William Godwin's Diary

Dramatists in Godwin's Diary

NameBirth DateDeath DateWorks
Addison, John 1766Not Before:1765 -
Not After: 1767
1
Addison, Joseph 1  May  167217  June  17191
Allingham, John Till 9
Andrews, Miles Peter 6  October  1794218  July  18141
Anonymous 7
Arne, Thomas 12  March  17105  March  17782
Arnold, Samuel James 5  December  177416  August  185210
Astley, John Conway Philip September  176819  October  18211
Author, Unknown 129
Baillie, Joanna 11  September  176223  February  18513
Balfe, Michael William 15  May  180820  October  18701
Ball, Mr. 1
Banim, John (Abel O'Hara)3  April  179813  August  18424
Barker, James Nelson 2  March  17724  May  18381
Bayard, M. 2
Bayley, Peter August  177825  January  18231
Bayly, Nathaniel Thomas Haynes 19  October  179722  April  18393
Beaumarchais, Pierre 24  January  173218  May  17991
Beazley, Samuel 178612  October  185112
Bellini, Vincenzo 3  November  180123  September  18351
Bernard, William Bayle 27  November  18075  August  18752
Berry, Mary 3  March  176321  November  18521
Bickerstaff, Isaac 26  September  173318086
Birch, Samuel 8  November  175710  December  18411
Bishop, Henry 18  November  178630  April  18553
Boaden, Caroline 2
Boaden, James 23  May  176216  February  18395
Brandon, Isaac 1
Brayley, Mr. 1
Brewer, George November  1766Unknown1
Brooke, Frances 172417891
Brooke, Henry 170310  October  17832
Brown, John 5  October  171523  September  17661
Bucke, Charles 16  April  178131  July  18461
Buckstone, John Baldwin 14  September  180231  October  187912
Bunn, Alfred 8  April  1796Not Before:19  December  1860 -
Not After: 20  December  1860
3
Burgess, James Bland 175218241
Burgoyne, John 4  February  17234  August  17921
Burke, Charles 1
Burton, William Evans 24  September  18049  February  18601
Byrne, James 3
Byron, Lord George Gorden Noel 22  January  178819  April  18244
Calcraft, John William 1
Centlivre, Susanna November  16691  December  17234
Chambers, Marianne 2
Cherry, Andrew 11  January  176212  February  18124
Cherubini, Luigi 14  September  176015  March  18421
Cibber, Colley 6  November  167112  December  17574
Cibber, Theophilus 25  November  170327  October  17581
Clarke, John Bertridge 1
Cobb, James 1756181810
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 21  October  177225  July  18341
Collier, Sir George 11  May  17386  April  17951
Colman, George (Arthur Griffenhoof (the younger))21  October  176226  October  183627
Colman, George (the elder) April  173214  August  17942
Congreve, William Not Before:24  January  1670 -
Not After: 31  January  1670
19  January  17294
Cooke, Thomas Simpson 178226  February  18481
Cowley, Hannah 14  March  174211  March  18094
Craven, Lady Elizabeth (Margravine of Anspach)17  December  1750January  18281
Croly, Reverend George 17  August  178024  October  18602
Cromwell, Thomas Kitson 14  December  179222  December  18701
Cross, John Cartwright 7
Cumberland, Richard 19  February  17327  May  181117
Cuthbertson, Catherine 1
D'Arblay (Burney), Frances (Fanny) 13  June  17526  January  18401
D'Espagny, M. 1
Da Ponte, Lorenzo 10  March  174917  August  18382
Dance, George 1
Daniel, George 16  September  178930  March  18641
Davenport, Robert 1624Unknown1
Denis, Charles 1
Dibdin, Charles 174525  July  18142
Dibdin, Thomas John 21  March  177116  September  184140
Dibdin Jr., Charles 27  October  176813  January  18336
Dillon, John 1
