SOURCE: “Thomas Killigrew and the History of the Theatres until the Union, 1682,” in The Playhouse of Pepys, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1935, pp. 65-145.

In the excerpt below, Summers surveys Killigrew's life, his work as a dramatist, and his activities as a theatrical manager.

Thomas Killegrevv Maître du Theatre Royal & qui a pour sa conduitte des qualitez excellentes.

—Le Sieur Chappuzeau: L’Europe Vivante, 1667.

Our Author writ nine Plays in his Travells, and two at London; amongst which his Don Thomaso, in two parts, and his Parson's Wedding, will always be valu’d by the best Judges and Admirers of Dramatick Poetry.

—Gerard Langbaine: An Account of the English Dramatick Poets, 1691.

Quae theatra [Londini] fuerint, et qui circi, quorumque extent vestigia, et quae penitus conciderint.

—Alex. ab Alexandro, Lib. IV, cap. xxv.

Il y a donc à Londres trois Troupes d’excellens Comediens; la Troupe Royale que jou...