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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Cast
Role: Verges Actor: Wrighten
Role: Conrade Actor: Lamash.
Role: Benedick Actor: Garrick
Role: Leonato Actor: Jefferson, first time
Role: Borachio Actor: Usher
Role: Don Pedro Actor: Packer
Role: Claudio Actor: Cautherly
Role: Balthazar Actor: Vernon
Role: Don John Actor: J. Aickin
Role: Antonio Actor: Hurst
Role: Dogberry Actor: Parsons
Role: Friar Actor: Wright
Role: Town Clerk Actor: Baddeley
Role: Hero Actor: Mrs Baddeley
Role: Beatrice Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Margaret Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Ursula Actor: Mrs Millidge
Role: In II a Masquerade Dance Actor: , proper to the play
Role: To conclude with a Country Dance Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler

Cast
Role: Snob Actor: Bannister
Role: Nipikin Actor: Dibdin
Role: Froth Actor: Parsons
Role: Grumble Actor: Legg
Role: Jenkins Actor: Fawcett
Role: Muggins Actor: Kear
Role: Contusion Actor: Wrighten
Role: Pest Actor: Griffiths
Role: Exciseman Actor: Blanchard
Role: Hone Actor: Everard
Role: Mrs Nipikin Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Alice Actor: Mrs Wrighten

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Matilda

Cast
Role: Morcar Actor: Reddish
Role: Edwin Actor: Smith
Role: Siward Actor: Palmer
Role: Officers Actor: Wheeler, Wrighten
Role: Bertha Actor: Miss Platt
Role: Matilda Actor: Miss Younge

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Cast
Role: Tivy Actor: Davies
Role: Davy Actor: Waldron
Role: Gymp Actor: Miss Platt.
Role: Sir John Trotley Actor: King
Role: Lord Minikin Actor: Dodd
Role: Jessamy Actor: Lamash
Role: Mignon Actor: Burton
Role: Lady Minikin Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Miss Titup Actor: Mrs Abington
Role: Riffle Actor: Baddeley
Role: Whisp Actor: Wheeler

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Lord Ogleby Actor: King
Role: Sir John Actor: Bensley
Role: Lovewell Actor: Brereton
Role: Traverse Actor: Hurst
Role: Miss Sterling Actor: Mrs Greville
Role: Fanny Actor: Miss P. Hopkins
Role: Canton Actor: Baddeley
Role: Brush Actor: Palmer
Role: Mrs Heidleberg Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Sterling Actor: Parsons
Role: Betty Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Flower Actor: Bransby
Role: Trueman Actor: Fawcett
Role: Chambermaid Actor: Mrs Davies.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Macheath Actor: Vernon
Role: Mat@O@Mint Actor: Kear
Role: Ben Budge Actor: Burton
Role: Player Actor: Whitfield
Role: Beggar Actor: Waldron
Role: Filch Actor: Parsons
Role: Peachum Actor: Moody
Role: Lockit Actor: Bransby
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Wrighten
Role: Polly Actor: Mrs Smith
Role: Diana Trapes Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Love
Role: a Hornpipe Actor: Mrs Sutton
Role: To conclude with a Country Dance Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Cast
Role: Sharp Actor: Vernon
Role: Trippit Actor: Lamash
Role: Mrs Gadabout Actor: Miss Platt
Role: Gayless Actor: Davies
Role: Kitty Pry Actor: Mrs Davies
Role: Melissa Actor: Miss Hopkins
Role: Justice Actor: Griffiths
Role: Cook Actor: Wright.

Dance: End Opera: The Grand Garland Dance, as17760311

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'allegro Ii Penseroso

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Hercules

Music: End of Part I of oratorio concerto on the violoncello by Crosdill; End of Part II concerto on the hautboy by Parke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Fugitive

Cast
Role: Lord Dartford Actor: Dodd
Role: Sir William Wingrove Actor: Packer
Role: Mr Wingrove Actor: Wroughton
Role: Old Manly Actor: Suett
Role: Young Manly Actor: Palmer
Role: Admiral Cleveland Actor: King
Role: Mr Welford Actor: Barrymore
Role: Jenkins Actor: Maddocks
Role: Larron Actor: Wewitzer
Role: O'Donnel Actor: Phillimore
Role: William Actor: Benson
Role: Servant Actor: Banks
Role: Mrs Manly Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Miss Herbert Actor: Miss Farren
Role: Miss Julia Wingrove Actor: Mrs Goodall
Role: Miss Manly Actor: Mrs Kemble
Role: Mrs Larron Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Mrs Rachel Cleveland Actor: Mrs Ward.

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur De Lion

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Kelly
Role: Blondel Actor: Barrymore
Role: Florestan Actor: Caulfield
Role: Sir Owen Actor: Sedgwick
Role: Seneschal Actor: Phillimore
Role: Antonio Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Guilliot Actor: Suett
Role: Matthew Actor: Fawcett
Role: William Actor: Banks
Role: Pilgrim Actor: Webb
Role: Matilda Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: Lauretta Actor: Miss Barclay
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Edwin
Role: Julie Actor: Miss Menage
Role: Chorus of Knights Actor: Danby, Cooke, Maddocks, Lyons
Role: Chorus of Soldiers Actor: Fawcett, Alfred, Shaw, Dorion.

