April 1689
Event Information
Theatre:
Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre
Theatrical Season:
1688-1689
Volume:
1
Comments:
The United Company. On 23 April 1689 Luttrell purchased a copy of the Prologue. The broadside copy, with Luttrell's date of acquisition, is in the possession of Mr Louis Silver, Wilmette, Illinois, to whose courtesy I am indebted for permission to use this date. When the Prologue, which is reprinted in Wiley, Rare Prologues and Epilogues, pp. 271-72, appeared in The Fourth and Last Volume of the Works of Mr Tho. Brown (1719), the Prologue has the title: Jo. Haines in Penance; Or, his Recantation-Prologue, at his acting of Poet Bays in the Duke of Buckingham's Play call'd The Rehearsal. Spoken in a white Sheet, with a burning Taper in his Hand, upon his Admittance in to the House after his Return from the Church of Rome. In the Preface to his play, The Fatal Mistake (1691-92), Haines stated: In troth I have Acted Mr Bays so often, and so feelingly, that I could not possibly forbear copying after so fair an Original
Performance List
Mainpiece
Title:
The Rehearsal
Comments:
Bayes-Haines. Mr Haynes His Recantation-Prologue Upon his first Appearance on the Stage After His Return from Rome.
Bayes-Haines. Mr Haynes His Recantation-Prologue Upon his first Appearance on the Stage After His Return from Rome.