Event Comment: The
Duke's Company.
Newdigate newsletters, 15 Aug. 1682: Thursday last being acted a play called the Tragedy of
Romulus att the Dukes Theatre & the
Epilogue spoken by the
Lady Slingsby & written by
Mrs Behn having reflected on ye
Duke of Monmouth, ye
Lord Chamberlaine thereupon has order[ed] them both in Custody to answer th[at] affront for ye same (
Wilson,
Theatre Notes from the Newdigate Newsletters, p. 81). See also
True Protestant Mercury, 12-16 Aug. 1682, for essentially the same statement. The
Prologue and Epilogue were printed separately, and
Luttrell' copy (
Huntington Library) bears his acquisition date of 8 Aug. 1682. They are reprinted in
Wiley,
Rare Prologues and Epilogues, pp. 132-34. The separately printed Prologue states that Mrs Behn also wrote it. A song,
Where art thou god of love, the music by
Giovanni Draghi, is in
Theater of Music, The Third Book, 1686
Performances
Mainpiece Title: Romulus And Hersillia; Or, The Sabine War