An episode in 'Every man in his humour' by Ben Jonson: Charles Dickens in character as Captain Bobadill is awakened after a hard night's drinking. Lithograph by T.H. Maguire after C.R. Leslie.

Act I, scene 5: awakened in the morning after a long night of drinking, Captain Bobadill is informed by the landlord's wife Tib that Mr Matthew, "the town-gull", has arrived and is asking to see him. Bobadill, seated on the bench on which he has slept, wearing one boot, tells Tib, right, to let him in. "The play declined in popularity ... the play has been subject to tentative revivals, none of which have established it as viable for modern repertory. ... Perhaps the most unusual revival occurred in 1845, when Charles Dickens and his friends mounted a benefit production. Aided by Macready, Dickens took the faintly Dickensian role of Bobadill; George Cruikshank was Cob; John Forster played Kitely. The production went off well enough to be repeated three or four times over the next two years. Bulwer-Lytton wrote a poem as prologue for an 1847 production; in addition to Browning, Tennyson and John Payne Collier attended." (Wikipedia)