Event Comment: On t
his date,
L. C. 5@16, p. 101 (
Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 10n)
Nathaniel Lee's
The Duke of Guise was banned.
John Drummond to
Marquis and Duke of Queensberry, 16 July 1682:
Ther is a play hear to be acted that maks a great business, for
the Duke of Munmuth has complained of it, and
they say that notwithstanding it is to be acted sometime nixt weik.
They call it
the Duke of Guise, but in
the play
the true story is cheinged to
the plott time hear (
HMC, Buccleuch-Queensberry MSS., 1903, II 108). Newsletter, 29 July 1682: A play by
Mr Dryden, termed
the Duke of Guise, wherein
the Duke of Monmouth was vilified and great interest being make for
the acting
thereof, but coming to
His Majesty's knowledge is forbid, for though
His Majesty be displeased with
the Duke yet he will not suffer o
thers to abuse him (
HMC, 15th Report, Part VII, 1898, p. 108).
Newdigate newsletters, 29 July 1682: A play having been made [by] Mr Dryden termed ye
Duke of Guise supposed to Levell att
the villifying
the Duke of Monmouth & many o
ther protestants & great Interest made for
the Acting
thereof but bringing to
the knowledge of
his Matie
the same was forbidd for though
his Maties pleasure is to be dissatisfyed and angry with
the Duke of Monmouth, yet hee is not willing that o
thers should abuse him out of a naturall affection for him (
Wilson,
Theatre Notes from the Newdigate Newsletters, p. 81)