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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Nell Gwyn"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Nell Gwyn")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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377 results for: Keyword - Nell Gwyn?
We found 282 matches on Performance Comments, 75 matches on Event Comments, 28 matches on Performance Title, 11 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

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19 March 1675 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this play. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407, where VanLennep speculates that it might have been John Crowne's The Country Wit, which is not otherwise known to be acted until 10 Jan. 1675@6. It should be noted that this performance falls on a Friday in Lent

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ye Country Knight

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24 March 1675 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, 407. This day may well have been the premiere; the play was not licensed until 5 July 1675

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woman Turned Bully

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12 June 1675 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: [The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407. There is no certainty that this performance is the premiere, btt an additional known performance on 15 June suggests that early June probably saw the initial run. The music for two songs, Thou joy of all hearts and When you dispense your influence, both set by Dr William Turner, is in Choice Ayres and Songs, Second Book, 1679. Preface, Edition of 1676: I have no reason to complain of the success of this Play, since it pleased those, whom, of all the World, I would please most: Nor was the Town unkind to it....[There] being no Act in it, which cost me above Five days writing: and the last Two (the Play-house having great occasion for a Play) were both written in Four Days. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 37): The Libertine and Virtuoso: Both Wrote by Mr Shadwell; they were both very well Acted, and got the Company great Reputation. The Libertine perform'd by Mr Betterton Crown'd the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Libertine

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15 June 1675 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@142, p. 81. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 348. Nell Gwyn also attended this performance; see VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Libertine

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22 June 1675 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance; see VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conquest Of China By The Tartars

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23 June 1675 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance; see VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Herod And Mariamne

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24 June 1675 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance; see VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Psyche

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29 June 1675 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance; see VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

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24 September 1675 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Doctor Faustus

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25 September 1675 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Psyche

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08 October 1675 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Psyche

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11 October 1675 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mad Lover

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27 October 1675 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wanton Wife

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November 1675 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The date of this performance is not certain, but Nell Gwyn attended this play given by the Duke's Company sometime in (probably) November 1675. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

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December 1675 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407. The day is not known, but the performance apparently occured in December 1675

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Valiant Cid

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January 1676 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407. The date of the performance is uncertain, but it appears to have been in Jan. 1675@6

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Psyche

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February 1676 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attened a performance of this play, probably in February 1676, See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Would If She Could

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11 March 1676 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@142, p. 81: At the Man of Mode. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 348. Nell Gwyn also attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407. It is uncertain whether this is the premiere, but the licensing date of 3 June 1676 suggests that the first production may have occurred at this time. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 36): This Comedy being well Cloath'd and well Acted, got a great deal of Money. One song, As Amoret with Phyllis sat, the words by Sir Car Scroope and the music by Nicholas Staggins, is in Choice Ayres and Songs, The Second Book, 1679; another, When first Amintas charmed my heart, the music by Staggins, is in the same collection, Fifth Book, 1684. John Dennis: I remember very well that upon the first acting this Comedy, it was generally believed to be an agreeable Representation of the Persons of Condition of both both Sexes, both in Court and Town; and that all the World was charm'd with Dorimont (A Defence of Sir Fopling Flutter, 1722, p. 18). For the full text of Dennis' discussion of this play, see The Critical Works of John Dennis, ed. E. N. Hooker (Baltimore, 1943), II, 241-50

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode; Or, Sir Fopling Flutter

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25 May 1676 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@142, p. 81: At the Virtuoso. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 348. Nell Gwyn also attended this performance; see VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407. The Diary of Robert Hooke, 25 May 1676: Mr Abraham Hill gave J. Hoskins, Aubery and I an account of Vertuoso play. A song, How retched is the slave to love, the music by Francis Forcer, is in Choice Ayres and Songs, The Second Book, 1679. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 37): The Libertine and Virtuoso: Both Wrote by Mr Shadwell; they were both very well Acted, and got the company great Reputation

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Virtuoso

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09 June 1676 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Carlos, Prince Of Spain

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03 July 1676 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 408. It is not known when the premiere occurred, but this is the earliest known performance. The Prologue, missing in the 1677 edition, is in the 1693 edition. A song, Make haste, my shepherd, come away, with music by Francis Forcer, is in Choice Ayres and Songs, Second Book, 1679

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Abdelazer; Or, The Moor's Revenge

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25 July 1676 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 408. There is no certainty that this is the premiere, but the reference in the Prologue to the long vacation and the licensing date of 25 Sept. 1676 point to a summer production

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wrangling Lovers; Or, The Invisible Mistress

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12 September 1676 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p.408

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Guardian

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21 September 1676 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p.408

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wit

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23 September 1676 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p.408. An edition appeared in 1676

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Epsom Wells