Draft:The New Athenian Comedy
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In 1693, Elkanah Settle published The new Athenian comedy containing the politicks, oeconomicks, tacticks, crypticks, apocalypticks, stypticks, scepticks, pneumaticks, theologicks, poeticks, mathematicks, sophisticks, pragmaticks, dogmaticks, &c. of that most learned society a play in three acts satirizing the members of The Athenian Mercury and the associated intellectual culture surrounding coffeehouses in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.[1][2] The play occurred in three acts, and despite being published with an extant copy, the play seems to have never been performed.[3]
Cast of Characters
[edit]- Obadiah Grub, Divinity and Poetry Professor of the Society
- Jerry Squirt, Casuist and Physician in Ordinary
- Joachim Dash, Mathentatician
- Jack Stuff, a subtile, ingenious, half Author, hall Bookseller
- Darby Fetlock, an Ʋnder Turnkey of Newgate
- Dorothy Tickleteat, an Islington Milkmaid
- Mr. Freeman, Two worthy Gentlemen of the Town
- Mr. Hardy, Two worthy Gentlemen of the Town
- Poll, the Coffee-man
- Brush, his Man
Among the characters,[4] clear allusions to the actual members of The Athenian Society are present. Obadiah Grub likely represents Dr. John Norris of Bemerton, a noted English theologian, philosopher, and poet. Joachim Dash may refer to Richard Sault, a mathematician associated with the society. Jack Stuff likely draws his characterization from John Dunton, the founder and publisher of The Athenian Mercury.
References
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Ellis, 2006 p. 109
- ^ https://search.worldcat.org/title/606702511
- ^ Ellis, 2006 p. 109
- ^ Settle, 1693 Dramatis Personae
Major Sources
[edit]- Ellis, Michael. (2006). "Elkanah Settle, The New Athenian Comedy, containing the politicks, oeconomicks, tacticks, crypticks, apocalypticks,’s typ ticks, seep ticks, pneumaticks, theologicks, poeticks, mathematicks, sophisticks, pragmaticks, dogmaticks, &c. of that most learned society (London, printed for Campanella Restio, next door to the Apollo, near the Temple, 1693), [8], 28pp.; 4°. BL: 644.e.61. ESTCR9900", Eighteenth-Century Coffee-House Culture, vol 3. Routledge.
- Settle, Elkanah. (1693). "The new Athenian comedy containing the politicks, oeconomicks, tacticks, crypticks, apocalypticks, stypticks, scepticks, pneumaticks, theologicks, poeticks, mathematicks, sophisticks, pragmaticks, dogmaticks, &c. of that most learned society", Early English Books Online. London, printed for Campanella Restio, next door to the Apollo, near the Temple.