Wild Oats
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| Title: | Wild Oats | ||||||||
| Author: |
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| Published: | 1793 | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme | ||||||||
| Tags: | comedy, drama, fiction | ||||||||
| Description: | [No description available. Suggest one here.] | ||||||||
| Downloads: | 108 | ||||||||
| Pages: | 55  |
Author Bio for O'Keeffe, John
John O'Keeffe (24 June 1747—4 February 1833) was an Irish actor and dramatist. He wrote a number of farces, amusing dramatic pieces and librettos for pasticcio operas, many of which had great success. Among these are Tony Lumpkin in Town (1778), Love in a Camp (1786), and Omai (1785), an account of the voyages of the Tahitian explorer Omai, and Wild Oats (1791).
In 1777, O'Keeffe moved to London. The following year he wrote Tony Lumpkin in Town, a sequel to Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, and sent it to the manager of the Haymarket Theatre. The play was successfully produced, and O'Keeffe regularly wrote for the Haymarket thereafter. In 1782 O'Keeffe had his two children sent abroad to France to deny access to them by their mother. His son did well but his daughter suffered in convent schools.
Between 1782 and 1796, O'Keeffe wrote around 28 plays and librettos for comic operas. The Poor Soldier (1783), a comic opera with libretto by...
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