Event Comment: The
Duke's Company.
Pepys, Diary: So resolved to take my wife to a play
at court to-night, and the rather because it is my birthday....While my wife dressed herself,
Creed and I walked out to see what play was acted to-day, and we find it
The Slighted Mayde. But, Lord! to see that though I did know myself to be out of danger, yet I durst not go through the street, but round by the
garden into
Tower Street. By and by took coach, and to the Duke's house, where we saw it well acted, thought the play hath little good in it, being most pleased to see the little girl [
Moll Davis] dance in boy's apparel, she having very fine legs, only bends in the hams, as I perceive all women do
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Slighted Maid