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Evidence for Performance of The London Cuckolds, The Maid's Tragedy and Oedipus in 1685–86

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2009

Jeanne S. Meekins
Affiliation:
The Pennsylvania State University

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Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1982

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References

1 The London Stage 1660–1800, Part 1: 1660–1700, ed. Lennep, William Van, Avery, Emmett L., and Scouten, Arthur H. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1965), p. 348Google Scholar. Licensed on 23 April 1686, but printed after 2 July 1686 since Susannah Percival appears under her married name (Mountfort) in the cast list, the play was probably held at the press to let some of the fuss die down. It was advertised in the 28 February 1687 Term Catalogue. See The Term Catalogues, ed. Arber, Edward, 3 vols. (London: Edward Arber, 1905), II, 187188Google Scholar.

2 Preface to Bellamira {1687).

3 Behn, Aphra, Preface to The Luckey Chance (London: R.H., 1687)Google Scholar. I have omitted confusing italics. The Preface is most easily accessible in The Works of Aphra Behn, 6 vols., ed. Summers, Montague (1915; rpt. New York: Phaeton, 1967), III, 185187Google Scholar.

4 See The London Stage, pp. 343–44, 346.

5 City Politiques, a topical play, appears to have been dropped after 1685–86. It was revived in 1705, advertised as “Not Acted these Twenty years.” See The London Stage, p. 344.

6 Downes, John, Roscius Anglicanus (London: H. Playford, 1708), p. 40; The London Stage, p. 337Google Scholar.

7 See The Term Catalogues, II, 190; The London Stage, pp. 342, 352Google Scholar.