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Mainpiece Title: The Wits

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Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: Captain Ferrers and I to the Opera, and saw The Witts, again, which I like exceedingly. The Queen of Bohemia was here, brought by my Lord Craven

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Mainpiece Title: The Wits

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Mainpiece Title: The Wits

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Mainpiece Title: The Wits

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Mainpiece Title: The Wits

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Mainpiece Title: The Wits

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Event Comment: The Duke's Company. If the play was acted on eight successive days, as Downes states, this would be the eighth, and last, performance in this run Pepys, Diary: I took her [Mrs Pepys] to the opera, and shewed her The Witts, which I have seen already twice, and was most highly pleased with it

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Mainpiece Title: The Wits

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Related Work: The Wits Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: Against my judgment and conscience (which God forgive, for my very heart knows that I offend God in breaking my vows therein) to the Opera, which is now newly begun to act again, after some alteracion of their scene, which do make it very much worse; but the play, Love and Honour, being the first time of their acting it, is a very good plot, and well done. Downes (pp. 21-22): This Play was Richly Cloath'd; The King giving Mr Betterton his Coronation Suit;...The Duke of York giving Mr Harris his...and my Lord of Oxford gave Mr Joseph Price his...and all the other Parts being very well done: The Play having a great run, Produc'd to the Company great Gain and Estimation from the Town

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Mainpiece Title: Love And Honour

Performance Comment: Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, pp.21-22): Prince Alvaro-Betterton; Prince Prospero-Harris; Lionel-Joseph Price; Duke-Lilliston; Evandra-Mrs Hester? Davenport. [Possibly Peg Fryer acted the Old Widow; when she appeared at lif on 11 Jan. 1720, she was announced as having appeared in Love and Honour when she was young. As she was 85 in 1720, she was about 26 at this time.]Possibly Peg Fryer acted the Old Widow; when she appeared at lif on 11 Jan. 1720, she was announced as having appeared in Love and Honour when she was young. As she was 85 in 1720, she was about 26 at this time.]
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Related Work: Love and Honour Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Event Comment: Pepys, Diary So back to the Opera, and there I saw again Love and Honour, and a very good play it is

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Mainpiece Title: Love And Honour

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Related Work: Love and Honour Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: My wife and I to the Opera, and there saw again Love and Honour, a play so good that it has been acted but three times and I have seen them all, and all in this week; which is too much, and more than I will do again a good while

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Mainpiece Title: Love And Honour

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Related Work: Love and Honour Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Evelyn, Diary: I was so idle as to go see a play, cald Love and honor

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Mainpiece Title: Love And Honour

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Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Opera, where I met my wife and Captain Ferrers and Madamoiselle LeBlanc, and there did see the second part of The Siege of Rhodes very well done

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Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Rhodes Part Ii

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Related Work: The Siege of Rhodes, Part II Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Evelyn, Diary: I saw acted the 2d? part of the Siege of Rhodes: In this acted the faire & famous Comoedian call'd Roxalana for that part she acted, & I think it was the last; then taken to be the E. of Oxfords Misse (as at this time they began to call lew'd women) it was in Recitativa Musique

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Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Rhodes Part Ii

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Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: I went [to the Opera] and there saw The Law Against Lovers, a good play and well performed especially the little girl's [Viola?-the loss of $Roxalana">Moll Davis] (whom I never saw act before) dancing and singing; and were it not for her, the loss of $Roxalana [Hester Davenport] would spoil the house

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Mainpiece Title: The Law Against Lovers

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Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: My wife and I by coach to the Opera, and there saw the 2nd part of The Siege of Rhodes, but it is not so well done as when Roxalana [Mrs Davenport] was there, who, it is said, is now owned by my Lord of Oxford

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Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Rhodes Part Ii

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Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Evelyn, Diary: I saw acted the Law against Lovers

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Mainpiece Title: The Law Against Lovers

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Event Comment: Nethercot (Davenant,pp. 337-78) believes that this play was brought out in the late summer of 1663. The Epilogue refers to the Long Vacation, presumably the summer of 1663, as the play is referred to in Stapylton's The Stepmother, which was licensed 26 Dec. 1663. In Act V is a farce relating to Pompey; as Langbaine (English Dramatick Poets, p. 405) states: Pompey, a Tragedy, which I have seen acted with great Applause, at the Duke's Theatre, and at the End was acted that Farce printed in the fifth Act of The Play-house to be Let. [See also June 1663.

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Mainpiece Title: The Playhouse To Be Let

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Related Work: The Playhouse To Be Let Author(s): Sir William Davenant

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Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

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Related Work: Henry VIII Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Event Comment: Pepys, Diary, 24 Dec.: By and by comes in Captain Ferrers to see us, and, among other talke, tells us of the goodness of the new play of Henry VIII, which makes me think it long till my time is out

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Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

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Related Work: Henry VIII Author(s): Sir William Davenant

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Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

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Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

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Related Work: Henry VIII Author(s): Sir William Davenant

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Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

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Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

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Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: But my wife and I rose from table, pretending business, and went to the Duke's house, the first play I have been at these six months, according to my last vowe, and here saw the so much cried-up play of "Henry the Eighth"; which, though I went with resolution to like it, is so simple a thing made up of a great many patches, that, besides the shows and processions in it, there is nothing in the world good or well done

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Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

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Event Comment: This performance was attended by Richard Boyle (Diary, Vol. III, Chatsworth, through the courtesy of Professor Kathleen Lynch)

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Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

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