Old Fortunatus
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The Pleasant Comedie of Old Fortunatus is a play in a mixture of prose and verse by Thomas Dekker, based on the German legend of Fortunatus and his magic inexhaustible purse. Though the play is not ea
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Charles Wentworth Dilke
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Charles Wentworth Dilke was an English liberal critic and writer on literature.
Old Fortunatus
…declared that the man who wrote it "had poetry enough for any thing." The first edition of the play for more than 200 years appeared in 1814, as part of C. W. Dilke's Old English Plays. Old Fortunatus was acted at Covent Garden on eleven nights in 1819, with incidental music by Henry Bishop. The same year William…
Charles Wentworth Dilke