Event Comment: Written by Mr Shadwell, late Poet Laureat

Event Comment: Written by Mr Shadwell, late Poet Laureat, carefully Revis'd. With all the Original Decorations of Scenes, Dances, Risings, Sinkings, and Flyings of the Witches

Event Comment: Benefit Penkethman. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Shadwell, late Poet Laureat

Event Comment: Written by Mr Shadwell, late Poet Laureat

Event Comment: Written by Mr Shadwell, late Poet Laureat. With all the Original Decorations

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Mr Shadwell, late Poet Laureat

Event Comment: Not Acted these Seven Years. Written by the late Mr Shadwell. Receipts: #25 4s

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Shadwell. Receipts: #54 2s. 6d

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Shadwell. Receipts: #31 1s. 6d

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Shadwell. Receipts: #19 14s

Event Comment: Not Acted these Twenty Years. Written by the late Mr Shadwell, then Poet-Laureat

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Shadwell

Event Comment: Written by Mr Shadwell, late Poet Laureat. With all the Original Decorations of Scenes, Dances, Risings, Sinkings, and Flyings of the Witchesv

Event Comment: Written by Mr Shadwell, late Poet-Laureat

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by Mr Shadwell, late Poet Laureat

Event Comment: Written by Mr Shadwell, late Poet Laureat

Event Comment: Benefit Castelman, Treasurer. Written by Mr Shadwell, late Poet Laureat

Event Comment: Written by Mr Shadwell, late Poet Laureat

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Brett and Mrs Campbell. Written by Mr Shadwell, late Poet Laureat. Daily Journal, 25 May: Yesterday Morning died Mrs Bicknell (an eminent Actress in the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane) of a Consumption. Her Parts will be very well supply'd by her Sister Mrs Younger, a Person of a very promising Genius

Event Comment: Written by Mr Shadwell, late Poet Laureat

Event Comment: Written by Mr Shadwell, late Poet Laureat

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Lindar and May. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mianpiece: Written by Mr Shadwell, late Poet Laureat

Event Comment: Written by Mr Shadwell, late Poet Laureat

Event Comment: Written by Mr Shadwell, late Poet Laureat

Event Comment: [The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", pp. 16-17. This performance may have been the premiere. Shadwell, in his Preface, implies that it was acted six days. As Saturday was a day frequently chosen for a first showing and as the play was certainly given again on 14 Dec. 1670, the sequence of performaces which follow in this Calendar is based on the assumption that Saturday 10 Dec. 1670 was the first day, Wednesday 14 Dec. 1670 the fourth day of acting. The Preface: This Play...came upon the Stage with all the disadvantages imaginable: First, I was forced, after I had finish'd it, to blot out the main design of it; finding, that, contrary to my intention, it had given offence. The second disadvantage was, that notwithstanding I had (to the great prejudice of the Play) given satisfaction to all the exceptions made against it, it met with the clamorous opposition of a numerous party, bandied against it, and resolved, as much as they could, to damn it, right or wrong, before they had heard or seen a word on't. The last, and not the least, was, that the Actors (though since they have done me some right) at first were extreamly imperfect in the Action of it.... This of mine, after all these blows, had fall'n beyond Redemption, had it not been revived, after the second day, by her [Mrs Johnson's (?)] kindness (which I can never enough acknowledge) who, for four days together, beautified it with the most excellent Dancings that ever has been seen upon the Stage. This drew my enemies, as well as friends, till it was something better acted, understood, and liked, than at first