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Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: My wife, and Mercer, who grows fat, and Willett, and I, to the King's house, and there saw The Committee, a play I like well

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Mainpiece Title: The Committee

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Related Work: The Committee Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Related Work: The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Event Comment: The King's Company. See Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 322, for an L. C. order concerning Mohun's not acting for some time past. Pepys, Diary: With my wife to the King's playhouse, and there saw The Surprizall; which did not please me to-day, the actors not pleasing me; and especially Nell's acting of a serious part, which she spoils

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Mainpiece Title: The Surprizal

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Related Work: The Surprisal Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This play is on the L. C. list, 5@139, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347

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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: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@139, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347

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Mainpiece Title: She Would If She Could

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Related Work: She Would If She Could Author(s): Sir George Etherege
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@139, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347

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Mainpiece Title: She Would If She Could

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Related Work: She Would If She Could Author(s): Sir George Etherege
Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: With Brouncker, to the King's house, and saw The Surprizall, where base singing, only Knepp, who come, after her song in the clouds, to me in the pit, and there, oranges, 2s

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Mainpiece Title: The Surprizal

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Related Work: The Surprisal Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, 1s., and to the play of the Duke of Lerma, 2s. 6d., and oranges, 1s

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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. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@139, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347

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Mainpiece Title: She Would If She Could

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Related Work: She Would If She Could Author(s): Sir George Etherege
Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, and there saw The Surprizall: and a disorder in the pit by its raining in, from the cupola at top, it being a very foul day, and cold

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Mainpiece Title: The Surprizal

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Related Work: The Surprisal Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I to the King's house, and there saw the last act of The Committee, thinking to have seen Knepp there, but she did not act

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Mainpiece Title: The Committee

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Related Work: The Committee Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Related Work: The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Event Comment: The King's Company. This play may also have been given on Tuesday 19 May. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, and saw The Mulberry-Garden again, and cannot be reconciled to it, but only to find here and there an independent sentence of wit, and that is all

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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 King's Company. Pepys, Diary: My wife, and Deb., and I to the King's playhouse, and saw The Indian Queene, but do not doat upon Nan Marshall's acting therein, as the world talks of her excellence therein

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Mainpiece Title: The Indian Queen

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Related Work: The Indian Queen Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: With my wife to the King's playhouse--The Mulberry Garden, which she had not seen

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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. Pepys, Diary: With my wife and Deb. to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw The Slighted Maid, but a mean play; and thence home, there being little pleasure now in a play, the company being but little. Here we saw Gosnell, who is become very homely, and sings meanly, I think

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Mainpiece Title: The Slighted Maid

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Related Work: The Slighted Maid Author(s): Sir Robert Stapylton
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw The Five Hours' Adventure, which hath not been acted a good while before, but once, and is a most excellent play, I must confess

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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
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: So we to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw She Would if She Could,... This day, going to the play, The. Turner met us, and carried us to her mother, at my Lady Mordaunt's; and I did carry both mother and daughter with us to the Duke of York's playhouse

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Mainpiece Title: She Would If She Could

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Related Work: She Would If She Could Author(s): Sir George Etherege
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The entry in A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 65, is somewhat ambiguous as to the date of this performance, but as 2 Feb. fell on Sunday in 1667@8, the performance has been assigned to 2 Feb. 1668@9. The play was reprinted in 1669

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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: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@12, p. 17. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Related Works
Related Work: The Committee Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Related Work: The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage," p. 14. Pepys, Diary: My wife and I to White Hall; and there, by means of Mr Cooling, did get into the play, the only one we have seen this winter: it was The Five Hours' Adventure: but I sat so far I could not hear well, nor was there any pretty woman that I did see, but my wife, who sat in my Lady Fox's pew with her. The house very full; and late before done, so that it was past eleven before we got home

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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
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This play is on the L. C. list at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 14

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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: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, Plays on the English Stage, p. 15

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Mainpiece Title: The Sophy

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Related Work: The Sophy Author(s): Sir John Denham
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 15

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Mainpiece Title: She Would If She Could

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Related Work: She Would If She Could Author(s): Sir George Etherege
Event Comment: The King's Company. See A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 81

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Mainpiece Title: The Committee

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Related Work: The Committee Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Related Work: The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Event Comment: Although Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 32) states that this play was acted two days "together," the certain performance on Wednesday 15 Nov. suggests either that Downes misstated the number of performances or that the play was given on Monday and Wednesday but not on Tuesday, a somewhat unlikely event

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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: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard: the King and Queen &c Two Boxes. See VanLennep, Plays on the English Stage," p. 18. See also Tuesday 14 Nov. 1671

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Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge Or Love In A Tub

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