Life
?1640-1703; City Politics (1675), A Royal Voyage or the Irish
Expedition, 1689. [GBI] [no entry PI, &c.]
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Quotations
[T]he perfidious, base, cowardly, bloody nature of the Irish, both in
this and all past ages … the worse than heathenish barbarities committed
by them on their peaceable British neighbours in that bloody and detestable
massacre and rebellion of ’Forty One, which will make the nation
stink as long as there’s one bog or bog-trotter left in it.’
(A Royal Voyage; cited in G. C. Duggan, The Stage Irishman:
A History of Irish Play and Stage Characters from the Earliest Times,
Dublin: Talbot Press 1937; NY: Benjamin Blom; London: Longmans 1937, reiss.
1969, p.84.)
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Notes
William Dunkin, “The Parson’s Revels”, makes reference
to ‘A Bard as eloquent as Crown,/Or Durfy […], meaning John
Crown (or Crowne) and Thomas D’Urfey (1653-1723), whom Andrew Carpenter
calls ‘minor playwrights’, in Carpenter, ‘Changing Views
of Irish Musical and Literary Culture in Eighteenth-centry Anglo-Irish
Literature’, Michael Kenneally, ed., Irish Literature and Culture,
Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1992, ftn. on p.175.)
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