Boaden, James
23 May 1762 - 16 February 1839
English playwright, critic, and novelist.
Sites:
Biographical essay
Substantive biographical and bibliographical information, culled from
The Dictionary of Literary Biography
. [The Haunted Curtain]
Portrait
[National Portrait Gallery]
Etexts:
The Italian Monk
No etext currently available. Boaden's 1796 dramatization of
Ann Radcliffe
's
The Italian
was itself the basis for a 1797 opera by Samuel Arnold (1740-1802)
-
brief excerpts
"James Boaden."