SOURCE: “The Killigrew Folio: Private Playhouses and the Restoration Stage,” in Theatre Survey, Vol. XIX, No. 2, November 1978, pp. 119-38.
In the following essay, Visser argues that the revisions that Killigrew inscribed in the 1664 folio edition of his plays were made to accommodate the newly emerging type of venues, and asserts that the “great interest” of the folio “lies in the relationship it demonstrates between the private playhouses of the early Caroline period, and the public theatres of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century.”
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