Charles Boyle [Earl of Orrery]
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Life 1671-1731 [4th Earl of Orrery]; author of As You Find It, A Comedy (1703); also Altemira (1703), revised from Roger Boyles The General (1662); ed., Letters of Phalaris (1695), giving rise to contention between Sir William Temple, a supporter, and Richard Bentley who showed them to be spurious; he was the father of John Boyle [5th Earl], Swifts hostile first biographer.
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Commentary Peter Kavanagh (Irish Theatre, 1946) quotes Genest who says of As You Find It (CIF, April 28 1703) that is it dull; the poet
... has forgotten the plot; the dialogue is sensible.
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References Trinity College Library holds As You Find It, a comedy, as it is acted at the New-Theatre, in Little-Lincolns Inn Fields, by her Majestys Servants (London: form R. Parker 1603 [i.e., 1703]), 4o.
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