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2550 results for: Keyword - Diary of Joseph Farington
We found 1393 matches on Event Comments, 961 matches on Author, 216 matches on Performance Comments, 25 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1701
18 June 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: So my wife not speaking a word, going nor coming, nor willing to go to a play, though a new one

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Evenings Love

1702
20 June 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: And so she [Mrs Pepys] and I alone to the King's house, and there I saw this new play my wife saw yesterday, and do not like it, it being very smutty, and nothing so good as The Maiden Queen, or The Indian Emperour, of his making, that I was troubled at it; and my wife tells me wholly (which he confesses a little in the epilogue) taken out of the Illustre Bassa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Evenings Love

1703
22 June 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: [Creed] and I to the King's playhouse, and saw an act or two of the new play again, but like it not. Calling this day at Herringman's, he tells me Dryden do himself call it but a fifth-rate play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Evenings Love

1704
24 June 1668 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: With wife, Mercer, Deb., and W. Hewer to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw The Impertinents, a pretty good play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sullen Lovers Or The Impertinents

1705
27 June 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: My wife, and Deb., and I to the King's playhouse, and saw The Indian Queene, but do not doat upon Nan Marshall's acting therein, as the world talks of her excellence therein

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Queen

1706
29 June 1668 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: With my wife to the King's playhouse--The Mulberry Garden, which she had not seen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mulberry Garden

1707
06 July 1668 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: Here comes Harris, and first told us how Betterton is come again upon the stage: whereupon my wife and company to the [Duke's] house to see Henry the Fifth.... Thence I to the playhouse, and saw a piece of the play, and glad to see Betterton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Fifth

1708
11 July 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, to see an old play of Shirly's called Hide Parke; the first day acted; where horses are brought upon the stage: but it is but a very moderate play, only an excellent epilogue spoke by Beck Marshall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hyde Park

1709
17 July 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: To the King's house to see a play revived called The [...], a sorry mean play, that vexed us to sit in so much heat of the weather to hear it

Performances

1710
28 July 1668 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: With my wife and Deb. to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw The Slighted Maid, but a mean play; and thence home, there being little pleasure now in a play, the company being but little. Here we saw Gosnell, who is become very homely, and sings meanly, I think

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Slighted Maid

1711
29 July 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I with my wife and two girls to the King's house, and saw The Mad Couple, a mean play altogether

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All Mistaken Or The Mad Couple

Related Works
Related Work: The Mistakes Author(s): Joseph Harris
Related Work: A Fatal Mistake; or, The Plot Spoil'd Author(s): Joseph Haines

1712
31 July 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This play was apparently acted by 1665--see Dec. 1664--and was now revived, although it was not published until 1672. This play is on the L. C. lists, 5@139, p. 129, and 5@12, p. 17. The second list adds: king here. Pepys, Diary: To the King's house, to see the first day of Lacy's Monsieur Ragou, now new acted. The King and Court all there, and mighty merry--a farce

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Troop Or Monsieur Raggou

1713
01 August 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: My wife, and Deb., and I, to the King's house again, coming too late yesterday to hear the prologue, and do like the play better now than before; and, indeed, there is a good deal of true wit in it, more than in the common sort of plays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Troop Or Monsieur Raggou

1714
05 August 1668 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. L. C. list 5@139, p. 125, lists this play for 9 August, a Sunday; possibly "9" is an error for "5". Pepys, Diary: To the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw The Guardian; formerly the same, I find, that was called Cutter of Coleman Street; a silly play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Guardian

1715
12 August 1668 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Duke of York's house, and saw Mackbeth, to our great content

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

1716
15 August 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, and there saw Love's Mistresse revived, the thing pretty good, but full of variety of divertisement

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Mistress Or The Queens Masque

1717
17 August 1668 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Duke of York's house, and there saw Cupid's Revenge, under the new name of Love Despised, that hath something very good in it, though I like not the whole body of it. This day the first time acted here

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Despised

1718
29 August 1668 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: Thence carried Harris to his playhouse, where, though four o'clock, so few people there at The Impertinents, as I went out; and do believe they did not act, though there was my Lord Arlington and his company there. So I out

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sullen Lovers Or The Impertinents

1719
29 August 1668 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: [After leaving lif] met my wife in a coach, and stopped her going thither [lif] to meet me; and took her, and Mercer, and Deb., to Bartholomew Fair, and there did see a ridiculous, obscene little stage-play, called Marry Andrey; a foolish thing, but seen by every body; and so to Jacob Hall's dancing of the ropes; a thing worth seeing, and mightily followed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merry Andrew

1720
31 August 1668 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: To the Duke of York's playhouse, and there met my wife and Deb. and Mary Mercer and Batelier, where also W. Hewer was, and saw Hamlet, which we have not seen this year before, or more; and mightily pleased with it; but, above all, with Betterton, the best part, I believe, that ever man acted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

1721
31 August 1668 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: [After attending lif] to the Fayre, and saw Polichinelle

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

1722
01 September 1668 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: So the the Fair, and there saw several sights; among others, the mare that tells money, and many things to admiration; and, among others, come to me, when she was bid to go to him of the company that most loved a pretty wench in a corner. And this did cost me 12d. to the horse, which I had flung him before, and did give me occasion to baiser a mighty belle fille that was in the house that was exceeding plain, but fort belle

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

1723
04 September 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: 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.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bartholomew Fair

1724
07 September 1668 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: I with Lord Brouncker (who was this day in an unusual manner merry, I believe with drink), J. Minnes, and W. Pen to Bartholomew-Fair; and there saw the dancing mare again, which, to-day, I find to act much worse than the other day, she forgetting many things, which her master beat her for, and was mightily vexed; and then the dancing of the ropes, and also the little stage-play, which is very ridiculous

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

1725
10 September 1668 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: At the Duke's play-house, and there saw The Maid in the Mill, revived--a pretty, harmless old play. Langbaine (English Dramatick Poets, p. 211): This Play amongst others has likewise been reviv'd by the Dukes House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid In The Mill