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159:, London, 1669, in five acts and in verse. âThis is an indifferent tragedyâit is founded on the poem of MusĂŠusâthe original story being very simple, Stapylton was obliged to make large additions to it in order to form 5 actsâhe has not been happy in these additionsâ (Genest). It was never acted.
153:, London, 1664, a tragi-comedy, in five acts and in verse, acted at Lincoln's Inn Fields by the Duke of York's servants on 28 May 1663. The cast was much the same as for the preceding play, but Genest says "the serious scenes of it are bad".
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