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7131 results for: Keyword - Mr Benj. May
We found 5678 matches on Event Comments, 1309 matches on Performance Comments, 607 matches on Performance Title, 19 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4226
07 December 1666 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, where two acts were almost done when I come in; and there I sat with my cloak about my face, and saw the remainder of The Mayd's Tragedy; a good play, and well acted, especially by the younger Marshall, who is become a pretty good actor, and is the first play I have seen in either of the houses since before the great plague, they having acted now about fourteen days publickly. But I was in Mighty pain lest I should be seen by any body to be at a play. Elegy on that Worthy and Famous Actor, Mr Charles Hart, who departed this Life Thursday August the 18th., 1683: @Such Pow'r He had o'r the Spectators gain'd,@As forc'd a Real passion from a Feign'd.@For when they saw Amintor bleed, straight all@The House, for every Drop, a Tear let fall;@And when Arbaces wept by sympathy,@A glowing Tide of Wo gush'd from each Eye.@ [Reprinted in Thorn-Drury, A Little Ark, pp. 47ff; Sprague, Beaumont and Fletcher, p.38.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid's Tragedy

4227
24 January 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary, 23 Jan.: Knipp made us stay in a box and see the dancing preparatory to to-morrow for The Goblins, a play of Suckling's, not acted these twenty-five years; which was pretty. Pepys, Diary, 24 Jan.: And, anon, at about seven or eight o'clock, comes Mr Harris, of the Duke's playhouse, and brings Mrs Pierce with him, and also one dressed like a country-mayde with a straw hat on; which, at first, I could not tell who it was, though I expected Knipp: but it was she coming off the stage just as she acted this day in "The Goblins"; a merry jade

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Goblins

4228
05 February 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 16) refers to Hart's acting Don John. Wilson (All the King's Ladies, p. 170) lists Rebecca Marshall as possibly play1ng First Constantia. The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher (1711), p. ix: Mr Hart played the Part of Don John to the highest Satisfaction of the Audience, the Play had a great run, and ever since has been follow'd as one of the best Entertainments of the Stage. Pepys, Diary: And took them [Mrs Pepys and Betty Michell] against my vowes, but I will make good my forfeit, to the King's house, to show them a play, The Chances. A good play I find it, and the actors most good in it; and pretty to hear Knipp sing in the play very properly, All night I weepe; and sung it admirably. The whole play pleases me well; and most of all, the sight of many fine ladies--among others, my Lady Castlemayne and Mrs Middleton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

4229
14 March 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: [the Virgin Queen

4230
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

4231
22 April 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

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4232
13 July 1667 @ no theater listed

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4233
04 September 1667 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

4234
11 May 1668 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

4235
18 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. See Noyes, Ben Jonson on the English Stage, p. 307, for a letter to Lady Sunderland on this performance, and, p. 308, for an anecdote from The Life of the Late Famous Comedian, Jo. Haynes, concerning Haynes and Hart in a scene. For another allusion to the action, see Henri Ferneron, Louise de Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth (London, 1807), p. 179n. Pepys, Diary: 15 Jan. 1668@9: It is about my Lady Harvy's being offended at Doll Common's [Mrs Corey's] acting of Sempronia, to imitate her; for which she got my Lord Chamberlain, her kinsman, to imprison Doll: when my Lady Castlemayne made the King to release her. Mrs John Evelyn to Mr Terryll, 10 Feb. 1668@9: There has not been any new lately revived and reformed, as Catiline, well set out with clothes and scenes (Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, ed. William Bray, IV, 14). See also 7 and 11 Dec. 1667

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Catiline's Conspiracy

4236
30 December 1668 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Eighth

4237
16 January 1669 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Horace

4238
29 January 1669 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Related Works
Related Work: The Stolen Heiress or the Salamanca Doctor Outplotted Author(s): Thomas May

4239
10 February 1669 @ no theater listed

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4240
15 February 1669 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Adventures Of Five Hours

4241
19 February 1670 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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Mainpiece Title: The Woman Made A Justice

4242
20 September 1670 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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Mainpiece Title: The Forc'd Marriage; Or, The Jealous Bridegroom

4243
02 January 1671 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

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4244
10 February 1671 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conquest Of Granada, Part Ii

4245
25 January 1672 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

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4246
06 February 1672 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentleman Dancing Master

4247
26 February 1672 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

4248
03 August 1672 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Jealousie

4249
04 November 1672 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Ramble; Or, The Town-humours

4250
11 November 1672 @ Charing Cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dutch Cruelties At Amboyna; With The Humours Of The Valiant Welch-man