...citizen.' ' 1660—1. Jan. 3. TQ the Theatre, where was acted " Beggar's Bush," it being very well done : and here the first time that ever I saw women come upon the stage.' 4 Aug. 4. To church, and had a good plain sermon. At our coming in, the country people all rose with...

...hath newly given them. 3d. To the Theatre, where was acted " Beggar's Bush," it being very well done ; and here the first time that ever I saw women come upon the stage. 4th. Office all the morning, my wife and Pall being gone to my father's to dress dinner for Mr. Honiwood,...

...newly given them. 3d. To the Theatre, where was acted " Beggar's Bush," it / being very well done ; and here the first time that ever I saw women come upon the stage. 4th. Office all the morning, my wife and Pall being gone to my father's to dress dinner for Mr. Honiwood,...

...Fletcher's " Beggar's Bush " was performed at Killigrew's Theatre, " it being very well done," says Pepys, " and here the first time that ever I saw women come upon the stage." Davenant did not bring forward his actresses before the end of June, 1(561, when he produced the second...

...hath newly given them. 3d. To the Theatre, where was acted " Beggar's Bush," it being very well done ; and here the first time that ever I saw women come upon the stage. 4th. Office all the morning, my wife and Pall being gone to my father's to dress dinner for Mr. Honiwood,...

...recording: 'January 3, 1660. To the Theatre, where was acted " Beggar's Bush," it being very well done ; and here the first time that ever I saw women come upon the stage.' Again, ' Feb. 12, 1660-1. By water to Salsbury Court play-house, where not liking to sit, we went out...

...other information, Brande proceeds as follows : ' Furthermore you should know that last daye, certain e vagrant French players, who had been expelled from...349). Halliwell (note to Autobiography of Sir Simon D'Ewes, 8vo, 1845, vol. ii. p. 104) says, "the custom of females appearing on the stage was not introduced...

...time, but met with such bad fortune that Sir H. Herbert returned them one half of his fee (Collier''s Annals of the Stage, vol. ii. pp. 22-25, 8vo, 1831)....vol. ii. p. 276. But in a curious tract printed in 1 607, Kempe asks the " Harlaken " if his " wife can play" (see Fry's Bibliographical Memoranda, Bristol,...

...January, when he saw the comedy of " The Beggar's Bush " performed ; " it being very well done, and was the first time that ever I saw women come upon the stage." He had seen the same play in the previous November, when it was represented by male performers only....

...178). January 3, 1660. 'To the Theatre, where was acted "Beggar's Bush," it being very well done ; and here the first time that ever I saw women come upon the stage ' (i. 328). January 8, 1660/1. ' After dinner I took my Lord Hinchinbroke and Mr. Sidney to the Theatre,...