• George Colman may refer to: George Colman the Elder (1732–1794), English dramatist George Colman the Younger (1762–1836), English dramatist, son of the...
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    George Colman (21 October 1762 – 17 October 1836), known as "the Younger", was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer. He was the son of George...
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    George Colman (April 1732 – 14 August 1794) was an English dramatist and essayist, usually called "the Elder", and sometimes "George the First", to distinguish...
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    Colman Jason Domingo (born November 28, 1969) is an American actor, playwright and director of Belizean and Guatemalan descent. Prominent on both screen...
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  • Colmán or Colman is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Colmán Bec (died c. 585), Irish dynast Colmán mac Cobthaig (died...
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    Ronald Charles Colman (9 February 1891 – 19 May 1958) was an English-born actor, starting his career in theatre and silent film in his native country,...
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    Polly Honeycombe (category Plays by George Colman the Elder)
    Polly Honeycombe is a 1760 afterpiece farce by George Colman the Elder. It comically deals with the effect of novel-reading on not only young women, but...
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    opera The Grand Dramatic Romance Blue-Beard, or Female Curiosity by George Colman the Younger, composed by Michael Kelly. Pantomime versions of the tale...
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  • Pangloss, a fictional character in the 1797 play The Heir at Law by George Colman the Younger Pangloss Collection, a digital library of audio recordings...
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    of Scots by John St John (1789) Gondibert in The Battle of Hexham by George Colman the Younger (1789) Sir Charles Freemantle in The Impostors by Richard...
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    Giovanni Bertati, based on the 1766 play The Clandestine Marriage by George Colman the Elder and David Garrick. It was first performed on 7 February 1792...
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    Frederick Reynolds (1802) Job Thornberry in John Bull by George Colman the Younger (1803) George McTack in The Three Per Cents by Frederick Reynolds (1803)...
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    beneath the mistletoe / The girl not turn'd of twenty...", song by George Colman the Younger in the musical comedy Two to One (1784) "The pendant mistletoe...
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    [citation needed] She was introduced by Younger, her Liverpool manager, to George Colman and made her first appearance in London at the Haymarket on 9 June 1777...
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  • of the spelling yas quoted in the Oxford English Dictionary is from George Colman the Elder's play Spleen in 1776: "Rubrick. We'll go in, and prepare...
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    subject is The Rodiad, ascribed (seemingly falsely and in jest) to George Colman the Younger. John Camden Hotten even wrote a pornographic comic opera...
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  • the first anthologies of women's writing in English. It was edited by George Colman (1732–1794) and Bonnell Thornton (1725–1768). The first edition comprises...
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    for which he wrote much of his popular music. In 1777, he worked for George Colman the Elder at the Little Theatre, Haymarket. In 1783, he became organist...
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  • (1750–1795), English scientist George Colman the Younger (1762–1836), English dramatist and miscellaneous writer George Gwilt the younger (1775–1856), English...
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    Inkle and Yarico (category Works by George Colman the Younger)
    England, in August 1787, with music by Samuel Arnold and a libretto by George Colman the Younger. Inkle, an English trader, is shipwrecked in the West Indies...
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    Alan Colman KG KStJ (19 September 1929 – 9 September 2021) was a British businessman and a Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk. Colman was from the Colman's mustard...
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  • Tit for Tat may also refer to: Tit for Tat (play), a 1786 play by George Colman the Elder Tit for Tat (novel), an 1856 novel written anonymously Tit...
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    well known and influential that seven decades after his publication, George Colman modified the short story into a comic opera, Inkle and Yarico. Bully...
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    London weekly eighteenth century newspaper founded and chiefly run by George Colman the Elder and the parodist Bonnell Thornton as a 'plebeian' counterpart...
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    The Clandestine Marriage (category Plays by George Colman the Elder)
    The Clandestine Marriage is a comedy by George Colman the Elder and David Garrick, first performed in 1766 at Drury Lane. It is both a comedy of manners...
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  • based on the 1766 play The Clandestine Marriage by David Garrick and George Colman. This was also the final role for Nigel Hawthorne before his death....
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  • pornographic poem on the subject of flagellation, falsely attributed to George Colman the Younger: probably by Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton...
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  • John Bull by George Colman (1803) Landlord in The Delinquent by Frederick Reynolds (1805) Hogmore in Who Wants a Guinea? by George Colman the Younger (1805)...
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    The Iron Chest (category Works by George Colman the Younger)
    The Iron Chest is a 1796 play by the British writer George Colman the Younger, with music by the composer Stephen Storace. Inspired by the novel Things...
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    Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London, but objections by the censor George Colman to the play's subject matter led to the Lord Chamberlain, the Scottish...
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