The absent man
Subtitle: a farce
Contributors: La Bruyère, Jean de, 1645-1696.
Series: Three centuries of drama; Three centuries of English and American plays, 1500-1830
Publisher: Printed for W. Griffin
Published: 1768
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 36
Notes: Written by Isaac Bickerstaff; cf. Nicoll, A.  A hist. of Eng. drama, 1660-1900, 1952: v. 3, p. 237

Hint taken from Menalcas in Les caractères of La Bruyère, as translated in the Spectator; Pref

"As it is acted by His Majesty's servants at the Theatre Royal, in Drury-Lane."

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