Event Comment: The
King's Company. This performance is on the
L. C. list, 5@141, p. 116. See also
Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 345. There is no certainty that this is the premiere, but the frequency of performance of
The Tempest during September-October-November would make November 1674 a suitable time for a burl
esque of this sort. A small quarto,
The Songs & Masque in the New Tempest (in the
Huntington Library, 122925), without a title page, contains what are apparently the songs and concluding masque of the play. It may have been issued during the run of the play and sold at the theatre. It does not name any performers.
Langbaine (
English Dramatick Poets, p. 177): This Play was to draw the Town from the
Duke's Theatre, who for a considerable time had frequented that admirable reviv'd Comedy call'd
The Tempest
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Mock-tempest; Or, The Enchanted Castle