In reference to a production of The Comical Revenge, or Love in a Tub on 29th October 1666, Samuel Pepys noted:
“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. But the play being “Love in a Tub,” a silly play, and though done by the Duke’s people, yet having neither Betterton nor his wife, and the whole thing done ill, and being ill also, I had no manner of pleasure in the play. Besides, the House, though very fine, yet bad for the voice, for hearing. The play done by ten o’clock.”