March 1678
Event Information
Theatre:
Dorset Garden Theatre
Theatrical Season:
1677-1678
Volume:
1
Comments:
The Duke's Company. The date of the first production is not known. It was not entered in the Term Catalogues until May 1678, but the very large number of new plays acted by the Duke's Company in the spring of 1678, many of them more precisely dated, makes it probable that this was an early spring production which had title success. The title page states: Written by a Person of Quality. Langbaine (English Dramatick Poets, 1691, p. 554) ascribes it to "Mr Rawlins." A Library of Congress copy has on the title page: "by L. Baker.
Performance List
Mainpiece
Comments:
Edition o 1678: Prologue-; Epilogue-.
Edition o 1678: Prologue-; Epilogue-.