Recollections of the Life of John O'Keeffe: Written by Himself

ISBN-13: 9781108034883 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 426 str.

John O'Keeffe

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John O'Keeffe (1747 1833) was an Irish playwright who began his career as an actor in 1764. His first significant success as a writer was the play The Son-in-Law in 1779, and he was later called 'our English Moliere' by essayist William Hazlitt. He moved to London in 1781 around the same time that his marriage broke down and wrote a string of successful comic operas and dramatic works, including Wild Oats (1791). However, he suffered from failing eyesight and was nearly blind at the height of his fame. He dictated this memoir, published in two volumes in 1826, to his daughter, Adelaide (1776 1865). In Volume 1, O'Keeffe recounts his childhood in Ireland, his first trip to London in 1762, where he saw the legendary actor and theatre producer David Garrick (1717 79) on stage, and the beginning of his own dramatic career upon returning to Dublin."