Tobias Smollett (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)
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Tobias Smollett combined his medical practice with an active and varied career as a man of letters. His earliest, though unsuccessful, effort was as a playwright with The Regicide: Or, James the First of Scotland, a Tragedy (1749), published by subscription a full ten years after fruitless attempts at having it staged in London. Two other disappointments followed with his inability to secure a production for Alceste (1748-1749), a combination of opera, tragedy, and masque, and with the rejection of his first comedy, The Absent Man...
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