JOHN

See also:

• JOHN OXENFORD (1812—1877)

OXENFORD (1812—1877)  , English dramatist, was born at Camberwell on the 12th of August 1812 . He began his literary career by writing on finance . He was an excellent linguist, and the author of many translations from the German, notably of Goethe's Dichtung and Wahrheit (1846) and Eckermann's Conversations of Goalie (1850) . He did much by his writing to spread the fame of Schopenhauer in England . His first play was My Fellow Clerk, produced at the Lyceum in 1835 . This was followed by a long series of pieces, the most famous of which was perhaps the Porter's Knot (1858) and Twice Killed (1835) . About 185o he became dramatic critic of The Times . He died in Southwark on the 21st of February 1877 . Many references to his pieces will be found in The Life and Reminiscences of E . L . Blanchard (ed . C .

Scott and C . Howard, 1891) .