The Soddered Citizen is a Caroline-era stage play, a city comedy now attributed to John Clavell.

Clavell, the amateur or neophyte dramatist, helpfully loaded his play with copious stage directions—80 in the text's 2826 lines.

The actors were:[4] Additionally, Pollard and Shank doubled small roles, as did Alexander Gough and Anthony Smith.

Its protagonist, Wittworth, is a melancholic whose romantic pursuit of the heroine, Modestina, provides the driving force of the plot.

Doctor Makewell treats Wittworth with a potion concocted of "an Opiate, of Laudanum, and Diescordium, mixt with Besar stone and Amber."