Daly, [John] Augustin
Daly, [John] Augustin( 1838–99),author or adapter of more than 90 plays, most of which were radically altered from the original French or German, and often given an American setting. His own best plays were Horizon (1871), a romantic drama of the West, and Divorce (1871), a problem play, but he was also the author of melodramas such as Under the Gaslight (1867), in which heroes were tied to logs about to be sawed in two, or bound to railroad tracks in the paths of onrushing trains. The most successful of his ventures as a producer were in the theater in New York City that bore his name, where he staged many of his own adaptations, several of the leading English comedies of manners, and superb productions of Shakespeare.
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