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Event Comment: See also 15 Dec. 1662. Evelyn, Diary: I went with Sir S. Tuke to heare the Comedians con, & repeate his new Comedy, the Adventures of 5 houres: a play whose plot was taken out of the famous Spanish Poet Calderon

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Mainpiece Title: The Adventures Of Five Hours

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Related Work: The Adventures of Five Hours Author(s): Sir Samuel Tuke

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Mainpiece Title: Pompey The Great

Performance Comment: Edition of 1664: wo actors' names. Prologue At the House-; Epilogue at the House-; Epilogue to the King at Saint James's-; Epilogue To the Dutchess at Saint James's-; [One Epilogue was written by Sir Edward Deering.] [At the end: After which a grand Masque [is Danc'd before Caesar and Cleopatra[, made (as well as the other Dances and the Tunes to them) by Mr John Ogilby-.
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Related Work: Pompey the Great Author(s): Sir Charles Sedley
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This apparently was not the first performance, but the time of premiere is not known. Pepys, Diary: My wife and I and Mercer to the Duke's house, and there saw The Rivalls, which is no excellent play, but good acting in it; especially Gosnell comes and sings and dances finely, but, for all that, fell out of the key, so that the musique could not play to her afterwards, and so did Harris also go out of the tune to agree with her. Downes (p. 23): The Rivals, A Play, Wrote by Sir William Davenant; having a very Fine Interlude in it, of Vocal and Instrumental Musick, mixt with very Diverting Dances: M Price introducing the Dancing, by a short Comical Prologue, gain'd him an Universal Applause of the Town....And all the Womens Parts admirably Acted; chiefly Celia, a Shepherdess being Mad for Love; especially in Singing several Wild and Mad Songs

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Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

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Related Work: The Rivals Author(s): Sir William Davenant

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: [Probably adapted by Sir William Davenant.] among those named in the quarto of 1673 these may have played at this time: Macbeth-Betterton?; Macduff-Harris?; Banquo-Smith?; Malcolm-Norris?; Lennox-Medbourne?; Donalbain-Cademan?; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Betterton?; Heccat-Sandford?.
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Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): Sir William Davenant

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: [Adapted by Sir William Davenant.] see16641105.
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Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): Sir William Davenant

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: [Adapted by Sir William Davenant.] see16641105.
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Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): Sir William Davenant

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: [Adapted by Sir William Davenant.] see16641105.
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Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): Sir William Davenant

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: [Altered by Sir William Davenant.] See16641105.
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Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Sir W. Pen and I to the King's house, and there saw The Committee, which I went to with some prejudice, not liking it before, but I do now find it a very good play, and a great deal of good invention in it; but Lacy's part is so well performed that it would set off anything

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Mainpiece Title: The Committee

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Related Work: The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Related Work: The Committee Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: With Sir W. Pen, my wife, and Mary Batelier to the Duke of York's house, and there saw Heraclius, which is a good play; but they did so spoil it with their laughing, and being all of them out, and with the noise they made within the theatre, that I was ashamed of it, and resolve not to come thither again a good while, believing that this negligence, which I never observed before, proceeds only from their want of company in the pit, that they have no care how they act

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Mainpiece Title: Heraclius

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Related Work: Heraclius Author(s): Sir Thomas Clarges

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: [Altered by Sir William Davenant.] Macbeth-Young. But see16641105.
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Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): Sir William Davenant

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: [Adapted by Sir William Davenant.] See16671016.
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Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: By one o'clock to the King's house: a new play, The Duke of Lerma, of Sir Robert Howard's: where the King and Court was; and Knepp and Nell spoke the prologue most excellently, especially Knepp, who spoke beyond any creature I ever heard. The play designed to reproach our King with his mistresses, that I was troubled for it, and expected it should be interrupted; but it ended all well, which salved all. The play a well-writ and good play, only its design I did not like of reproaching the King, but altogether a very good and most serious play

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Mainpiece Title: The Great Favourite; Or, The Duke Of Lerma

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Related Work: The Great Favourite; or, The Duke of Lerma Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Downes (p. 30): This Comedy in general was very well Perform'd. Pepys, Diary: I alone to the Duke of York's house, to see the new play, called The Man is the Master, where the house was, it being not above one o'clock, very full. But my wife and Deb. being there before, with Mrs Pierce and Corbet and Betty Turner, whom my Wife carried with her, they made me room; and there I sat, it costing me 8s. upon them in oranges, at 6d. apiece. By and by the King come; and we sat just under him, so that I durst not turn my back all the play. The play is a translation out of French, and the plot Spanish, but not anything extraordinary at all in it, though translated by Sir W. Davenant, and so I found the King and his company did think meanly of it, though there was here and there something Pretty: but the most of the mirth was sorry, poor stuffe, of eating of sack posset and slabbering themselves, and mirth fit for clownes; the prologue but poor, and the epilogue little in it but the extraordinariness of it, it being sung by Harris and another in the form of a ballet

