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1745 in poetry

Charles Dibdin (died 1814), English musician, dramatist, novelist, poet, actor and songwriter

1803 in poetry

Charles Dibdin, The Professional Life of Mr. Dibdin

1825 in poetry

Charles Dibdin, Comic Tales an Lyrical Fancies

Anna Maria Crouch

In 1781 she made a great success as the heroine in Charles Dibdin's Lionel and Clarissa.

Charles Dibdin

The great Victorian baritone Sir Charles Santley made his farewell performance at Covent Garden in 1911 in the role of Tom Tug in Dibdin's opera The Waterman.

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Seven years after his death a subscription to raise a monument to Dibdin was set in train under the patronage of the Duke of Clarence and Admiral Sir George York.

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Here he was employed in a music warehouse in Cheapside, but soon abandoned this to become a singing actor at Theatre Royal, Covent Garden.

Friar Laurence

Critics such as Charles Dibdin argued that Rosaline had been purposely included in the play to show how reckless the hero was, and that this was the reason for his tragic end.

John Henry Johnstone

Here in any case Johnstone made his first stage appearance, about 1773, as Lionel in Lionel and Clarissa (Charles Dibdin and Isaac Bickerstaffe).

Mounseer Nongtongpaw

Mounseer Nongtongpaw is based on a popular 1796 song of the same name by the entertainer Charles Dibdin.

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The poem is an expansion of the entertainer Charles Dibdin's song of the same name and was published as part of eighteenth-century philosopher William Godwin's Juvenile Library.

Sans Souci Theatre

It was built in 1796 by Charles Dibdin, and replaced eponymous former music rooms he had leased for performances, off the Strand.

The Cooper

The Cooper has simple lyrical style that is reminiscent of the works of Charles Dibdin.

Thomas Frognall Dibdin

Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776 – 18 November 1847), English bibliographer, born at Calcutta, was the son of Thomas Dibdin, the sailor brother of Charles Dibdin.