The Humorous Magistrate (original) (raw)

The Humorous Magistrate (c. 1635-40) is a 17th-century country comedy in five acts discovered by the collector Edgar Osborne, who found the manuscript in a sale at Watnall Hall in Nottinghamshire, England in 1947. It was later sold to the University of Calgary in 1972. The play exists in two manuscripts and shows clear signs of authorial revision.