William Dunlap

William Dunlap was born in 1766 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and lost an eye in childhood. He went to London to study painting under Benjamin West, then returned to work as a portraitist. He ran the John Street Theatre and then the Park Theatre until 1805, wrote or adapted from German and French several dozen plays, and in 1832 published a history of the American theatre. A friend of Charles Brockden Brown, whose life he wrote, he co-founded the National Academy of Design in 1825 and died in New York in 1839.

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• TheatreAndreWilliam Dunlap · 1798LiteraturePublic domain