The Oxonian in Town. A Comedy, in two acts, as it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden.

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A short farce, presented just after Colman took over the running of the Covent Garden Theatre. The Advertisement alludes to the 'extremely singular' reception of the play, whose first two performances were well received. At the third, a clamour got up, on account of certain Irish persons thinking they had been slighted, if not the whole of the Irish nation. This probably accounts for the play first being published in Dublin. A London edition appeared the next year. The Oxonian, a student, is more or less a country bumpkin, ready to be fleeced by sharpers in the metropolis: only one of these (out of three) is possibly Irish - M'Shuffle.