William Rufus Chetwood

William Rufus Chetwood, Frontispiece to the 1749 edition of his History of the stage

William Rufus Chetwood (died 1766) was an English or Anglo-Irish publisher and bookseller, and a prolific writer of plays and adventure novels. He also penned a valuable General History of the Stage.[1]

  1. ^ The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature, ed. Robert Welch (Oxford, UK: OUP, 1947).