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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Thirty-five years of a dramatic author's life / by Fitzball, Edward, 1792-1873
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The inchcape bell / by Fitzball, Edward, 1792-1873
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Crown jewels by Fitzball, Edward, 1792-1873
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Diadeste, or, the veiled lady by Fitzball, Edward, 1792-1873
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The black robber a romance, in three volumes / by Fitzball, Edward, 1792-1873
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The revenge of Taran a dramatic poem / by Fitzball, Edward, 1792-1873
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The floating beacon, or The Norwegian wreckers : a melo drama in two acts / by Fitzball, Edward, 1792-1873
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The Inchcape bell / by Fitzball, Edward, 1792-1873
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The negro of Wapping, or, The boat builder's hovel! a melo drama in two acts / by Fitzball, Edward, 1792-1873
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Father and son, or, The rock of Charbonniere a drama in two acts / by Fitzball, Edward, 1792-1873
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The innkeeper of Abbeville, or, The hostler and the robber a melo-drame in two acts / by Fitzball, Edward, 1792-1873
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Home again, or, The lieutenant's daughters a domestic drama in three acts / by Fitzball, Edward, 1792-1873
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The Carmelites! a musical drama in two acts / by Fitzball, Edward, 1792-1873
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The haunted hulk a nautical drama in two acts / by Fitzball, Edward, 1792-1873
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The Flying Dutchman, or, The phantom ship a nautical drama in three acts / by Fitzball, Edward, 1792-1873
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The fortunes of Nigel a melo-dramatic romance in three acts / by Fitzball, Edward, 1792-1873
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Bhanavar a romantic poem / by Fitzball, Edward, 1792-1873
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The king of the mist, or, The miller of the Hartz mountains! a melodrama in two acts / by Fitzball, Edward, 1792-1873
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The children of the castle a drama in three acts / by Fitzball, Edward, 1792-1873
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The fatal blow a melo-drama in two acts / by Fitzball, Edward, 1792-1873
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