(1732-1794)
English barrister, theatre manager and essayist and playwright. Born Florence
April 1732. Died 14 August, 1794.
Stage Plays
His best-known plays are
- Polly Honeycombe (1760)
- The Scotswoman (1760)
- The Jealous Wife (1761), a comedy of manners based in part on Henry
Fielding's novel Tom Jones (1749)
- The Deuce Is in Him (1763)
- The Clandestine Marriage (1766), written with David Garrick.
- The English Merchant (1767), adapted from Voltaire's The Café
- Man and Wife, or The Shakespeare Jubilee (1769)
- The Man of Business (1774)
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