The Oxonian in Town.

[Colman (George)]

The Oxonian in Town.

A Comedy, in two acts, as it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden.

Description: FIRST EDITION, a little browned, and some damp-staining in the upper half, blank lower outer corner torn away from A5, pp. [viii], 25, 2], 8vo, modern paper wrappers (a little too enthusiastically glued to the title-page), good

Publication Details: Dublin: Printed for G. Faulkner [and several others], 1769

Notes: A short farce, presented just after Colman took over the running of the Covent Garden Theatre. The Advertisement alludes to the 'extremely singular' reception of the play, whose first two performances were well received. At the third, a clamour got up, on account of certain Irish persons thinking they had been slighted, if not the whole of the Irish nation. This probably accounts for the play first being published in Dublin. A London edition appeared the next year. The Oxonian, a student, is more or less a country bumpkin, ready to be fleeced by sharpers in the metropolis: only one of these (o...moreA short farce, presented just after Colman took over the running of the Covent Garden Theatre. The Advertisement alludes to the 'extremely singular' reception of the play, whose first two performances were well received. At the third, a clamour got up, on account of certain Irish persons thinking they had been slighted, if not the whole of the Irish nation. This probably accounts for the play first being published in Dublin. A London edition appeared the next year. The Oxonian, a student, is more or less a country bumpkin, ready to be fleeced by sharpers in the metropolis: only one of these (out of three) is possibly Irish - M'Shuffle. HIDE

Bibliography: (ESTC T43533)

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Price: £350

Subject: Literature

Published Date: 1769

Stock Number: 53709

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