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Duffett's New Poems and Vacation Plays

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2010

Kenneth M. Cameron
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Extract

Although Thomas Duffett is hardly one of the shining lights of the Restoration drama, his prologues and epilogues contain much theatrical information that gives him a continuing, although non-literary, value. His New Poems, Songs, Prologues and Epilogues (London, 1676), besides providing the only known record of the so-called Duchess of Portsmouth's company, gives considerable evidence of private and vacation performances in the early 1670's.

Type
Research Article
Information
Theatre Survey , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , May 1964 , pp. 64 - 70
Copyright
Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1964

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NOTES

1 The others are the prologue to The Indian Emperour “as acted by the Dutchess of Portsmouth's Servants,” which I have discussed elsewhere (Theatre Notebook XVII); two prologues and an epilogue to unidentified private performances; an epilogue to William Rowley's The Shoomaker's a Gentleman, evidently for a private (craft guild) performance; an “Epilogue by a Woman”; and the prologue and epilogue to Duffett's own Psyche Debauch'd.

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9 Gray, Philip H., “Lenten Casts and the Nursery: Evidence for the Dating of Certain Restoration Plays,” PMLA, LIII (1938), pp. 781–94.CrossRefGoogle Scholar