1893 text
Cutter, an old word for a rough swaggerer: hence the title of Cowley’s play. It was originally called “The Guardian,” when acted before Prince Charles at Trinity College, Cambridge, on March 12th, 1641.
This text comes from a footnote on a diary entry in the 1893 edition edited by Henry B. Wheatley.
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First Reading
Terry Foreman • Link
THE GUARDIAN;
A COMEDIE. [revised and named The Cutter of Coleman Street, published 1661 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abra… ]
Acted before
Prince CHARLES
His HIGHNESS
At Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge^
upon the twelfth of March 1641.
Written by
ABRAHAM COWLEY.
London,
Printed for JOHN HOLDEN at the
Anchor in the New-Exchange,
1650.
http://www.archive.org/stream/ess…
Terry Foreman • Link
Cutter of Coleman Street
Text available digitized in the Google book of *The complete works in verse and prose of Abraham Cowley* http://goo.gl/9AtlA
Second Reading
Bill • Link
Cowley wrote a play, called Cutter of Coleman Street: and Dryden refers to its inhabitants :—
Some have expected from our Bills to-day
To find a Satire in our Poet's play.
The zealous rout from Coleman Street did run,
To see the story of the Friar and Nun;
Or tales yet more ridiculous to hear
Vouched by their vicar of ten pounds a year.
--Dryden's Epilogue to the Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery, 1672.
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.
Bill • Link
Coleman Street: http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
Terry Foreman • Link
Cutter of Coleman-Street a comedy : the scene London, in the year 1658 / written by Abraham Cowley.
Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667.
London: Printed for Henry Herringman ..., 1663.
Early English Books Online [full text]
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/…