alt Hacker NewsFrom a few months later:
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1661/01/03/
and after that to the Theatre, where was acted “Beggars’ Bush,” it being very well done; and here the first time that ever I saw women come upon the stage.
and a few years later: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1664/10/04/
Thence-setting all them at home, I home with my wife and Mercer, vexed at my losing my time and above 20s. in money, and neglecting my business to see so bad a play. To-morrow they told us should be acted, or the day after, a new play, called “The Parson’s Dreame,” acted all by women.
tangentially, https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/oct/18/nell-gw...
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this is why I come here.
It's crazy that it took so long for women to walk upon the stage, but even crazier, that once they did, they put on entire plays acted by only women in such short a time.
I love that 17th century word order.
"Tommorow they told us should be acted, or the day after, a new play..."
It's like declaring a bunch of helper variables before getting to the main body of a function.