John Howard Payne

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John Howard Payne

John Howard Payne (born June 9, 1791 in New York City , † April 10, 1852 in Tunis ) was an American playwright and actor. He was one of the first American writers to be noted in Europe. On the theater stage he was a kind of child prodigy as a teenage hero , but he became known for the long term for the song Home, Sweet Home , which was sung a lot during the American Civil War . The music for this came from Henry Bishop .

Life

Payne began writing as a theater critic for newspapers in Boston at the age of 11 , then published the magazines Thespian Mirror (1805/06) and The Pastime (1807/08) in New York . In 1809 he made his acting debut at the Park Theater in New York. In 1813 he went to Europe. He wrote or adapted plays for London theaters and worked as their agent in Paris, where he worked intermittently with Washington Irving .

In 1832 he returned to New York. From 1842 to 1845 and from 1851 to 1852 he was the American consul in Tunis.

Works

A list of his plays published by Gabriel Harrison in 1885 in his biography Paynes included 61 works: 11 tragedies, 9 comedies, 26 dramas (melodramas), 7 operas and 10 farces. In 1940, 11 more pieces from a manuscript collection were published.

  • Julia; or, The Wanderer , 1806
  • Lovers' Vows , 1809
  • Brutus; or, the Fall or Tarquin , 1818
  • Thérèse, the Orphan of Geneva , 1821
  • Clari, the Maid of Milan , 1823 (contains the song Home, Sweet Home )
  • with Washington Irving : Charles the Second; or, the Merry Monarch , 1824
  • with Washington Irving: Richelieu; or, The Broken Heart , 1826

literature

  • Gabriel Harrison: John Howard Payne, dramatist, poet, actor, and author of Home, Sweet Home! His life and writings. Albany 1875. Revised edition, Philadelphia / London 1885.
  • Charles H. Brainard: John Howard Payne. A biographical sketch of the author of "Home, Sweet Home" with a narrative of the removal of his remains from Tunis to Washington . Washington 1885.
  • Willis T. Hanson: The early life of John Howard Payne . Boston 1913.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gabriel Harrison: John Howard Payne, dramatist, poet, actor, and author of Home, Sweet Home! His life and writings . Revised edition, Philadelphia / London 1885, pp. 395f.
  2. ^ Willis T. Hanson: The early life of John Howard Payne . Boston 1913, p. 11
  3. ↑ Codman Hislop, William R. Richardson (eds.): Trial without jury & other plays and The last duel in Spain & other plays . Both volumes Princeton 1940
personal data
SURNAME Payne, John Howard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American playwright and actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1852
Place of death Tunis