John Poole (writer)
John Poole (* 1786 ; † 1872 ) was an English writer who devoted himself to comic drama, especially farce . He was one of the earliest and best known authors in the field in the 19th century. His best-known works were Paul Pry (1825) and Hamlet - Travesty in the Form of a Burlesque (1810), the first Shakespeare parody since the Stuart Restoration in England.
Works (excerpts)
- Hamlet (1810), travesty in three acts
- Othello (1813), travesty in three acts
- The two pages of Frederick the Great (1821), comedy in two acts
- Paul Pry (1825), comedy in three acts
- The wealthy widow, or, They're both to blame (1827), comedy in three acts
- Turning the tables (1830), farce in one act
- Patrician and Parvenu, or, Confusion worse confounded (1835), comedy in five acts
- Rumfuskin, King of the North Pole, or, Treason rewarded (1841), Tragedy for April 1st
- Christmas festivities: tales, sketches, and characters, with Beauties of the modern drama (1845), Theater-Quodlibet in four pictures
- Lodgings for single gentlemen (1850), farce in one act
- My wife! What wife? (1872), Farce in one or two acts
literature
- Stanley W. Wells: Nineteenth-century Shakespeare Burlesques: John Poole and his imitators . Diploma Press, Delaware 1977, ISBN 0860150151 . (in English)
Web links
- Works in Google Books
- Works in the Internet Archive (accessed February 14, 2015; in English)
- About John Poole's Farce in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature; Volume XIII. The Victorian Age, Part One (accessed February 14, 2015; in English)
- Portraits of John Poole in the National Portrait Gallery (accessed February 14, 2015; in English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ This piece was the model for Johann Nestroys Posse with singing love stories and marriage matters (first performance on March 23, 1843 in the Theater an der Wien )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Poole, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English playwright |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1786 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1872 |