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Tom Taylor
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Date: 20080424
Author:
Tom Taylor 1817-80, English dramatist and editor. His most famous play is
Our American Cousin
(1858), performed at Ford's Theater in Washington, D. C., when Lincoln was assassinated. Of his more than 100 plays, others are
The Ticket-of-Leave Man
(1863) and, written with his friend Charles Reade,
Masks and Faces
(1852). He edited B. R. Haydon's autobiography (1853, new ed. 1926) and was editor of
Punch
from 1874 to 1880.
Bibliography:
See W. Tolles, Tom Taylor and the Victorian Drama (1940).
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