مولود في غير أوانة؟ جيمس شريدان نولز وعالم السوق الأدبية في القرن التاسع عشر
Susanne Ramadan and Mahmoud Shra'ah, English Department, Faculty of Arts, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan
Abstract
The following study presents the Victorian playwright and actor James Sheridan Knowles (1784 - 1862), who was one of the most well-known dramatists of the nineteenth century. Late in his lifetime, Knowles converted to the Baptist faith and gave up his career as playwright and actor. Sources on Knowles and his age have to this point maintained that Knowles became an ordained Baptist minister and abandoned the stage entirely because of his change of faith. This research will prove otherwise. It will expose the actual factors that drove Knowles to give up playwriting and it will refute previous assumptions about Knowles's desertion of the stage during the last years of his life.