Talk:Androboros

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Question concerning the play "Androboros": Book Google has a scanned work entitled "Androboros" link, but the contents are nothing like what the articel describes. Does anyone know if there were two Androboroses, or if the description on the page belongs to another play? Thanx, 68.39.174.238 (talk) 23:21, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

The scanned version is a play by Robert Hunter, published 1719, and has as a summary: "This is the first printed American play. The two persons ridiculed were political enemies of Governor Hunter--Colonel Francis Nicholson and Dr. William Vesey, Rector of Trinity Church, New York." There can be little doubt that this is meant to be the subject of the article. Presumably "Adolphe Phillipse" is the same person as "Adolphe Philipse", who I find described as a New York City aristocrat. I did not find online references to Thomas Smithfield. Wat is needed is a key revealing which dramatis persona corresponds to which 18th century NYC politician. The discrepancy between the plot as described and the scanned book is indeed curious, as is the lack of a mention of Francis Nicholson, who, after all, is the main person ridiculed. I don't have access to the references given, but it may be instructive to see what they have to say about the play.  --Lambiam 17:34, 31 December 2007 (UTC)