ABSTRACT
Extract from Diary, 23 February 1662–3: ‘… we took coach and to Court, and there got good places, and saw The Wilde Gallant, performed by the King’s house, but it was ill acted, and the play so poor a thing as I never saw in my life almost, and so little answering the name, that from beginning to end, I could not, nor can at this time, tell certainly which was the Wild Gallant. The King did not seem pleased at all, all the whole play, nor any body else. … ’ (Diary (1893–9; 1949), ed. H. B. Wheatley, iii. 48.)