Dance: In afterpiece: Master L. D'Egville, Miss Menage, Miss S. D'Egville. [Danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Cast
Role: Portia Actor: Mrs Sumbel
Role: Nerissa Actor: A Young Lady

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Entertainment: End: Her much admired Imitations-Mrs Sumbel

Event Comment: Possibly on this day, Davenant and Killigrew, with a united company, began acting at this theatre. In L. C. 5@137, p. 332 (6 Oct. 1660) is a list of His Majesty's Comedians: Burt, Hart, Mohun, Robert Shatterell, Lacy, Wintershell, Clunne, Cartwright, Edward Shatterell, Baxter, Loveday, Kynaston, Betterton. (See Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 294; Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 204.) Hotson, p. 205, states that the company acted daily from 8 to 16 Oct. 1660

Performances

Event Comment: Edition of 1660: The Royal Oake, with Other various and delightfull Scenes presented on the Water and the Land, Celebrated in Honour of the deservedly Honoured Sir Richard Brown, Bar. Lord Mayor of the City of London, The 29th day of October...and performed at the Costs and Charges of the Right Worshipfull Company of Merchant-Taylors. [Tatham refers to Dyamond, a Lightfoot, Paynter; Thomas Whitein, Joyner; and Richard Cleere, Carver.] Pepys, Diary: And I...at the Key in Cheapside; where there was a company of fine ladies, and we were very civilly treated, and had a very good place to see the pageants, which were many, and I believe good, for such kind of things, but in themselves but poor and absurd. Evelyn, Diary: My Lord Majors shew stop'd me in cheape-side: one of the Pageants represented a greate Wood, with the royal Oake, & historie of his Majesties miraculous escape at Bosco-bell &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Oake

Cast
Role: Tumbling Actor: Dyamond.
Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116. The King's Company. It is surprising to see a Davenant play acted by the King's Company. Edward Gower to Sir R. Leveson, 20 Nov. 1660: Yesternight at the Fleece Tavern...The gentlemen were discussing the play which they then came from, by name The Unfortunate Lover; at the latter end of the play there was a duel upon the stage; which, they, discounting upon, drew their swords in jest to show wherein they failed (HMC, 5th Report, 1876, p. 200)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unfortunate Lovers

Cast
Role: Arthiope Actor: Kynaston.
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

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

Event Comment: The date of the first performance is not certainly known, but Pepys, on 2 July, saw Part II, stating that 2 July was the premiere of Part I and the opening of the Duke's Company's new theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, pp. 20-21): His [Davenant's] Company Rehears'd the First and Second Part of the Siege of Rhodes...at Pothecaries-Hall: And in Spring 1662 [1661], Open'd his House with the said Plays, having new Scenes and Decorations, being the first that e're were Introduc'd in England....All Parts being Justly and Excellently Perform'd; it continu'd Acting 12 Days without Interruption with great Applause. Downes, p. 34: I must not forget my self, being Listed for an Acotr in Sir William Davenant's Company in Lincolns-Inn-Fields: The very first Day of opening the House there, with the Siege of Rhodes, being to Act Haly; (The King, Duke of York, and all the Nobility in the House, and the first time the King was in a Publick Theatre). The sight of that August presence, spoil'd me for an Actor too. HMC, 10th Report, Appendix, Part IV, p. 21: @For the Siege of Rhodes all say@It is an everlasting play@Though they wonder now Roxalana is gon@What shift it makes to hold out so long@For when the second part took, butt for Bully@The first did not satisfie so fully.@ [Presumably this verse was written after Mrs Davenport left the stage, in 1662(?).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Rhodes, Part I

Cast
Role: Solyman Actor: Betterton
Role: Alphonso Actor: Harris
Role: Villerius Actor: Lilliston
Role: Admiral Actor: Blagden
Role: Roxolana Actor: Mrs Davenport
Role: Ianthe Actor: Mrs Sanderson
Role: Haly Actor: Downes.
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: Against my judgment and conscience (which God forgive, for my very heart knows that I offend God in breaking my vows therein) to the Opera, which is now newly begun to act again, after some alteracion of their scene, which do make it very much worse; but the play, Love and Honour, being the first time of their acting it, is a very good plot, and well done. Downes (pp. 21-22): This Play was Richly Cloath'd; The King giving Mr Betterton his Coronation Suit;...The Duke of York giving Mr Harris his...and my Lord of Oxford gave Mr Joseph Price his...and all the other Parts being very well done: The Play having a great run, Produc'd to the Company great Gain and Estimation from the Town

