Fitzball, Edward

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Fitzball, Edward [ Edward Ball] (1792–1873), English dramatist, author of a vast number of immensely popular melodramas, now forgotten. Several, notably The Red Rover; or, The Mutiny of the Dolphin (1829), based on a novel by Fenimore Cooper, and Paul Clifford (1835), from a novel by Bulwer-Lytton, were successful enough to be included in the repertory of the toy theatre. He also helped the development of nautical drama with the dramatization of another of Cooper's novels as The Pilot; or, A Tale of the Sea (1825) and such works as Nelson; or, The Life of a Sailor (1827), also subtitled Britannia Rules the Waves. His Jonathan Bradford; or, The Murder at the Wayside Inn (1833), based on a sensational murder case, made a fortune for the manager of the Surrey Theatre, where it was first produced.

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