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Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116. The King's Company. According to Wright, Historia Histrionica, 1699, Mohun played Bellamante shortly after the Restoration

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Mainpiece Title: Love's Cruelty

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116. The King's Company

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Mainpiece Title: The Widow

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116. The King's Company

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Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116. The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I to the new playhouse and saw part of the Traitor, a very good Tragedy; Mr Moon [Mohun] did act the Traitor very well

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Mainpiece Title: The Traitor

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116. The King's Company

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Mainpiece Title: The Elder Brother

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116. The King's Company

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Mainpiece Title: The Chances

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Related Work: The Chances Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116. The King's Company

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Mainpiece Title: The Opportunity

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: I to a play, The Scornfull Lady. [Because this play was offered at Vere Street on 21 Nov. 1660 and because Pepys had been attending that playhouse, it seems likely that this was also a production of the King's Company.

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Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 117. The King's Company

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Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

Event Comment: The Prologue, extant in a broadside in the Worcester College Library, appears to represent a performance occuring before the end of 1660. It has been reprinted by Noyes, Ben Jonson, pp. 105-6, and by Wiley, Rare Prologues and Epilogues, pp. 16-17. The King's Company

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Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Performance Comment: Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, pp. 4-5) lists a cast, a part of which may have acted in the play at this time: Face-Mohun; Sir Epicure-Cartwright; Surly-Burt; Ananias-Lacy; Wholesome-Bateman; Downes also lists Wintersel for Subtil, but since Clun acted it on 3 Aug. 1664, he may have done so at this time. Subtil-Clun?; Prologue to the Reviv'd Alchemist-.
Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 117. The King's Company

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Mainpiece Title: Claricilla

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 117. The King's Company

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Mainpiece Title: A Kinge And No Kinge

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: After dinner Sir Tho. Crew and my Lady to the Playhouse to see The Silent Woman

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Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

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Related Work: Epicœne; or, The Silent Woman Author(s): George Colman, the elder
Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: After dinner I went to the new Theatre and there I saw The Merry Wives of Windsor acted, the humours of the country gentleman and the French doctor very well done, but the rest but very poorly, and Sir J. Falstaffe as bad as any

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Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 117. The King's Company. Andrew Newport to Sir Richard Leveson, 6 Dec. 1660: Plays at court every week (HMC, 5th Report, Part I, 1876, p. 158)

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Mainpiece Title: Rollo, Duke Of Normandy

Event Comment: On this day (L. C. 5@137,p. 343) Davenant was granted a warrant to act the following plays: Tempest, Measures for Measures, Much Adoe About Nothing, Romeo? and Juliet, Twelfe Night, The Life of King Henry the Eyght, The Sophy, Kinge Lear, The Tragedy of Mackbeth, The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark, and The Dutchesse of Malfy. In addition, he was to have exclusive right for two months to The Mad Lover, The Mayde in Ye Mill, The Spanish Curate, The Loyall Subject, Rule a Wife and have a Wife, and [Pericles] Persiles Prince of Tyre. Davenant also received the right to act his own plays

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Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I bought the play of Henry the Fourth, and so went to the new Theatre...and saw it acted; but my expectation being too great, it did not please me, as otherwise I believe it would; and my having a book, I believe did spoil it a little

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Mainpiece Title: Henry The Fourth

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Related Work: The Tragedy of King Henry IV of France Author(s): Charles Beckingham
Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, where was acted Beggar's Bush, it being very well done; and here the first time that ever I saw women come upon the stage

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Bush

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Mr Moore and I to the Theatre, where was The Scornful Lady, acted very well, it being the first play that ever he saw

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Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Tom and I and my wife to the Theatre, and there saw The Silent Woman. The first time that ever I did see it, and it is an excellent play. Among other things here, Kinaston, the boy, had the good turn to appear in three shapes: first, as a poor woman in ordinary clothes, to please Morose; then in fine clothes, as a gallant, and in them was clearly the prettiest woman in the whole house, and lastly, as a man; and then likewise did appear the handsomest man in the house

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Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

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Related Work: Epicœne; or, The Silent Woman Author(s): George Colman, the elder
Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I took my Lord Hinchinbroke and Mr Sidney to the Theatre, and shewed them The Widdow, and indifferent good play, but wronged by the women being to seek in their parts

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Mainpiece Title: The Widow

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 117, who gives the date as Monday 9, presumably an error for Wednesday 9

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Mainpiece Title: The Wedding

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Related Work: The Triumph of Mirth; or, Harlequin's Wedding Author(s): Thomas King
Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, where I saw The Lost Lady, which do not please me much

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Mainpiece Title: The Lost Lady

Event Comment: The King's Company. Evelyn, Diary: After divers yeares, that I had [not] seene any Play, I went to see acted the Scornfull Lady at a new Theater in Lincolns-in fields

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Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, where I saw again The Lost Lady, which do now please me better than before; and here I sitting behind hn a dark place, a lady spit backward upon me by a mistake, not seeing me, but after seeing her to be a very pretty lady, I was not troubled at it at all

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Mainpiece Title: The Lost Lady