Event Comment: The
Duke's Company.
L. C. 5@139, p. 125, lists it for 3 March, but as this date falls on Sunday, it is probably an error in dating. The play was licensed on 22 May 1667.
Pepys, Diary: To the Duke's playhouse...and I in and find my wife and
Mrs Hewer, and sat by them and saw
The English Princesse, or Richard the Third; a most sad, melancholy play, and pretty good; but nothing eminent in it, as some tragedys are; only little
Mis. Davis did dance a jig after the end of the play, and there telling the next day's play; so that it come in by force only to please the company to see her dance in boy's clothes; and, the truth is, there is no comparison between
Nell's dancing the other day at the King's house in boy's clothes and this, this being infinitely beyond the other.
Downes (p. 27): Wrote by
Mr Carrol, was Excellently well Acted in every Part;...Gain'd them an Additional Estimation, and the Applause from the Town, as well as profit to the whole Company
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The English Princess Or The Death Of Richard The Third
Performance Comment: The edition of 1667 lists no actors' names, but Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 27) lists: King Richard-Betterton; Duke of Richmond-Harris; Sir William Stanly-Smith; Prologue-; Edition of 1673: Epilogue. Edition of 1673: Epilogue.