Event Comment: 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
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal
Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham