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2595 results for: Keyword - Company of Children
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.

1876
01 November 1686 @ Inner Temple

Event Comment: The United Company. The players received the customary fee of #20. See A Calendar of Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 239

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

1877
03 November 1686 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 260. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ir Courtly Nice

1878
10 November 1686 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 260. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351. This play was reprinted in 1687

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

1879
17 November 1686 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 260. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

1880
24 November 1686 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 260. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

1881
01 December 1686 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 260: The Beggars at Whitehall. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351. A song, Bring out your cony-skins fair? maids to me, set for this play by Samuel Ackroyde, is in Vinculum Societatis, 1687

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Bush

1882
09 December 1686 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 260: A King & no King at Whitehall. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A King And No King

1883
15 December 1686 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 260: the Maiden Queene at Whitehall. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love; Or, The Maiden Queen

1884
22 December 1686 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company, Lord Ashburnham's Diary: I went to visit Ld Sussex, and Mr Campion, neither of them at home, I went into the Play (the Wanton Wife) [Ashburnham MS 932; see 14 Dec. 1686]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

1885
03 January 1687 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 361. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Fond Husband; Or, The Plotting Sisters

1886
06 January 1687 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. Lord Ashburnham's Diary: I went to the Play (a King and no King) and came home in good time a very rayny night (Ashburnham MS 932; see 14 Dec. 1686)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A King And No King

1887
10 January 1687 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. Lord Ashburnham's Diary: I came home at 8 of ye Clock after having look'd in at the Play, the Spanish Curate (Ashburnham MS 932; see 14 Dec. 1686)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Curate

1888
10 January 1687 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 361. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan; Or, The Unhappy Marriage

1889
19 January 1687 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 361: The Rover at Whitehall. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351. The entry does not indicate whether Part I or Part II was acted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

1890
20 January 1687 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 361: The King & Queene & a Box for ye Maides of Honor at ye Rehearsall. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

1891
26 January 1687 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 361: Rolo at Whitehall. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rollo

1892
28 January 1687 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. Lord Ashburnham's Diary: In the afternoon came Sr John Katchpole to see me, afterwards I went to the Play (The Maids Tragedy) [Ashburnham MS 932; see 14 Dec. 1686]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid's Tragedy

1893
01 February 1687 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. Lord Ashburnham's Diary: I went to the Play, (The Committee) [Ashburnham MS 932; see 14 Dec. 1686]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

1894
02 February 1687 @ Inner Temple

Event Comment: The United Company. The play is probably The Spanish Curate rather than Dryden's The Spanish Fryar, for the latter, on 8 Dec. 1686, was ordered not to be acted. The players received the customary fee of #20. See A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 244

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Priest

1895
22 February 1687 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is known from a playbill. See Eleanore Boswell, A Playbill of 1687, Library, 4th Series, XI (1931), 499-502, and Cecil Price, A Playbill, c. 1686, Notes and Queries, Vol. 194 [1949), p. 519. The bill Price saw is in the State Papers James II, 31@3, ff. 215-16, among documents referring to 1686, but the date and day of the week point to 1687. The bill reads: At the Theatre Royall this present Tuesday being the Twenty second day of February will be presented, A Play called, A King, and No King. Beginning Exact...t Four of the Clock....their Majesties Servants. VIVAT REX

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A King And No King

1896
March 1687 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. The date of the first performance is not known, but the play was licensed 6 April 1687 in the Stationers' Register, 24 May 1687. The play was probably given first in March, as the Prologue refers to the speaking head, which was mentioned in the Newdigate newsletters (Folger Shakespeare Library), 26 March 1687: A Country man haveing invented a head & soe contrived it that whatever language or tune you speak in the Mouth of it it Repeated distinctly and Audibly. [I owe this reference to Professor John Harold Wilson]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperour Of The Moon

1897
06 April 1687 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 361: The King & Queene & a Box for ye Maides of Honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid's Tragedy

1898
11 April 1687 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 361. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Curate

1899
18 April 1687 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 361. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351. There are undated editions of this play which appear to have been issued between 1685 and 1687

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

1900
25 April 1687 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 361. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351. The date of the first performance of this revision is not known. As it is somewhat unlikely that a play would have its premiere at court, the first production possibly appeared earlier in the month. See 6 Nov. 1668 for an earlier revision of this work. The title-page of the edition of 1687 states: As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal. Reviv'd with Alterations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess