...too high and insolent— a complaint made against them as early as February, 1661, when Pepys notes, "Besides, I see the gallants do begin to be tyred...actors, who are indeed grown very proud and rich." This order for silence lasted about ten day's, but a month or two later a much more serious suspension...

...appeared. Under date of January 23, 1660-1, Pepys says: "To the Playhouse, and there saw the Changeling, the first time it hath been acted these twenty years, and it takes exceedingly." It was also acted at the Cardinal's Cap in Cambridge in 1662, according to a memorandum in MS. Sloane,...

...Restoration actors in Wright's //•'•./in in HisMomca. * As early ns February 23, 1661, Pepys remarks : ' I see the gallants do begin to be tyred with the vanity...actors, who are indeed grown very proud and rich.' 4 So Gibber very justly observes in his Apology, p. 76. — Not a few of the actresses of this period...

...was brave musique. Then by water to Whitefriars to the Play-house, and there saw " The Changeling," ' the first time it hath been acted these twenty years,...theatre actors who are indeed grown very proud and rich. Then by link home, and there to my book awhile and to bed. I met to-day with Mr. Townsend, who tells...

...Ossory (1614-1680). 5 See May 6, 1661. exceedingly. Besides, I see the gallants do begin to be tired P-,9 Լ C i>^ ާMR $ dۤX] =ꄽ lM[ý b !( U{ 3" prouil and rich. I also \ met with the Comptroller, who told me how it was easy for us all, the principal...

...February 23, 1660-61. Then by water to Whitefriars to the Play-house, and there saw "The Changeling,"1 the first time it hath been acted these twenty years,...theatre actors who are indeed grown very proud and rich. Middleton and W. Rowley THE SPANISH GYPSY June 16, 1661. This afternoon ... I spent in reading "The...

...actor at best) act Macbeth in the room of Betterton. General References to Actors February 23, 1660-61. Besides, I see the gallants do begin to be tyred with...theatre actors who are indeed grown very proud and rich.1 March 2, 1660-61. But above all it was strange to see [in The Queen's Masque at Salisbury Court]...

...Restoration players were worthy of censure in more ways than one. Pepys noted in 1661 (February 23) that "the gallants do begin to be tyred with the vanity...actors, who are indeed grown very proud and rich." There occurred, from time to time, certain despicable exhibitions of the gallants' gentlemanly superiority;...

...witnessed by Pepys, who writes in his Diary : " To the Playhouse, and there saw the ' Changeling." the first time it hath been acted these twenty years, and it takes exceedingly." Middleton (Thomas) and Rowley (William) — continued. 1219 The Spanish Cipsie. As it was acted (with...

...This my birthday, 28 years. By water to Whitefriars to the Play house, and there saw "The Changeling," the first time it hath been acted these twenty years,...theatre actors who are indeed grown very proud and rich. Then by link home, and there to my book awhile and to bed. This is now 28 years that I am born. And...