SOURCE: “Thomas Killigrew Prepares His Plays for Production,” in Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, edited by James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby, The Folger Shakespeare Library, 1948, pp. 803-08.

In the essay below, Van Lennep examines a copy of the 1664 folio edition of Killigrew's plays that contains revisions and annotations made by the author himself.

Twenty-six years ago Mr. C. H. Wilkinson, writing about the library of Worcester College, Oxford, listed among the recent acquisitions to that library's fine collection of seventeenth-century drama Thomas Killigrew's own copy of the 1664 folio of his plays, containing numerous deletions in his hand.¹ In 1935 Mr. Montague Summers very briefly described this copy in his The Playhouse of Pepys; but he must have examined it rather hastily or relied upon a description of it sent him in 1921 by the late George Thorn-Drury, because he states inaccurately that there are “corrections...