SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Company of Children"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Company of Children")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

Result Options

Download:
JSON XML CSV

Search Filters

Event

Date Range
Start
End

Performance

?
Filter by Performance Type










Cast

?

Keyword

?
We found 1972 matches on Event Comments, 440 matches on Performance Title, 253 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 17

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorists

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The source of this performance is the diary of Jeffrey Boys. See G. J. Gray, "The Diary of Jeffrey Boys of Gray's Inn, 1671," Notes and Queries, 27 Dec. 1930, p. 455

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Forc'd Marriage; Or, The Jealous Bridegroom

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 17

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorists

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is in a membrandum of Lord Cheyne, Huntington Library MS EL II, 145: for Coach to a play calld Tartuff

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tartuffe

Event Comment: The King's Company. See G. J. Gray, "The Diary of Jeffrey Boys of Gray's Inn, 1671," Notes and Queries, 27 Dec. 1930, p. 455

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conquest Of Granada, Part I

Event Comment: The King's Company. See G. J. Gray, "The Diary of Jeffrey Boys of Gray's Inn, 1671," Notes and Queries, 27 Dec. 1930, p. 455

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conquest Of Granada, Part Ii

Event Comment: The King's Company. See A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 81

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Event Comment: The King's Company. Evelyn, Diary, 9 Feb.: & next day was acted there the famous Play, cald the Siege of Granada two days acted successively: there were indeede very glorious scenes & perspectives, the work of Mr Robert? Streeter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conquest Of Granada, Part Ii

Event Comment: The King's Company. Evelyn, Diary, 9 Feb. 1670@1, suggests that Part I was given on Friday 10 and Part II on Saturday 11 Feb. 1670@1

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conquest Of Granada, Part Ii

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", pp. 17-18: The Schoole of Complements

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Tricks; Or, The School Of Compliments

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 18. It should be noted that this performance falls on a Friday in Lent; there is no indication as to whether this is the premiere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Prince; Or, The Curious Husband

Event Comment: The King's Company. The date of the premiere is not known. Although the play was not entered in the Stationers' Register until 6 Oct. 1671, a reference in the Dedication to a Lenten performance suggests that it appeared about this time. A song, A wife I do hate, with music by Pelham Humphrey, is in Choice Ayres and Songs, The Fifth Book, 1685

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Wood; Or, St James's Park

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 18: The New Utopia. There is no indication as to whether this performance was the premiere. The Preface refers to malice against the plays, and the edition of 1671 has a poem: To the Author of the New Utopia. On the Miscarriage of his Play in Acting

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Six Days' Adventure; Or, The New Utopia

Event Comment: William Cartwright's The Lady Errant was licensed by Sir Henry Herbert to the Duke's Company on this date. See Bentley, Jacobean and Caroline Stage, III, 128-32

Performances

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage," pp. 18-19: The Town Shifts. There is no indication as to whether this is the premiere, and it should be noted that this date is a Wednesday in Lent

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Town-shifts; Or, The Suburb-justice

Event Comment: The King's Company. See 2 and 3 Jan. 1670@1 for the difficulties in dating this performance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conquest Of Granada, Part Ii

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 17. There is no indication as to whether this is the premiere. The play was licensed 6 March 1670 [1671]. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 27) refers to it as being the first "new Play" acted at Dorset Garden in 1666, an error as to both place and time of presentation. Downes adds: All the other Parts, being perfectly well Acted, Succeeded six Days with a full Audience. It seems unlikely that Cambyses was given six days consecutively at this time. A performance of The Forc'd Marriage on Monday 9 Jan. 1670@1 and one of The Humorists on Saturday 14 Jan. 1670@1 do not permit six uninterrupted days for Cambyses at this time

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cambyses, King Of Persia

Event Comment: In the Term Catalogues a new edition of John Wilson's The Cheats was announced as licensed on 30 May 1671. This play had previously been given in March 1663. The edition of 1671 states that it has been given by the King's Company at the Theatre Royal, and it may have been revived at this time

Performances

Event Comment: The King's Company. The date of the first performance is not known, but the fact that the play was licensed for printing on 30 Aug. 1671 suggests an early summer production

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Generous Enemies; Or, The Ridiculous Lovers

Event Comment: The Duke's Company acted at Oxford during this month, offering Cambyses and, presumably, other plays of which we have no record. See W. J. Lawrence, "Oxford Restoration Prologues," Times Literary Supplement, 16 Jan. 1930, p. 43, and Sybil Rosenfeld, "Some Notes on the Players in Oxford, 1661-1713," Review of English Studies, XIX (1943), 368

Performances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: London's Resurrection To Joy And Triumph

Performance Comment: Celebrious to the much meriting Magistrate Sir George Waterman Knight, Lord Mayor of the City of London. At the Peculiar and Proper Expences of the Worshipful Company of Skinners. Jacob Hall (the rope dancer).
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first performance is not known, but Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 32) states: The first new Play Acted there, was King Charles the VIII. of France; it was all new Cloath'd, yet lasted but 6 Days together, but 'twas Acted now and then afterwards. Two songs for this play, Too justly alas, set by James Hart, and O love if e'er thou'lt ease a heart, set by Pelham Humphrey, are in Choice Songs and Ayres, First Book, 1673

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The History Of Charles The Eighth Of France; Or, The Invasion Of Naples Of The French

Event Comment: It is uncertain what play was acted on this day. In A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 81, there is an unnamed play in the accounts for 6 Nov. 1670 to 29 Oct. 1671, with Philaster as the next play in the sequence. Philaster has been assigned to 1 Nov. 1672, laaving the play for this day unknown. The King's Company

Performances

Event Comment: An entry in A Calendar of the Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood, p. 174, indicates a performance but does not name the play. The Duke's Company

Performances

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage," p. 18: Love in a Tubb. Downes, Roscius Anglicanus, p. 32: [After Sir Martin Marall] Next was Acted Love in a Tub, it was perform'd 2 Days together to a full Audience

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge; Or, Love In A Tub