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11509 results for: Keyword - Thomas King
We found 5449 matches on Author, 3185 matches on Performance Comments, 2689 matches on Performance Title, 1930 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

10701
24 January 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary, 23 Jan.: Knipp made us stay in a box and see the dancing preparatory to to-morrow for The Goblins, a play of Suckling's, not acted these twenty-five years; which was pretty. Pepys, Diary, 24 Jan.: And, anon, at about seven or eight o'clock, comes Mr Harris, of the Duke's playhouse, and brings Mrs Pierce with him, and also one dressed like a country-mayde with a straw hat on; which, at first, I could not tell who it was, though I expected Knipp: but it was she coming off the stage just as she acted this day in "The Goblins"; a merry jade

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Goblins

10702
14 February 1667 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The King's Company. L. C. list 5@139, p. 129 names Flora's Vagaries; L. C. 5@12, p. 17 names Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 343

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

10703
05 March 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This performance is on the two L. C. lists, 5@139, p. 129, and 5@12, p. 17. The second list states that the King attended the play. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 343. The play may have continued its run on 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, and 13 March, as it was certainly given on 14 March

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love; Or, The Maiden Queen

10704
30 March 1667 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: With my wife's knowledge and leave did by coach go see the silly play of my Lady Newcastle's, called The Humourous Lovers; the most silly thing tiat ever come upon a stage. I was sick to see it, but yet would would not but have seen it, that I might the better understand her. Here I spied Knipp and Betty Hall?, of the King's house, and sent Knipp oranges

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humourous Lovers

10705
18 April 1667 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists, 5@139, p. 129, and 5@12, p. 17: The Mayden Queene at court. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 343

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love; Or, The Maiden Queen

10706
27 April 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@139, p. 129, and 5@12, p. 17; Bartholomew fayre at the Theatre. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 343

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bartholomew Fair

10707
06 May 1667 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This play is on the L. C. list 5@139, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346. Gervase Jaquis to the Earl of Huntington, 7 May: Upon monday last the Duchesse of Newcastl's play was Acted in the theater in Lincolns Inne field the King and the Grandees of the Court being present and soe was her grace and the Duke her husband (Hastings MS., Ha 7657, Huntington Library)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lovers

10708
13 May 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@139, p. 129, and 5@12, p. 17. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 343

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

10709
16 May 1667 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@12, p. 17: Auglaura at court [but not on 5@139, p. 129]. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 343

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Auglaura

10710
20 July 1667 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: On this day a quarrel occurred at lif between Henry Killigrew and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, but the play is not named in the various accounts of the affair. For details, see HMC, 12th Report, Part VII, p. 51; and Carl Niemeyer, "Henry Killigrew and the Duke of Buckingham", Review of English Studies, XII (1936), 326-28. Pepys, Diary: 22 July: Creed tells me of the fray between the Duke of Buckingham at the Duke's playhouse the last Saturday (and it is the first day I have heard that they have acted at either the King's or Duke's house this month or six weeks) and Henry Killigrew, whom the Duke of Buckingham did soundly beat and take away his sword, and make a fool of, till the fellow prayed him to spare his life; and I am glad of it; for it seems in this business the Duke of Buckingham did carry nimself very innocently and well

Performances

10711
28 August 1667 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list 5@139, p. 129, but not on the second list, 5@12, p. 17. See Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone; Or, The Fox

10712
04 September 1667 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At Mr Croome's, at the Sign of the Shoe and Slap, near the Hospital Gate in West Smithfield, is to be seen, The Wonder of Nature, A Girl, above Sixteen Years of Age, born in Chesire, and not above Eighteen Inches long, having shed the Teeth seven several Times, and not a perfect Bone is any part of her, only the Head; yet she hath all senses to Admiration, and Discourses, Reads very well, Sings, Whistles, and all very pleasant to hear. Sept. 4, 1667. God Save the King. (Henry Morley, Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair, p. 189)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

10713
01 October 1667 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: To White Hall, and there in the Boarded-gallery did hear the musick with which the King is presented this night by Monsieur Grebus [Grabut], the master of his musick; both instrumentall--I think twenty-four violins--and vocall; an English song upon Peace. But, God forgive me! I never was so little pleased with a concert of musick in my life. The manner of setting of words and repeating them out of order, and that with a number of voices, makes me sick, the whole design of vocall musick being lost by it. Here was a great press of people; but I did not see many pleased with it, only the instrumental musick he had brought by pratice to play very just

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

10714
26 October 1667 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: Mrs Pierce tells me the two Marshalls at the King's house are Stephen Marshall's, the great Presbyterian's daughters [an erroneous rumor]; and that Nelly Gwin? and Beck Marshall, falling out the other day, the latter called the other my Lord Buckhurst's whore, Nell answered them, "I was but one man's whore, though I was brought up in a bawdy-house to fill strong waters to the guests; and you are a whore to three or four, though a Presbyter's praying daughter!" which was very pretty

Performances

10715
16 November 1667 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: I to White Hall; and there got into the theater-room, and there heard both the vocall and instrumentall musick, where the little fellow [Pelham Humphrey] stood keeping time; but for my part, I see no great matter, but quite the contrary in both sorts of musique. The composition I believe is very good, but no more of delightfulness to the eare or understanding but what is very ordinary. Here was the King and Queen, and some of the ladies; among whom none more jolly than my Lady Buckingham, her Lord being once more a great man

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

10716
27 January 1668 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The King's Company. This play is on the L. C. lists, 5@139, p. 129, and 5@12, p. 17. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love; Or, The Maiden Queen

10717
14 April 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Pepys does not name the theatre in which he saw this play, but previous performances of the play were given by the King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To a play, Love's Cruelty.... Play part 2s. Oranges, 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Cruelty

10718
29 May 1668 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This play is on the L. C. list, 5@139, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347. Pepys, Diary, 31 May: At the play at court the other night, Mrs Davis was there; and when she was to come to dance her jigg, the Queene would not stay to see it, which people do think it was out of displeasure at her being the King's whore, that she could not bear it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Would If She Could

10719
12 June 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [The King's Company. Settings by Alphonso Marsh the Elder of two of the songs are in Choice Songs and Ayres, 1673. This performance, which may have been the first one, is one the L. C. list 5@139, p. 129: An Evening Love his Mate and the Queene at the Theatre. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Evening's Love[; Or, the Mock Astrologer

10720
18 June 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: So my wife not speaking a word, going nor coming, nor willing to go to a play, though a new one

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Evening's Love

10721
17 July 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: To the King's house to see a play revived called The [...], a sorry mean play, that vexed us to sit in so much heat of the weather to hear it

Performances

10722
04 September 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: My wife having a mind to see the play Bartholomew-Fayre, with puppets. Which we did, and it is an excellent play; the more I see it, the more I love the wit of it; only the business of abusing the Puritans begins to grow stale, and of no use, they being the people that, at last, will be found the wisest. And here Knepp come to us, and sat with us. [Earlier that day Pepys had been to the Fair briefly, but saw none of the entertainments.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bartholomew Fair

10723
10 October 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. The entry in Pepys, Diary for this day is missing, but on 12 Oct. 1668 he implies that he saw this play on 10 Oct. 1668

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Faithful Shepherdess

10724
09 November 1668 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@12, p. 17. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344. Newsletter, 9 Nov.: A play, The tanner tanned, is appointed for this evening in the new theatre at Whitehall (HMC, Fleming MSS., 12th Report, Appendix, Part VII, p. 60)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tamer Tamed

10725
21 November 1668 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The King's Company. This play is on the L. C. list, 5@12, p. 17: The Scornfull Lady at court. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady