Event Comment: The
Duke's Company. This play is on the
L. C. lists at
Harvard. See
VanLennep, "
Plays on the English Stage", p. 14. A song in this play,
Thus all our Lives, with music by
John Banister, is in
Choice Songs and Ayres, 1673.
Downes (
Roscius Anglicanus, p. 31): [Concerning several plays] All which Expir'd the third Day, save
the Royal Shepherdess, which liv'd Six.
Pepys, Diary: To the Duke of York's house, and there before one, but the house infinite full, where, by and by, the
King and
Court come, it being a new play, or an old one new vamped, by
Shadwell, called
The Royal Shepherdesse!; but the silliest for words and design, and evepything, that ever I saw in my whole life, there being nothing in the world pleasing in it, but a good martial dance of pikemen, where
Harris and another do handle
their pikes in a dance to admiration; but never less satisfied with a play in my life
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherdess