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Dame Dobson
Written byEdward Ravenscroft
Date premiered31 May 1683
Place premieredDorset Garden Theatre, London
Original languageEnglish
GenreRestoration Comedy

Dame Dobson is a 1683 comedy play by the English writer Edward Ravenscroft.

First staged by the United Company at the Dorset Garden Theatre, the original cast included Katherine Corey as Dame Dobson, Edward Kynaston as Collonel, Thomas Jevon as Gillet, John Wiltshire as Gerrard, William Mountfort as Hartwell, George Bright as Farmer, John Richards as Goslin, Anthony Leigh as Jenkin, Mary Lee as Lady Noble, Elizabeth Currer as Mrs Featly, Elinor Leigh as Mrs Prudence, Charlotte Butler as Mrs Cleremont and Margaret Osborne as Mrs Hellen.[1]

In 1726 Charles Johnson wrote a reworking of the plot as The Female Fortune Teller.

  1. ^ Van Lennep p.319-20

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