A Manual for the Collector And Amateur of Old English Plays

slaves' rebellion against their masters, in Justin, lib. i., cap. 5. At ihe revival of this play after the Restoration, the chief part was acted very successfully by Betterton. According to Downes, this was the only play of Massinger revived after the Restoration, until Betterion took a fancy to the part of Paris in the Rornan Actor. Dr. Browne, in a MS. note, dated 1662, mentions that it was acted in that year "at Salisbury or Dorset Court [Garden]." The Bond-Woman : This play was entered on the books of the Stationers' Company, September 23, 1653 ; but it does not appear to have been printed. Bonduca : A tragedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. Fol., 1647. It was produced before March, 1618-9. The groundwork of the play is taken from Tacitus. Bonduca; or, the British Heroine: A tragedy, acted at the Theatre Royal. 410, 1696. This was published by George Powell, who says it was given him by a friend, and that it was revised and studied in one fortnight. It is a mere alteration from the foregoing play, with the character of Penius omitted, that of Petilius much shortened, and all that passes in the original play between Junius and the second daughter of Bontluca omitted. See further in Geneste's Account of the English Stage, ii. 73. The songs were set to music by Purcell, and were published, on separate folio sheets, with the music. See Boadicea. Bonos Nochios [Buenas Noches] : An interlude, entered in the books of the Stationers' Company, by Jeffery Char...