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5898 results for: Keyword - King of the Cherokees
We found 2655 matches on Performance Title, 2620 matches on Performance Comments, 1627 matches on Event Comments, 23 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3376
16 May 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, and there saw the best part of The Sea Voyage, where Knepp I see do her part of sorrow very well

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sea Voyage

3377
20 May 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This play may also have been given on Tuesday 19 May. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, and saw The Mulberry-Garden again, and cannot be reconciled to it, but only to find here and there an independent sentence of wit, and that is all

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mulberry Garden

3378
30 May 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, and there saw Philaster; where it is pretty to see how I could remember almost all along, ever since I was a boy, Arethusa, the part which I was to have acted at Sir Robert Cooke's; and it was very pleasant to me, but more to think what a ridiculous thing it would have been for me to have acted a beautiful woman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Philaster; Or, Love Lies A Bleeding

Related Works
Related Work: Philaster Author(s): George Colman, the elder
Related Work: The Restoration; or, Right Will Take Place Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

3379
03 June 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's house, and there saw good part of The Scornful Lady, and that done, would have taken out Knepp, but she was engaged

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

3380
19 June 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: By and by comes my wife and Deb. home, have been at the King's playhouse to-day, thinking to spy me there; and saw the new play, Evening Love, of Dryden's, which, though the world commends, she likes not. Evelyn, Diary: To a new play, with severeall of my Relations, the Evening Lover, a foolish plot, & very Prophane, so as it afflicted me to see how the stage was. degenerated & poluted by the licentious times

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Evening's Love

3381
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 Evening's Love

3382
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 Evening's Love

3383
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

3384
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

3385
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

3386
14 July 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists, 5@139, p. 129, and 5@12, p. 17. The second list adds: the king here. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hyde Park

3387
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

3388
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

3389
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

3390
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

3391
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

3392
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

3393
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

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragedy of King Henry IV of France Author(s): Charles Beckingham

3394
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

Related Works
Related Work: Epicœne; or, The Silent Woman Author(s): George Colman, the elder

3395
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

3396
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

3397
02 December 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: So she [Mrs Pepys] and I to the King's playhouse, and there sat to avoid seeing Knepp in box above where Mrs Williams happened to be, and there saw The Usurper; a pretty good play, in all but what is designed to resemble Cromwell and Hugh Peters, which is mighty silly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Usurper

Performance Comment: The edition of 1668 lists no actors' names. See16630102@4.

3398
03 December 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 here. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Usurper

3399
19 December 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, and there, the pit being full, sat in a box above, and saw Catiline's Conspiracy, yesterday being the first day: a play of much good sense and words to read, but that do appear the worst upon the stage, I mean, the least diverting, that ever I saw any, though most fine in clothes; and a fine scene of the Senate, and of a fight, that ever I saw in my life. But the play is only to be read, and therefore home, with no pleasure at all, but only in sitting next to Betty Hall, that did belong to this house, and was Sir Philip Howard's mistress, a mighty pretty wench. Evelyn, Diary: I went to see the old play Cataline acted, having ben now forgotten 40 years almost

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Catiline

3400
01 January 1669 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. The play was reprinted in 1669. Pepys, Diary: My wife and I with our coach to the King's playhouse, and there in a box saw The Mayden Queene. Knepp looked upon us, but I durst not shew her any countenance; and, as well as I could carry myself, I found my wife uneasy there, poor wretch; therefore, I shall avoid that house as much as I can

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love; Or, The Maiden Queen