The London Stage Database team will be retiring the Legacy Search on May 1, 2025. Please take a moment before that date to reproduce any pre-2021 searches and export any resulting datasets you may wish to preserve for future use. We are making this change in order to free up computational resources for new features and data, currently in development with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Watch this space for more updates and, coming soon, new ways to keep up with the latest project developments!

17 December 1677

Event Information
Theatre: Whitehall or St. James's
Theatrical Season: 1677-1678
Volume: 1
Comments: Henry Savile to the Earl of Rochester, 17 Dec. 1677: I had allmost forgott for another argument to bring you to towne that a French troop of comaedians bound for Nimeguen were by adverse winds cast into this hospitable port and doe act at Whitehall soe very well that it is a thousand pittyes they should not stay, especially a young wench of fifteen, who has more beauty and sweetnesse than ever was seen upon the stage since a friend of our left it (HMC, Bath MSS., 1907, II, 161). W. J. Lawrence (Early French Players in England, pp. 148-49) identifies the French actress as Francoise Pitel, later Mlle Raisin

Performance List

Event Downloads

JSON XML CSV

  • Your web browser doesn't have a PDF plugin. Instead, click here to download the PDF file

  • Original Data

    Source: London Stage Information Bank

    *pqatcourt Comment. *cqatcourt $Henry Savile= to the $Earl of Rochester=, 17 Dec. 1677: I had allmost forgott for another argument to bring you to towne that a <i>French troop of comaedians</i> bound for <i>Nimeguen</i> were by adverse winds cast into this hospitable port and doe act at <i>Whitehall</i> soe very well that it is a thousand pittyes they should not stay, especially a young wench of fifteen, who has more beauty and sweetnesse than ever was seen upon the stage since a friend of our left it (<i>HMC, Bath MSS</i>., 1907, II, 161). $W. J. Lawrence= (<i>Early French Players in England</i>, pp. 148-49) identifies the <i>French actress</i> as $Francoise Pitel=, later $Mlle Raisin=.

  • Cleaned Data

    *p1677 12 17 atcourt Comment.*c1677 12 17 atcourt $Henry Savile= to the $Earl of Rochester=, 17 Dec. 1677: I had allmost forgott for another argument to bring you to towne that a <i>French troop of comaedians</i> bound for <i>Nimeguen</i> were by adverse winds cast into this hospitable port and doe act at <i>Whitehall</i> soe very well that it is a thousand pittyes they should not stay, especially a young wench of fifteen, who has more beauty and sweetnesse than ever was seen upon the stage since a friend of our left it (<i>HMC, Bath MSS</i>., 1907, II, 161). $W. J. Lawrence= (<i>Early French Players in England</i>, pp. 148-49) identifies the <i>French actress</i> as $Francoise Pitel=, later $Mlle Raisin=.

  • Parsed Data

    Event: 1316 | 16771217 | atcourt | $Henry Savile= to the $Earl of Rochester=, 17 Dec. 1677: I had allmost forgott for another argument to bring you to towne that a <i>French troop of comaedians</i> bound for <i>Nimeguen</i> were by adverse winds cast into this hospitable port and doe act at <i>Whitehall</i> soe very well that it is a thousand pittyes they should not stay, especially a young wench of fifteen, who has more beauty and sweetnesse than ever was seen upon the stage since a friend of our left it (<i>HMC, Bath MSS</i>., 1907, II, 161). $W. J. Lawrence= (<i>Early French Players in England</i>, pp. 148-49) identifies the <i>French actress</i> as $Francoise Pitel=, later $Mlle Raisin=

Cite this page

Chicago:
MLA: