Colman, George, the Younger
- Colman, George, the Younger
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▪ English playwright
born Oct. 21, 1762, London
died Oct. 17, 1836, London
English playwright, writer of scurrilous satiric verse, and theatre manager whose comic operas, farces, melodramas, and sentimental comedies were box-office successes in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Dr. Pangloss, the elderly pedant in
The Heir at Law (first performed 1797), is his only outstanding comic creation. But the comic opera
Two to One (1784), his first success; the quasi-operatic
Inkle and Yarico (1787); the melodramas
The Battle of Hexham (1789) and
The Iron Chest (1796), the latter based on William Godwin's novel
Caleb Williams (1794); and
John Bull (1803), his most popular comedy, long kept their place in the repertoire of the Little Theatre in the Hay,
London, the management of which Colman took over from his father. When his father died in 1794, he bought the theatre, though large debts forced him to sell part of his share in 1805 and the rest in 1820. As examiner (or censor) of plays from 1824 until his death, Colman aroused resentment owing to his narrow severity and petty tyranny.
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