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5846 results for: Keyword - King of Shweden
We found 2634 matches on Performance Title, 2610 matches on Performance Comments, 1593 matches on Event Comments, 23 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4876
16 January 1662 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Possibly this was acted by the King's Company, which had given it on 16 Nov. 1660 and 8 Jan. 1661. Evelyn, Diary: This Night was acted before his Majestie the Widow, a lewd play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow

4877
21 January 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

4878
28 January 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

4879
05 February 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary [Sir W. Pen] and I and my wife to the Theatre...and there saw Rule a Wife and have a Wife very well done

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

4880
06 February 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: This play was seen by Jacques Thierry and Will Schellinks (Seaton, Literary Relationships, pp. 333, 335). As this play was presented by the King's Company on 15 Nov. 1660 and again on 30 Dec. 1661, it was probably given at Vere St.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Cruelty

4881
11 February 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: This play was seen by Jacques Thierry and Will Schellinks (Seaton, Literary Relationships, pp. 333, 335). As this play was given as recently as 5 Feb. 1661@2 by the King's Company, it has been assigned to Vere St.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

4882
11 February 1662 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: I saw a Comedy acted before the Dutchesse of York at the Cock-pit: The king was not at it

Performances

4883
13 February 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: This play was seen by Jacques Thierry and Will Schellinks (Seaton, Literary Relationships, pp. 333, 335). As the King's Company is the only one known to gave given it since the Restoration, it has been assigned to Vere St

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

4884
25 February 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid's Tragedy

4885
27 February 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118: Aglavara the Tragicall Way

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aglaura

4886
01 March 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

4887
03 March 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118. BM Add. Mss. 34217, in Hotson, p. 246: @O' th' contrary Salendina for witt@Most say did come far short of it@And though I confesse there was some fault there@Yett this I'll say in defense of the Author@A good Plott though ill writt lookes more like a Play@Then all your fine lines when the plott is away.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zelindra

4888
11 March 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118. See also The Variety, in Bentley, Jacobean and Caroline Stage, III, 149-51; and James Shirley's The Ball; or, French Dancing Master, in Bentley, V, 1079. See also 10 Nov. 1661

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The French Dancing Master

4889
15 March 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Little Thief

4890
22 March 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: Jacques Thierry and Will Schellinks attended this performance, but do not indicate the theatre. See Seaton, Literary Relationships, pp. 334, 336. As this play had been acted by the King's Company on 11 Jan. 1661@2, it has been assigned to Vere St.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Lies A Bleeding

4891
04 April 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Northern Lass

4892
19 April 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Father's Own Son

4893
23 April 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118. This was a new play, but it is not clear that this day was the premiere. BM Add. Mss. 34217, in Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 246: @For the surprizall it was a good proofe@By its getting them mony it took well enough@Without which Divell take the Play@Be it never so good the Actors say@But they may thanke God with all their hart@That Lacy plaid Brankadoros part.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surprizal

4894
05 May 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Knight Of The Burning Pestle

4895
07 May 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: At the Theatre, where I saw the last act of the Knight of the Burning Pestle, which pleased me not at all

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Knight Of The Burning Pestle

4896
12 May 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Brenoralt [or, the Discontented Colonel]

4897
17 May 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118. Langbaine (English Dramatic Poets, p. 477): This Play has been received with Success (as I said) in our Time; and as I remember, the deceas'd Mr Lacy acted Jonny Thump, Sir Gervase Simple's Man, with general Applause

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Maze

4898
19 May 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Sir W. Pen and his daughter, and I and my wife by coach to the Theatre, and there in a box saw The Little Thief well done

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Little Thief

4899
21 May 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre to The French Dancing Master, and there with much pleasure gazed upon her (Lady Castlemaine); but it troubles us to see her look dejectedly and slighted by People already. The play pleased us [Pepys and Mrs Pepys] very well; but Lacy's part, the Dancing Master, the best in the world

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The French Dancing Master

4900
22 May 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: We by coach to the Theatre and saw Love in a Maze. The play hath little in it but Lacy's part of a country fellow, which he did to admiration

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Maze