*p1682 11 28 dl The Duke of Guise. Edition of 1683: Prologue by $Mr Dryden=-Mr Smith; King-Kynaston; Guise-Betterton; Mayenne-Jevon; Crillon-Smith; Cardinal-Wiltshire; Archbishop-Perrin; Corso-Montfort; Polin-Bowman; Aumale-Carlile; Bussy-Saunders; Curate-Underhill; Malicorne-Percival; Melanax-Gillo; Sheriffs-Bright, Samford; Queen Mother-Lady Slingsby; Marmoutier-Mrs Barry; Epilogue by $Mr Dryden=-Mrs Cook; Another Epilogue Intended to have been Spoken to the Play before it was forbidden last Summer-.*c1682 11 28 dl The <i>United Company</i>. <i>Newdigate newsletters</i>, 28 Nov. 1682: This day was Acted a new play called <i>the Duke of Guise</i> by $Mr Dryden= it was formerly forbidd as reflecting upon the $D of Monmouth= but by ye supplication of ye Author its now allowed to be acted ($Wilson=, <i>Theatre Notes from the Newdigate Newsletters</i>, p. 81). The Prologue and Epilogue, separately printed, bear $Luttrell='s date of acquisition (<i>Huntington Library</i>) as 4 Dec. 1682, but above this date Luttrell has written: "30 Nov." The <i>Prologue</i> and <i>Epilogue</i> are reprinted in $Wiley=, <i>Rare Prologues and Epilogues</i>, pp. 149-52. Dedication, Edition of 1683: In the Representation itself, it was persecuted with so notorious Malice by one side, that it secur'd us the Partiality of the other. In a report from the $Abbe Rouchi=, in London, 14 Dec. 1682, it is stated that the Duke of Guise was acted three times ($Campana de Cavelli=, <i>Les Derniers Stuarts</i> [<i>Paris</i> and <i>London</i>, 1871], I, 398). One song, <i>Tell me Thyrsis all your anguish</i>, with music by $Captain Pack=, is in the edition of 1683 and also in <i>Choice Ayres and Songs</i>, The Fourth Book, 1683.