The prologues and epilogues of the Restoration
dc.contributor | Bond, David Project Pallas University of Exeter Exeter |
dc.contributor.editor | Danchin, Pierre |
dc.coverage.placeName | Nancy |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T09:53:42Z |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T09:53:42Z |
dc.date.created | 1660-1700 |
dc.date.issued | 1989-11-27 |
dc.identifier | ota:1325 |
dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1325 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/1325 |
dc.description.abstract | Contents: Behn, Aphra. -- The city heiress : [1698?]. -- Montague Summers, ed. ; Crowne, John. -- The city politiques : [Regents Renaissance]. -- J.H. Wilson, ed |
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dc.language | English |
dc.language.iso | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
dc.rights.label | PUB |
dc.subject.lcsh | English drama -- 17th century |
dc.subject.lcsh | Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) |
dc.subject.lcsh | Anthologies |
dc.subject.other | Plays |
dc.subject.other | Anthologies |
dc.subject.other | Linguistic corpora |
dc.title | The prologues and epilogues of the Restoration |
dc.type | Text |
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branding | Oxford Text Archive |
files.size | 1500451 |
files.count | 3 |
otaterms.date.range | 1600-1699 |
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<N 1>
<Y 1641>
<T GUARDIAN>
<A COWLEY, ABRAHAM>
<E PROLOGUE>
<D NONE>
<V UNIV>
<C AMAT>
<K COMM>
<S UNKNOWN>
<P UNKNOWN>
[[{Prologue to the Guardian}
{Before the Prince}]]
Who says the Times do Learning disallow?
'Tis false; 'twas never Honor'd so as now;
When you appear, Great Prince, our Night is done;
You are our Morning Star, and shall be' our Sun.
But our Scene's London now; and by the rout
We perish, if the Round-heads be about.
For now no ornament the Head must wear,
No Bays, no Mitre, not so much as Hair.
How can a Play pass safely, when we know
Cheapside Cross falls for making but a Show?
Our only Hope is this, that it may be
A Play may pass too, made Extempore.
Though other Arts poor and neglected grow,
They'll admit Poesie which was {always} so.
Besides, the Muses of late times have bin
Sanctifi'd by the Verse of M . . .

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Prologues and Epilogues of the Restoration (1642-1685), based
on the edition of the same name by Pierre Danchin (1980s, Nancy)
with additions for the period 1642-1660.
The following cocoa references appear at the head of each
prologue and epilogue (occasionally repeated in the middle if the
piece is especially long):
<N ...> Sequential number (pieces in rough chronological order)
<T ...> Title of play
<Y ...> Year of performance or publication (when unperformed)
<A ...> Author
<E ...> "EPILOGUE" or "PROLOGUE" as appropriate.
<D ...> Reference number in Danchin.
<V ...> Venue - eg. DG for Dorset Garden.
<C ...> Company.
<K ...> Kind of performance (PUB for public, COMM for Command etc)
<S ...> Speaker (ie name of actor or actress)*
<P ...> Part (when the actor or actress played a particular part)*
<B ...> "VERSE" or "PROSE" as appropriate.#
*These two references may be repeated in the body of the text when
the piece is in dialogue form.
#This reference is only included for . . .