Who is 'All in the Wrong' and how are they connected to the Gold-Bug?

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Poe puts a quote by 'All in the Wrong' in the beginning of the Gold-Bug-- "What ho! what ho! this fellow is dancing mad..."

Who is 'All in the Wrong' and how are they connected to the Gold-Bug?

Please help!

-- Anonymous, December 19, 2001

Answers

I can only offer you half an answer to this one. 'All in the Wrong' is an 18th century play by Arthur Murphy, an English playwright. I am assured (having never seen a copy of the play myself) that the quotation Poe uses is spurious and does not occur in Murphy's work.

Jupiter ascribes Legrand's 'madness' to his having been bitten by the gold bug, and the epigraph links madness to having been bitten by a tarantula.

More than this, I do not know...

-- Anonymous, December 20, 2001


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