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Knowles, James Sheridan
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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Date: 19960101
Author:PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND
Knowles, James Sheridan
(1784–1862), Irish-born playwright, a cousin of R. B. Sheridan and a close friend of Coleridge , Hazlitt , and Charles Lamb . In 1808 he was a member of the Crow Street Theatre in Dublin, where he proved himself a passable actor and also wrote a melodrama, Leo ; or, The Gypsy (1810), for Edmund Kean , who was a member of the company. He later offered Kean Virginius ; or , The Liberation of Rome (1820), but it was refused. Macready accepted it and played it with great success at Covent Garden . Knowles's most popular play was The Hunchback (1832), whose ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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