26 October 1661

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Theatre: Theatre in Vere Street
Theatrical Season: 1661-1662
Volume: 1
Comments: 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

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    Source: London Stage Information Bank

    *p:vere The Country Captain. *c:vere The <i>King's Company</i>. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: $Sir W. Pen=, my wife and I to the Theatre, and there saw <i>The Country Captain</i>, 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= (<i>Dramatic Records</i>, p. 118) lists <i>Love's Mistress</i> for this date for <i>Vere St.</i>, 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 <i>Duke's Company</i> and <i>King's Company</i>. Possibly Herbert entered it on the wrong day. On Herbert's list, following <i>Love's Mistress</i>, are two plays, <i>The Contented Collinell</i> [Brenoralt] and <i>Love at First Sight</i>, each listed without a date. The former, under the title <i>Brenoralt</i>, had been acted at Vere St. on 23 July 1661; the second was soon to be acted there on 29 Nov. 1661.

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    *p1661 10 26 vere The Country Captain.*c1661 10 26 vere The <i>King's Company</i>. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: $Sir W. Pen=, my wife and I to the Theatre, and there saw <i>The Country Captain</i>, 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= (<i>Dramatic Records</i>, p. 118) lists <i>Love's Mistress</i> for this date for <i>Vere St.</i>, 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 <i>Duke's Company</i> and <i>King's Company</i>. Possibly Herbert entered it on the wrong day. On Herbert's list, following <i>Love's Mistress</i>, are two plays, <i>The Contented Collinell</i> [Brenoralt] and <i>Love at First Sight</i>, each listed without a date. The former, under the title <i>Brenoralt</i>, had been acted at Vere St. on 23 July 1661; the second was soon to be acted there on 29 Nov. 1661.

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    Event: 169 | 16611026 | vere | The <i>King's Company</i>. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: $Sir W. Pen=, my wife and I to the Theatre, and there saw <i>The Country Captain</i>, 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= (<i>Dramatic Records</i>, p. 118) lists <i>Love's Mistress</i> for this date for <i>Vere St.</i>, 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 <i>Duke's Company</i> and <i>King's Company</i>. Possibly Herbert entered it on the wrong day. On Herbert's list, following <i>Love's Mistress</i>, are two plays, <i>The Contented Collinell</i> [Brenoralt] and <i>Love at First Sight</i>, each listed without a date. The former, under the title <i>Brenoralt</i>, had been acted at Vere St. on 23 July 1661; the second was soon to be acted there on 29 Nov. 1661
    Performance: 169 | 169 | p | The Country Captain

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