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Author Description John Oxenford (12 August 1812 – 21 February 1877) was an English dramatist, critic and translator.<br /><br />Oxenford became the author of many translations from German, notably of Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit (1846) and Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe (1850), however, his primary interest was in the theatre and over sixty-eight plays are attributed to him. <br /><br />His 1835 one-act A Day Well Spent, after expansion, translation, and rewriting, formed the basis of Thornton Wilder's 1954 play The Matchmaker, which itself was the basis of the 1964 stage musical Hello, Dolly!

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