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4026
31 January 1688 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Villain

4027
06 February 1688 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Marriage

4028
13 February 1688 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@148, p. 145. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351. When this play was revised and revived as The Royal Merchant; or, Beggar's Bush at Drury Lane, 19 June 1705, the bill bore the heading: Not acted these Twenty Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Bush

4029
20 February 1688 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

4030
27 February 1688 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

4031
April 1688 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Darius King Of Persia

4032
31 May 1689 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

4033
October 1689 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The data in Langhans, New Restoration Theatre Accounts, pp. 130-31, leave the acting days uncertain. Between 13 May 1689 and 7 Dec. 1689 the company acted on 91 days. It then played regularly through 8 Feb. 1689@90, and acted on 83 days (out of a possible 84) between 10 Feb. and 7 June, on 8 days from 13 June through 4 July 1690. In Poems on Affairs of State= (Fifth Edition, 1703), I, ii, 238, is A Prologue spoken by Mr Mountfort, after he came from the Army, and Acted on the Stage (see also A. S. Borgman, The Life and Death of William Mountfort [Cambridge, Mass., 1935], p. 55). The date at which Mountfort spoke this Prologue is not certain, but he was certainly in London ca. Tuesday 15 Oct. 1689 when he was involved in a disagreement within the United Company. See L. C. 5@192, in Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 334n