*p1667 04 16 bridges The Silent Woman. ^See16661210^. Morose-Cartwright?; Truewit-Major Mohun?; Cleremont-Burt?; Dauphin-Kynaston?; Sir Amorous-Wintersel?; Sir John Daw-Shatterel?; Captain Otter-Lacy?; Epicene-Mrs Knep?; Lady Haughty-Mrs Rutter?; Mrs Otter-Mrs Corey?.*c1667 04 16 bridges The <i>King's Company</i>. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: In haste to carry my wife to see the new play I saw yesterday, she not knowing it. But there, contrary to expectation, find <i>The Silent Woman</i>. However in; and there $Knipp= come into the pit...[and] tells me $the King= was so angry at the liberty taken by $Lacy='s part to abuse him to his face, that he commanded they should act no more, till $Moone= [$Mohun=] went and got leave for them to act again, but not this play. The King mighty angry; and it was better indeed, but very true and witty. I never was more taken with a play than I am with this "Silent Woman," as old as it is, and as often as I have seen it. There is more wit in it than goes to ten new plays. $Nathaniel Wanby=, <i>Coventry</i>, 1667: We have known in our time that the Silent Woman hath had the loud applause of a whole theatre (<i>BM Harleian MS. 6430</i>, p.23).