Almost all of this playwright and actor's plays, such as "The Minor" and "A Trip to Calais", contain satirical portraits of famous contemporaries, a practice which got him tried on trumped-up charges of homosexual rape.
Almost all of this playwright and actor's plays, such as "The Minor" and "A Trip to Calais", contain satirical portraits of famous contemporaries, a practice which got him tried on trumped-up charges of homosexual rape. He lost his leg after the Duke of York goaded him into  riding a dangerous horse. Later, he wrote several plays with "cripple" parts for himself, including "The Lame Lover" and "The Devil Upon Two Sticks."
Almost all of this playwright and actor's plays, such as "The Minor" and "A Trip to Calais", contain satirical portraits of famous contemporaries, a practice which got him tried on trumped-up charges of homosexual rape.
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