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Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list at Harvard. See William VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 13. The edition of 1668 states: As it was Acted (with great Applause) by the Servants of His Royal Highness the Duke of York, at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Changeling

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list 5@12, p. 17: King here. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Usurper

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Event Comment: The King's Company. This play is on the L. C. list, 5@12, p. 17: at court. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Usurper

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This play is on the L. C. list at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage," p. 13. Pepys, Diary: To the Duke's playhouse, and saw Macbeth. The King and Court there; and we sat just under them and my Lady Castlemayne, and close to the woman that comes into the pit, a kind of a loose gossip, that pretends to be like her, and is so, something...The King and Duke of York minded me, and smiled upon me, at the handsome woman near me: but it vexed me to see Moll Davis, in the box over the King's and my Lady Castlemayne's head, look down upon the King, and he up to her; and so did my Lady Castlemayne once, to see who it was; but when she saw her, she looked like fire; which troubled me

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This play is on the L. C. list at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage," p. 13

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tryphon

Performance Comment: See16681208 The Prologue-Mr Nokes?, Mr Angell?; Epilogue-.
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list at Harvard: the King and Queen [present]. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage," p. 13

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sullen Lovers Or The Impertinents

Event Comment: The King's Company. This play is on the L. C. list, 5@12, p. 17: Catilines Conspiracie. King & Queene here. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Catiline

Event Comment: The King's Company. This play is on the L. C. list, 5@12, p. 17: The King here. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344. Mrs John Evelyn to Mr Terryll, 10 Feb. 1668@9: Horace, with a farce and dances between every act, composed by Lacy and played by him and Nell, which takes (John Evelyn, Diary and Correspondence, ed. William Bray, IV, 14). See 19 Jan. 1668@9

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Horace

Related Works
Related Work: Horace Author(s): Katherine Philips
Event Comment: The King's Company. This play is on the L. C. list, 5@12, p. 17: The King & Queene. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Horace

Related Works
Related Work: Horace Author(s): Katherine Philips
Event Comment: The King's Company. This play is on the L. C. list, 5@12, p. 17: the King here. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344. Mrs John Evelyn to Mr Terryll, 10 Feb. 1668@9: one of my Lord of Newcastle's for whch printed apoligies are scattered in the assembly by Briden's order, either for himself who had some hand in it, or for the author most; I think both had right to them (Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, ed. William Bray, IV, 14)

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Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Performance Comment: The play was not published.
Related Works
Related Work: The Heiress Author(s): William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This play is on the L. C. list at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage," p. 14

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Mainpiece Title: The Guardian

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@12, p. 17. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage," p. 14. Pepys, Diary: My wife and I to White Hall; and there, by means of Mr Cooling, did get into the play, the only one we have seen this winter: it was The Five Hours' Adventure: but I sat so far I could not hear well, nor was there any pretty woman that I did see, but my wife, who sat in my Lady Fox's pew with her. The house very full; and late before done, so that it was past eleven before we got home

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Adventures Of Five Hours

Event Comment: The King's Company. This play is on the L. C. list, 5@12., p. 17. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344. Pepys, Diary: And in the evening I do carry them to White Hall, and there did without much trouble get into the playhouse, there in a good place among the Ladies of Honour, and myself also sat in the pit; and there by and by come the King and Queen, and they begun Bartholomew Fayre. But I like no play here so well as at the common playhouse; besides that, my eyes being very ill since last Sunday and this day se'nnight, with the light of the candles, I was in mighty pain to defend myself now from the light of the candles

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: The King's Company. This play is on the L. C. list, 5@12, p. 17: ye King here. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Coxcomb

Related Works
Related Work: Epicœne; or, The Silent Woman Author(s): George Colman, the elder
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance, apparently the premiere, is on the L. C. list at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 14. Downes (p. 28): After this my Lord Orrery, Writ Two Comedies: The first call'd Guzman...took very well

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Guzman

Performance Comment: Downes (Roscius Anglicanus) gives no cast; and the first publication of the play, in 1693, lists no actors' names.
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 14

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Feignd Innocence Or Sir Martin Marall

Event Comment: The King's Company. This play is on the L. C. list, 5@12, p. 17. See also Nicoll. Restoration Drama, p. 344

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King And No King

Performance Comment: Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 5): Arbaces-Hart; Tygranes-Burt; Mardonius-Mohun; Gobrias-Wintersel; Lygones-Cartwright; Bessus-Shotterel; Arane-Mrs Corey; Panthea-Madam Gwin.
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Role: Panthea Actor: Madam Gwin.
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This play is on the L. C. list at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", pp. 12-14. The play seems to be a translation by Shadwell of Moliere's Tartuffe. Elkanah Settle, in the Preface to his Ibrahim (licensed 4 May 1676) attacks Shadwell and refers to Shadwell's translation of Tartuffe into The Hypocrite, which, according to Settle, was acted six days

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Performance Comment: The play was not published.
Related Works
Related Work: Tartuffe; or, The French Puritan Author(s): Matthew Medbourne
Event Comment: On this day the Lord Chamberlain issued an order (L. C. 5@12, p. 252; in Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 252) signifying the King's pleasure that: "ye french Comoedians haue liberty to Act and Play And that noe Persons pr[e]sume to molest or disturbe them in their Acting & playing.

Performances

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Although this performance is not certainly the premiere, it is the earliest known acting of the play. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 14. John Boyle, Fifth Earl of Orrery: Master Anthony too the sequel of Guzman was after Lord Orrery's Death brought upon the Stage, but being disrelish'd by the Audience appear'd only one Night. It is probable The Author had not supervis'd and corrected It sufficiently before he died (The Dramatic Works of Roger Boyle, ed. W. S. Clark II, II, 950). If these private notes, written some fifty years after the premiere, are correct, this performance may have been the premiere and the only day of acting it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mr Anthony

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 15

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentleman Of Venice

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, Plays on the English Stage, p. 15

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sophy

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 15. The play was not printed, and the only source of information concerning it is in Downes, Roscius Anglicanus, p. 30: The Woman made a Justice: Wrote by Mr Betterton: Mrs Long, Acting the Justice so Charmingly; and the Comedy being perfect and justly Acted, so well pleased the Audience, it continu'd Acting 14 Days together: The Prologue being spoke to it each Day. [It is possible that this date represents the premiere, since Saturday was frequently a day on which plays were first acted, but there is no certainty on this point.

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Mainpiece Title: The Woman Made A Justice

Performance Comment: The Justice-Mrs Long; Prologue-.
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Role: The Justice Actor: Mrs Long
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 15

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester