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We found 1313 matches on Performance Comments, 1051 matches on Event Comments, 402 matches on Author, 334 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first production is not known, but the licensing date of 20 Sept. 1676 establishes this month as the latest date for its premiere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Town-fopp; Or, Sir Timothy Tawdry

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p.408

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Guardian

Related Works
Related Work: L'Honorata Poverta di Rinaldo: viz, The honourable Poverty of Rinaldo, false accused by the Maganzesians: With Harlequing Guardian to his Master's Family and Defender of his Castle Author(s): Giacinto Andrea Cicognini
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p.408

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wit

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p.408. An edition appeared in 1676

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Epsom Wells

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p.408

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p.408

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p.408

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Libertine

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p.408

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Herod And Mariamne

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p.408

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Carlos, Prince Of Spain

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p.408: Sr Fopling

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode; Or, Sir Fopling Flutter

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p.408

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p.408

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Adventures Of Five Hours

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p.408

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Villain

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.
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p.408

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Town Fop; Or, Sir Timothy Tawdry

Event Comment: The Duke's Company acted at the Revels on this day, but the play is not known. See A Calendar of the Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood, p.177

Performances

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. There is no indication of the first date of performance, but a licensing date of 19 Feb. 1676@7 suggests a December 1676 or January 1677 production.Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 38): Titus and Berenice, Wrote by the same Author [Thomas Otway], consisting of 3 Acts: With the Farce of the Cheats of Scapin at the end: This Play, with the Farce, being perfectly well Acted; had good Success

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Titus And Berenice

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Performance Comment: Edition of 1677: Thrifty-Sandford; Gripe-Noakes; Octavian-Norris; Leander-Percivall; Scapin-Anth. Leigh; Shift-Richards; Lucia-Mrs Barry; Clara-Mrs Gibbs; Epilogue-Mrs Mary Lee when she was out of Humour.
Cast
Role: Thrifty Actor: Sandford
Role: Leander Actor: Percivall
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first production is not known, but the licensing date of 26 Dec. 1676 establishes the premiere as occurring in December 1676 or earlier. One song, Why does the foolish world mistake, with music by William? Turner, is in Choice Ayres and Songs, The Second Book, 1679

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pastor Fido; Or, The Faithful Shepherd

Related Works
Related Work: The Faithful Shepherd Author(s): George Frederic Handel
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 performance is the premiere, but as the play was licensed for printing on 9 Jan. 1676@7, this performance may well be the first one. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, pp.9-10) lists the same cast except for the ommission of Letice. It is not certain which Mrs Knight played Letice. Possibly it was Frances Maria Knight (see Wilson, All the King's Ladies, where she is tentatively listed for that role), but the presence of Mrs Ursula Knight on an undated L. C. list, 3@24, with the date of her swearing into the company given as 12 March 1676@7, it is quite likely that she played this role. (I owe this reference to Ursula Knight to Professor John Harold Wilson.) John Dennis: And when upon the first representations of the Plain Dealer, the Town, as The Authour has often told me, appeard Doubtful what Judgment to Form of it; the foremention'd gentlemen [The Duke of Buckingham, Earl of Rochester, Earl of Dorset, Earl of Mulgrave, Savil, Buckly, Sir John Denham, Waller] by their loud aprobation of it, gave it both a sudden and a lasting reputation (Defense and Defects of Dramatick Poetry, 1725, in The Works of John Dennis, ed. Hooker, II, 277)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the premiere is not known, but the fact that play was licensed for printing on 23 Feb. 1676@7 suggests a first performance about this time. The play was entered in the Term Catalogues, May 1677. Langbaine (English Dramatick Poets, p. 36) refers to this play as altered from Richard Brome's The Mad Couple

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Debauchee; Or, The Credulous Cuckold

Event Comment: An unnamed play was acted by the Duke's Company. See A Calendar of the Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood, p. 177

Performances

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@142, p. 81. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 348. The play has a musical setting by Jeremiah Clarke. There is no certainty that this date represents the premiere, but a certain performance on 14 Feb. 1676@7 suggests that this performance on 12 Feb. 1676@7 is part of the initial run. Very probably the play was repeated on 13 Feb. 1676@7

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antony And Cleopatra

Performance Comment: Edition of 1677: Prologue-; Caesar-Smith; Agrippa-Jevon; Mecaenas-Harris; Lucilius-Norris; Thyreus-Crosby; Antony-Betterton; Canidius-Medburn; Photinus-Sandford; Memnon-Percivall; Chilaz-Gillow; Cleopatra-Mrs Mary Lee; Octavia-Mrs Betterton; Iras-Mrs Gibbs; Charmion-Mrs Hughes; Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: Photinus Actor: Sandford
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The Diary of Robert Hooke: Grace and Tom at Play Antony and Cleopatra

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antony And Cleopatra

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@142, p. 81. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 348

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Rhodes, Part Ii

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@142, p. 81. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 348. There is no indication as to whether this is the premiere. The play was advertised in the London Gazette, 6-9 Aug. 1677

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover; Or, The Banish't Cavaliers