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A true widow : a comedy, acted by the Duke's Servants

by: Shadwell, Thomas, 1642?-1692; Dryden, John, 1631-1700

Publication date: 1679

Publisher: London : Printed for Benjamin Tooke, at the Ship in St. Pauĺs Church-yard

Collection: bplsctpbs; bplsceep; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

The Prologue is by Dryden; after his quarrel with Shadwell he gave this prologue to Mrs. Aphra Behn for her play The Widow Ranter

With a final epilogue leaf. There are two states of the epilogue. State 1: the third line of the heading is in the same size type as the first, and the brackets which mark the 9-11th and 26-28th lines are set at the end of the letterpress. State 2: line 3 of the heading is in larger type and the brackets are moved far to the right--cf. Pforzheimer catalogue

Wing

ESTC

Pforzheimer

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