Event Comment: The
Duke's Company. The date of performance is uncertain. The play was entered in the
Stationers' Register, 15 Feb. 1663@4,
and its publication noted in
The Newes, 3 March 1663@4.
Katherine Philips, writing from
Cardigan, Wales to
Lady Temple in
London, 24 Jan. 1663@4: I beleive er'e this you have seen the new
Pompey either acted or written & then will repent your partiallity to ye other, but I wonder much what preparations for it could prejudice
Will Davenant when I heare they acted in English habits, & yt so aprope yt
Caesar was sent in with his feather & Muff, till he was hiss'd off ye Stage & for ye Scenes I see not where they could place any yt are very extra-ordinary, but if this play hath not diverted ye Cittizens wives enough Sr W: D: will make amends, for they say
Harry ye 8th & some later ones are little better then Puppett-plays. I underst
and ye confederate-translators are now upon
Heraclius, & I am contented yt
Sr Tho. Clarges (who hath done that last yeare) should adorn their triumph in it, as I have done in Pompey (
Harvard Theatre Collection)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: Pompey The Great
Performance Comment: Edition of 1664: wo actors' names. Prologue At the House-; Epilogue at the House-; Epilogue to the King at Saint James's-; Epilogue To the Dutchess at Saint James's-; [One Epilogue was written by Sir Edward Deering.] [At the end: After which a grand Masque [is Danc'd before Caesar and Cleopatra[, made (as well as the other Dances and the Tunes to them) by Mr John Ogilby-.