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2886 results for: Keyword - Hallam's Company of Comedians
We found 2010 matches on Event Comments, 926 matches on Performance Comments, 30 matches on Performance Title, 12 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1676
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

1677
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

1678
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

1679
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

1680
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: Love's Mistress; Or, The Queen's Masque

1681
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

1682
20 August 1668 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: In L. C. 5@139, p. 373, is a list of plays allowed to the Duke's Company: The Poetaster [by Ben Jonson]. Cupids Reuenge [by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. See 17 Aug. 1668]. Timon of Athens [by William Shakespeare]. Troyolus and Grisseida [by William Shakespeare]. Three parts of H. ye 6 [by William Shakespeare]. The honest mans fortune [by John Fletcher and others]. Woemen pleas'd [by John Fletcher]. Witt at Seuerall Weapons [by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher]. The Woemen Hater or The hungry Courtier [by Francis Beaumont]. All fooles [by George Chapman]. Birons Conspiracy [by George Chapman]. Broken heart [by John Ford]. Bird in a Cage [by James Shirley]. Chabot Admirall of ffranse [by James Shirley, with George Chapman]. ffaithful Shepherd [possibly Guarini's Il Pastor Fido]. Herod and Antipater [by Gervase Markham with William Sampson]. Humor out of breath [by John Day]. Jealous Louers [by Thomas Randolph]. Loues Melancholy [Lover's Melancholy, by John Ford]. Muliasses the Turke [by John Mason]. Queene of Arragon [by William Habington]. Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois [by George Chapman]. Revenge for Honor [or The Parricide, by Henry Glapthorne]

Performances

1683
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

1684
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

1685
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

1686
14 September 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This play is on L. C. list, 5@12, p. 17: ye king here. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344. The play was apparently designed for the opening of the Bridges St playhouse in November 1666 but was not then acted. The edition of 1667 gives a intended cast. Bonhomme-Cartwright; Valerio-$C. Hart; Ergasto-$W. Winterson [$Wintershall]; Don Buisson-Burt; La Fleur-$E. Keninston [$Kynaston]; Sganarelle-J. Lacy; Mascarillio-$M. Moon [$Mohun]; Jodelet-R. Shatterel; Housekeepers-$Alexander, $Wilbraham; Mary and Anne-$The Two Marshalls; Isabella-$Mrs Rutter; Lysette-$Nel Guin; Prologue Intended for the Overture of the Theatre, 1666; Epilogue. [In this list the names Alexander and Wilbraham are not otherwise known and may represent errors in the printed list.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Damaseiles A La Mode

1687
15 September 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, to see a new play, acted but yesterday, a translation out of French by Dryden [see 14 Sept. 1668], called The Ladys a la Mode; so mean a thing as, when they come to say it would be acted again to-morrow, both he that said it, Beeson [Beeston], and the pit fell a-laughing, there being this day not a quarter of the pit full

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ladies A La Mode

1688
17 September 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, and saw Rollo, Duke of Normandy, which, for old acquaintance, pleased me pretty well

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rollo, Duke Of Normandy

1689
18 September 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's house, and saw a piece of Henry the Fourth; at the end of the play, thinking to have gone abroad with Knepp, but it was too late, and she to get her part against to-morrow, in The Silent Woman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Fourth

1690
19 September 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, and there saw The Silent Woman; the best comedy, I think, that ever was wrote; and sitting by Shadwell the poet, he was big with admiration of it. Here was iy Lord Brouncker and W. Pen and their ladies in the box....Knepp did her part mighty well

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

1691
28 September 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Knepp's maid comes to me, to tell me that the women's day at the playhouse is to-day, and that therefore I must be there, to encrease their profit....I by coach toward the King's playhouse, and meeting W. Howe took him with me, and there saw The City Match; not acted these thirty years, and but a silly play: the King and Court there; the house, for the women's sake, mighty full

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Match

1692
10 October 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. The entry in Pepys, Diary for this day is missing, but on 12 Oct. 1668 he implies that he saw this play on 10 Oct. 1668

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Faithful Shepherdess

1693
12 October 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: My wife and Mercer, and W. Hewer and Deb., to the King's playhouse, and I afterwards by water with them, and there we did hear the Eunuch (who, it seems, is a Frenchman, but long bred in Italy) sing, which I seemed to take as new to me, though I saw him on Saturday last [see 10 Oct. 1668], but said nothing of it; but such action and singing I could never have imagined to have heard, and do make good whatever Tom Hill used to tell me. [The Eunuch may be Baldassare Ferri.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Faithful Shepherdess

1694
14 October 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, and there saw The Faithful Shepherdess again, that we might hear the French Eunuch sing, which we did, to our great content; though I do admire his action as much as his singing, being both beyond all I ever saw or heard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Faithful Shepherdess

1695
14 October 1668 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The Prologue to the Queen of Arragon Acted before the Duke of York, Upon his Birthday, and Epilogue to the Same To the Duchess, by Samuel Butler, are in The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler, ed. R. B. Johnson (London, 1893), II, 175-77. Newsletter, 12 Oct. 1668: The Duke of York's birthday will be celebrated with the usual solemnities, a play being prepared for the entertainment of the ladies. The piece chosen is The Queen of Arragon. It will be acted in the Guard Chamber at St James's (HMC, Fleming MSS., 12th Report, Appendix, Part VII, p. 59). Pepys, Diary: But the Duke of York being gone out, and to-night being a play there, and a great festival, we would not stay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Queen Of Arragon

1696
19 October 1668 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: My wife and I to the Duke of York's playhouse; and there saw, the first time acted, The Queene of Arragon, an old Blackfriars' play, but an admirable one, so good that I am astonished at it, and wonder where it hath lain asleep all this while, that I have never heard of it before. Here met W. Batelier and Mrs Hunt, Deb's aunt; and saw her home--a very witty woman, and one that knows this play, and understands a play mighty well

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Queen Of Arragon

1697
06 November 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess; Or, The Generous Portuguese

1698
09 November 1668 @ Whitehall or St. James's

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. Newsletter, 9 Nov.: A play, The tanner tanned, is appointed for this evening in the new theatre at Whitehall (HMC, Fleming MSS., 12th Report, Appendix, Part VII, p. 60)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tamer Tamed

1699
16 November 1668 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This is on an L. C. list in the Harvard Theatre Collection. See William vanLennep, Plays on the English Stage 1669-1672, Theatre Notebook, XVI (1961), 13

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Feign'd Innocence; Or, Sir Martin Marall

1700
21 November 1668 @ Whitehall or St. James's

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady