Henry Austin Clapp

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Henry Austin Clapp

Henry Austin Clapp (17 July 1841 – 1904) was an American dramatic critic.

Biography

Henry Austin Clapp was born in Dorchester and graduated from Harvard University in 1860,[1] receiving the degree of LL.B., four years later. He practiced law in Boston until appointed to the clerkship of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. He was widely known as a Shakespearian scholar and for more than thirty years he wrote dramatic criticism for The Boston Advertiser. During the last year of his life Clapp was dramatic critic for The Boston Herald.[2]

Works

Notes

  1. "Henry Austin Clapp (1841–1904)," The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
  2. "Henry Austin Clapp '60," The Harvard Crimson, February 24, 1904.

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