Robert Dunlap
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- This article is about an American playwright. For other persons by the same name, see Robert Dunlap (disambiguation).
Robert Dunlap (1766-1839) was an American artist, historian and playwright. He was born in Perth Amboy New Jersey on 1 February 1766. In his lifetime he wrote more than 60 plays.
The majority of his plays were adaptations or translations from French or German works, although some were original; several were based on American themes and had American characters. He was the first of a long line of dramatists of the American theater.
Among his earliest works were:
- The Father (1789)
- Andre (1798)
- The Stranger (1798)
- False Shame (1799)
- The Virgin of the Sun (1800)
He continued produce plays until 1828.
