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Stone, John Augustus

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Stone, John Augustus (1800–1834),Massachusetts actor and playwright, best known for his romantic tragedy Metamora, or the Last of the Wampanoags (1829), written for Edwin Forrest. He acted in his own plays, Tancred: King of Sicily (1831) and The Demoniac; or, The Prophet's Bride (1831), and revised Paulding's The Lion of the West (1831). Another play for Forrest, The Ancient Briton (1833), concerned Boadicea. Stone committed suicide in Philadelphia, where Forrest erected a monument to him.

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