Author: Walker, Charles Edward
Biography:
WALKER, Charles Edward (fl 1818-25)
No biographical records have been found for this active and modestly successful playwright, who composed comedies, tragedies, burlesques, comic operas, and spectacles for at least three of the main London theatres--Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and Haymarket--between 1818 and 1825. "Remarks" prefaced to the 1823 London edition of Wallace, his most successful play, describe him as "still a young man." Typical titles are Sigesmar and the Switzer (1818), The Warlock of the Glen (1820), and The Revolt of the Greeks (1824), but there are no new titles after 1825. HJ
Other Names:
- C. E. Walker
Books written (7):
London: John Miller, 1820
New York: Murden and Thomson, 1821
Philadelphia: Thomas H. Palmer, 1822
London: Simkin and Marshall, 1823
Baltimore: Circulating Library and Dramatic Repository, 1823
Baltimore: J. Robinson, 1829
London: John Miller, [1829]