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James Sheridan Knowles, the Glossary

James Sheridan Knowles (12 May 1784 – 30 November 1862) was an Irish dramatist and actor.^[1]

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19th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights
19th-century Irish male actors
Actors from County Cork

Actor

An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a production.

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Alfred the Great (play)

Alfred the Great is an 1831 historical play by the Irish writer James Sheridan Knowles.

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Belfast (from Béal Feirste) is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel.

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Caius Gracchus (play)

Caius Gracchus is a tragedy by the Irish playwright James Sheridan Knowles.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847).

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Cork (city)

Cork (from corcach, meaning 'marsh') is the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland, third largest on the island of Ireland, the county town of County Cork and largest city in the province of Munster.

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County Cork

County Cork (Contae Chorcaí) is the largest and the southernmost county of Ireland, named after the city of Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. Its largest market towns are Mallow, Macroom, Midleton, and Skibbereen., the county had a population of 584,156, making it the third-most populous county in Ireland.

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Covent Garden

Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane.

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Crow Street Theatre

Crow Street Theatre was a theatre in Dublin, Ireland, originally opened in 1758 by the actor Spranger Barry.

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Devon

Devon (historically also known as Devonshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Edmund Gosse

Sir Edmund William Gosse (21 September 184916 May 1928) was an English poet, author and critic.

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Edmund Kean

Edmund Kean (4 November 178715 May 1833) was a British Shakespearean actor, who performed, among other places, in London, Belfast, New York, Quebec, and Paris.

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Exeter Hall

Exeter Hall was a large public meeting place on the north side of the Strand in central London, opposite where the Savoy Hotel now stands.

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Father and Son (Gosse book)

Father and Son (1907), originally subtitled "A Study of Two Temperaments", is a memoir by the poet and critic Edmund Gosse, initially published anonymously.

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Fortescue (novel)

Fortescue is an 1846 three-volume novel by the Irish writer James Sheridan Knowles.

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George Lovell

George Lovell is an 1847 novel by the Irish writer James Sheridan Knowles, published in three volumes.

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Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.

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Glasgow Necropolis

The Glasgow Necropolis is a Victorian cemetery in Glasgow, Scotland.

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James Knowles (lexicographer)

James Knowles (1759 – 8 February 1840) was an Irish schoolteacher and, late in life, the author of A Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the English Language.

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John of Procida (play)

John of Procida: The Bridals of Messina is an 1840 historical tragedy by the Irish writer James Sheridan Knowles.

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Kingdom of Ireland

The Kingdom of Ireland (Ríoghacht Éireann; Ríocht na hÉireann) was a dependent territory of England and then of Great Britain from 1542 to the end of 1800.

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Love (play)

Love (also known as The Countess and the Serf) is an 1839 play by the Irish writer James Sheridan Knowles.

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Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who is best known for writing the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction.

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Nicholas Wiseman

Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman (3 August 1802 – 15 February 1865) was an English Catholic prelate who served as the first Archbishop of Westminster upon the re-establishment of the Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales in 1850.

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Old Maids

Old Maids is an 1841 comedy play by the Irish writer James Sheridan Knowles.

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Playwright

A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than mere reading.

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Richard Brinsley Knowles

Richard Brinsley Knowles (17 January 1820 – 28 January 1882) was a British journalist.

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 17517 July 1816) was an Anglo-Irish playwright, writer and Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1780 to 1812, representing the constituencies of Stafford, Westminster and Ilchester. James Sheridan Knowles and Richard Brinsley Sheridan are Irish emigrants to Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Robert Peel

Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850), was a British Conservative statesman who twice was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835, 1841–1846), and simultaneously was Chancellor of the Exchequer (1834–1835).

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Royal Belfast Academical Institution

The Royal Belfast Academical Institution is an independent grammar school in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth.

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The Beggar's Daughter of Bethnal Green

The Beggar's Daughter of Bethnal Green is a five-act comedy play by the Irish writer James Sheridan Knowles.

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The Bridal

The Bridal is an 1837 tragedy by the Irish writer James Sheridan Knowles.

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The Daughter (play)

The Daughter (also known as The Wrecker's Daughter) is an 1836 melodrama by the Irish writer James Sheridan Knowles.

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The Hunchback (play)

The Hunchback is an 1832 comedy play by the Irish writer James Sheridan Knowles.

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The Love Chase

The Love Chase is an 1837 comedy play by the Irish-born writer James Sheridan Knowles.

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The Maid of Mariendorpt

The Maid of Mariendorpt is an 1838 play by the Irish writer James Sheridan Knowles.

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The Maid's Tragedy

The Maid's Tragedy is a play by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher.

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The Rose of Arragon

The Rose of Arragon is an 1842 tragedy by the Irish-born writer James Sheridan Knowles.

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The Secretary (play)

The Secretary is a play by the Irish writer James Sheridan Knowles.

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The Wife (play)

The Wife: A Tale of Mantua (also known as The Wife of Mantua is an 1833 historical play by the Irish writer James Sheridan Knowles. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London on 24 April 1833. The cast included Sheridan Knowles as Julian St. Pierre, Ellen Kean as Mariana, Charles Kean as Leonardo, James Prescott Warde as Ferrardo, George Bennett as Antonio, William Abbot as Lorenzo, Edwin Ransford as Hugo, Drinkwater Meadows as Bartolo and William Payne as Pietro.

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Torquay

Torquay is a seaside town in Devon, England, part of the unitary authority area of Torbay.

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Tower Division

The Tower Division was a liberty in the ancient county of Middlesex, England.

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Transubstantiation

Transubstantiation (Latin: transubstantiatio; Greek: μετουσίωσις metousiosis) is, according to the teaching of the Catholic Church, "the change of the whole substance of bread into the substance of the Body of Christ and of the whole substance of wine into the substance of the Blood of Christ".

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Sheridan_Knowles

Also known as Sheridan Knowles.

, William Macready, William Tell (1825 play), Wiltshire, Woman's Wit (Knowles play).

James Sheridan Knowles, the Glossary

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See also

19th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights

19th-century Irish male actors

Actors from County Cork

References