[posted] Posted(#52582, Mac Oubrey)
David Price
ccx074 at pglaf.org
Fri Jul 15 13:14:29 PDT 2016
Drake, by William Mac Oubrey 52582
[Subtitle: or the Transfer of the Trident: A National Drama]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/5/2/5/8/52582 ]
[Files: 52582-0.txt; 52582-h.htm]
For those wishing to know: William Mac Oubrey (who usually wrote his name
as MacOubrey) was a qualified Doctor of Medicine, Barrister and also the
son-in-law of George Borrow. This self-published play, written when he
was an old man, takes various scenes in the life of Sir Francis Drake and
Queen Elizabeth, which William thought to be the start of England's golden
era. William was a staunch Protestant from Northern Ireland, and so
there's a lot of anti-catholic bits in the book, some of which would no
doubt have been said in Drake's time anyway. It's a very rare play
indeed, with only a handful of copies existing, and never republished
until now.
All the best,
David,
England, very warm and rather heavy, but clear skies
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