James Kenney
Playwright, Author
1780 – 1849
Who was James Kenney?
James Kenney was an English dramatist, the son of James Kenney, one of the founders of Boodles' Club in London.
His first play, a farce called Raising the Wind, was a success owing to the popularity of the character of "Jeremy Diddler". Kenney produced more than forty dramas and operas between 1803 and 1845, and many of his pieces, in which Mrs Siddons, Madame Vestris, Foote, Lewis, Liston and other leading players appeared from time to time, enjoyed a considerable vogue.
His most popular play was Sweethearts and Wives, produced at the Haymarket Theatre in 1823, and several times afterwards revived; and among the most successful of his other works were: False Alarms, a comic opera with music by Braham; Love, Law and Physic; Spring and Autumn; The Illustrious Stranger, or Married and Buried; Masaniello; The Sicilian Vespers, a tragedy. Kenney, who numbered Charles Lamb and Samuel Rogers among his friends, died in London in 1849. He married the widow of the dramatist Thomas Holcroft, by whom he had two sons and two daughters.
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- Born
- 1780
England - Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Died
- Jul 25, 1849
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on July 23, 2013
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