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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Prince Brunswick his wife and Louisa"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Prince Brunswick his wife and Louisa")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #592 5s. (525.9.6; 64.1.6; 2.14.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Related Works
Related Work: The Prize; or, 2.5.3.8 Author(s): Prince Hoare

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Cast
Role: Princess Lodoiska Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: Polanders Prince Lupauski Actor: Archer
Role: Japhis Actor: Cory

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Thieves

Afterpiece Title: The Soldier's Festival

Entertainment: Vaudeville. End 1st piece: Black Ey'd Susan-Incledon; Whims & Fancies[; or, +Patches from Harlequin's Jacket (an Entertainment, both Serious and Comic, selected from the best Authors)-Betterton; The Bull and Boat[; or, +Law! Law! Law!-; The Snug [i.e. Tight] Little Island-Townsend

Performance Comment: End 1st piece: Black Ey'd Susan-Incledon; Whims & Fancies[; or, +Patches from Harlequin's Jacket (an Entertainment, both Serious and Comic, selected from the best Authors)-Betterton; The Bull and Boat[; or, +Law! Law! Law!-; The Snug [i.e. Tight] Little Island-Townsend.
Cast
Role: Little Island Actor: Townsend.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Mill

Event Comment: It is uncertain at which theatre this play was performed, but it has been assigned to the King's Company because Pepys saw that company act it on the following day, 27 Nov. Evelyn, Diary: I saw Hamlet Pr. of Denmark played: but now the old playe began to disgust this refined age; since his Majestie being so long abroad

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Captain Ferrers and Mr Moore and I to the Theatre, and there saw Hamlett very well done

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Event Comment: This play was seen by Jacques Thierry and Will Schellinks (Seaton, Literary Relationships, pp. 334, 336), but no theatre is named. The most recent dated performance was given by the Duke's Company, 5 Dec. 1661

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 18. It should be noted that this performance falls on a Friday in Lent; there is no indication as to whether this is the premiere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Prince; Or, The Curious Husband

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@142, p. 81. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 348. Nell Gwyn also attended this performance; see VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407. Nell Gwyn's attendance again on Friday 9 June suggests that she attended the premiere. On that assumption, this Calendar lists the probable ten performances which Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 36) alludes to: And all the Parts being admirably Acted, it lasted successively 10 Days; it got more Money than any preceding Modern Tragedy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Carlos, Prince Of Spain

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p. 407

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Carlos, Prince Of Spain

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Carlos, Prince Of Spain

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Carlos, Prince Of Spain

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Carlos, Prince Of Spain

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Carlos, Prince Of Spain

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Carlos, Prince Of Spain

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Carlos, Prince Of Spain

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Carlos, Prince Of Spain

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Carlos, Prince Of Spain

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Nell Gwyn attended this performance. See VanLennep, Nell Gwyn's Playgoing, p.408

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Carlos, Prince Of Spain

Event Comment: The King's Company. The date of the premiere is not certain. This performance is known from an entry in the Newdigate newsletters, which also states that Rollo was to be acted on the following Monday. If this statement is accurate, the performance of The Loyal Brother on 4 Feb. 1681@2 may be the third night rather than the opening performance. Newdigate newsletters, 4 Feb. 1681@2: On Monday morn [the Moorish Ambassador] & ye Comers meet to conclude ye treaty and in ye afternoon goes to see Rollo D. of Normandy at ye Ks playhouse wre ye K was this afternoon to see ye new play calld ye Loyall brothr (Wilson, More Theater Notes from the Newdigate Newsletters, p. 59). The Prologue and Epilogue were printed separately and have been reprinted in Wiley, Rare Prologues and Epilogues, pp. 70-72. Luttrell acquired his copies (Huntington Library) on 7 Feb. 1681@2. In The Life of John Dryden (Chapel Hill, 1961), Charles E. Ward believes (pp. 166, 355) that The Loyal Brother was first acted in the autumn of 1681; but the entry in the Newdigate newsletters seems to make February 1682 the more probable time

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Loyal Brother; Or, The Persian Prince

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 351

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Event Comment: A reviv'd play written by Mr Otway. Tickets delivered for The Sullen Lovers taken at this performance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Carlos, Prince Of Spain

Entertainment: Singing and dancing, as expressed in the Bill-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Song: Mrs Campion

Dance: Mrs Bicknell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Song: As17031102

Dance: As17031102

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Song: As17031102

Music: As17031109

Dance: Several new Entertainments, which were perform'd yesterday before Her Majesty at St. James's-duRuel, Cherrier, Mrs Mayers