The Wild Gallant
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The Wild Gallant is a Restoration comedy written by John Dryden. It was Dryden’s earliest play, and written in prose, not verse; it was premiered on the stage by the King’s Company at their Vere Street theatre, formerly Gibbon’s Tennis Court, on February 5, 1663. (The play’s opening scene features astrologers drawing horoscopes on the play’s fortunes for that date.) As Dryden himself stated in his Preface, it was “the first attempt I made in Dramatique Poetry.”
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The play being done, 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, though Mr. Clerke whom we met here did commend it to us.
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