Event Comment: The King's Company.
Pepys, Diary:
Sir W. Pen, my wife and I to
the Theatre, and
there saw
The Country Captain,
the first time it hath been acted this twenty-five years, a play of my
Lord Newcastle's, but so silly a play as in all my life I never saw, and
the first that ever I was weary of in my life.
Herbert (
Dramatic Records, p. 118) lists
Love's Mistress for this date for
Vere St., but
the item is out of
the normal order of
the entries. To move it to 26 Oct. 1662 would place it on a Sunday.
The play had been given previously (2 March 1661, 11 March 1661, 25 March 1661) by both
the Duke's Company and
King's Company. Possibly Herbert entered it on
the wrong day. On Herbert's list, following
Love's Mistress, are two plays,
The Contented Collinell [Brenoralt] and
Love at First Sight, each listed without a date.
The former, under
the title
Brenoralt, had been acted at Vere St. on 23 July 1661;
the second was soon to be acted
there on 29 Nov. 1661
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Country Captain