Event Comment: The
Duke's Company. This date marks the opening of the new theatre in
Dorset Garden.
Downes (
Roscius Anglicanus, p. 31): The new Theatre in Dorset-Garden being Finish'd, and our Company after
Sir William's Death, being under the Rule and Dominion of his
Widow the
Lady Davenant,
Mr Betterton and
Mr Harris, (
Mr Charles Davenant her Son Acting for her) they remov'd from
Lincolns-Inn-Fields thither. And on the Ninth Day of November 1671, they open'd their new Theatre with
Sir Martin Marral, which continu'd Acting 3 Days together, with a full Audience each Day; notwithstanding it had been Acted 30 Days before in Lincolns-Inn-Fields, and above 4 times
at court. [This play is also on the
L. C. lists at
Harvard. See
VanLennep, "
Plays on the English Stage", p. 18: Sir Martin.
Performances
Mainpiece Title: Feign'd Innocence; Or, Sir Martin Marall