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| | Articles - Richard Cumberland (dramatist) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | He was born in the master's lodge of Trinity College, Cambridge, and was the great-grandson of the bishop of Peterborough; his father, Dr Denison Cumberland, became successively Bishop of Clonfert and of Kilmore. |
 | | If Cumberland's dialogue lacks brilliance and his characters reality, the construction of the plots is as a rule, skilful, and the situations are contrived with what Cumberland indisputably possessed--a thorough insight into the secrets of theatrical effect. |
 | | His debut as a dramatic author was made with a tragedy, The Banishment of Cicero, published in 1761 after its rejection by David Garrick; this was followed in 1765 by a musical drama, The Summer's Tale, subsequently compressed into an afterpiece Amelia (1768). |
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