Event Comment: The Diurnal of Thomas Rugg, ed. Sachse, p. 71: 13 April 1660: His Excellency [Monk] with the Councill of State dined att on of the Halls in London [Fishmongers], and now by this time haveing dined att 9 of the cheifest Halls in London; and att every Hall theire were after diner a kind of a stage play and many prety anticks, som the citizan and soldier, others the country Tom and citty Dick [see 28 March 1660], att many Halls were dancing and singing, many shapes and ghostes and the like

Event Comment: On this date General Monk and the Council of State issued an order forbidding stage plays. (See Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 196, and The Diurnal of Thomas Rugg, ed. Sachse, pp. 61, 67.)

Event Comment: This performance is known by the Prologue and Epilogue printed in Thomas Jordan's A Nursery of Novelities or Variety of Poetry. The Prologue is dated 24 June 1660, but as this date falls on Sunday, the performance has been entered as Saturday 23 June 1660, for in this same work (p. 19) Jordan mentions: A Speech by way of Epilogue to those that would rise out of the Pit at the Red Bull in the last Scene, and disturb the conclusion by going on the Stage, June 23d 1660. [The Prologue and Epilogue have been reprinted in the Shakespeare Society Papers, IV (1849), 140-42, and in Sprague, Beaumont and Fletcher on the Restoration Stage, pp. 9-10. See also the list at the beginning of the season 1659-1660.