Event Comment: The
United Company.
Newdigate newsletters, 28 Nov. 1682: This day was Acted a new play called
the Duke of Guise 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,
Theatre Notes from the Newdigate Newsletters, p. 81). The Prologue and Epilogue, separately printed, bear
Luttrell's date of acquisition (
Huntington Library) as 4 Dec. 1682, but above this date Luttrell has written: "30 Nov." The
Prologue and
Epilogue are reprinted in
Wiley,
Rare Prologues and Epilogues, 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,
Les Derniers Stuarts [
Paris and
London, 1871], I, 398). One song,
Tell me Thyrsis all your anguish, with music by
Captain Pack, is in the edition of 1683 and also in
Choice Ayres and Songs, The Fourth Book, 1683