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
                   
                    
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                      Mainpiece Title: The Duke Of Guise