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7385 results for: Keyword - M. P. King
We found 2868 matches on Performance Comments, 2862 matches on Event Comments, 2650 matches on Performance Title, 25 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

6451
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

6452
24 September 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: Some time (probably not long) before this date Aglaura [by Sir John Suckling] was acted by the King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Thence to Mr Wotton, the shoemaker's, and there bought a pair of boots, cost me 30s., and he told me how Bird hath lately broke his leg, while he was fencing in Aglaura, upon the stage, and that the new theatre of all will be ready against term

Performances

6453
16 October 1662 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: This play was probably given by the King's Company, which presented it a number of times later. See Noyes, Ben Jonson, pp. 42-43. Evelyn, Diary: I saw Vulpone acted at court before their Majesties &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone

6454
27 October 1662 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: Here we staid some time, thinking to stay out the play before the King to-night, but it being The Villaine, and my wife not being there, I had no mind

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Villain

6455
29 October 1662 @ The City, London

Event Comment: The Lord Mayor's show. Evelyn, Diary: Was my L. Majors shew with a number of sumptuous pageantry, speeches & Verses: I was standing in an house in Cheape side, against the place prepared for their Majesties. The Prince & heire of Denmark was there, but not our King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Londons Triumph Presented In Severall Delightfull Scaenes

6456
10 November 1662 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: Having sent for Mr Creed, had thought to have shown my wife a play before the King, but it is so late that we could not

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Unidentified Play

6457
01 December 1662 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: I to the Cockpitt, with much crowding and waiting, where I saw The Valiant Cidd acted, a play I have read with great delight, but is a most dull thing acted, which I never understood before, there being no pleasure in it, though done by Betterton and by Ianthe [Mrs Saunderson], and another fine wench [Mrs Norton] that is come in the room of Roxalana [Mrs Davenport]; nor did the King or Queen once smile all the whole play, nor any of the company seem to take anyPleasure but what was in the greatness and gallantry of the company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Valiant Cid

6458
08 December 1662 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: I hearing what play it was that is to be acted before the King tonight, I would not stay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Unidentified Play

6459
05 February 1663 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Apparently this was the premiere. Prologue: First Astrol. reads. A Figure of the heavenly Bodies in their several Apartments, Feb. the 5th half an hour after three after Noon, from whence you are to judge the success of a new Play call'd the Wild Gallant. Evelyn, Diary: I saw the Wild Gallant, a Comedy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wild Gallant

6460
01 June 1663 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: To the New Theatre [Vere St], which, since the King's players are gone to the Royal one [Bridges St], is this day begun to be employed by the fencers to play prizes at

Performances

6461
12 June 1663 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: With my wife by water to the Royall Theatre; and there saw The Committee, a merry but indifferent play, only Lacey's part, an Irish footman, is beyond imagination. Here I saw my Lord Falconbridge, and his Lady, my Lady Mary Cromwell, who looks as well as I have known her and as well clad; but when the House began to fill she put on her vizard, and so kept it on all the play; which of late is become a great fashion among the ladies, which hides their whole face

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

6462
13 June 1663 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary To the Royall Theatre, where I resolved to bid farewell, as shall appear by my oaths to-morrow against all plays either at publique houses or Court till Christmas be over. Here we saw The Faithfull Sheepheardesse, a most simple thing, and yet much thronged after, and often shown, but it is only for the scenes' sake, which is very fine indeed and worth seeing; but I am quite out of opinion with any of their actings, but Lacy's, compared with the other house

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Faithful Shepherdess

6463
02 November 1663 @ Inner Temple

Event Comment: By the King's Company. The fee paid the players was the customary #20. See A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 16: To Drake, the upholsterer, for a serge Curtain and for hire of a screen on All Hallows day, #1

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

6464
01 February 1664 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: And took my wife out immediately to the King's Theatre, it being a new month, and once a month I may go, and there saw The Indian Queen acted; which indeed is a most pleasant show, and beyond my expectation; the play good, but spoiled with the ryme, which breaks the sense. But above my expectation most, the eldest Marshall did do her part most excellently well as I ever heard woman in my life; but her voice not so sweet so Ianthe's [Mrs Betterton's]; but, however, we came home mightily contented

