Event Comment: The
Duke's Company. This play is on the
L. C. list, 5@141, p. 216. See also
Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 348. The date on the list seems to be "3," but as this is a Sunday, it is more likely "9." This performance may well be the one to which
Downes (
Roscius Anglicanus, p. 31) refers: Note,
Mr Cademan in this Play [
The Man's the Master], not long after our Company began in
Dorset-Garden; his Part being to Fight with
Mr Harris, was Unfortunately, with a sharp Foil pierc'd near the Eye, which so Maim'd both the Hand and his Speech, that he can make little use of either; for which Mischance, he has receiv'd a Pension ever since 1673, being 35 Years a goe. [For a discussion of this accident, see
William VanLennep,
Henry Harris, Actor, Friend of Pepys,
Studies in English Theatre History (
London, 1952), p. 16, and the entry under 20 Aug. 1673.
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Man's The Master