Isaac Pocock

author · 1751–1810

Isaac Pocock was an English dramatist and painter of portraits and historical subjects. He wrote melodramas, farces, and light operatic comedies, many being stage adaptations of existing novels. Of his 40 or so works, the most successful was Hit and Miss (1810), a musical farce. The mariner Sir Isaac Pocock (1751–1810) was his uncle.