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Event Comment: Langhans, New Restoration Theatre Accounts, pp. 123-24, believes that acting resumed on 9 Oct. 1682 and continued to 14 July 1683, followed by 14 acting days between 16 July and 6 Oct. 1683.. Betterton and Smith managed the company for the proprietor

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Event Comment: Langhans, New Restoration Theatre Accounts, pp. 124-25, believes that acting resumed on 8 Oct. 1683 and continued to 14 June 1684, with, probably, 47 performances in the summer of 1684

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Event Comment: Langhans, New Restoration Theatre Accounts, pp. 125-26, suggests that acting resumed on 29 Sept. and continued to 6 Feb. 1684@5, when Charles II died, although the theatre may not have acted from 2 through 5 Feb. Resuming at the end of April, the company Played regularly to the end of May, then on 43 days between 1 June and 31 Oct. 1685

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Event Comment: On this date the officers of the Duke's Company and the King's Company entered into agreements to merge the two companies. For details, see Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 271; Fitzgerald, A New History, I, 154-58; and Nicoll, Restoration Drama, pp. 296-97. See also Langhans, New Restoration Theatre Accounts, p. 122, for evidence that the union had been effectively made by 13 May 1682. See page 123 for evidence that the company probably acted continuously to 7 August 1682, then closed until early October. But see 10 August 1682

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Mainpiece Title: Omment

Event Comment: The documents analyzed by Langhans, New Restoration Theatre Accounts, pp. 120, 126-27, leave uncertain the date of resuming daily performances in the autumn of 1685. The Company acted regularly to 5 June 1686 and then acted 23 times between 7 June and 27 Sept. 1686

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Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on L. C. list, 5@147, p. 260: The King & Queene & a Box for ye Maydes of honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351. Langhans, New Restoration Theatre Accounts, pp. 127-28, thinks that acting resumed on 27 Sept. 1686 and continued to 25 June 1687, with 30 Performances from 25 June to 12 Oct

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Mainpiece Title: Mustapha

Event Comment: The data in Langhans, New Restoration Theatre Accounts, pp. 128-29, suggest that acting may have resumed by this day and continued to 9 June 1688. Because of the 1688 revolution, the circumstances of summer acting in 1688 are not clear

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Event Comment: The data in Langhans, New Restoration Theatre Accounts, pp. 129-30, indicate uncertain conditions at the theatre in the autumn and winter of 1688, with only 86 acting days from 11 June 1688 through 12 Jan. 1688@9. The regular season may have continued to 11 May 1689, with 91 acting days from 13 May to 7 Dec. 1689

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Event Comment: The data in Langhans, New Restoration Theatre Accounts, pp. 130-31, leave the acting days uncertain. Between 13 May 1689 and 7 Dec. 1689 the company acted on 91 days. It then played regularly through 8 Feb. 1689@90, and acted on 83 days (out of a possible 84) between 10 Feb. and 7 June, on 8 days from 13 June through 4 July 1690. In Poems on Affairs of State= (Fifth Edition, 1703), I, ii, 238, is A Prologue spoken by Mr Mountfort, after he came from the Army, and Acted on the Stage (see also A. S. Borgman, The Life and Death of William Mountfort [Cambridge, Mass., 1935], p. 55). The date at which Mountfort spoke this Prologue is not certain, but he was certainly in London ca. Tuesday 15 Oct. 1689 when he was involved in a disagreement within the United Company. See L. C. 5@192, in Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 334n

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Event Comment: According to Langhans, New Restoration Theatre Accounts, pp. 131-32, the company probably acted 26 days from 5 July through 25 Oct., then regularly through 6 June 1961, then 41 days from 8 June through 16 Oct. 1691

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Event Comment: According to Langhans, New Restoration Theatre Accounts, pp. 132-33, the company acted regularly from 19 Oct. 1691 through 3 Aug. 16@2, with only a few dark days other than the customary ones

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