*p1693 01 02 atcourt A Duke and no Duke?.*c1693 01 02 atcourt The <i>United Company</i>. Writing on 3 Jan. 1692@3, $Anthony Wood= states: A new comedie composed by $Mr Tate=, <i>poet laureat</i>, was acted before $their majesties=, M. 2 Jan. ($Andrew Clark=, <i>The Life and Times of Anthony Wood</i> [<i>Oxford</i>, 1894], III, 413). Since no new play by $Tate= is known to have been acted at this time, and since A Duke and No Duke was reprinted in 1693 (<i>Term Catalogues</i>, May 1693), and acted several times (<i>Gentleman's Journal</i>, January 1692@2, issued in March):<i>A Duke and no Duke</i> being often acted now, and scarce, is reprinted, with the addition of a curious Preface, by our Laureat, concerning Farce. [Possibly Wood was mistaken in thinking that A Duke and no Duke was a new play. It seems the one most likely to fit the circumstances of this period.]