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We found 5121 matches on Event Comments, 2253 matches on Performance Comments, 856 matches on Performance Title, 421 matches on Author, and 2 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard: the King and Queen &c Two Boxes. See VanLennep, Plays on the English Stage," p. 18. See also Tuesday 14 Nov. 1671

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Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge Or Love In A Tub

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, Plays on the English Stage, p. 18. British Museum Add. Mss. 36916, folio 233: 18 Nov. 1671: The new playhouse in Salisbury Court opened on the 9th instant, since which his Majesty hath been often there, and likes it so well that he hath given the players #1000 towards the building of it

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Mainpiece Title: The Sullen Lovers Or The Impertinents

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard: The Villain. See VanLennep, Plays on the English Stage, pp. 18-19

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Mainpiece Title: The Villain

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, Plays on the English Stage, p. 19

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Mainpiece Title: Pompey

Event Comment: The Duke's Company gave an unnamed play. See A Calendar of the Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood, p. 174

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Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, Plays on the English Stage, p. 19

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Mainpiece Title: The Guardian

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, Plays on the English Stage, pp. 12, 19

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Mainpiece Title: Wit A La Mode

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 2 (see also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347); but see the discussion under 9 March 1671@2 for the dating

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Mainpiece Title: The Romantic Lady

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 2 (see also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347); for the dating of this performance, see the discussion under 9 March 1671@2

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Mainpiece Title: Pompey

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 2. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347

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Mainpiece Title: The Adventures Of Five Hours

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 2. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347

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Mainpiece Title: The History Of Charles The Eighth Of France

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 2. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347. Very probably this play was also acted on Friday 5 and Saturday 6 July 1672, but the company may not have acted daily in the summer

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Mainpiece Title: The Citizen Turned Gentleman

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 2. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347

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Mainpiece Title: The Citizen Turned Gentleman

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 2. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347

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Mainpiece Title: The Citizen Turned Gentleman

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 2: Loue in a Tubb. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347

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Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge Or Love In A Tub

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 2. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347

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Mainpiece Title: The Witts

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 2. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347

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Mainpiece Title: The Citizen Turned Gentleman

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 2: Sir Martin Marall. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347

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Mainpiece Title: Feignd Innocence Or Sir Martin Marall

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 2: Charles 8. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347

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Mainpiece Title: The History Of Charles The Eighth Of France

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 2. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347

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Mainpiece Title: The Citizen Turned Gentleman

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 2, for 17 Nov. 1672, a Sunday. Possibly it was given on Saturday 16 or Monday 18. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347

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Mainpiece Title: The Guardian

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. An unnamed play is the entry in A Calendar of the Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood, p. 175, but a Prologue to this play "Acted at the Middle Temple" is in A Collection of Poems Written upon several Occasions by several Persons (1673). It may have been acted at this time

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Mainpiece Title: The Sullen Lovers Or The Impertinents

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 2. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347. There is no certainty that this is the premiere, but the fact that the play was given again on 4 Dec. 1672 suggests that this was the first performance and that it was also acted on Tuesday 3 Dec. 1672. A song, How pleasant is mutual love, set by John Bannister for this play, is in Choice Songs and Ayres, First Book, 1673. See Cibber, Apology, ed. Lowe, I, 155, for Underhill's acting of Justice Clodpate. Downes (p. 33): This Play in general being Admirably Acted, produc'd great Profit to the Company. Note, Mrs Johnson in this Comedy, Dancing a Jigg so Charming well, Loves power in a little time after Coerc'd her to Dance more Charming, else where

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Mainpiece Title: Epsom Wells

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 2. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347

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Mainpiece Title: Epsom Wells

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 2. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347. The Bulstrode Papers, (I, 254), 27 Dec. 1672: This evening their Matyes and the whole Court are to be diverted with a comedy in the Theater in Whitehall by his Royal Highness's servants called Epsome Wells, at which will be present all the principal persons of quality

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Mainpiece Title: Epsom Wells