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Drugger, Abel

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | © The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature 2003, originally published by Oxford University Press 2003. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Drugger, Abel, the credulous tobacconist of Jonson's The Alchemist. The character was one of Garrick's most famous parts.

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