biography
pronunciation:
[suhthern]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1660–1746)
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| biography:
| Playwright, born in Oxmantown, Dublin, E Ireland. From Trinity College, Dublin, he passed to the Middle Temple, London, UK, and in 1682 began his career as a playwright with a performance at the Drury Lane Theatre. Between 1685 and 1688 he was in the army, but thereafter he wrote many plays, contributed to John Dryden's works for a time, was much admired by fellow writers, and helped younger playwrights learn their craft. His two most successful works were tragedies based on novels by Aphra Behn: The Fatal Marriage (1694), and Oroonoko (1696). |
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