Dimond, William 1784183720
Dodds, George 1
Dryden, John 9  August  16311  May  17001
Dudley, Reverend Sir Henry Bate 25  August  17451  February  18241
Dumas, Alexandre 27  July  182427  November  18951
Duval, Alexandre 1
Earle, 1
Eaton Stannard Barrett 178620  March  18201
Ebsworth, Joseph 10  October  178823  June  18681
Egan, Pierce 17723  August  18491
Egerton, earl of Ellesmere Francis (Leveson-Gower)1  January  180018  January  18571
Elliston, Robert William 7  April  17748  July  18314
Eyre, Edmund John 20  May  1767April  18162
Farley, Charles 177128  January  18594
Farquhar, George Not Before:1766 -
Not After: 1767
May  17074
Farren, Percy 1
Faucit, John Saville 178331  October  18531
Fawcett, John 29  October  17699  October  17933
Fenrick, John 1
Ferdinand Ries November  178413  January  18381
Field, Nathan October  1587Not After:2  August  16201
Fielding, Henry 22  April  17073  October  17545
Fitzball, Edward March  179327  October  18737
Follett, John 1
Foote, Samuel January  172121  October  17772
Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher 4
Francklin, Thomas 172115  March  17841
Franklin, Andrew 5
Garrick, David 19  February  171720  January  17798
Gay, John 30  June  16854  December  17321
Gentleman, Francis 23  October  172821  December  17841
Glengall, Lord 2
Goldsmith, Oliver 10  November  17284  April  17742
Gore, Catherine Not Before:1799 -
Not After: 1800
29  January  18618
Grattan, Thomas Colley 17914  July  18641
Greatheed, Bertie 19  October  175916  January  18261
Griffenhoof, Arthur 21  October  176226  October  18362
Grubb, John 1
Gugielimi, Pietro 9  December  172819  November  18041
Hallet, C.W. 1
Halévy, Jacques 27  May  179917  March  18621
Hamilton, Colonel Ralph 2
Handel, George Frideric 23  February  168514  April  17593
Hawes, William 21  June  178518  February  18461
Haydn, Franz Joseph 31  March  173231  May  18091
Hayley, William 9  November  174512  November  18201
Haynes, James 1
Hemans, Felicia 25  September  179316  May  18351
Henry, 1
Herbert, Viscount Porchester Herbert John George 8  June  180010  December  18491
Hewlett, Abraham 1
Hill, Aaron 10  February  16858  February  17501
Hill, Isabel 21  August  1800January  18421
Hoadley, Benjamin 10  February  170610  August  17571
Hoare, Prince 175522  December  183414
Holcroft, Louisa 1
Holcroft, Thomas 10  December  174523  March  180917
Holman, Joseph George August  176424  August  18175
Holt, Francis Ludlow 177929  September  18441
Home, John 21  September  17225  September  18081
Hook, James 3  June  174618271
Hook, Theodore Edward 22  September  178824  August  18419
Hughes, John 29  January  167817  February  17201
Hyde, George 1
Hérold, Ferdinand 1
Inchbald, Elizabeth 15  October  17531  August  182112
Ireland, William Henry 2  August  177517  April  18351
Jackman, Isaac 175218311
Jameson, Robert Francis 5
Jephson, Robert Not Before:1736 -
Not After: 1737
30  May  18032
Jerningham, Edward 173717  November  18122
Jerrold, Douglas William 3  January  18038  June  185710
Johnson, Henry Erskine 1
Jones, Richard 'Gentleman' 177930  August  18513
Jonson, Ben 11  June  1572August  16371
Kean, Edmund 4  November  178722  November  18131
Kemble, Charles 25  November  177512  November  18543
Kemble, Frances Anne 27  November  180915  January  18931
Kemble, John 1  February  175726  February  18234
Kemble, Stephen 3  April  17585  June  18221
