Arthur Murphy

Hsin-yun Ou

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.05: English Writing and Culture from the Glorious Revolution to the French Revolution, 1689-1789.
Vol. editors: Paul Baines (University of Liverpool), Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Pat Rogers (University of South Florida), Nicholas Seager (University of Keele)

Dates

Born 27 Dec 1727
Died 18 Jun 1805
Activity 1747-1805

Places

Born in England
Active in England

Activities

Primary

Journalist
Playwright / Dramatist

Resources

Murphy's Works

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Arthur Murphy engaged in most areas of the eighteenth-century writer - journalism, essays, poetry, drama, translation and biography. He edited several journals including

The Gray’s Inn Journal

, had nineteen of his plays performed between 1756 and 1793, translated Tacitus, and published biographies of Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson and David Garrick. Moreover, he starred as an actor in

Othello

at Covent Garden, trained at Lincoln’s Inn to become a barrister, and was a copyright specialist.

Murphy was born in Ireland in December 1727, to Richard Murphy and Jane French. When he was two years old, his father, a Dublin merchant, was lost at sea when sailing to Philadelphia, America. In 1738, Murphy was sent to the Jesuit College of St Omer in

Murphy was born in Ireland in December 1727, to…

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Citation: Ou, Hsin-yun. "Arthur Murphy". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 January 2008 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3265, accessed 25 November 2024.]

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