Duffett's New Poems and Vacation Plays

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1475-4533|5|1|64-70

ISSN: 0040-5574

Source: Theatre Survey, Vol.5, Iss.1, 1964-05, pp. : 64-70

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Abstract

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.