Charles Coffey

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Charles Coffey (died 1745) was an Irish playwright and composer.

His better known operas are:

  • The Beggar’s Wedding (1729)
  • Devil Upon Two Sticks, or the Country Beau (1728)

His best music includes:

  • The Devil to Pay, or The Wives Metapmorhos’d (1731), from a play by Thomas Jevon.
  • Ellen A Roon (1729), now sung to new words and known as Robin Adair.

[edit] References

The Irish Theatre from the Earliest Period up to the Present Day by Peter Kavanagh (1946)

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