biography
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| lived:
| (1652–85)
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| biography:
| Playwright, born in Trotton, West Sussex, S England, UK. He studied at Oxford, but left without a degree, then failed as an actor and became a writer. He translated Racine and Molière, and wrote Restoration comedies, but his best-known works are the tragedies The Orphan (1680) and his masterpiece Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered (1682). |
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