Scaramouche--

"Might have sold" ALL the books?

If he was an entrepreneur,-- impresario in this case,--and possibly an actor, this takes a lot of time. So does writing plays. In fact writing plays would be an great occupation for somebody with a lot of leisure time and with an excellent education, including a vast amount of cultural references to draw upon. I've read in fact that that was the general feeling at the time as to the status of being a playwright.

Interesting to know it's the former artistic director of the Globe, not the current one, who wrote the Forward. I knew my information was quite sketchy.

By the way, who is this Davies to whom you refer?