ballad (on Buckingham and his son) has some lines which apparently refer to a performance: @I confess the Dances were very well Writ, @And the Tune and the Time by Haynes as well Hit, @And Littlewood's Motion and Dress had much Wit: @But when his Poet John Bayes did appear, @'Tis known to more than half that were there, @The greatest part was his own Character.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal; or, Bayes in Petticoats Author(s): Katherine Clive

1491
27 December 1671 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard: The Villain. See VanLennep, Plays on the English Stage, pp. 18-19

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Villain

1492
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

1493
15 January 1672 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, Plays on the English Stage, p. 19

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pompey

1494
02 February 1672 @ Middle Temple

Event Comment: The Duke's Company gave an unnamed play. See A Calendar of the Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood, p. 174

Performances

1495
05 February 1672 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, Plays on the English Stage, p. 19

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Guardian

1496
28 February 1672 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, Plays on the English Stage, pp. 12, 19

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit A La Mode

1497
March 1672 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The King's Company. Although the play was not licensed until 16 Oct. 1676 and not published until 1678, the Epilogue refers in detail to the burning of the King's Theatre in Bridges Street, Drury Lane, suggesting that the premiere came not long after that event

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Third Of France Stabb'd By A Fryer: With The Fall Of The Duke Of Guise

1498
13 March 1672 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 2 (see also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347); but see the discussion under 9 March 1671@2 for the dating

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Romantic Lady

1499
28 March 1672 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 2 (see also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347); for the dating of this performance, see the discussion under 9 March 1671@2

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pompey

1500
April 1672 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The King's Company. The date of the premiere is most uncertain. The play was apparently finished in July 1671-see C. E. Ward, The Life of John Dryden (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1961), p. 83-and the play may have been acted before April 1672. For the possibilities see Macdonald, Bibliography of Dryden, p. 110, and Nicoll, Restoration Drama, pp. 404-5. The Prologue and Epilogue are in Covent Garden Drollery, 1672. The song, Whilst Alexas lay prest, the music by Nicholas Staggins, was printed in Westminster Drollery (entered in the Stationers' Register, 3 June 1672) and in Choice Songs and Ayres, The First Book, 1673. Another song, Why should a foolish Marriage Vow, set by Robert Smith, is also in Choice Songs and Ayres, 1673

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marriage A La Mode

Performance Comment: Edition of 1673: Prologue-Hart; Polydamas-Wintershall; Leonidas-Kynaston; Argaleon-Lydall; Hermogenes-Cartwright; Eubulus-Watson; Rhodophil-Mohun; Palamede-Hart; Palmyra-Mrs Coxe; Amalthea-Mrs James; Doralice-Mrs Marshall; Melantha-Mrs Bowtell; Philotis-Mrs Reeve; Belisa-Mrs Slade; Artemis-Mrs Uphill; Epilogue-Mohun.
Cast
Role: Hermogenes Actor: Cartwright