or, The students whim, A ballad opera of two acts, with Minerva’s triumph, a masque
Elizabeth Boyd
London: Printed by G. Parker, at the Star in Salisbury-Court, and sold by C. Corbet at Addison’s Head over-against St. Dunstan’s Church Fleet-Street, and the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1739
In a garden in Oxford, the necromancer Don Sancho helps student Joe Curious [sic] and his friends resurrect Shakespeare. Shakespeare, who is accompanied by Dryden, does not appreciate the effort. Somewhat miffed at having been dragged from his heavenly bliss, he does not tarry, asking that they never again disturb the “happy Bard.”