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18160 results for: Keyword - the Sir Williams
We found 11784 matches on Author, 6982 matches on Performance Comments, 1316 matches on Event Comments, 1129 matches on Roles/Actors, and 512 matches on Performance Title.

951
16 August 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wits

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

952
17 August 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wits

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

953
19 August 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wits

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

954
20 August 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wits

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

955
21 August 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wits

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

956
22 August 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wits

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

957
23 August 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wits

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

958
21 October 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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

Performances

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

959
23 October 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary So back to the Opera, and there I saw again Love and Honour, and a very good play it is

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Honour

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Related Work: Love and Honour Author(s): Sir William Davenant

960
25 October 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Honour

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Related Work: Love and Honour Author(s): Sir William Davenant

961
11 November 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Evelyn, Diary: I was so idle as to go see a play, cald Love and honor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Honour

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Related Work: Love and Honour Author(s): Sir William Davenant

962
15 November 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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

Performances

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

963
09 January 1662 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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

Performances

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

964
18 February 1662 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Law Against Lovers

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Related Work: The Law Against Lovers Author(s): Sir William Davenant

965
20 May 1662 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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

Performances

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

966
17 December 1662 @ Whitehall or St. James's

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Law Against Lovers

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Related Work: The Law Against Lovers Author(s): Sir William Davenant

967
August 1663 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Playhouse To Be Let

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

968
23 December 1663 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

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

969
26 December 1663 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

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

970
28 December 1663 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

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

971
29 December 1663 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

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

972
30 December 1663 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

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

973
31 December 1663 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

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

974
01 January 1664 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

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

975
08 February 1664 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

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