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Edward Fitzball

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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
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printer in 1809. He produced some dramatic pieces at the local theatre, and eventually the marked success of his
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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The last years of his life were spent in retirement at
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Innkeeper of Abbeville, or The Ostler and the Robber
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Edward Fitzball, English playwright
Burwell
Cambridgeshire
Chatham
British
Playwright
Librettist
Songwriter
melodrama
Burwell, Cambridgeshire
Newmarket
Norwich
Surrey Theatre
Thomas John Dibdin
London
The Flying Dutchman
libretto
Edward Loder
Raymond and Agnes
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
William Vincent Wallace
Chatham



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Chisholm, Hugh
Fitzball, Edward
Encyclopædia Britannica

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