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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