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The Identification of “Flip” in Robert Hunter's Androboros

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2010

Peter A. Davis
Peter A. Davis
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University of Oregon
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Extract

As an adjunct to my note in the May 1984 edition of Theatre Survey on the publishing of Robert Hunter's Androboros, I offer the following information concerning the identification of one of the play's characters, “Flip.” Although an apparently subtle reference, it provides clear justification for the numerous scatological references within the script and clarifies one of the more controversial scenes in the play. Moreover, it may indicate an additional impetus for the play's creation.

Type
Notes and Documents
Information
Theatre Survey , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , November 1985 , pp. 179 - 182
Copyright
Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1985

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NOTES

1 Davis, Peter A., “Determining the Date of Robert Hunter's Androboros,” TS (May 1984), pp. 95–97Google Scholar. See also [Robert Hunter], Androboros: A Bographical [sic] Farce In Three Acts, Viz. The Senate, The Consistory, and The Apotheosis ([New York]: [William Bradford, Printer], [c. 1715]). The only known copy of the play is in the Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California. All subsequent references to the script are taken from this source.

2 Leder, Lawrence H., “Robert Hunter's Androboros,” Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 68 (March 1964), pp. 152–190.Google Scholar

3 O'Callaghan, Edmund B., ed., Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, VI (Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1853–1871), p. 56.Google Scholar

4 Malone, Dumas, ed., Dictionary of American Biography, 10 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934), p. 259.Google Scholar

5 O'Callaghan, Edmund B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, III (Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1850), pp. 435–444.Google Scholar

6 Ibid., p. 437.

7 Ibid., pp. 437, 439. Cross, Arthur Lyon, The Anglican Episcopate and the American Colonies, 1 (New York: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1902), pp. 37–39.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

8 O'Callaghan, p. 439.

9 Ibid., p. 445.

10 Ibid., p. 446.

11 Ibid., p. 452.

12 Ibid., pp. 456–57.

13 Perry, William Stevens, ed., Historical Collections Relating to the American Colonial Church, II (Hartford: privately printed, 1870–1878), pp. 81–98.Google Scholar