Event Comment: The
Duke's Company. The play was apparently never published, but the
Prologue and
Epilogue were printed and have been reprinted in
Wiley,
Rare Prologues and Epilogues, pp. 43-45. The Epilogue also appeared in
Miscellany, Being a Collection of Poems by several Hands, 1685, and has been reprinted in
A Little Ark, ed.
G. Thorn-Drury, p. 46. The latest date at which the play, with the Prologue and Epilogue, first appeared is 5 April 1682, the date
Luttrell placed on his copies (
Huntington Library), presumably representing the day on which he acquired them. G. Thorn-Drury, commenting upon the Epilogue, points out that it refers to the trial of
Pilkington, one of the
Sheriffs of London, ca. 25 March 1681@2. It seems likely, then, that this lost play was presented in March
Performances
Mainpiece Title: Like Father Like Son Or The Mistaken Brothers