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Author Tuke, Samuel, Sir, -1674.

Title The advertures of five houres [microform] : a tragi-comedy. As it is acted at His Royal Highness the Duke of York's theatre.

Imprint London : Printed by T.N. for Henry Herringman, 1671.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Basement Library of English Literature Microfiche Cabinets  LEL 11938    ---  Available
Edition The third impression, revis'd and corrected by the author. Sir Samuel Tuke kt. and bart....
Description [8], 100 p.
Series Library of English literature ; LEL 11938
Note An adaptation of Los empeņos de seis horas, "now assigned to Antonio Coello and not, as formerly, to Calderon."--Cambridge history of English literature, v. 8, p. 130.
"According to Pepys, it was acted at Lincoln's Inn Fields for the first time on 8 Jan, 1633. 'The play,' he says, 'in one word is the best for the variety, and the most excellent continuance of the plot to the end, that ever I saw, or think ever shall, and all possible, not only to be done in the time, but in most other respects very admittable and without one word of ribaldry."--Dictionary of national biography.
Prologue by Mr. Betterton; epilogues by Mr. Smith and Mr. Harris.
Reproduction Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, Inc., 1976. 1 microfiche : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature, 11938)
Note s 1976 ilu n
Added Author Coello, Antonio, 1611-1652. Empeņos de seis horas.
Betterton, Thomas, 1635?-1710.

 
    
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