John Oxenford

John Oxenford (August 12, 1812 - February 21, 1877), English dramatist, was born at Camberwell.

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August 12 - 1812 - February 21 - 1877 - English - Dramatist - Camberwell

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He began his literary career by writing on finance. He was an excellent linguist, and the author of many translations from German, notably of Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit (1846) and Eckermann's Conversations of Goethe (1850). He did much by his writing to spread the fame of Schopenhauer in England.

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Linguist - German - Goethe - Dichtung und Wahrheit - Eckermann - Conversations of Goethe - Schopenhauer

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His first play was My Fellow Clerk, produced at the Lyceum in 1835. This was followed by a long series of pieces, the most famous of which was perhaps the Porter's Knot (1858) and Twice Killed (1835). About 1850 he became dramatic critic of The Times. He died in Southwark on the February 21, 1877.

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1835 - 1858 - 1850 - The Times - Southwark

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Many references to his pieces will be found in The Life and Reminiscences of E. L. Blanchard (ed. C Scott and C Howard, 1891).

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