Authority Cited: [Tomkis/Tomkys, Thomas] (Albumazar)
Author name and dates: Thomas Tomkis/Tomkys (c.1580-1634)
BKG Bio-tweet: Plays in English reached women audience; Albumazar performed for James I in Cambridge; 1747 Garrick Albumazar revival
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Tomkis (Albumazar) cite in 1755 Dict. Vol. 1, no additional Tomkis cites identified as added in 1773 Dict. The play, first published in 1615, appears to have been performed starting in early October 1747, about the same time as the Drury Lane reopening with the Merchant of Venice and Johnson's published Preface.]
Author name and dates: Thomas Tomkis/Tomkys (c.1580-1634)
BKG Bio-tweet: Plays in English reached women audience; Albumazar performed for James I in Cambridge; 1747 Garrick Albumazar revival
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Tomkis (Albumazar) cite in 1755 Dict. Vol. 1, no additional Tomkis cites identified as added in 1773 Dict. The play, first published in 1615, appears to have been performed starting in early October 1747, about the same time as the Drury Lane reopening with the Merchant of Venice and Johnson's published Preface.]
- Albumazar: a comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane, 1747 London: printed for R. Dodsley in Pall-mall; caroche (caroch in text in both 1747 and 1615 editions, see image below from the 1747 text (end of Act 3, Scene 5); inexact quote, perhaps from memory from text or performance.)
