Event Comment: The
King's Company.
Pepys, Diary: To the
King's playhouse, my eyes being so bad since last night's straining of them, that I am hardly able to see, besides the pain which I have in them. The play was a new play; and infinitely full:
the King and all the
Court almost there. It is
The Storme, a play of
Fletcher's; which is but so-so, methinks; only there is a most admirable dance at the end, of the ladies, in a military manner, which indeed did please me mightily....And there comes my wife home from the
Duke of York's playhouse. Two songs, printed somewhat later in
Choice Songs and Ayres, The First Book, 1673, may have been prepared for this revival:
Hark the storm grows, set by
Robert Smith; and
Cheer up my mates, set by
Pelham Humphrey
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Storm