Event Comment: The
King's Company. This play is on the
L. C. list, 5@12, p. 17:
Cattalines Conspiracie King here. See also
Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344. Although the L. C. list and
Pepys disagree as to the play performed, Pepys' uncertainty suggests that he may have put down the wrong title and that the L. C. list is correct.
Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, and there saw, I think,
The Maiden Queene.
Pepys, Diary, 15 Jan.: [
Sir W. Coventry] told me of the great factions
at court at this day, even to the sober engaging of great persons, and differences, and making the King cheap and ridiculous. It is about my
Lady Harvy's being offended at
Doll Common's acting of
Sempronia [see 18 Dec. 1668], to imitate her; for which she got my
Lord Chamberlain, her kinsman, to imprison Doll: when my
Lady Castlemayne made the King to release her, and to order her to act it again, worse than ever, the other day, where the King himself was: and since it was acted again, and my Lady Harvy provided people to hiss her and fling oranges at her: but it seems the heat is come to a great height, and real troubles at court about it
Performances
Mainpiece Title: Catiline
Related Works
Related Work: Catiline's Conspiracy Author(s): Ben Jonson