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Edward Ravenscroft (1654?–1707)
Ravenscroft, Edward. An English dramatist who flourished between 1671 and 1697. His first play was ‘Mamamouchi; or, The Citizen Turned Gentleman’ (1675), and was taken from Molière’s ‘Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.’ His numerous comedies, farces, and tragedies, some posthumous, include ‘The Wrangling Lovers’ (1676); ‘Scaramouch, a Philosopher’ (1677); ‘King Edgar and Alfreda’ (1677); ‘Ignoramus’ (1678); ‘The London Cuckolds’ (first published in 1783); ‘Dame Dobson’ (1683); ‘The Canterbury Guests’ (1695); and ‘The Italian Husband’ (1698).