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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.

10876
11 February 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: This play was seen by Jacques Thierry and Will Schellinks (Seaton, Literary Relationships, pp. 333, 335). As this play was given as recently as 5 Feb. 1661@2 by the King's Company, it has been assigned to Vere St.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

10877
11 February 1662 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: I saw a Comedy acted before the Dutchesse of York at the Cock-pit: The king was not at it

Performances

10878
13 February 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: This play was seen by Jacques Thierry and Will Schellinks (Seaton, Literary Relationships, pp. 333, 335). As the King's Company is the only one known to gave given it since the Restoration, it has been assigned to Vere St

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

10879
25 February 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid's Tragedy

10880
27 February 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118: Aglavara the Tragicall Way

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aglaura

10881
01 March 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

10882
03 March 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118. BM Add. Mss. 34217, in Hotson, p. 246: @O' th' contrary Salendina for witt@Most say did come far short of it@And though I confesse there was some fault there@Yett this I'll say in defense of the Author@A good Plott though ill writt lookes more like a Play@Then all your fine lines when the plott is away.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zelindra

10883
11 March 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118. See also The Variety, in Bentley, Jacobean and Caroline Stage, III, 149-51; and James Shirley's The Ball; or, French Dancing Master, in Bentley, V, 1079. See also 10 Nov. 1661

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The French Dancing Master

10884
15 March 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Little Thief

10885
22 March 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: Jacques Thierry and Will Schellinks attended this performance, but do not indicate the theatre. See Seaton, Literary Relationships, pp. 334, 336. As this play had been acted by the King's Company on 11 Jan. 1661@2, it has been assigned to Vere St.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Lies A Bleeding

10886
04 April 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Northern Lass

10887
23 April 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118. This was a new play, but it is not clear that this day was the premiere. BM Add. Mss. 34217, in Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 246: @For the surprizall it was a good proofe@By its getting them mony it took well enough@Without which Divell take the Play@Be it never so good the Actors say@But they may thanke God with all their hart@That Lacy plaid Brankadoros part.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surprizal

10888
05 May 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Knight Of The Burning Pestle

10889
07 May 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: At the Theatre, where I saw the last act of the Knight of the Burning Pestle, which pleased me not at all

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Knight Of The Burning Pestle

10890
12 May 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Brenoralt [or, the Discontented Colonel]

10891
17 May 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118. Langbaine (English Dramatic Poets, p. 477): This Play has been received with Success (as I said) in our Time; and as I remember, the deceas'd Mr Lacy acted Jonny Thump, Sir Gervase Simple's Man, with general Applause

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Maze

10892
19 May 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Sir W. Pen and his daughter, and I and my wife by coach to the Theatre, and there in a box saw The Little Thief well done

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Little Thief

10893
21 May 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre to The French Dancing Master, and there with much pleasure gazed upon her (Lady Castlemaine); but it troubles us to see her look dejectedly and slighted by People already. The play pleased us [Pepys and Mrs Pepys] very well; but Lacy's part, the Dancing Master, the best in the world

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The French Dancing Master

10894
22 May 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: We by coach to the Theatre and saw Love in a Maze. The play hath little in it but Lacy's part of a country fellow, which he did to admiration

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Maze

10895
06 June 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118. See also W. J. Lawrence, Times Literary Supplement, 24 Oct. 1929, p. 846; and J. G. McManaway, "Philip Massinger and the Restoration Drama," ELH: A Journal of English Literary History, 1 (1934), 287-88. The manuscript is in Bod. Rawlinson poet. 20

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Renegado

10896
23 July 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118. John Wright (Historia Histrionica [1699], p. 3): [Hart] Acted the Dutchess in the Tragedy of The Cardinal, which was the first Part that gave him Reputation

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cardinal

10897
24 September 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: Some time (probably not long) before this date Aglaura [by Sir John Suckling] was acted by the King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Thence to Mr Wotton, the shoemaker's, and there bought a pair of boots, cost me 30s., and he told me how Bird hath lately broke his leg, while he was fencing in Aglaura, upon the stage, and that the new theatre of all will be ready against term

Performances

10898
08 October 1662 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: See Boswell, Restoration Court Theatre, pp. 56-57, for a stage which may have been used for the puppets, and also Speaight, English Puppet Theatre, p. 73. Pepys, Diary: To my Lord's again, thinking to speak with him, but he is at White Hall with the King, before whom the puppet plays I saw this summer at Covent-garden are acted this night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Puppets

10899
16 October 1662 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: This play was probably given by the King's Company, which presented it a number of times later. See Noyes, Ben Jonson, pp. 42-43. Evelyn, Diary: I saw Vulpone acted at court before their Majesties &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone

10900
21 October 1662 @ The Cockpit in Drury Lane

Event Comment: This play was seen by Jacques Thierry and Will Schellinks (Seaton, Literary Relationships, pp. 334, 336). The company may have been Jolly's, but it may also have been the King's temporarily acting there. See Sprague, Beaumont and Fletcher, p. 22, and Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, pp. 178-79

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Friar Bacon And Friar Bungay