biography
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| lived:
| (1703–64)
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| biography:
| Playwright and publisher, born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, C England, UK. In 1735 his Toy Shop was performed at Covent Garden, through Pope's influence, with great success. He set up as a bookseller, but still continued to write plays, such as Rex et Pontifex (1745), and Cleone (1758). He published work by Dr Johnson, Pope, and others, and founded the Annual Register with Edmund Burke in 1759. He is chiefly remembered for his Select Collection of Old Plays (12 vols, 1744–45) and his Poems by Several Hands (3 vols, 1748; 6 vols, 1758). |
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