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''A New Trick to Cheat the Devil'' is an early seventeenth-century stage play, a comedy written by Robert Davenport that was first printed in 1639.〔A. H. Bullen, ed., ''The Works of Robert Davenport'', Old English Plays, New Series, London 1890; reprinted New York, Benjamin Blom, 1968.〕 One of only three surviving Davenport plays, it has been called an entertaining and extravagant farce.〔Felix Emmanuel Schelling, ''Elizabethan Drama 1558–1642'', 2 Volumes, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1908; Vol. 2, pp. 259–61.〕 ==Publication== The play was first published in 1639, in a quarto printed by John Okes for the bookseller Humphrey Blunden. This was the only edition of the play prior to the nineteenth century. The 1639 quarto includes a short preface, apparently written by the bookseller. This prefatory note describes the play as "an Orphant, and wanting the Father which first begot it...." This seems to indicate that Davenport was dead by 1639; but other evidence suggests that he was still alive. In the following year, two plays, Nathanael Richards's ''Messalina'' and Thomas Rawlins's ''The Rebellion'', were printed with commendatory poems written by Davenport.〔Bullen, p. xii.〕 And the address "To the knowning Reader" prefixed to Davenport's ''King John and Matilda'' suggests that Davenport was still alive in 1655, when that play was first published.
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