Event Comment: The
Duke's Company. This performance is on the
L. C. list, 5@141, p. 81. See also
Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 348. There is no certainty as to whether this is the date of the first performance.
Downes (
Roscius Anglicanus, p. 35): Then the
Conquest of China by the Tartars, by
Mr Settle; in this Play
Mr Jevon Acting a
Chinese Prince and Commander in it, and being in the
Battle, Vanquisht by the Tartars; he was by his Part to fall upon the point of his Sword and Kill himself, rather than be a Prisoner by the Tartars: Mr Jevon instead of falling on the point of his Sword, laid it in the Scabbard at length upon the Ground and fell upon't, saying, now I am Dead; which put the Author into such a Fret, it made him speak Treble instead of Double Jevons answer was; did not you bid me fall upon my Sword
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Conquest Of China By The Tartars