Edward Fitzball
Edward Fitzball (20 March 179327 October 1873) was a popular English playwright, who specialised in melodrama. His real surname was Ball, and he was born at Burwell, Cambridgeshire.Fitzball was educated in Newmarket, was apprenticed to a Norwich printer in 1809. He produced some dramatic pieces at the local theatre, and eventually the marked success of his ''Innkeeper of Abbeville, or The Ostler and the Robber'' (1820), together with the friendly acceptance of one of his pieces at the Surrey Theatre by Thomas John Dibdin, induced him to settle in London.
During the next twenty-five years, he produced a great number of plays, most of which were successful. He had a special talent for nautical drama. His ''Floating Beacon'' (Surrey Theatre, 19 April 1824) ran for 140 nights, and his ''Pilot'' (Adelphi, 1825) for 200 nights. He also produced a seminal play on ''The Flying Dutchman'' and wrote the libretto for Edward Loder's ''Raymond and Agnes''. His greatest triumph in melodrama was perhaps ''Jonathan Bradford, or Murder at the Roadside Inn'' (Surrey Theatre, 12 June 1833). He was at one time stock dramatist and reader of plays at Covent Garden, and afterwards at Drury Lane. He had a considerable reputation as a songwriter and as a librettist in opera. He wrote the librettos for William Vincent Wallace's operas ''Maritana'' and ''Lurline''.
The last years of his life were spent in retirement at Chatham, where he died at the age of 80. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published 1822London : J. Lowndes, 1822.26 p. : ill. -
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Published 1830London : J. Cumberland, [183-?]56 p. : ill. -
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Published 1843London : G. Berger, 1843.24 p. -
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Published 1826London : J. Lowndes, 1826.40 p. -
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Published 1855London : T.H. Lacy, [1855?]31 p. -
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Published 1840London : J. Duncombe, [184-?]38 p. : ill. -
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Published 1834London : J. Duncombe, [1834?]50 p. -
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Published 1850London : J. Duncombe, [185-?]26 p. : ill. -
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Published 1851London : S.G. Fairbrother, [1851]23 p. -
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Published 1830London : J. Cumberland, [183-?]35 p. : ill. -
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Published 1843London : G. Berger, 1843.38 p. : ill. -
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Published 1825London : Simpkin and Marshall, 1825.53 p. -
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Published 1851London ; New York : S. French, [1851?]30 p. -
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Published 1823London : J. Lowndes, [1823]48 p. -
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Published 1838London : Chapman and Hill, [1838]36, [36] p. : ill. -
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Published 1837London : J. Duncombe, [1837?]24 p. : ill. -
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Published 1823London : J. Lowndes, [1823?]40 p.