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5858 results for: Keyword - King of Bantam
We found 2634 matches on Performance Title, 2615 matches on Performance Comments, 1595 matches on Event Comments, 23 matches on Author, and 6 matches on Roles/Actors.

4826
06 December 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 117. The King's Company. Andrew Newport to Sir Richard Leveson, 6 Dec. 1660: Plays at court every week (HMC, 5th Report, Part I, 1876, p. 158)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rollo, Duke Of Normandy

4827
12 December 1660 @ Salisbury Court

Event Comment: On this day (L. C. 5@137,p. 343) Davenant was granted a warrant to act the following plays: Tempest, Measures for Measures, Much Adoe About Nothing, Romeo? and Juliet, Twelfe Night, The Life of King Henry the Eyght, The Sophy, Kinge Lear, The Tragedy of Mackbeth, The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark, and The Dutchesse of Malfy. In addition, he was to have exclusive right for two months to The Mad Lover, The Mayde in Ye Mill, The Spanish Curate, The Loyall Subject, Rule a Wife and have a Wife, and [Pericles] Persiles Prince of Tyre. Davenant also received the right to act his own plays

Performances

4828
31 December 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I bought the play of Henry the Fourth, and so went to the new Theatre...and saw it acted; but my expectation being too great, it did not please me, as otherwise I believe it would; and my having a book, I believe did spoil it a little

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Fourth

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragedy of King Henry IV of France Author(s): Charles Beckingham

4829
03 January 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, where was acted Beggar's Bush, it being very well done; and here the first time that ever I saw women come upon the stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Bush

4830
04 January 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Mr Moore and I to the Theatre, where was The Scornful Lady, acted very well, it being the first play that ever he saw

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

4831
07 January 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Tom and I and my wife to the Theatre, and there saw The Silent Woman. The first time that ever I did see it, and it is an excellent play. Among other things here, Kinaston, the boy, had the good turn to appear in three shapes: first, as a poor woman in ordinary clothes, to please Morose; then in fine clothes, as a gallant, and in them was clearly the prettiest woman in the whole house, and lastly, as a man; and then likewise did appear the handsomest man in the house

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

4832
08 January 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I took my Lord Hinchinbroke and Mr Sidney to the Theatre, and shewed them The Widdow, and indifferent good play, but wronged by the women being to seek in their parts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow

4833
09 January 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 117, who gives the date as Monday 9, presumably an error for Wednesday 9

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wedding

Related Works
Related Work: The Triumph of Mirth; or, Harlequin's Wedding Author(s): Thomas King

4834
19 January 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, where I saw The Lost Lady, which do not please me much

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lost Lady

4835
25 January 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Evelyn, Diary: After divers yeares, that I had [not] seene any Play, I went to see acted the Scornfull Lady at a new Theater in Lincolns-in fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

4836
28 January 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, where I saw again The Lost Lady, which do now please me better than before; and here I sitting behind hn a dark place, a lady spit backward upon me by a mistake, not seeing me, but after seeing her to be a very pretty lady, I was not troubled at it at all

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lost Lady

4837
31 January 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 117. The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, and there sat in the pit among the company of fine ladys, &c.; and the house was exceeding full, to see Argalus and Parthenia, the first time that it hath been acted: and indeed it is good, though wronged by my over great expectations, as all things else are

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Argalus And Parthenia

4838
12 February 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: we went by water to Salisbury Court play-house, where not liking to sit, we went out again, and by coach to the Theatre, and there saw The Scornful Lady, now done by a woman, which makes the play appear much better than ever it did to me

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

4839
16 February 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. An edition appearing in 1661 lists no cast, no prologue, no epilogue. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, where I saw The Virgin Martyr, a good but too sober a play for the company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virgin Martyr

4840
25 February 1661 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The Countess of Derby to the Duchess de la Tremoille, 25 Feb. 1660@1: Plays are often acted at court, and the King and their Royal Highnesses have been present at two this evening, at the Duchess of Buckingham's (Madame Guizot de Witt, The Lady of Latham [London, 1869], p. 268)

Performances

4841
02 March 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I went to the Theatre, where I found so few people (which is strange, and the reason I did not know) that I went out again

Performances

4842
27 April 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: After dinner with Mr Creed and Captain Ferrers to the Theatre to see The Chances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

4843
May 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: See Herbert (Dramatic Records, p. 117) for The Mayd in the Mill acted in May and A Wife for a Monthe and The Bondman acted by the King's Company at an unspecified time following May

Performances

4844
16 May 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, and there saw the latter end of The Mayd's Tragedy, which I never saw before, and me thinks it is too sad and melancholy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid's Tragedy

4845
25 May 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, wher I saw a piece of The Silent Woman, which pleased me

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

4846
04 June 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, and saw Harry the 4th, a good play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Fourthe Part I

4847
08 June 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I went to the Theatre and there saw Bartholomew Faire, the first time it was acted now-a-days. It is a most admirable play and well acted, but too much prophane and abusive

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bartholomew Fair

4848
22 June 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, The Alchymist, which is a most incomparable play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

4849
27 June 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: With my Lady Batten, Mrs Rebecca Allen, Mrs Thompson, &c., two coaches of us, we went and saw Bartholomew Fayre, acted very well

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bartholomew Fair

4850
04 July 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I went to the Theatre, and there I saw Claracilla (the first time I ever saw it), well acted. But strange to see this house, that used to be so thronged, now empty since the Opera begun; and so will continue for a while, I believe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Claracilla