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Richard Cumberland (dramatist)

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His favourite theme is virtue in distress or danger, but assured of its reward in the fifth act; his most constant characters are men of feeling and young ladies who are either prudes or coquettes. Cumberland's comic talents lay in the invention of characters taken from the "outskirts of the empire,"
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Cumberland's sentimentality is often wearisome, his morality is generally sound; that if he was without the genius requisite for elevating the national drama, he did his best to keep it pure and sweet; and that if he borrowed much, he borrowed only the best aspects of other dramatists' work.
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from English prejudice. The plays are highly patriotic and adhere to conventional morality. If Cumberland's dialogue lacks brilliance and his characters reality, the construction of the plots is generally skilful, due to Cumberland's insight into the secrets of theatrical effect. Though
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and never recovered his money. Soon afterward, Cumberland lost his office in Burke's reforms and retired on an allowance of less than half-pay. In 1785, he wrote a defence of his former superior,
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Cumberland wrote much but has been remembered most for his plays and memoirs. The existence of his memoirs is largely due to his friend, the critic Richard Sharp, (
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prevented resolution. Recalled by the government in 1781, Cumberland was refused repayment of his expenses although his advance was insufficient. He was £4500
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Cumberland resigned his fellowship when he married his cousin Elizabeth Ridge in 1759, after having been appointed through Lord Halifax as "crown-agent for
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His plays, published and unpublished, totalled fifty-four. About 35 of these are ordinary plays, to which have been added four operas and a
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found a celebrated part in the misanthropist Penruddock, who cannot forget but learns to forgive (a character declared by
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in 1775 acceded to office, Cumberland was appointed secretary to the Board of Trade and Plantations, a post he held till
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in an effort to secure a peace agreement between the two nations. He also edited a short-lived critical journal called
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In 1780, he was sent on a confidential mission to Spain to negotiate a separate peace treaty during the
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The epilogue paid a compliment to Garrick, who helped the production of Cumberland's second comedy
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said, that it acted well, but read ill, though he could distinguish in it "strokes of Mr Bentley."
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in an effort to weaken the anti-British coalition. Although he was well received by King
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Commemorative red plaque on the site of Cumberland's former residence in
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His posthumously printed plays (published in 2 vols. in 1813) include:
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he vindicates from the stigma of cowardice; and an anonymous pamphlet,
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Arthur Kinsman told Bentley he would make his grandson an equally good
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assessed Cumberland's position in the history of the English drama in
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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He is said to have joined Sir James Bland Burges in an epic, the
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Curtius rescued from the Gulf, against the redoubtable Dr Parr
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He had begun to read for his fellowship at Trinity when the
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rejected it; this was followed in 1765 by a musical drama,
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In 1761 Cumberland accompanied his patron Lord Halifax to
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The other works printed during his lifetime include:
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Richard Cumberland was born in the master's lodge of
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His father was a 1592:English male dramatists and playwrights 1123:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 854:, furnishing some effective scenes for 14: 1559: 1264: 611:(1772) is a sentimental comedy, as is 498:(1809), intended to be a rival to the 1238: 359:, Cumberland applied for the post of 150:he acted as a secret negotiator with 1577:Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge 1194:Litteraturgesch. d. 18. Jahrhunderts 997:(tragedy on a theme which attracted 385: 188:Richard Cumberland, the philosopher 24: 1587:English dramatists and playwrights 25: 1623: 858:and John Kemble as mother and son 576:(1769). This play is inspired by 434: 382:'s reforms abolished it in 1782. 343:. Halifax who had been appointed 229:. He later related how, when the 1515: 1200: 1098:"Cumberland, Richard (CMRT747R)" 214:. 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Richard Cumberland (playwright)
Portrait of Richard Cumberland by George Romney, c.1776
Portrait of Richard Cumberland
George Romney
Trinity College, Cambridge
England
London
England
Dramatist
English
dramatist
civil servant
The West Indian
American War of Independence
Spain
Trinity College, Cambridge
clergyman
Denison Cumberland
Bishop of Clonfert
Bishop of Kilmore
Richard Cumberland, the philosopher
Peterborough
Richard Bentley
John Byrom
eclogue
Mary Alcock
Oliver St John
grammar school
Bury St Edmunds
headmaster

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