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Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: With my wife and girle to the King's house, and there saw The Mad Couple, which is but an ordinary play; but only Nell's and Hart's mad parts are most excellently done, but especially her's: which makes it a miracle to me to think how ill she do any serious part, as the other day [26 Dec.], just like a fool or changeling; and, in a mad part, do beyond all imitation almost. It pleased us mightily to see the natural affection of a poor woman, the mother of one of the children brought on the stage: the child crying, she by force got upon the stage, and took up her child and carried it away off of the stage from Hart. Many fine faces here today

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Mainpiece Title: All Mistaken Or The Mad Couple

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Related Work: The Perplex’d Couple: or, Mistake upon Mistake Author(s): Chalres Molloy
Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: [Sir W. Pen] and I to the King's house, and there, in one of the upper boxes, saw Flora's Vagarys, which is a very silly play; and the more, I being out of humour, being at a play without my wife

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Mainpiece Title: Floras Vagaries

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's house, and there saw part of The Discontented Colonel, but could take no great pleasure in it, because of our coming in in the middle of it

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Mainpiece Title: Brenoralt Or The Discontented Colonel

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: With my wife and Deb., to the King's house, and there saw the Indian Emperour, a very good play indeed

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Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperour

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: All alone to the King's house, and there sat in an upper box, to hide myself, and saw The Black Prince, a very good play; but only the fancy, most of it, the same as in the rest of my Lord Orrery's plays; but the dance very stately; but it was pretty to see how coming after dinner and with no company with me to talk to, and at a play that I had seen, and went to now not for curiosity but only idleness, I did fall asleep the former part of the play, but afterward did mind it and like it very well

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Mainpiece Title: The Black Prince

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: My Lord Brouncker and I to the Duke of the York's playhouse, and there saw the latter part of The Master and the Man

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Mainpiece Title: The Mans The Master

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. See Pepys, Diary:, 9 April, for an account of Davenant's funeral on 9 April. Pepys, Diary: With Lord Brouncker to the Duke of York's playhouse, where we saw The Unfortunate Lovers, no extraordinary play, methinks

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Mainpiece Title: The Unfortunate Lovers

Event Comment: Pepys does not name the theatre in which he saw this play, but previous performances of the play were given by the King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To a play, Love's Cruelty.... Play part 2s. Oranges, 1s

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Mainpiece Title: Loves Cruelty

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, into a corner of the 18d. box, and there saw The Maid's Tragedy, a good play. Coach 1s.: play and oranges, 2s

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Mainpiece Title: The Maids Tragedy

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Took Mrs Turner out and carried her to the King's house, and saw The Indian Emperour

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Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperour

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's play-house, and there saw a piece of Beggar's Bush, which I have not seen some years

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Bush

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw Sir Martin Marr-all, which, the more I see, the more I like

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Mainpiece Title: Feignd Innocence Or Sir Martin Marall

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, and there saw most of The Cardinall, a good play

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Mainpiece Title: The Cardinal

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: I to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw The Tempest, which still pleases me mightily

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Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, and there saw The Surprizall: and a disorder in the pit by its raining in, from the cupola at top, it being a very foul day, and cold

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Mainpiece Title: The Surprizal

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I back to the King's playhouse, and there saw The Virgin Martyr, and heard the musick that I like so well

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Mainpiece Title: The Virgin Martyr

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: I carried [Mercer and Mrs Turner] to the Duke of York's house, and there saw The Man's the Master, which proves, upon my seeing it again, a very good play

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Mainpiece Title: The Mans The Master

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I carried [Mercer and Mrs Gayet] to the King's house...and there saw The Country Captain, a very dull play, that did give us no content, and besides, little company there, which made it very unpleasing

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Mainpiece Title: The Country Captain

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

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Mainpiece Title: The Sea Voyage

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

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Mainpiece Title: The Mulberry Garden

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Duke of York's house to a play, and saw Sir Martin Marr-all, where the house is full; and though I have seen it, I think, ten times, yet the pleasure I have is yet as great as ever, and is undoubtedly the best comedy ever was wrote

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Mainpiece Title: Feignd Innocence Or Sir Martin Marall

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

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Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

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

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Mainpiece Title: An Evenings Love

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: With wife, Mercer, Deb., and W. Hewer to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw The Impertinents, a pretty good play

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Mainpiece Title: The Sullen Lovers Or The Impertinents

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

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Mainpiece Title: The Indian Queen