Note 1028 — Chapter VI
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Charles II. openly avowed his preference for the French drama. Dryden wrote his Essay of Dramatic Poesy, "to vindicate the Honour of our English writers from the censure of those who unjustly prefer the French before them." Pepys saw many of the French plays acted in English. Cp. H. McAfee, Pepys on the Restoration Stage ..., Yale Univ. Press, 1916.