Kenney, James 178025  July  184926
Kimpton, F. 1
Kirby, 1
Knight, E.P. 1
Knight, Thomas Unknown4  February  18202
Knowles, James Sheridan 12  May  178430  November  18627
Lacy, M. R. 9
Lake, John 1
Lamb, Charles 10  February  177527  December  18341
Lamb, George 17842  January  18341
Lasselles, 1
Lathom, Francis 177719  May  18321
Laurent, 1
Le Fanu, Alicia January  17534  September  18171
Lee, Harriet Not Before:1757 -
Not After: 1758
1  August  18511
Lee, Henry 27  October  176530  March  18361
Lee, Nathaniel Not Before:1645 -
Not After: 1652
16922
Lee, Sophia Priscilla May  175013  March  18243
Leigh, Richard Not Before:1649 -
Not After: 1650
September  17281
Lennox, Lord William Pitt 179918  February  18811
Lewis, Matthew Gregory 'Monk' 9  July  177516  May  181811
Lillo, George Not Before:February  1691 -
Not After: February  1693
3  September  17392
Lindsay, Mr. 1
Linley, William 27  January  17716  May  18352
Linley Snr., Thomas 17  January  173319  November  17951
Lister, Thomas Henry 18005  June  18421
Livius, Barham 3
Lonsdale, 1
Lovell, George William 180413  May  18781
Lunn, Joseph 178412  December  18637
MacFarren, George 5  September  178824  April  18431
Macklin, Charles (Melaghlin MacLaughlin)169911  July  17971
Macnally, Leonard 175213  February  18201
Macready, William Charles 3  March  179327  April  18732
Maffei, Francesco 1
Marlowe, Christopher 26  February  156430  May  15931
Marshall, James 22  October  18321
Massinger, Philip November  1583March  16404
Masters, M.H. 1
Mathews, Charles 28  June  177628  June  18357
Mathews, Charles James 26  December  180324  June  18784
Maturin, Charles Robert 25  September  178030  October  18243
Maurer, Ludwig Wilhelm 1
Mayer, Johann 1
Mayhew, Thomas 1
Merry, Robert April  175524  December  17981
Millingen, John Gideon 8  September  17827  June  18491
Milman, Reverend Henry Hart 10  February  179124  September  18681
Milner, Henry M. 1
Milton, John 9  December  1608Not Before:9  November  1674 -
Not After: 10  November  1674
2
Mitford, Mary Russell 16  December  178710  January  18553
Moncrieff, William Gibbs Thomas 24  August  17943  December  185710
Moore, Edward 22  March  17121  March  17572
Moore, Thomas 28  May  177925  February  18522
Morgan, MacNamara 1
Morris, Edward 2
Morton, Thomas February  176428  March  183819
Moultrie, George 1
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 27  January  17565  December  17914
Murphy, Arthur 27  December  172718  June  18059
Normandy, Lord 1
North, Hon. Francis 25  December  176111  January  18171
O'Hara, Kane Not Before:1711 -
Not After: 1712
17  June  17821
O'Keeffe, John 24  June  17474  February  183315
Otway, Thomas 3  March  165214  April  16852
Oulton, Walley Chamberlain 4
Paer, Ferdinando 1  July  17713  May  18391
Paisiello, Giovanni 9  May  17405  June  18161
Parry, John 2
Payne, John Howard 9  June  179110  April  185218
Peake, Richard Brinsley 19  February  17924  October  184719
Pearce, William 1
Penley, Samson 1
Philips, Ambrose October  1674June  17491
Phillips, R. 1
Pilon, Frederick 175017  January  17881
Planché, James Robinson 27  February  179630  May  188035
Plowden, Dorothea 1
Pocock, Isaac Innes 2  March  178225  August  183516
Poole, John Not Before:1785 -
Not After: 1786
4  February  187220
Porter, Ann Maria 1
Porter, Jane January  177624  May  18502
Powell, William Not Before:1735 -
Not After: 1736
3  July  17691
