Event Comment: The
Duke's Company. This performance is on the
L. C. list at
Harvard. See
VanLennep, "
Plays on the English Stage," p. 13.
Diary of Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington: Heer dined with mee my
lord of Canterbury my
ld Sandwich and my
brother and sister Orrery,
and in the afternoone wee all went but his Grace to see my brothers new play cald
Tryphon which was much applauded (Volume IV, in the Library at
Chatsworth. This excerpt supplied by
Kathleen Lynch).
Pepys, Diary: My wife tells me of my
Lord Orrery's new play "Tryphon," at the Duke of York's house...
and [we] went thither, where, with much ado, at half-past one, we got into a blind hole in the 18d. place, above stairs, where we could not hear well, but the house infinite full, but the prologue most silly,
and the play, though admirable, yet no pleasure almost in it, because just the very same design,
and words,
and sense,
and plot, as every one of his plays have, any one of which alone would be held admirable, whereas so many of the same design
and fancy do but dull one another;
and this, I preceive, is the sense of every body else, as well as myself, who therefore showed but little pleasure in it