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Event Comment: For reports on the Lord Mayor's Day, see Luttrell, A Brief Relation, I, 139-40, and The Impartial Protestant Mercury, No 55, 28 Oct.-1 Nov. 1681

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Mainpiece Title: Londons Joy Or The Lord Mayors Show

Performance Comment: Triumphantly Exhibited in Various Representations, Scenes, and splendid Ornaments, with divers pertinent Figures and Movements: Performed on Saturday, October XXIX. 1681. At the Inauguration of the Right Honourable Sir John Moore, Knight, Lord Mayor of the City of London. With the Several Speeches, and Songs, which were spoken on the Pageant in Cheapside, and Sung in Guild-Hall during Dinner. All the Charges and Expences of the Industrious Designs being the sole Undertaking of the Worshipful Company of Grocers. Devised and Composed by Tho. Jordan, Gent.
Event Comment: The King's Company. Newdigate newsletters (Folger Shakespeare Library), 15 Nov. 1681: This being ye Q.s birthday ye K.s players acted Alexdr ye great after wch was a ball & entertainment given to ye Ct. (Wilson, Theatre Notes from the Newdigate Newsletters, p. 80). Luttrell, 15 Nov. 1681: The 15th, being the birth day of her majestie, was kept with ringing of bells, bonefires, &c.; and at night there was a play acted at Whitehall before the king and queen, where the court appeared in great splendor (A Brief Relation, I, 144). The Earl of Arran to Ormond, 15 Nov. 1681: I am going to a play at court (HMC, Ormonde MSS., New Series, VI, 230). L. C. 5@144, p. 246, 22 Nov. 1681: Whereas Jeoffrey Ayleworth, Thomas ffarmer, Thomas ffinall & Richard Tomlinson foure of his Mates Musitians have neglected their dury in attending at ye play acted before his Mate at Whitehall on Tuesday night last for which I have suspended them (L. C. to the Treasurer of the Chamber, in Boswell, Restoration Court Stage, p. 100)

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Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens Or Alexander The Great

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Two sources naming the play attended by the Morocco ambassador differ as to what play was presented. CSPD, Charles II, 1682, p. 35: 19 Jan. 1681@2: To-day the Morocco Ambassador goes to a play named Circe at the Duke's House. Impartial Protestant Mercury, 20-24 Jan. 1681@2: The Morocco Ambassador, On Thursday last, went to the Duke's Theatre, where was Acted Psyche, a Play of extraordinary splendor, with which his Excellency was extreamly pleas'd

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Mainpiece Title: Circe

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Lady Anne Howe to the Countess of Rutland, 26 Jan. 1681@2: The King went by water to the new play yesterday, it being the poet's day, and is call'd the Loyallest (HMC, Rutland MSS., 12th Report, Appendix, Part V, p. 64). Newsletter, 26 Jan. 1681@2: Yesterday was a new play called the Royalist, where the Salamanca Doctor is exposed (HMC, 10th Report, Appendix, Part IV, p. 175)

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Mainpiece Title: The Royalist

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Loyal Protestant, 2 Feb. 1681@2: This day his Excellency the Embassedor of Morocco was present at the Dukes Theatre, where the Tempest was acted with which his Excellency seem'd extreamly pleased. [Essentially the same report is in Monthly Recorder, 1 Feb.-1 March 1681@2.

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Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Event Comment: On this day, L. C. 5@16, p. 83 (Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 10n) John Crowne's The City Politiques was banned

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Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Newdigate newsletters, 5 Aug. 1682: [Yesterday the] Dutchess goes to ye Dukes Theatre--that and ye Kings house haveing Joyned interests the latter being Discontinued where will be purposely Acted for her Anna Bullen being a deepe Tragedy of the beheading of the said Lady by Henry the 8th (Wilson, Theatres Notes from the Newdigate Newsletters, p. 81). See also London Mercury, 8 Aug. 1682. Juliana Brabazon to the Countess of Rutland, Aug. 1682: The Dutches of Yorke kept her bed the day after seeing Anna Bulloigne acted (HMC, 12th Report, Rutland MSS., Part V, 1889, p. 77)

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Mainpiece Title: Virtue Betrayed Or Anna Bullen

Event Comment: Domestick Intelligence, 11-14 Sept. 1682: Southwark 12--This day the Scaffold of a Booth fell down, with several Actors, Men and Women on it, and falling upon a Child that stood underneath, crushed it to death

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Event Comment: Langhans, New Restoration Theatre Accounts, pp. 123-24, believes that acting resumed on 9 Oct. 1682 and continued to 14 July 1683, followed by 14 acting days between 16 July and 6 Oct. 1683.. Betterton and Smith managed the company for the proprietor

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Event Comment: The Duke of York: I have been at a play this day (CSPD, Charles II, 1682, p. 497)

