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04 September 1668

Event Information
Theatre: The (first) Drury Lane Theatre
Theatrical Season: 1667-1668
Volume: 1
Comments: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: My wife having a mind to see the play Bartholomew-Fayre, with puppets. Which we did, and it is an excellent play; the more I see it, the more I love the wit of it; only the business of abusing the Puritans begins to grow stale, and of no use, they being the people that, at last, will be found the wisest. And here Knepp come to us, and sat with us. [Earlier that day Pepys had been to the Fair briefly, but saw none of the entertainments.

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  • Original Data

    Source: London Stage Information Bank

    *p?bridges Bartholomew Fair. *c?bridges The <i>King's Company</i>. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: My wife having a mind to see the play <i>Bartholomew-Fayre</i>, with puppets. Which we did, and it is an excellent play; the more I see it, the more I love the wit of it; only the business of abusing the $Puritans= begins to grow stale, and of no use, they being the people that, at last, will be found the wisest. And here $Knepp= come to us, and sat with us. [Earlier that day Pepys had been to the Fair briefly, but saw none of the entertainments.]

  • Cleaned Data

    *p1668 09 04 bridges Bartholomew Fair.*c1668 09 04 bridges The <i>King's Company</i>. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: My wife having a mind to see the play <i>Bartholomew-Fayre</i>, with puppets. Which we did, and it is an excellent play; the more I see it, the more I love the wit of it; only the business of abusing the $Puritans= begins to grow stale, and of no use, they being the people that, at last, will be found the wisest. And here $Knepp= come to us, and sat with us. [Earlier that day Pepys had been to the Fair briefly, but saw none of the entertainments.]

  • Parsed Data

    Event: 753 | 16680904 | bridges | The <i>King's Company</i>. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: My wife having a mind to see the play <i>Bartholomew-Fayre</i>, with puppets. Which we did, and it is an excellent play; the more I see it, the more I love the wit of it; only the business of abusing the $Puritans= begins to grow stale, and of no use, they being the people that, at last, will be found the wisest. And here $Knepp= come to us, and sat with us. [Earlier that day Pepys had been to the Fair briefly, but saw none of the entertainments.
    Performance: 753 | 753 | p | Bartholomew Fair

Mainpiece

Title: Bartholomew Fair
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Related Works

Publish Date: 1716
Author: Ben Jonson
Birth: 1572
Death: 1637

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Chicago: "London Stage Event: 04 September 1668 at The (first) Drury Lane Theatre." London Stage Database. Accessed April 2, 2025. https://londonstagedb.uoregon.edu/event.php?id=753.
MLA: "London Stage Event: 04 September 1668 at The (first) Drury Lane Theatre." London Stage Database, https://londonstagedb.uoregon.edu/event.php?id=753. Accessed 2 April 2025.