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Erroneously attributed to the William Macready in a pirated edition, and since printed as such (with tacit collusion by Macready, according to Oxberry[1]), the play is actually an adaptation of L'Avocat Pathelin by David-Augustin de Brueys (1641–1723)[2] in 1706, the translation being attributed to either George Colman the Elder, or Charles Lyons. De Brueys had based his own play on La Farce de Maître Pierre Pathelin ("The Farce of Master Pierre Pathelin"), the very popular medieval farce, written by an anonymous author in 1457. |
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