A true widow. A comedy, acted by the Duke's servants. Written by Tho. Shadwell

People / Organizations

• Thomas Shadwell (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for Benjamin Tooke, at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-yard., 1679.

Added name

Dryden, John, 1631-1700.

Publication year

1679

ESTC No.

R11617

Grub Street ID

59885

Description

[8], 78, [2] p. ; 4°.

Note

The prologue is by Dryden. After his quarrel with Shadwell he gave this prologue to 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.