Spanish Duke of Lerma

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Henry Shirley (1623?)


Historical Records

King's Men Repertory List (1641)

On 7 August 1641, Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex sent a letter to the Masters and Warden of the Stationers' Company with a list of 61 plays in the repertory of the King's Men asking for "your care (as formerly my Predecessors haue done) that noe Playes belonging to them bee put in Print wthout their knowledge & consent." The play appears in Essex's list as:

The Duke of Lerma or ye spanish Duke.
(National Archives, LC 5/135, Chambers, "Plays," 369)


List of King's Men Plays Performed at the Blackfriars before 1642

The play appears in a list of titles (prepared c. 12 January 1669) allotted to Thomas Killigrew's King's Company as having been part of the repertory of the pre-war King's Men.

Plays Acted at the Theatre Royall.
A Catalogue of part of His Mates Servants Playes as they were formerly acted at the Blackfryers & now allowed of to his Mates Servants at ye New Theate
[…]
The Duke of Lerma
(National Archives, LC 5/12, p. 212, qtd. Nicoll, 315–16)


Stationers' Register

Humphrey Moseley entered the play on 9 September 1653, along with three others attributed to Henry Shirley:


The spanish Duke of Lerma.
The Duke of Guize            by Henry Shirley.
The Dumbe Bawd &
Giraldo, ye Constant Louer


(Liber E, p. 286; cf. Eyre, 1.429)



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Nicoll, Allardyce. A History of Restoration Drama 1660–1700. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1928.

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