Lording Barry

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Lording Barry^[1] (1580?–1629) was a 17th-century dramatist.

Works

Barry is known as the author of one comedy, Ram Alley, or Merry Tricks 1611 and 1636, which was included in the second and subsequent editions of Robert Dodsley's Old Plays. Anthony Wood says it was acted by the Children of the King's Revels before 1611.

The only performance of which any record exists took place at Drury Lane between 1719 and 1723, probably near the latter date. A manuscript cast, which came into the possession of John Genest assigns the principal characters to Robert Wilks, Theophilus Cibber, William Pinkethman, Mills, Mrs. Booth, and Mrs. Seal.

Ram Alley is written in blank verse, lapsing at times into rhyme. It was long attributed to Philip Massinger. Barry was of gentle birth and Irish extraction.

Gerard Langbaine conjectured that an incident in the play that was subsequently used in Thomas Killigrew's The Parson's Wedding was borrowed from the same author from whom Francis Kirkman took the story; which is to be found in Richard Head's The English Rogue, part iv. chap. 19.

References

↑ Also Lodowick Barry or Barrey, and miscalled Lord Barry.

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Name	Barry, Ludowick
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Date of birth	1580
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Date of death	1629
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