Event Comment: The
King's Company.
Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, where two acts were almost done when I come in; and there I sat with my cloak about my face, and saw the remainder of
The Mayd's Tragedy; a good play, and well acted, especially by
the younger Marshall, who is become a pretty good actor, and is the first play I have seen in either of the houses since before the great plague, they having acted now about fourteen days publickly. But I was in Mighty pain lest I should be seen by any body to be at a play.
Elegy on that Worthy and Famous Actor, Mr Charles Hart, who departed this Life Thursday August the 18th., 1683: @Such Pow'r He had o'r the Spectators gain'd,@As forc'd a Real passion from a Feign'd.@For when they saw Amintor bleed, straight all@The House, for every Drop, a Tear let fall;@And when Arbaces wept by sympathy,@A glowing Tide of Wo gush'd from each Eye.@ [Reprinted in
Thorn-Drury,
A Little Ark, pp. 47ff;
Sprague,
Beaumont and
Fletcher, p.38.
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Maid's Tragedy
Performance Comment: Pepys: Evadne?-Rebecca Marshall; [Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 5): King-Wintersel; Melantius-Mohun; Amintor-Hart; Calianas-Shatterel; Aspatia-Mrs Boutel? [but she probably did not come on the stage until 1670]. [See also 17 Nov. 1660.but she probably did not come on the stage until 1670]. [See also 17 Nov. 1660.