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Honour

Cast
Role: Prince Alvaro Actor: Betterton
Role: Prince Prospero Actor: Harris
Role: Lionel Actor: Joseph Price
Role: Duke Actor: Lilliston
Role: Evandra Actor: Mrs Hester? Davenport.
Event Comment: It is uncertain at which theatre this play was performed, but it has been assigned to the King's Company because Pepys saw that company act it on the following day, 27 Nov. Evelyn, Diary: I saw Hamlet Pr. of Denmark played: but now the old playe began to disgust this refined age; since his Majestie being so long abroad

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Seeing that the Spanish Curate was acted to-day, I...home again and sent to young Mr Pen and his sister to go anon with my wife and I to the Theatre...we went by coach to the play, and there saw it well acted, and a good play it is, only Diego the Sexton did overdo his part too much. [Sir Edward Browne seems to connect this play with the Duke's Company. See Introdutcion to 1661-1662.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Curate

Event Comment: Boswell, (Restoration Court Stage, p. 280) lists this as by the King's Company, which had given it on 23 July 1662. Pepys, Diary: Hearing that there was a play at the Cockpit (and my Lord Sandwich, who came to town last night, at it), I do go thither, and by very great fortune did follow four or five gentlemen who were carried to a little private door in a wall, and so crept through a narrow place and come into one of the boxes next the King's, but so as I could not see the King or Queene, but many of the fine ladies, who yet are really not so handsome generally as I used to take them to be, but that they are finely dressed. Here we saw The Cardinall, a tragedy I had never seen before, nor is there any great matter in it. The company that came in with me into the box, were all Frenchmen that could speak no English, but Lord! what sport they made to ask a pretty lady that they got among them that understood both French and English to make her tell them what the actors said

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cardinal

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Duke's house, and there was the house full of company. but whether it was in over-expecting or what, I know not, but I was never less pleased with a play in my life. Though there was good singing and dancing, yet no fancy in the play, but something that made it less contenting was my conscience that I ought not to have gone by my vow, and, besides, my business commanded me elsewhere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Villain

Event Comment: See Boswell (Restoration Court Stage, p. 280), who identifies the company as the King's Company. Evelyn, Diary: Saw the Young Admiral acted coram Rege &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Admiral

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: After dinner with my wife to the Duke's Theatre, and saw the second part of Rhodes, done with the new Roxalana; which do it rather better in all respects for person, voice, and judgment, than the first Roxalana [Mrs Davenport]. Home with great content with my wife, not so well pleased with the company at the house to-day, which was full of citizens, there hardly being a gentleman or woman in the house; a couple of pretty ladies by us that made sport in it, being jostled and crowded by prentices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Villain

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's Playhouse, where we saw but part of Witt without mony, which I do not like much, but coming late put me out of tune, and it costing me four half-crowns for myself and company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Event Comment: The King's Company. This marks the opening of the new Theatre Royal in Bridges Street, Drury Lane, to which Killigrew moved his company from Vere Street. Downes erroneously gives the opening date as 8 April, a fact which led to the creation of the famous spurious playbill for Bridges Street, Thursday, 8 April 1663. See Montague Summers, The Restoration Theater (London, 1934), p. 15. Pepys, Diary: This day the new Theatre Royal begins to act with scenes the Humorous Lieutenant, but I have not time to see it, nor could stay to see my Lady Jemimah lately come to town, and who was here in the house. Downes (p. 3): Note, this Comedy was Acted Twelve Days Successively

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

Cast
Role: King Actor: Wintersel
Role: Demetrius Actor: Hart
Role: Seleucus Actor: Burt
Role: Leontius Actor: Mohun
Role: Lieutenant Actor: Clun
Role: Celia Actor: Mrs Anne? Marshal.
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: With Creed, my wife, and Mercer to a play at the Duke's, of my Lord Orrery's, called Mustapha, which being not good, made Betterton's part and Ianthe's but ordinary too, so that we were not contented with it at all...All the pleasure of the play was, the King and my Lady Castlemayne wer there; and pretty witty Nell Gwin?, at the King's house, and the younger Rebecca? Marshall sat next us; which pleased me mightily. Downes (p. 26): All the Parts being new Cloath's with new Scenes, Sir William's great Care of having it perfect and exactly perform'd, it produc'd to himself and Company vast Profit

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mustapha, The Son Of Solyman The Magnificent

Cast
Role: Solyman Actor: Betterton
Role: Mustapha Actor: Harris
Role: Zanger Actor: Smith
Role: Rustan Actor: Sandford
Role: Pyrrhus Actor: Richards
Role: Cardinal of Veradium? Actor: Young
Role: Haly Actor: Cademan
Role: Roxolana Actor: Mrs Davenport
Role: Queen of Hungaria Actor: Mrs Davies.
Role: Achmat Actor: James Noke
Role: Thuricus Actor: Medborn
Role: Viche Actor: Aingel
Role: Zarma Actor: Mrs Long
Role: Mitza Actor: Mrs Norris
Role: Cleora Actor: Mrs Shadwel.
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on His Majesty's bill at the Duke's Company, L. C. 5@139, p. 125: Worse & Worse at court. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Worse And Worse