THE WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN Editor VINTON A. BEARING VOLUME FOURTEEN EDITORS Vinton A. Bearing Alan Roper This page intentionally left blank ANTHONY LEIGH AS FATHER DOMINIC IN The Spanish Fryar Courtesy of Harvard Theatre Collection VOLUME XIV The Works of John Dryden Plays THE KIND KEEPER THE SPANISH FRYAR THE DUKE OF GUISE and THE VINDICATION OF THE DUKE OF GUISE University of Calif orni a Press Berkeley Los Angeles London 1992 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley and Los Angeles, California UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, LTD. London, England The copy texts of this edition have been drawn in the main from the Dryden Collection of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Copyright © 1992 by The Regents of the University of California Printed in the United States of America ISBN: 0—520—07561—7 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 55-7149 Designed by Ward Ritchie In Gratitude for Their Labors on Behalf of This Edition This Volume of the California Dryden Is Dedicated to All the Research Assistants Who Have Gathered, Checked, and Contributed So Much Material over So Many Years The preparation of this volume of the California edition of The Works of John Dryden has been made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humani- ties, an independent federal agency, and by a matching grant from The UCLA Foundation. Acknowledgments Dryden's plays in the present volume all have one or another quality in superlative degree. The Kind Keeper is his most sa- lacious play; The Spanish Fryar, his most popular for many years; The Duke of Guise, the strongest defense of the Stuart monarchy in his dramas and, for that reason rather than for aesthetic rea- sons, requiring his Vindication. While this volume was in preparation, its general editorship devolved from Alan Roper to Vinton Bearing. Roper wrote the commentary on The Duke of Guise and The Vindication of the Duke of Guise and handed on such notes as he had made on the other plays. Dearing prepared all the texts and wrote the com- mentary on The Kind Keeper and The Spanish Fryar. Besides the National Endowment for the Humanities and The UCLA Foundation, whose grants-in-aid are acknowledged on the facing page, the editors wish to thank Chancellor Charles E. Young and the Research Committee of the University of Cali- fornia, Los Angeles, for sabbatical leave and additional grants- in-aid. We wish also to thank former Vice-Chancellor William D. Schaefer for encouragement and support. Those who have given of their time and effort to the California Dryden are deeply indebted to the staffs of the libraries and other institutions they have visited or who have responded to their re- quests of various kinds. First among these must necessarily be the staff of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, on whose collections the edition principally rests, and especially John Bid- well, its Librarian. Both editors have at one time or another in connection with this edition incurred a debt to the British Li- brary, the Guildhall Library, and so on. We trust that these help- ful people, and the public whose gifts and taxes support their institutions, will feel our gratitude for benefits bestowed even if we do not undertake to be more specific. Professors Michael]. B.Allen and Marga Cottino-Jones helped the editor of The Kind Keeper understand the fractured Italian therein. Professors Allen, H. A. Kelly, V. A. Kolve, Jayne Lewis, Maximillian E. Novak, Jonathan F. S. Post, Florence Ridley, and especially A. R. Braunmuller responded generously to questions