Life
?1732-?; [fl.1795 DNB]; prob. b. Dublin, son of clerk in Lord Mayor’s
office, Dublin; ed. TCD; became attorney; plays include All the World’s
A Stage (1777 April) at Drury Lane, and frequently revived, following
the less successful [comic opera] Milesian (1777), The Divorce,
farce (1781); Hero and Leander, a popular burletta (1787) and and
The Man of Parts (1795); as one of two Irishmen editing the Morning
Post between 1786 and 1795, he involved his printer in several libel
cases. DNB PI GBI DIW OCIL
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Criticism
G. C. Duggan, Stage Irishman (1957)..
Joseph Leerssen, Mere Irish & Fíor Ghael (Amsterdam 1986), p.144, 465.
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Notes
D. J. O’Donoghue, The Poets
of Ireland: A Biographical Dictionary (Dublin: Hodges Figgis
& Co 1912); raises query about Irishman of that name who lived as
cleryman in England; b. Dublin c.1752, d. Lambeth 1831, Vicar of Kirtling,
Cambridgeshire; same or relative? Also, Almirina, mock trag., and
The Man of Parts, a farce (1795).
Burton, British Theatre (1930), pp.241, [App.] lists All the World’s a Stage., farce; in [Dictionary of National Biography, Bell’s British Theatre ...&c] Brit. Drama II; also Hero and Leander [1787], oper. burl., Brit. Drama I.
Irish
classical plays, as listed by W. B. Stanford, Ireland and the Classical
Tradition (IAP 1976; 1984), include I[saac] Jackman, Hero and Leander (1787) [110].
Variants: DIW, b. c.1750; DNB, ‘about mid century’; OCIL has err. 1752-1831. DIW has a source other than DNB.
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