Life
[fl.1814; var. Thomson]; a Belfast playwright; author of Rokeby, or
the Buccaneer’s Revenge, dram. vers. of W. Scott poem (Dublin
1814); Jack Robinson and His Monkey, melodrama (Surrey 1828); Nothing
Superfluous, operatic farce (Haymarket 1829); The Shade, or Blood
for Blood, 2 act dram. (Haymarket 1829); The Dumb Savoyard
(Coburg 1830); The King’s Command, 2 act farce (Adelphi 1835).
RAF
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Notes
Peter Kavanagh, The Irish Theatre: Being a History of the Drama
in Ireland from the Earliest Period up to the Present Day (Tralee:
The Kerryman 1946); C. Thompson (fl.1814); b. Belfast; lists Rokeby
or the Buccaneer’s Revenge, 3 act drama in verse based on Scott,
and printed in Dublin in 1824. [See PI; see also The Warder, 13
Jan. 1866.]
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)