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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.

5101
23 May 1676 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359: Phylaster. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Philaster; Or, Love Lies A Bleeding

Related Works
Related Work: The Restoration; or, Right Will Take Place Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

5102
29 May 1676 @ Whitehall or St. James's

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aureng-zebe

5103
13 June 1676 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359: Noe foole like ye old foole. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346. This play apparently was never published

Performances

Mainpiece Title: No Fool Like Ye Old Fool

5104
03 August 1676 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: According to a directive, L. C. 5@141, p. 433, the King's Company was ordered not to act until further notice

Performances

5105
September 1676 @ 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 entered in the Term Catalogues, 22 Nov. 1676, suggests that it was first acted not much later than September 1676. The Dedication: I know it is a triffle that by the meaness of the stile, the want of good design, and the ill representation at the Theatre, being play'd to the worst advantage, has got little credit with the World

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Memphis; Or, The Ambitious Queen

5106
09 September 1676 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: According to L. C. 7@1-see Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p.325n--a disagreement within the King's Company resulted in the Lord Chamberlain's directing Michaell Mohun, Charles Hart, Edward Kynnaston, and William Cartwright to manage the company under his supervision

Performances

5107
30 October 1676 @ The City, London

Event Comment: G. Lady Chaworth to Lord Roos, 2 Nov. 1676: I have not yet seen Mr Pack, being att Lord Major's show when hee was heere....The pageants were but three and worse then others formerly, but the King, Queen, Duke and Duchess finer in both clothes, liveries, coaches and traine then ever, to the honour of the Citty (HMC, 12th Report, Part V, Rutland Papers, II, 31)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: London's Triumphs

Performance Comment: : Express'd in sundry Representations, Pageants and Shows, performed on Monday Octob. 30, 1676, at the Inauguration and Instalment of the Right Honourable Sir ThomasDavies, Kt, Lord Mayor of the City of London. Containing a true Description of the several Scenes and Habits of the Representers, with the Speeches Spoken on each Pageant. All the Charge and Expences of the Industrious Designs, being the sole Undertakings of the Ancient and Right Worshipful Society of Drapers. Being the Second Year without Intermission. Devised and Composed by Tho. Jordan.

5108
01 November 1676 @ Inner Temple

Event Comment: The King's Company acted at the Revels this day, but the play is not known. See A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 114

Performances

5109
18 November 1676 @ 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 as to whether this is the premiere. The music for four songs was composed by Matthew Lock. See A New Collection of Songs and Poems...by Thomas D'Urfey, 1683

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fool Turn'd Critick

5110
27 November 1676 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359: Hanniballs Overthrow. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p.346

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sophonisba; Or, Hannibal's Overthrow

5111
04 December 1676 @ 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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

5112
05 December 1676 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359: The Mayden Queene. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love; Or, The Maiden Queen

5113
13 December 1676 @ 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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

5114
01 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. See the headnote to the 1674-75 season for an Epilogue to this play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Shoemaker A Gent

5115
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

5116
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

5117
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

5118
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

5119
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

5120
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

5121
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

5122
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

5123
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

5124
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

5125
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