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10505 results for: Keyword - King George
We found 4218 matches on Author, 3203 matches on Performance Comments, 2806 matches on Performance Title, 2133 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

9851
12 January 1677 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346. There is no certainty that this is the first performance, but a performance of Part II on 18 Jan. 1676@7 and a reference to both parts in a letter dated 19 Jan. 1676@7 suggest that the premiere must have occurred early in January

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Destruction Of Jerusalem By Titus Vespasian, Part I

9852
18 January 1677 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346. There is no indication that this performance is the premiere, but see 12 Jan. 1676@7 and 19 Jan. 1676@7

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Destruction Of Jerusalem By Titus Vespasian, Part Ii

9853
02 February 1677 @ Inner Temple

Event Comment: An unnamed play was acted by the King's Company. See A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 114

Performances

9854
March 1677 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. There is no indication of the date of the first performance, but a licensing date of 6 April 1677 and the large number of minor actors in the cast suggest a Lenten performance. Preface to edition of 1677: I think (without Ostentation) never was House more throng'd;...The first, second, and other times it was Acted, I think lost me no Credit, but...Fortune...Jaded me, robbing me of the Honour of my Plays continuance for that time; by a Mischance which hapned to one, whose Part was too considerable to be quickly studied

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Innocence; Or, The Chamber-maid Turn'd Quaker

9855
02 April 1677 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346. This play was not published. It might be John Fletcher's The Captain

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Captain; Or, Town Miss

Related Works
Related Work: The Death of Captain Cook Author(s): Sir George Collier

9856
05 May 1677 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359: Scaramucha & Harlakyn. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346. There is no certainty that this performance is the premiere, but the entry of the play in the Term Catalogues for July 1677 makes probable a first performance in May 1677

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Scaramouch A Philosopher; Harlequin A School-boy, Bravo, Merchant And Magician

9857
30 July 1677 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company suffered from internal disagreements during this portion of the summer. For details, see L. C. 5@142, p. 98, in Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 326, and Thaler, Shakspere to Sheridan, p. 291

Performances

9858
01 November 1677 @ Inner Temple

Event Comment: The King's Company apparently acted an unnamed play on this day. See A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 126

Performances

9859
05 November 1677 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@145, p. 120: The King at ye Tempest. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

9860
17 November 1677 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The play was not printed. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@145, p. 120. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349. Andrew Marvell to Sir Edw. Harley, 17 Nov. 1677: To-day is acted the first time Sir Popular Wisdom or the Politician, where my Lord Shaftesbury and all his gang are sufficiently personated. I conceive the King will be there (HMC, 14th Report, Appendix, Part II, 1894, Portland MSS., Volume III, p. 357)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Popular Wisdom; Or, The Politician

9861
December 1677 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. The date of the first production is not known, but as the play was entered in the Stationers' Register, 16 Jan. 1677@8, it was probably first acted not later than December 1677

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Lawyer

9862
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

9863
February 1678 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. The date of the first production is not known, but the licensing date of 13 March 1677@8 suggests a late February premiere. In addition, the many names of minor performers point to a Lenten performance. The Prologue also speaks of it as a 'Lenten Play.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rambling Justice; Or, The Jealous Husbands; With The Humours Of Sir John Twiford

9864
02 February 1678 @ Inner Temple

Event Comment: The King's Company apparently acted an unnamed play on this occasion. See A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, III, 127

Performances

9865
March 1678 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. The date of the premiere is not known, but a licensing date of 13 April 1678 suggests a production in March. This play is entered ahead of Trick for Trick primarily because the latter has a slightly later licensing date

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Newmarket

9866
March 1678 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. The date of the first production is not known. As the licensing date for this play was 30 April 1678, it probably was acted before Easter, but it may have had its first production immediately after Easter, Sunday 31 March 1678

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Trick For Trick; Or, The Debauch'd Hypocrite

9867
14 March 1678 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The Memoirs of Sir John Reresby, ed. Browning: I was with the King at the French play that night (p. 136)

Performances

9868
19 March 1678 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Memoirs of Sir John Reresby, ed. Browning (p. 137): This day in the afternoon I had a quarrell in the King's playhous upon this occasion. As I sate in the pit a gentleman, whose name I afterwards heard to be Mr Symons came and placed himself next to me, and not content to rest ther, after a while desired me to give him my seat, or to exchange with him, (pretending he was to speake to one of his acquaintances on the other side). I had noe mind to quitt my seat, which was better to see than his; besides, he haveing been drinking, his manner of askeing was not altogather soe gratefull, insomuch as I denyed it. Here upon he said I was uncivil, and I tould him he was a rascall; upon which words we were both prepared to strike one another, had not a gentleman that sate near us (one Sir Jonathan Trelany) put his hand between us to prevent it

Performances

9869
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

9870
February 1679 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: During February and March 1678@9 two plays, titles unknown, were acted before the King. See an order: To Edward Griffin, Esq. Treasurer of the Chamber, to be paid over to John Lacy, assigne of Charles Killigrew, Mastr of the revells, for two plays acted before his said Majestie in Feb'ry and March 1678@9 (Moneys Received and Paid for Secret Services, ed. J. Y. Akerman, Camden Society, LII 1851, 34)

Performances

9871
March 1679 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. The date of the premiere is not known. As the play was licensed for printing, 10 March 1678@9, March 1679 is the latest likely date for the premiere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tragedy Of Sertorius

9872
March 1679 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. The date of the premiere is not known. As the play was entered in the Term Catalogues, June 1679, it probably was acted first sometime in the preceding two or three months. Gildon's revision of Langbaine, English Dramatick Poets: This Play met not with the Applause the Author and his Friends expected (p. 28)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ambitious Statesman; Or, The Loyal Favourite

9873
March 1679 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first production is not known, but as the play was licensed for printing on 27 March 1679, the premiere must have been no later than March 1679. It is possible that Midnight's Intrigue--see introductory note to the 1676-77 season-is an earlier version of this play. The Epilogue suggests that the players faced thin audiences during the spring and that Drury Lane had been closed for some time: So hard the Times are, and so thin the Town, @Though but one Playhouse, that must too lie down. It is possible that Mrs Behn's The Young King may have been acted at this time. See September 1679

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feign'd Curtizans; Or, A Night's Intrigue

9874
21 June 1679 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: John Verney to Sir R. Verney, 23 June 1679: Churchill, for beating an orange wench in the Duke's playhouse, was challenged by Capt. Otway (the poet), and were both wounded, but Churchill most. The relation beinb told the King, by Sir John Holmes, as Churchill thought to his prejudice he challenged Holmes, who fighting, disarmed him, Churchill. On Saturday, at the Duke's Theatre, happened a quarrel between young Bedlow and one of the novices of St Omer's, and many swords were drawn, but as yet I have not heard whether any blood was shed in this religious quarrel (HMC, Verney MSS., 7th Report, Appendix, 1879, p. 473)

Performances

9875
February 1680 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: During this month the dissident players from the King's Company--Goodman, Gray, and Clarke--returned from Edinburgh. For details, see Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, pp. 262-63

Performances