Merchant of Dublin, The

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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).

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Critical Commentary

For What It's Worth

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.


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