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The Old Debauchees. A Comedy

by Henry Fielding

Plays · Humor

Open Library OL31310872W

The Old Debauchees. A Comedy premiered alongside The Covent-Garden Tragedy on 1 June at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and was later revived as The Debauchees; or, The Jesuit Caught. The play recounts a Catholic priest's unsuccessful attempt to manipulate a man into seducing his own daughter.

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