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Opera tag

I removed the opera project tag placed here by a bot. Taylor was a playwright, not a librettist. -- Ssilvers (talk) 17:05, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've checked, as requested, and entirely concur that the opera project tag is, on present evidence, inappropriate. Tim riley (talk) 18:48, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Old Stagers

This uncited material was removed from the article. Is it verifiable that Taylor was a founder of the Old Stagers and that the other information given below is true with respect to Taylor?:

During 1842, Taylor, together with his Cambridge friends Frederick Ponsonby (Earl of Bessborough), Charles G Taylor and William Bolland, formed the Old Stagers, which is recognised as the oldest amateur drama society still performing. The Old Stagers were invited to perform at the Canterbury Theatre during the Canterbury Cricket Week. Taylor performed, under his nom de theatre "J. Noakes, Esq", with the Old Stagers for more than 20 years. He was usually also Stage Manager and wrote many epilogues at the end of the Canterbury Cricket Week. He and the Old Stagers also performed in Royal Leamington Spa in 1852, and at the Theatre Royal during the I Zingari Cricket Week of 1853. Most of the Old Stagers played cricket for I Zingari during the day and performed on the stage in the evening, but there is no evidence to suggest that Taylor played cricket. -- Ssilvers (talk) 15:29, 1 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Tom Taylor (1817–1880) was an English dramatist, public servant and writer. After a brief academic career in English literature and language at University College London in the 1840s, Taylor practised law and became a civil servant. At the same time he became a journalist, most prominently as a contributor to and eventually the editor of the magazine Punch. He also began a theatre career and is now best known as a playwright. With up to one hundred plays staged during his career, both original work and adaptations of French plays, Taylor's output covers a range of genres from farce to melodrama. Most fell into neglect after Taylor's death, but Our American Cousin (1858), which achieved great success in the 19th century, remains famous as the piece that was being performed in the presence of Abraham Lincoln when he was assassinated in 1865. This undated photograph by the studio of Samuel Robert Lock and George C. Whitfield is part of Men of Mark: A Gallery of Contemporary Portraits, a collection published in 1881.

Photograph credit: Lock & Whitfield; restored by Adam Cuerden

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