Johnson, Charles
Born: 1679 AD
Died: 1748 AD, at 69 years of age.
Nationality:
English
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1679 - The birth of Charles Johnson, contemporary of the pirate biographer, playwright, poet, and “dunce”.
1710-1733 - He wrote seventeen plays and produced sixteen of them on the London stage, he became an object of ridicule in Alexander Pope’s The Dunciad.
1748 - He retired from the theater he married a young, wealthy widow, and he opened a tavern on Bow Street, Covent Garden. When his wife died, he sold the tavern, and he followed his wife to the grave on March 11th.
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