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Mainpiece Title: The Man's The Master

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Related Work: The Man's The Master Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: It being almost twelve o'clock, or a little more, and carried [Mercer, Mrs Horsfield, and Mrs Gayet] to the King's playhouse, where the doors were not then open; but presently they did open; and we in, and find many people already come in, by private ways, into the pit, it being the first day of Sir Charles Sidly's new play, so long expected, The Mulberry Garden, of whom, being so reputed a wit, all the world do expect great matters. I having sat here awhile, and eat nothing to-day, did slip out, getting a boy to keep my place...And so to the play again, where the King and Queen, by and by, come, and all the Court; and the house infinitely full. But the play, when it come, though there was, here and there, a pretty saying, and that not very many neither, yet the whole of the play had nothing extraordinary in it, at all, neither of language nor design; insomuch that the King I did not see laugh, nor pleased the whole play from the beginning to the end, nor the company; insomuch that I have not been less pleased at a new play in my life, I think. And which made it the worse was, that there never was worse musick played--that is, worse things composed, which made me and Captain Rolt, who happened to sit near me, mad. So away thence, very little satisfied with the play, but pleased with my company. [For Bannister's setting a song for Mrs Knepp for this play, see 7 May 1668.

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Mainpiece Title: The Mulberry Garden

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Related Work: The Mulberry Garden Author(s): Sir Charles Sedley
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: Love in a Tubb. Downes, Roscius Anglicanus, p. 32: [After Sir Martin Marall] Next was Acted Love in a Tub, it was perform'd 2 Days together to a full Audience

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Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge; Or, Love In A Tub

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Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege
Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Knight. Not Acted there these Six Years. Written by the late Sir George Etheridge

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Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge

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Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege

Dance: duRuel, Cherrier, others

Song: And at the Desire of some Persons of Quality, several Entertainments of Singing in Italian- the Famous Segniora Francisca Margareta del'Epine being the best Songs she has Sung in England, the Musick that accompanies her compos'd by Signior Giacomo Greber; also an English Song of the late Mr Henry Purcell's-Segniora Francisca Margareta del'Epine

Event Comment: Benefit the boxkeepers. Written by the late Sir George Etheridge

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Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd If She Cou'd

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Related Work: She Would If She Could Author(s): Sir George Etherege

Song: As17050410

Dance: Cherrier, LaForest, Mrs Cross, Mrs Moss

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Lewis. Written by the Ingenious Sir George Etheridge. Note, The Moon shines and the Tide serves up to London after Play

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Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd If She Cou'd

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Related Work: She Would If She Could Author(s): Sir George Etherege

Dance: Thurmond Jr; particularly a Spanish Entry that he performed in the Opera at the Hay-Market last Winter with great Applause-Thurmond Jr; As also that excellent and much admired Scaramouch, as it was performed by the famous Monsieur duBrill from the Opera at Brussels-Thurmond Jr

Event Comment: As it was altered from Shakespear by Sir Wil. D'Avenant, and the late Mr Dryden, Poets Laureat. With new Scenes, Machines, and all the Original Decorations proper to the Play. By her Majesty's Command no Persons are to be admitted behind the Scenes

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Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or, The Inchanted Island

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Related Work: The Tempest Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Related Work: The Tempest; or, The Enchanted Island Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Event Comment: Written by Sir George Etheridge

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Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd If She Cou'd

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Related Work: She Would If She Could Author(s): Sir George Etherege
Event Comment: As it was alter'd from Shakespear by Sir Will. d'Avenant, and the late Mr Dryden, Poets Laureat: With new Scenes, Machines, and all the original Decorations proper to the Play

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Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or, The Inchanted Island

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Related Work: The Tempest Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Related Work: The Tempest; or, The Enchanted Island Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by Sir George Etheridge

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Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

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Related Work: The Man of Mode; or, Sir Fopling Flutter Author(s): Sir George Etherege
Event Comment: Written by Sir George Etheridge

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Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge; Or, Love In A Tub

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Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege
Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by Sir George Etheridge

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Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

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Related Work: The Man of Mode; or, Sir Fopling Flutter Author(s): Sir George Etherege