John Leanerd ( fl. 1679) was a British playwright, notorious as a plagiarist.

Works

Leanerd published: * '' The Country Innocence; or, the Chambermaid turn'd Quaker'', London, a comedy acted at the London Theatre Royal in Lent, 1677, by the younger members of the company. It was ''The Country Girl'' (1647, sometimes attributed to Anthony Brewer) under a new title. * '' The Rambling Justice; or, the Jealous Husbands, with the Humours of Sir John Twiford'', performed at the same theatre; the incidents are mostly borrowed from

Thomas Middleton Thomas Middleton (baptised 18 April 1580 – July 1627; also spelt ''Midleton'') was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. He, with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson, was among the most successful and prolific of playwrights at work in the Jac ...

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More Dissemblers Besides Women ''More Dissemblers Besides Women'' is a Jacobean stage play, a tragicomedy written by Thomas Middleton, and first published in 1657. The play's date of authorship is uncertain, though it is usually dated c. 1615. It is thought to have been acte ...

'', 1657. To Leanerd has also been ascribed a comedy '' The Counterfeits'', London, 1679, acted at the Duke's Theatre in 1678. The plot was taken from a translated Spanish novel ''The Trepanner Trepanned''.

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She Would and She Would Not ''She Would and She Would Not'' is a 1702 comedy play by the English actor-writer Colley Cibber. The original Drury Lane cast included Cibber as Don Manuel, Benjamin Husband as Don Philip, John Mills as Octavio, William Pinkethman as Trappanti, ...

'' either based his play on the same novel, or else borrowed extensively from the comedy.

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Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Leanerd, John British dramatists and playwrights People involved in plagiarism controversies 17th-century English writers 17th-century English male writers English male dramatists and playwrights