Shirley, James. 1596-1666. No, 3 in **G.3976.37 [The duke, a play. Anon.] Begins: Persons represented in the play. Duke. Cosmo, his great favourite. Albert, general of the duke’s army, etc. N.t.p. (3),66pp. Plate. Sm.4 The title of this play is written on tes first blank leaf in an old hand: a later MS. note ascribes it to Shirley. The duke, a play by Shirley, was licensed in 1631 wut no copy has been known to bibliography, and Lang- baine, Fleay, and Ward consider it lost. The present play was undoubtedly entitled The duke. The prologue contains contemporaneous references which fix its date between 1630 and 1640. It may be the lost play of Shir- ley. [This work is kept on the Special Libraries Floor.]
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