...Donelle Ruwe Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra (1814) is a historical novel by the Irish author Adelaide O’Keeffe that features religious conversions from paganism to Judaism, and from Judaism to Christianity. O’Keeffe stages these conversions within the context of late Enlightenment debates about...

... to be overlooked.1 To offer one quick example, John O’Keeffe, whom Hazlitt described as the “English Moliere,” and who could boast the patronage of the Prince of Wales for his collected works published in 1798, is perhaps the best known of the Irish playwrights writing in London at the end...

... by charting the response of playwrights frustrated by this shift. Her two final case studies are the actress, playwright, and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald, and the Irish actor and playwright John O'Keeffe. Inchbald, in recognition of this new power struggle, chose not to sell her printing rights to theaters...

... (London: T. Cadell, 1789); John O’Keeffe, Omai; or, A Trip Round the World, in The Plays of John O’Keeffe, vol. 2, ed. Frederick M. Link (New York: Garland, 1981); Christa Knellwolf, “Comedy in the Omai Pantomime,” in Cook and Omai: The Cult of the South Seas...

... crasse, contribuent à relever cet éclat” (206–07). Savoyard teeth are no whiter than others, Bunon insists; the contrast between the Savoyards’ darkened skin and their light teeth merely produces the illusion that those teeth are dazzling. In John O’Keeffe’s farce The World in a Village (1793...

... and most famous locus of this activity in London was the Robin Hood Society in Butcher Row, where the moderator, a baker named Caleb Jeacock, sat in important solemnity and authority.8 The play- wright Joseph O’Keeff e, who visited the Society in the years 1762 – 63, was impressed: “The speeches...