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8645 results for: Keyword - King's Theatre in Paris
We found 3836 matches on Event Comments, 3153 matches on Performance Title, 3135 matches on Performance Comments, 25 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

7926
29 May 1668 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Would If She Could

7927
18 June 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: So my wife not speaking a word, going nor coming, nor willing to go to a play, though a new one

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Evenings Love

7928
17 July 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: To the King's house to see a play revived called The [...], a sorry mean play, that vexed us to sit in so much heat of the weather to hear it

Performances

7929
04 September 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: My wife having a mind to see the play Bartholomew-Fayre, with puppets. Which we did, and it is an excellent play; the more I see it, the more I love the wit of it; only the business of abusing the Puritans begins to grow stale, and of no use, they being the people that, at last, will be found the wisest. And here Knepp come to us, and sat with us. [Earlier that day Pepys had been to the Fair briefly, but saw none of the entertainments.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bartholomew Fair

7930
10 October 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. The entry in Pepys, Diary for this day is missing, but on 12 Oct. 1668 he implies that he saw this play on 10 Oct. 1668

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Faithful Shepherdess

7931
21 November 1668 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The King's Company. This play is on the L. C. list, 5@12, p. 17: The Scornfull Lady at court. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

7932
07 December 1668 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Usurper

7933
29 December 1668 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sullen Lovers Or The Impertinents

7934
30 December 1668 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Eighth

7935
05 January 1669 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Newsletter, 5 Jan.: Copies of a malicious comedy called Pluto, reflecting on several persons of honour, have been taken. It was to have been acted within the prison of the King's Bench (HMC, 12th Report, Part VII, p. 61). The play was published in Amsterdam in 1669 with the title: Pluto furens & vinctus; or, The raging devil bound. The Dedication speaks of it as being suitable for performance by schoolboys during the holidays. The edition has a Prologue and an Epilogue but no actors' names

Performances

7936
18 January 1669 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, 19 Jan. 1668@9, implies a performance on this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Horace

7937
20 January 1669 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. A performance on 21 Jan. 1668@9, suggests a continuous run from 16 through 21 Jan. 1668@9

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Horace

7938
01 February 1669 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, thinking to have seen The Heyress, first acted on Saturday [Friday (?)] last; but when we come thither, we find no play there; Kinaston, that did act a part therein, in abuse to Sir Charles Sedley, being last night exceedingly beaten with sticks, by two or three that assaulted him, so as he is mightily bruised, and forced to keep his bed

Performances

7939
08 February 1669 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@12, p. 17. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

7940
25 February 1669 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherdess

7941
27 February 1669 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

7942
22 April 1669 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary:, 23 April: My wife stopped me; and, after a little angry talk, did tell me how she spent all day yesterday with M. Batelier and her sweetheart, and seeing a play at the New Nursery, which is set up at the house in Lincoln's Inn Fields, which was formerly the King's house

Performances

7943
August 1669 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. It is uncertain when this play was first given, but it may well have appeared in the summer, as it was licensed for publication 9 Oct. 1669 and entered in the Term Catalogues, November 1669

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marcelia Or The Treacherous Friend

7944
26 October 1669 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

7945
01 November 1669 @ Inner Temple

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love Or The Maiden Queen

Performance Comment: Acted by the King's Company.

7946
02 February 1670 @ Inner Temple

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Little French Lawyer

Performance Comment: Acted by the King's Company.

7947
06 April 1670 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

7948
May 1670 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. The date of the premiere is not known, but the play was entered in the Term Catalogues, June 1670, and the Prologue refers to the arrival of French royalty at Dover (May 1670); hence, it is likely that the play was first produced in the late spring. Edition of 1670: Written in French by Moliere; and rendered into English with much Addition and Advantage By Mr Medbourne, Servant to His Royal Highness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tartuffe Or The French Puritan

7949
19 May 1670 @ Dover, England

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7950
22 June 1670 @ no theater listed

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