Πορτρέτο: Tom Taylor
Φωτογραφία: Samuel Robert Lock / George C. Whitfield / Adam Cuerden · Wikimedia Commons

Συγγραφέας

Tom Taylor

1817–1880

Γέννηση
19 Οκτωβρίου 1817
Θάνατος
12 Ιουλίου 1880, Λονδίνο
Υπηκοότητα
Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο της Μεγάλης Βρετανίας και Ιρλανδίας
Ιδιότητα
Θεατρικός συγγραφέας, κριτικός λογοτεχνίας, δημοσιογράφος, συγγραφέας και κριτικός
Σημαντικά έργα
Our American Cousin · Masks and Faces · The Ticket-of-Leave Man

Ζωή και έργο

Η Βικιπαίδεια δεν έχει ακόμη άρθρο για αυτόν τον συγγραφέα σε αυτή τη γλώσσα. Παρακάτω, το κείμενο στα αγγλικά.

Tom Taylor (19 October 1817 – 12 July 1880) was an English dramatist, critic, biographer, public servant, and editor of Punch magazine. Taylor had a brief academic career, holding the professorship of English literature and language at University College, London in the 1840s, after which he practised law and became a civil servant. At the same time he became a journalist, most prominently as a contributor to, and eventually editor of, Punch, a humour magazine.

In addition to these vocations, Taylor began a theatre career and became best known as a playwright, with up to 100 plays staged during his career. Many were adaptations of French plays, but these and his original works cover a range from farce to melodrama. Most fell into neglect after Taylor's death, but Our American Cousin (1858), which achieved great success in the 19th century, remains famous as the piece that was being performed in the presence of Abraham Lincoln when he was assassinated in 1865.

Κείμενο: “Tom Taylor (dramatist)”, από τη Βικιπαίδεια, την ελεύθερη εγκυκλοπαίδεια, με την άδεια CC BY-SA 4.0. Ημερομηνίες και στοιχεία: Wikidata.

Συλλογή

Βιβλία: Tom Taylor

2 βιβλία