Richard Brinsley Peake
Richard Brinsley Peake, 1792-1847, English dramatist.
Peake was a popular and prolific dramatist, producing his first play in 1818 and continuing to write
until his death. For many years he was employed by the English Opera
House. Few of his works are remembered now, but in addition to Presumption, the first dramatic adaptation
of Frankenstein, he wrote a large number of successful melodramas
and farces, including the Gothic
melodrama The Bottle Imp (1823) and The Evil Eye (1831).
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