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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.[1] The play exists in two manuscripts and shows clear signs of authorial revision.

  1. ^ Kidnie, Margaret Jane (2011). "Early Theatre 14.2 - Trying to be difficult: Editing The Humorous Magistrate" (pdf). Early Theatre. Retrieved 3 February 2018.

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