SOURCE: Pepys, Samuel. Diary entry dated October 29, 1666. In The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A New and Complete Transcription, Vol. 7, edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews, pp. 346-47. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1972.

In the following journal entry, Pepys judges The Comical Revenge to be “a silly play.”

[29 October 1666:] About 5 a-clock I took my wife (who is mighty fine, and with a new fair pair of locks, which vex me, though like a fool I helped her the other night to buy them), and to Mrs. Pierce's; and there staying a little, I away before to White-hall and into the new playhouse there, the first time I ever was there, and the first play I have seen since before the great plague. By and by Mr. Pierce comes, bringing my wife and his, and Knipp. By and by the King and Queen, Duke and Duchesse, and all the...