... 's play was still a certain hit: "let but Falstaff come, / Hall [i.e. Hal], Poines, the rest, you scarce shall have a room / All is so pester"d" [i.e. crowded] (Poems, sig. *4r). After the Restoration, Samuel Pepys saw the play acted five times between 1660, when the theatres re-opened, and 1668, the first time admittedly disappointed with the performance, his "expectation being too great" (Pepys ... , 1 Henry IV was inevitably Falstaff's play, and virtually every great actor of those times took on the role, from Thomas Betterton to James Hackett, Charles Kemble to William Macready, and S...

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... taken the stage, in male and female roles. Although the introduction of a woman actor had mixed reactions, from then on a woman was to play the role. In October 1660 writer Samuel Pepys saw Othello performed and had this to say about the play: "1660, October 11. - To the Cockpitt to see "The Moore of Venice", which was well done. Burt acted ... ...

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... not immensely popular to begin with. Even as far back as the sixteen hundreds, men were criticizing his works; this time specifically A Midsummer Night's Dream. In September of 1662, diarist Samuel Pepys went to the King's Theatre "where we saw "Midsummer Night's Dream," which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ... ...

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