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== For What It's Worth == | == For What It's Worth == | ||
Dutton suggests that the ''Merchant of Dublin'' might be an alternative title for [[''Irish Gentleman, The|The Irish Gentleman'']]. | |||
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Historical Records
In Brief Lives, John Aubrey noted that John Ogilby "wrot a Play at Dublin called, The Merchant of Dublin--never printed" (Bennett 617; transcribed from Bodleian MS Aubrey 8, f. 47v).
Theatrical Provenance
Wiggins, Catalogue (#2546) notes that this play could have been written from 1633–44 or 1662–66, the two periods that Ogilby was in Dublin.
Bentley, (iv.950-951), echoed by Wiggins and Richardson, notes that during each of his periods in Dublin, Ogilby founded a theatre (Werburgh Street and Smock Alley, respectively). Wiggins and Richardson add that "It is also conceivable that he might have written it as a literary exercise before or after the years when the Werburgh Street Theatre was in operation (1635-41), without any immediate expectation that it would be produced.
Probable Genre(s)
Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues
References to the Play
Critical Commentary
For What It's Worth
Dutton suggests that the Merchant of Dublin might be an alternative title for The Irish Gentleman.
Works Cited
Bennett, Kate, ed. Brief Lives with An Apparatus for the Lives of our English Mathematical Writers. By John Aubrey. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2015.