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8061 results for: Keyword - Moll Davis</i>] (whom I never saw act before) dancing <span class=
We found 5147 matches on Event Comments, 2008 matches on Performance Title, 1835 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3701
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

Performance Comment: Edition of 1667: Prologue and Epilogue but no actor's names.

3702
16 March 1663 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Jacques Thierry and Will Schellinks saw a ballet somewhere in London (Seaton, Literary Relationships, pp. 334, 336)

Performances

3703
22 April 1663 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's Playhouse, where we saw but part of Witt without mony, which I do not like much, but coming late put me out of tune, and it costing me four half-crowns for myself and company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

3704
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

3705
02 July 1663 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: I saw the greate Masque at court

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Masque

3706
29 October 1663 @ The City, London

Event Comment: The Lord Mayor's Show. Pepys, Diary: Creed and I went away, and took coach and through Cheapside, and there saw the pageants, which were very silly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Londinium Triumphans

3707
January 1664 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. William Hamon (or Hammond) saw a performance near the end of the period between Michaelmas 1663 and Lady Day 1664. The entry in his journal (which I owe to the courtesy of Dr. Giles Dawson) reads: Item spent in carrying Mrs & sistar to King Lear 00 09 06 (Folger MS. v. a. 422)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

3708
01 January 1664 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: But my wife and I rose from table, pretending business, and went to the Duke's house, the first play I have been at these six months, according to my last vowe, and here saw the so much cried-up play of "Henry the Eighth"; which, though I went with resolution to like it, is so simple a thing made up of a great many patches, that, besides the shows and processions in it, there is nothing in the world good or well done

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

3709
25 April 1664 @ The Red Bull Theatre

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: Thence to Islington, and so to St John's to the Red Bull, and there saw the latter part of a rude prize fought

Performances

3710
27 April 1664 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Evelyn, Diary: Saw a facecious Comedy Cald Love in a Tub

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Tub

3711
04 April 1665 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Although 3 April may not be the first performance of this play, the fact that Pepys saw it on 3 April and Evelyn attended it on 6 April suggests that it was given on this day also

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mustapha

3712
15 May 1665 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, all alone, and saw Love's Maistresse. Some pretty things and good variety in it, but no or little fancy in it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Mistress Or The Queens Mask

3713
22 August 1666 @ Moorfields, London

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: I with my wife, Knipp, and Mercer, by coach to Moorefields, and there saw Polichinello, which pleases me mightily

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Puppetry

3714
December 1666 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company, presumably. Richard Legh, writing to his wife, 3 Jan. 1667@7, stated that he had seen The Valiant Cid but he did not indicate on what day he saw the play. See Lady Newton, The House of Lyme (London, 1917), p. 240

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Valiant Cid

3715
28 December 1666 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: To White Hall, and got my Lord Bellasses to get me into the playhouse; and there, after all staying above an hour for the players, the King and all waiting, which was absurd, saw Henry the Fifth well done by the Duke's people, and in most excellent habits, all new vests, being put on but this night. But I sat so nigh and far off, that I missed most of the words, and sat with a wind coming into my back and neck, which did much trouble me. The play continued till twelve at night. A Prologue for this play is in A Letter from a Gentleman to the Honourable Ed. Howard (London, 1668)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry V

3716
25 March 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse; and by and by comes Mr Lowther and his wife and mine, and into a box, forsooth, neither of them being dressed, which I was almost ashamed of. Sir W. Pen and I in the pit, and there saw The Mayden Queene again; which indeed the more I see the more I like, and is an excellent play, and so done by Nell, her merry part, as cannot be better done in nature, I think

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love Or The Maiden Queen

3717
28 March 1667 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@139, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346. The play, licensed on 27 Nov. 1667, was not printed until 1667. There is no certainty that this is the premiere, but it may well have been, as Pepys saw it on 30 March and on 11 April suggested that it had recently had its first showing: [The Duchess of Newcastle] was the other day at her own play, The Humourous Lovers; the most ridiculous thing that ever was wrote, but yet she and her Lord mightily pleased with it; and she, at the end, made her respects to the players from her box, and did give them thanks

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humourous Lovers

Performance Comment: Edition of 1667: No actors' names, no prologue, no epilogue. A Prologue is in British Museum Harleian MS. 7367.

3718
09 April 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I took coach and to the King's house, and by and by comes after me my wife with W. Hewer and his mother and Barker, and there we saw The Tameing of a Shrew, which hath some very good pieces in it, but generally is but a mean play; and the best part, Sawny, done by Lacy, hath not half its life, by reason of the swords, I suppose, not being understood, at least by me

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sauny The Scot Or The Taming Of A Shrew

3719
17 April 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse...and saw a piece of Rollo, a play I like not much, but much good acting in it: the house very empty

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rollo

3720
18 April 1667 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: With my wife to the Duke of York's house, and there saw The Wits, a play I formerly loved, and is now corrected and enlarged: but, though I like the acting, yet I like not much in the play now

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wits

3721
20 April 1667 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Duke of York's house, and there saw The Witts again, which likes me better than it did the other day, having much wit in it.... Here were many fine ladies this afternoon at this house as I have at any time seen.... Resolving by the grace of God to see no more plays till Whitsuntide, I having now seen a play every day this week

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wits

3722
01 May 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, by agreement met Sir W. Pen, and saw Love in a Maze: but a sorry play: only Lacy's clowne's part, which he did most admirably indeed; and I am glad to find the rogue at liberty again. Here was but little, and that ordinary, company. We sat at the upper bench next the boxes, and I find it do pretty well, and have the advantage of seeing and hearing the great people, which may be pleasant when there is good store. Now was only Prince Rupert and my Lord Lauderdale, and my Lord [...]...But here was neither Hart, Nell, nor Knipp; therefore, the play was not likely to please me

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Changes Or Love In A Maze

3723
24 May 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: My wife and I and Sir W. Pen to the King's playhouse, and there saw The Mayden Queene, which, though I have often seen, yet pleases me infinitely, it being impossible, I think, ever to have the Queen's part, which is very good and passionate, and Florimel's part, which is the most comicall that ever was made for woman, ever done better than they two are by young Marshall and Nelly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love Or The Maiden Queen

3724
14 August 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, and there saw The Country Captain, which is a very ordinary play. Methinks I had no pleasure therein at all

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Captain

3725
15 August 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary [After going to lif] went to the King's, and there saw The Merry Wives of Windsor: which did not please me at all, in no part of it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor