05 October 1667
Event Information
Theatre:
Lincoln's Inn Fields
Theatrical Season:
1667-1668
Volume:
1
Comments:
The Duke's Company. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 31) lists it as one of several plays whose runs expired on the third day. Pepys, Diary: To the Duke of York's playhouse, but the house so full, it being a new play, The Coffee House, that we could not get in...The Journals of John Lauder Lord Fountainhall (ed. Donald Crawford, 1900), pp. 174-75: heir is the Dukes playhouse, wheir we saw Tom Sydserfes Spanish Comedie Tarugo's Wiles, or the Coffee House, acted....He could not forget himselfe: was very satyricall sneering at the Greshamers for their late invention of the transfusion of blood, as also at our covenant, making the witch of Geneva to wy it and La Sainte Ligue de France togither
Performance List
Mainpiece
Comments:
The edition of 1668 has Prologue-; Epilogue-.
The edition of 1668 has Prologue-; Epilogue-.