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Author: Burton, W.

Biography:

BURTON, W. (fl 1801-04)

He was a comic actor but no certain biographical information has been found. Highfill quotes from A Pasquinade but does not give any details about Burton’s life. Votaries of Love: a Poem (1804; no copy located), by “W. Burton, Comedian,” is surely also by him. George Wilson (q.v.) published a response to A Pasquinade. (Highfill; Thomas Rodd, Catalogue of Twelve Thousand Tracts, Pamphlets, and Unbound Books [1819])

 

Books written (1):

Leeds: printed for the author by Edward Baines, 1801