Richard Cumberland (playwright)
Richard Cumberland (born February 19, 1732 in Cambridge , † May 7, 1811 in London ) was an English playwright and administrator.
Life
Cumberland came from an educated and influential family. He was the great-grandson of the Bishop of Peterborough, son of the later Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmore; his maternal grandfather was the philologist Richard Bentley and his sister the poet Mary Alcock. After graduation, he worked as Lord Halifax's private secretary, followed him to new posts and finally worked on the Board of Trade, which is comparable to a current Ministry of Commerce.
The artistic director Wolfgang Heribert von Dalberg translated two plays by Cumberland, The Brothers and The Carmelite , as Die Brüder und Der Mönch vom Carmel, both performed in 1786 at the Nationaltheater Mannheim .
Works (selection)
- 1772: The Fashionable Lover
- 1784: The Brothers
- 1784: The Carmelite
- 1785: The Natural Son
- 1789: The Impostors
- 1794: The Box Lobby Challenge
- 1794: The Jew
- 1795: The Wheel of Fortune
- 1795: First Love
- 1795: The Last of the Family
- 1797: False Impressions
- 1804: The Sailor's Daughter
- 1806 : Hint to Husbands
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Heinrich Meyer: The stage writing activity of Baron Wolfgang Heribert von Dalberg . Dissertation, Heidelberg 1904, pp. 37-46
Web links
- Literature by and about Richard Cumberland in the catalog of the German National Library
- Richard Cumberland , entry in the Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cumberland, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English playwright and administrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1732 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cambridge |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 7, 1811 |
| Place of death | London |