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Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This play was also reprintdd in 1683. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@145, p. 120: Wth ye Q: & a box for ye Maides of honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349. On this day Drury Lane was leased for nineteen years to Charles Davenant and his associates in furthering the union of the two companies. See Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 277

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Mainpiece Title: The Souldiers Fortune

Event Comment: The United Company. As the play was certainly acted on 1 Dec. 1682, it was probably given also on 29 Nov., in spite of the death of Prince Rupert on that day

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Mainpiece Title: The Duke Of Guise

Event Comment: The United Company. Possibly the play was repeated on this day, unless the report of the Abbe Rouchi--see 28 Nov. 1682--means that the play was given only three times

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Mainpiece Title: The Duke Of Guise

Event Comment: The program was published in 1684: A Musical Entertainment Perform'd on November XXII. 1683, It Being the Festival of St Cecilia, a great Patroness of Music; Whose Memory is Annually Honour'd by a public Feast made on that Day by the Masters and Lovers of Music, as well in England as in Foreign Parts. [Henry Purcell signed the Preface: To the Gentlemen of the Musical Society, and particularly the Stewards.] An advertisement in Vinculum Societatis, 1691, states that Christopher Fishburn composed the verse

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: On this day Luttrell purchased a copy (Bindley Collection, William Andrew Clark@Jr@Library) of The Beggars Delight As it was Sung at the Theatre Royal, published in 1684 by J. Dean

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Event Comment: On this day an order calls for the delivery, customs free, of the properties of the French troupe of the Prince of Orange. See Rosenfeld, Foreign Theatrical Companies, p. 4

Performances

Event Comment: Langhans, New Restoration Theatre Accounts, pp. 125-26, suggests that acting resumed on 29 Sept. and continued to 6 Feb. 1684@5, when Charles II died, although the theatre may not have acted from 2 through 5 Feb. Resuming at the end of April, the company Played regularly to the end of May, then on 43 days between 1 June and 31 Oct. 1685

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Event Comment: A Second Musical Entertainment Perform'd on St. Cecilia's day, November XXII. 1684. The Words by the late ingenious Mr John Oldham, Author of the Satyrs Against the Jesuits. Set to Music in two, three, four, and five Parts, by Dr John Blow, Master of the Children, and Organist of His Majesty's Chappel-Royal. [This work was published in 1685.

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: Luttrell, A Brief Relation, I, 339: The 27th, the playhouse open'd, being the first day they acted since his late majesties death

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Event Comment: The United Company. Presumably the Opera was acted on this day. Luttrell, A Brief Relation, I, 346: The 10th, one capt. Goreing was killed at the playhouse by Mr Deering

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Albion And Albanius

Event Comment: The United Company. The sixth performance presumably occurred on this day, as it was on 13 June 1685 that the news of Monmouth's landing reached London

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Mainpiece Title: Albion And Albanius

Event Comment: Peregrine Bertie to the Countess of Rutland, 26 Dec. 1685: The other night was a disturbance at the play-house, upon which they broke up acting but to-day they have begun again (HMC, 12th Report, Appendix, Rutland MSS., Part V, Vol. II, p. 99)

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Event Comment: Peregrine Bertie to the Countess of Rutland, 11 Feb. 1685@6: To-day was the French opera. The King and Queen were there, the musicke was indeed very fine, but all the dresses the most wretched I ever saw; 'twas acted by none but French. A Saturday the Court goes to another play, to take their leaves of those vanitys till after Lent (HMC, 12th Report, Appendix, Rutland MSS., Part V, Vol. II, p. 104). [This performance is on the L. C. list 5@147, p. 125: The King & Queene & a Box for ye Maydes of honor at ye French Opera [the charge for the royal box was increased from #20 to #25 on this occasion]. W. J. Lawrence conjectured that this French opera was Cadmus et Hermione and that Jacques Rousseau, a scene painter of Paris, provided the decor. See W. J. Lawrence, The French opera in London; A Riddle of 1686, TLS, 28 March 1936, p. 268

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Mainpiece Title: Cadmus Et Hermione

Event Comment: Possibly a play was given this day at court. See the correspondence under 11 Feb. 1685@6

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Event Comment: The United Company. Lord Ashburnham's Diary: I waited on my Mother home and afterwards I went into the play (the Maiden Queen) There was a great deale of company, I came home before 8 at night, I am now not charm'd with Playes &c. (Ashburnham MS 932, East Sussex County Record Office, County Hall, Lewes, Sussex; I owe this entry and the subsequent ones from this MS to the kindness of Professor George Hilton Jones, Kansas State University). This is an unusual example of the revival of a play at the public theatre the day before its presentation at court

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Mainpiece Title: Secret Love Or The Maiden Queen