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Taylor, Tom
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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Date: 19960101
Author:PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND
Taylor, Tom
(1817–80), English dramatist, whose first play, A Trip to Kissingen (1844), was produced by the Keeleys at the Lyceum. A prolific writer, and for some time editor of Punch , he continued his output of plays until about two years before his death. The best known of his works are probably To Parents and Guardians (1846); Masks and Faces (1852), a comedy on the life of Peg Woffington written in collaboration with Charles Reade and frequently revived; Still Waters Run Deep (1855), based on a French novel and remarkable in its time for its frank discussion of sex; Our ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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