Shakespeare A to Z | Pepys, Samuel: 1633–1703, Diarist
Samuel Pepys was the administrator of England’s Royal Navy and an avid theatergoer. His thoughts and observations were collected in a book titled the Diary, which provides a vivid history of the performance of Shakespeare’s plays during the Restoration* period.
Pepys’s Diary covers the years from 1660 to 1669. Although Restoration theater was famous for numerous productions of Shakespeare’s plays, many of those stagings were...
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