Joseph Reed (playwright)

Joseph Reed
BornMarch 1723
Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England
Died (aged 64)
London, England
OccupationDramatist, poet
Period1744–87
Genrefarce, comic opera

Joseph Reed (March 1723 – 15 August 1787) was an English playwright and poet known for his 1761 farce The Register Office and the 1769 comic opera adaptation of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones.[1]

  1. ^ "Reed, Joseph (1723–1787), playwright and poet". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/23273. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)