Charles Dibdin
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Charles Dibdin was an English composer, musician, dramatist, novelist, singer and actor. With over 600 songs to his name, for many of which he wrote both the lyrics and the music and performed them hi
Charles Dibdin, 1799, by Thomas Phillips (died 1845), oil on canvas
Manuscript in Dibdin's hand of "Mourn Ye Damsels of the Court"
Celtic cross memorial to Dibdin, erected by public subscription in 1889, after his original tomb collapsed, in St Martin's Gardens, Camden Town
Isaac Bickerstaffe
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Isaac John Bickerstaffe or Bickerstaff was an Irish playwright and librettist.
Charles Dibdin
…contract established a precedent by which actors were not paid in case of absence through sickness. The script for The Maid of the Mill was by playwright Isaac Bickerstaffe, who had written the libretto for Love in a Village, the highly popular opera (called the first English comic opera) by Dr. Thomas Arne, produced in…
Bickerstaff's first patron Lord Chesterfield who served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
A scene from Love in a Village