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Queen

6465
02 February 1664 @ Inner Temple

Event Comment: The King's Company. The players received the customary fee of #20. See A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 25

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Epicoene

6466
07 March 1664 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Pepys, 7 March, refers to a new play at the King's Theatre. Possibly it was Thomas Porter's The Carnival, published in 1664, with no actors' names, no prologue, no epilogue, and announced in The Intelligencer, 2 May 1664

Performances

6467
02 May 1664 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This play, possibly an adaptation from Corneille, was apparently not printed. It bears, however, some resemblances to Walter Hawkesworth's Latin comedy, Labyrinthus (which was first acted at Trinity College, Cambridge, in March 1602@3); and this Restoration play may be a variation on Hawkesworth's. Pepys, Diary: To the King's Playhouse...my wife and I and Madamoiselle. I paid for her going in, and there saw The Labyrinth, the poorest play, methinks, that ever I saw, there being nothing in it but the odd accidents that fell out, by a lady's being bred up in men's apparel, and a man in a woman's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Labyrinth

6468
June 1664 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. The play was entered in the Stationers' Register, 27 June 1664. For the Epilogue, see R. G. Ham, "Dryden's Epilogue to The Rival Ladies, 1664," Review of English Studies, XIII (1937), 76-80

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Ladies

6469
18 August 1664 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company, presumably. For a version of this play, see R. G. Howarth, "A Manuscript of James Shirley's Court Secret," Review of English Studies, VII (1931), 302-13. The manuscript is in the Worcester College Library (Plays 9. 21). Pepys, Diary: My wife going to-day to dine with Mrs Pierce, and thence with her and Mrs Clerke to see a new play, The Court Secret. [The play had not been acted before the Restoration.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Court Secret

6470
28 September 1664 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: By coach to White Hall, thinking to have met at a Committee of Tangier, but nobody being there but my Lord Rutherford, he would needs carry me and another Scotch Lord to a play, and so we saw, coming late, part of The Generall, my Lord Orrery's (Broghill) second play; but, Lord! to see how no more either in words, sense, or design, it is to his Harry the 5th is not imaginable, and so poorly acted, though in finer clothes, is strange. And here I must confess breach of a vowe in appearance, but I not desiring it, but against my will, and my oathe being to go neither at my own charge nor at another's, as I had done by becoming liable to give them another, as I am to Sir W. Pen and Mr Creed; but here I neither know which of them paid for me, nor, If I did, am I obliged ever to return the like

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Generall

6471
05 October 1664 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Kings' Company. The play was probably acted through 11 Oct. Pepys, Diary, 4 Oct.: To-morrow they told us should be acted, or the day after, a new play, called The Parson's Dreame, acted all by women

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Parsons Wedding

6472
11 October 1664 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: Luellin...tells me what a bawdy loose play this Parson's Wedding is, that is acted by nothing but women at the King's house, and I am glad of it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Parsons Wedding

6473
01 November 1664 @ Inner Temple

Event Comment: The King's Players. The company received the usual fee of #20. See A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 25

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Night Walker Or The Little Thief

6474
02 February 1665 @ Inner Temple

Event Comment: The King's Company. The players receided the customary fee of #20. See A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 38

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Changes Or Love In A Maze

6475
02 February 1665 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: Saw a fine Mask at court perform'd by 6 Gent: & 6 Ladys surprizing his Majestie, it being Candlemas day. Pepys, Diary, 3 Feb.: Then Mrs Pickering...did, at my Lady's command, tell me the manner of a masquerade before the King and Court the other day. Where six women (my Lady Castlemayne and Duchesse of Monmouth being two of them) and six men (the Duke of Monmouth and Lord Arran and Monsieur Blanfort, being three of them) in vizards, but most rich and antique dresses, did dance admirably and most gloriously. God give us cause to continue the mirthe!

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Masque