Richard Brinsley Peake, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetRichard Brinsley Peake
British writer
Date of Birth: 19-Feb-1792
Place of Birth: Soho, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 04-Oct-1847
Profession: playwright
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Richard Brinsley Peake
- Richard Brinsley Peake (19 February 1792 – 4 October 1847) was a dramatist of the early nineteenth century best remembered today for his 1823 play Presumption; or, the Fate of Frankenstein, a work based on the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
- It was Peake, not Shelley, who wrote the famous line, "It lives!"
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