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(‎Removed claim: Biographical notes (P173): Overall: In addition to working at various theaters, Chetwood was a bookseller, novelist, and playwright. His many plays, however, were not very lucrative or acclaimed; his prose fiction was more successful. Throughout the '30s, he declined in prosperity, and the first of a series of dire financial problems arose in 1741, when he became imprisoned in the King's Bench and a performance of William Congreve's The Old Bachelor was advertised as fo...)
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Overall: In addition to working at various theaters, Chetwood was a bookseller, novelist, and playwright. His many plays, however, were not very lucrative or acclaimed; his prose fiction was more successful. Throughout the '30s, he declined in prosperity, and the first of a series of dire financial problems arose in 1741, when he became imprisoned in the King's Bench and a performance of William Congreve's The Old Bachelor was advertised as for his benefit. His collection Five New Novels, a piece of hack writing, probably helped secure his release. When in debtor's prison again in Dublin in the 1750s, he wrote poetry and published editions of plays by Henry Shirley (1750) and Ben Jonson (1756) in the hopes of amending his financial difficulties. He was arrested for debt yet again in 1760, prompting another theatrical benefit. He eventually died in prison. The DNB characterizes him as "an active but minor participant in the theatrical and publishing worlds of the first half of the 18th c."
 
Property / Biographical notes: Overall: In addition to working at various theaters, Chetwood was a bookseller, novelist, and playwright. His many plays, however, were not very lucrative or acclaimed; his prose fiction was more successful. Throughout the '30s, he declined in prosperity, and the first of a series of dire financial problems arose in 1741, when he became imprisoned in the King's Bench and a performance of William Congreve's The Old Bachelor was advertised as for his benefit. His collection Five New Novels, a piece of hack writing, probably helped secure his release. When in debtor's prison again in Dublin in the 1750s, he wrote poetry and published editions of plays by Henry Shirley (1750) and Ben Jonson (1756) in the hopes of amending his financial difficulties. He was arrested for debt yet again in 1760, prompting another theatrical benefit. He eventually died in prison. The DNB characterizes him as "an active but minor participant in the theatrical and publishing worlds of the first half of the 18th c." / rank
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Property / Biographical notes: Overall: In addition to working at various theaters, Chetwood was a bookseller, novelist, and playwright. His many plays, however, were not very lucrative or acclaimed; his prose fiction was more successful. Throughout the '30s, he declined in prosperity, and the first of a series of dire financial problems arose in 1741, when he became imprisoned in the King's Bench and a performance of William Congreve's The Old Bachelor was advertised as for his benefit. His collection Five New Novels, a piece of hack writing, probably helped secure his release. When in debtor's prison again in Dublin in the 1750s, he wrote poetry and published editions of plays by Henry Shirley (1750) and Ben Jonson (1756) in the hopes of amending his financial difficulties. He was arrested for debt yet again in 1760, prompting another theatrical benefit. He eventually died in prison. The DNB characterizes him as "an active but minor participant in the theatrical and publishing worlds of the first half of the 18th c." / reference
 

Revision as of 14:32, 28 November 2021

+ 1766, English publisher
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William Rufus Chetwood
+ 1766, English publisher

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    Human(s)
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    Gender
    Male gender
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    Date of death
    3 March 1766Gregorian
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    Place of death
    Dublin
    Note
    Chetwood died on 3 March 1766, probably in a debtors' prison: The Marshalsea, Dublin
    1 reference
    Note
    Burling, William J. "Chetwood, William Rufus (d. 1766)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5247
    Biographical notes
    Periodicals etc.: published in Dublin The Meddler, a periodical of essays on European news, satiric prose sketches, poetry, and theatrical advertisements 1744
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    Author
    Jacob Sider Jost/ Mary Naydan/ Noah Fusco, “Poets of the 1730s: A Digital Humanities Seedling” (2017/ 2021)
     

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