Event Comment: The
King's Company. After the banning of
The Sicilian Usurper, it was brought on again under a new title and survived two days before it also was banned.
Tate's s
tatement concerning its reception--see 11 Dec. 1680--may refer to these two performances rather than to the sequence in December.
Newdigate newsletters (
Folger Shakespeare Library), 20 Jan. 1680@1:
K. Richd ye 2.d a play, being forbid acting att ye
Ks house the Poet put the name
Tyrant of Sicily upon it by wch means it was acted twice this weeke, but the Cheate being found out it was forbid acting againe (
Wilson, Theatre Notes from the
Newdigate Newsletters, p. 80)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Tyrant Of Sicily
Related Works
Related Work: The Tyrant of Sicily Author(s): Nahum Tate