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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FAT-FLA |
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FITZBALL, EDWARD (17921873) , English dramatist, whose real patronymic was Ball, was born at Burwell, Cambridge -shire, in 1792. His father was a well-to-do farmer, and Fitzball, after receiving his schooling at Newmarket, was apprenticed to a Norwich printer in 1809. He produced some dramatic pieces at the local theatre, and eventually the marked success of his Innkeeper of Abbeville, or The Ostler and the Robber (182o), together with the friendly acceptance of one of his pieces at the Surrey theatre by Thomas
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melodrama was perhaps Jonathan Bradford, or the Murder at the Roadside Inn (Surrey theatre, 12th of June 1833). He was at one time stock dramatist and reader of plays at Covent Garden , and afterwards at Drury Lane. He had a considerable reputation as a song-writer and as a librettist in opera. The last years of his life were spent in retirement at Chatham, where he died on the 27th of October 1873.His autobiography, Thirty-Five Years of a Dramatic Author's Life (2 vols., 1859), is a naive record of his career. Numbers of his plays are printed in Cumberland's Minor British Theatre, Dick's Standard Plays and Lacy's Acting Edition of Plays.End of Article: FITZBALL, EDWARD (17921873) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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