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).

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.

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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