Power, William Grattan Tyrone 2  November  179714  March  18411
Procter, Bryan Waller (Barry Cornwall)21  November  17874  October  18741
Pye, Henry James 20  February  174511  August  18132
Ravenscroft, Edward 1
Raymond, Richard John 1
Render, Wilhelm 1
Reynolds, Frederick 1  November  176416  April  184126
Reynolds, George Nugent 177018021
Rhodes, William Barnes 25  December  17721  November  18261
Richardson, Joseph 17559  June  18031
Rodwell, George Herbert Bonaparte 15  November  180022  January  18522
Rodwell, Gooderham 2
Rodwell, James 1
Rossini, Gioacchino 29  February  179213  November  18685
Rowe, Nicholas 20  June  167430  April  16923
Rowley, William 158516261
Russel, 1
Ryley, S. W. 175912  September  18371
Salieri, Antonio 18  August  17507  May  18251
Sarti, Guiseppe 1  December  172928  July  18021
Scribe, Eugene 24  December  179120  February  18613
Serle, T.J. 2
Shakespeare, William Not Before:21  April  1564 -
Not After: 23  April  1564
23  April  161632
Shannon, Charles 1
Sheil, Richard Lalor 17  August  179125  May  18515
Sheridan, Frances 172426  September  17661
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley Not Before:September  1751 -
Not After: October  1751
7  July  18169
Shirley, William 1
Siddons, Henry 23  October  177412  April  18152
Skeffington, Sir Lumley St George 23  March  177110  November  18502
Smith, Charlotte 4  May  174928  October  18061
Soane, George 28  October  178912  July  18604
Soane, John 1
Somerset, Charles A. 1
Sotheby, William 9  November  175730  December  18331
Southerne, Thomas 166026  May  17462
Spencer, William Robert 9  January  1770Not Before:22  October  1834 -
Not After: 23  October  1834
1
Spohr, Louis 5  April  178422  October  18592
Starke, Mariana Not Before:1761 -
Not After: 1762
18381
Steele, Sir Richard March  16721  September  17291
Storace, Stephen John Seymour 4  April  1762Not Before:15  March  1796 -
Not After: 16  March  1796
2
Stuart, Charles 1
Terence, 1
Terry, Daniel 1789June  18292
Thackeray, Thomas James 5  September  179621  February  18711
Thompson, Charles Pelham 1
Thomson, James 11  September  170027  August  17481
Thérèse Kemble, Marié 17  January  17773  November  18382
Tobin, John 26  January  17707  December  18045
Townley, James 6  May  171415  July  17781
Twiss, Horace 17874  May  18492
Vanbrugh, Sir John 24  January  166426  March  17261
Villers, George 1
Wade, Joseph Augustine Not Before:1800 -
Not After: 1801
15  July  18451
Wade, Thomas 180519  September  18753
Waldron, Francis Godolphin November  1743March  18182
Walker, 1
Walker, C. E. 1
Wallace, Lady Eglantine Unknown28  March  18031
Ward, Charles 1
Ware, William 1
Watson, George 1
Weber, Carl Maria Friedrich von 18  November  1786Not Before:5  June  1826 -
Not After: 5  June  1826
2
Webster, Benjamin 3  September  17988  July  18821
Weigl, Joseph 28  March  17663  February  18461
Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick 17463  September  18281
Whitehead, William February  171514  April  17851
Wilmot, Lady Dacre Barbarina (Ogle)9  May  176817  May  18541
Wohlbruck, Wilhelm August 1
Wycherly, William April  16411  January  17162
Young, Edward 16835  April  17651
d'Egville, 1
de Trueba, Don Telesforo 2
van Beethoven, Ludwig 16  December  177026  March  18271
von Kotzebue, August 3  May  176123  March  18194
von Schiller, Friedrich 10  November  17599  May  18051
von Winter, Peter August  175417  October  18251