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King's Company

Connections

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Performance of text	Frances Boothby	FB 's Marcelia; or, The Treacherous Friend, a tragicomedy, was performed by the King's Company at Bridges Street, Drury Lane, before Aphra Behn began her theatrical career. Milling, Jane. “’In the Female Coasts of Fame’: women’s dramatic writing on the public stage, 1669-71”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 7 , No. 2, 2000, pp. 267-93. 277
Reception	Margaret Cavendish	These verse eulogies or testimonials came from distinguished persons and institutions to whom she had presented copies of her work. It circulated widely: the Dutch poet Constantijn Huygens owned one of her books. Smith, Emma. Shakespeare’s First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book. Oxford University Press, 2016. 92 During...
Textual Production	Marie-Catherine de Villedieu	For her third and last play, the tragi-comedy Le Favory (not translated into English until the twentieth century), Marie-Catherine Desjardins turned to Molière 's company (the Troupe du Roi ). This play (whose title means...

Timeline

8 November 1660

Thomas Killigrew left Davenant and opened his own theatre company, the King's , at Gibbons' Tennis Court, Vere Street.

The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.

1: 15

Sutherland, James. English Literature of the Late Seventeenth Century. Clarendon Press, 1969.

32-3

7 May 1663

The King's Company (managed by Thomas Killigrew and formerly of Vere Street) opened at a new theatre in Bridges Street, Drury Lane.

The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.

1: 54

29-30 August 1663

The Lord Chamberlain ordered the arrest of all actors performing without affiliation with the two patent houses (the King's Company , managed by Thomas Killigrew , and the Duke's Company , managed by Sir William Davenant ).

The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.

1: 53

25 January 1672

The theatre in Bridges Street, Drury Lane, home of the King's Company (managed by Thomas Killigrew ), was destroyed by fire.

The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.

1: 185

26 March 1674

The King's Company opened at its new Drury Lane Theatre , in Drury Lane, still under the management of Thomas Killigrew .

The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.

1: 209; 5: 1361

16 November 1682

The recently-formed United Company gave its first stage performance at Drury Lane Theatre .

The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.

1: 299, 316

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