Dame Dobson

1683 play

Dame Dobson

Written by| Edward Ravenscroft
Date premiered| 31 May 1683
Place premiered| Dorset Garden Theatre, London
Original language| English
Genre| Restoration Comedy

Dame Dobson is a 1683 comedy play by the English writer Edward Ravenscroft.

First staged by the United Company at the Dorset Garden Theatre, the original cast included Katherine Corey as Dame Dobson, Edward Kynaston as Collonel, Thomas Jevon as Gillet, John Wiltshire as Gerrard, William Mountfort as Hartwell, George Bright as Farmer, John Richards as Goslin, Anthony Leigh as Jenkin, Mary Lee as Lady Noble, Elizabeth Currer as Mrs Featly, Elinor Leigh as Mrs Prudence, Charlotte Butler as Mrs Cleremont and Margaret Osborne as Mrs Hellen.[1]

In 1726 Charles Johnson wrote a reworking of the plot as The Female Fortune Teller.

## References

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1. ^ Van Lennep p.319-20

## Bibliography

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* Canfield, J. Douglas. Tricksters and Estates: On the Ideology of Restoration Comedy. University Press of Kentucky, 2014.
* Van Lennep, W. The London Stage, 1660-1800: Volume One, 1660-1700. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960.

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Restoration comedy

Playwrights|

* Aphra Behn
* Susanna Centlivre
* Colley Cibber
* William Congreve
* John Dryden
* Thomas d'Urfey
* George Etherege
* George Farquhar
* Edward Howard
* James Howard
* Robert Howard
* Thomas Otway
* Charles Sedley
* Thomas Shadwell
* Thomas Southerne
* Richard Steele
* John Vanbrugh
* George Villiers
* William Wycherley

Notable plays|

* The Cutter of Coleman Street (1661)
* The Adventures of Five Hours (1663)
* The Comical Revenge (1664)
* The Mulberry-Garden (1668)
* She Would If She Could (1668)
* An Evening's Love (1668)
* Sir Solomon Single (1670)
* Love in a Wood (1671)
* The Rehearsal (1671)
* Epsom Wells (1672)
* Marriage à la mode (1672)
* The Country Wife (1675)
* Love in the Dark (1675)
* The Country Wit (1676)
* The Plain-Dealer (1676)
* The Man of Mode (1676)
* Tom Essence (1676)
* A Fond Husband (1677)
* Friendship in Fashion (1678)
* Squire Oldsapp (1678)
* Tunbridge Wells (1678)
* A True Widow (1678)
* The Woman Captain (1679)
* The London Cuckolds (1681)
* Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681)
* The Royalist (1682)
* City Politiques (1683)
* Dame Dobson (1683)
* A Commonwealth of Women (1685)
* Sir Courtly Nice (1685)
* Bellamira (1687)
* A Fool's Preferment (1688)
* The Squire of Alsatia (1688)
* Bury Fair (1689)
* The Fortune Hunters (1689)
* The English Friar (1690)
* Sir Anthony Love (1690)
* Love for Money (1691)
* The Wives Excuse (1691)
* Greenwich Park (1691)
* The Marriage-Hater Matched (1692)
* The Volunteers (1692)
* The Canterbury Guests (1694)
* The Married Beau (1694)
* Love for Love (1695)
* Love's Last Shift (1696)
* The Relapse (1696)
* The Campaigners (1698)
* Love and a Bottle (1698)
* The Constant Couple (1699)
* The Way of the World (1700)
* Sir Harry Wildair (1701)
* The Lying Lover (1703)
* The Careless Husband (1704)
* The Recruiting Officer (1706)
* The Beaux' Stratagem (1707)

Characters|

* Fop
* Rake

Related articles|

* Lincoln's Inn Fields Playhouse
* John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
* Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage

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