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11735 results for: Keyword - Thomas King, Esq.
We found 5449 matches on Author, 3212 matches on Performance Comments, 2694 matches on Performance Title, 2194 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

10826
31 January 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 117. The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, and there sat in the pit among the company of fine ladys, &c.; and the house was exceeding full, to see Argalus and Parthenia, the first time that it hath been acted: and indeed it is good, though wronged by my over great expectations, as all things else are

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Argalus And Parthenia

10827
12 February 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: we went by water to Salisbury Court play-house, where not liking to sit, we went out again, and by coach to the Theatre, and there saw The Scornful Lady, now done by a woman, which makes the play appear much better than ever it did to me

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

10828
16 February 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. An edition appearing in 1661 lists no cast, no prologue, no epilogue. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, where I saw The Virgin Martyr, a good but too sober a play for the company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virgin Martyr

Related Works
Related Work: The Virgin Martyr Author(s): Thomas Dekker

10829
25 February 1661 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The Countess of Derby to the Duchess de la Tremoille, 25 Feb. 1660@1: Plays are often acted at court, and the King and their Royal Highnesses have been present at two this evening, at the Duchess of Buckingham's (Madame Guizot de Witt, The Lady of Latham [London, 1869], p. 268)

Performances

10830
02 March 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I went to the Theatre, where I found so few people (which is strange, and the reason I did not know) that I went out again

Performances

10831
27 April 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: After dinner with Mr Creed and Captain Ferrers to the Theatre to see The Chances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

10832
May 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: See Herbert (Dramatic Records, p. 117) for The Mayd in the Mill acted in May and A Wife for a Monthe and The Bondman acted by the King's Company at an unspecified time following May

Performances

10833
16 May 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, and there saw the latter end of The Mayd's Tragedy, which I never saw before, and me thinks it is too sad and melancholy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid's Tragedy

10834
25 May 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, wher I saw a piece of The Silent Woman, which pleased me

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

10835
04 June 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, and saw Harry the 4th, a good play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Fourthe Part I

10836
08 June 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I went to the Theatre and there saw Bartholomew Faire, the first time it was acted now-a-days. It is a most admirable play and well acted, but too much prophane and abusive

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bartholomew Fair

10837
22 June 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, The Alchymist, which is a most incomparable play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

10838
27 June 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: With my Lady Batten, Mrs Rebecca Allen, Mrs Thompson, &c., two coaches of us, we went and saw Bartholomew Fayre, acted very well

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bartholomew Fair

10839
25 July 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, and saw The Jovial Crew, the first time I saw it, and indeed it is as merry and the most innocent play that ever I saw, and well performed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

10840
31 July 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, and there I saw The Tamer Tamed well done

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tamer Tamed

10841
10 August 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre,...The Merry Devill of Edmunton, which is a very merry play, the first time I ever saw it, which pleased me well

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Devil Of Edmunton

10842
14 August 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Captain Ferrers and I to the Theatre, and there saw The Alchymist

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

10843
15 August 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Opera, which begins again to-day with The Witts, never acted yet with scenes; and the King and Duke and Duchess were there...and indeed it is a most excellent play, and admirable scenes. Downes (p. 21): All the other Parts being exactly Perform'd; it continu'd 8 Days Acting Successively

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wits

Related Works
Related Work: The Modern Prophets: or New Wit For a Husband Author(s): Thomas D'Urfey
Related Work: Sir Barnaby Whigg; or, No Wit Like a Womans Author(s): Thomas D'Urfey
Related Work: The Wit of a Woman Author(s): Thomas Walker
Related Work: The Fashionable Lover; or, Wit in Necessity Author(s): Thomas Nobbes
Related Work: Wit's Last Stake Author(s): Thomas King
Related Work: The Counterfeit Bridegroom; or, The Defeated Widow Author(s): Thomas Middleton
Related Work: No Wit, No Help, Like a Woman's Author(s): Thomas Middleton

10844
16 August 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: Sixtus Petri Arnoldinus, a Dutchman, visiting in London, saw at the King's Playhouse this day a delightful "Courting-Comedy." See N. W. Zwager, A Visitor to England in 1661, Tijdschrift voor Taal en Letteren, XXVII (1939), 286

Performances

10845
26 August 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, and saw the Antipodes, wherein there is much mirth, but no great matter else

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antipodes

10846
06 September 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I went to the Theatre, and saw Elder Brother ill acted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Elder Brother

10847
11 September 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: Walking through Lincoln's Inn Fields observed at the Opera a new play, Twelfth Night, was acted there, and the King there; so I, against my own mind and resolution, could not forbear to go in, which did make the play seem a burthen to me, and I took no pleasure at all in it; and so after it was done went home with my mind troubled for my going thither, after my swearing to my wife that I would never go to a play without her

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

10848
25 September 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Much against my nature and will, yet such is the power of the Devil over me I could not refuse it, to the Theatre, and saw The Merry Wives of Windsor, ill done

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

10849
02 October 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: We [Pepys and his wife] went to the Theatre, but coming late, and sitting in an ill place, I never had so little pleasure in a play in my life, yet it was the first time that ever I saw it, Victoria Corombona. Methinks a very poor play. Pepys, Diary, 3 Oct.. I...calling at Sir W. Batten's, where his son and his wife were, who had yesterday been at the play where we were, and it was good sport to hear how she talked of it with admiration like a fool

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Vittoria Corombona

10850
08 October 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: And late after dinner took Mrs Martha out by coach, and carried her to the Theatre in a frolique, to my great expense, and there shewed her part of the Beggar's Bush, without much pleasure, but only for a frolique

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Beggar's Bush