Thomas Holcroft (10 December 1745 – 23 March 1809) was an English dramatist, miscellanist, poet, novelist and translator. He was sympathetic to the early...
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Thomas Holcroft was an English dramatist. Thomas Holcroft may also refer to: Thomas Holcroft (died 1591), Member of Parliament (MP) for Midhurst Thomas...
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Sir Thomas Holcroft (1505 – 31 July 1558) was a sixteenth-century English courtier, soldier, politician and landowner. Holcroft's fortune was made from...
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The Inquisitor by Thomas Holcroft (1798) Modish in The East Indian by Matthew Lewis (1799) Lapont in The Castle of Montval by Thomas Sedgwick Whalley (1799)...
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Edward Patrick Holcroft is an English film, television, and stage actor. He is best known for his roles in the Kingsman film franchise and in the television...
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Holcroft (1942-2000), South African botanical illustrator Sam Holcroft, British playwright Thomas Holcroft (disambiguation), several people Holcroft Blood...
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advice. He charged three good friends, William Godwin, Thomas Brand Hollis, and Thomas Holcroft, with handling publication details. The book appeared on...
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septicaemia on 10 September. Godwin was devastated: he wrote to his friend Thomas Holcroft, "I firmly believe there does not exist her equal in the world. I know...
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Holcroft Hall is a Grade II* listed privately owned historic house in Holcroft, Culcheth, Cheshire. The manor of Holcroft was the product of a division...
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Bridge in the Strand. On 6 June 1573 he married Isabel Holcroft, a daughter of Thomas Holcroft (1505-1558), a Member of Parliament and commissioner at...
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its estates were sold to a member of the local Cheshire gentry, Thomas Holcroft. Holcroft pulled much of it down (including the church), although he incorporated...
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Knave or Not? by Thomas Holcroft (1798) Squeez'em in The East Indian by Matthew Lewis (1799) Robert in Hear Both Sides by Thomas Holcroft (1803) Cox and...
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and Mary Talbot (1594–1676), who married firstly her step-brother Thomas Holcroft (1596 – c. 1626) of Vale Royale, and secondly (in 1628) Sir William...
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William Henry Ireland (1796) Dorington in The Man of Ten Thousand by Thomas Holcroft (1796) Henrique in Don Pedro by Richard Cumberland (1796) Publius in...
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Carlos, John Edwin as Jerome and Mary Wells as Flora. The playwright Thomas Holcroft wrote the prologue. Robertson p.64 Greene p.4494 Greene, John C. Theatre...
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through Sheridan that Godwin became acquainted with a life-long friend Thomas Holcroft, whose arguments convinced Godwin to finally reject Christianity and...
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called a melodrama or 'melodrame' was A Tale of Mystery (1802) by Thomas Holcroft. This was an example of the Gothic genre, a previous theatrical example...
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With the fortification of Dunglass, English commanders including Thomas Holcroft began to write of the "King's Pale" in Scotland, anticipating that...
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action-adventure video game The Inquisitor (play), a 1797 play by Thomas Holcroft Inquisitor (game), a tabletop game set in the fictional Warhammer 40...
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Gentleman Hugh Gwyn (Wynne), Tradesman Nicholas Hancock, Labourer Thomas Holcroft Hardwin, Labourer Harmon Haryson, Gentleman Hellyard, Boy John Hoult, Gentleman...
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attended an early showing. The play was translated into English by Thomas Holcroft, and under the title of The Follies of a Day – Or The Marriage of Figaro...
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with France and call for democratic reform, among them Thomas Hardy, Thomas Spence, Thomas Holcroft, and John Thelwall. For the government of William Pitt...
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other French play of the century. It is translated into English by Thomas Holcroft and, under the title The Follies of a Day, or The Marriage of Figaro...
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Fanny Margaretta Holcroft (1780–1844), daughter of writer Thomas Holcroft, was a novelist, dramatist, and translator whose work aligned with the progressive...
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received word of the rising that morning and had sent Elizabeth to Sir Thomas Holcroft into the walled city of Coventry. The Mayor and nine other citizens...
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Leopold, Graf zu Stolberg, Translated from the German into English, Thomas Holcroft. London, G.G. & J Robinson, 1797. Edward Godfrey Cox (1935). "West...
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"Constructing Treason, Narrating Truth: The 1794 Treason Trial of Thomas Holcroft and the Fate of English Jacobinism". Romanticism on the Net (45). doi:10...
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Attorney by Richard Cumberland (1787) Lady Morden in Seduction by Thomas Holcroft (1787) Eliza Moreton in The Sword of Peace by Mariana Starke (1788)...
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The Inquisitor is a 1798 play by the British writer Thomas Holcroft. It was inspired by the 1775 play Diego und Leonore by Johann August Unzer. It premiered...
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about the literary events and publications of 1792. February 18 – Thomas Holcroft's the comedy The Road to Ruin is premièred at Covent Garden in London...
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