Thomas d'Urfey (c. 1653 – 26 February 1723) was an English writer and playwright. He wrote plays, songs, jokes, and poems. He was an important innovator...
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Old MacDonald Had a Farm (section Thomas d'Urfey)
verses added to each subsequent verse. The song was probably written by Thomas d'Urfey for an opera in 1706, before existing as a folk song in Britain, Ireland...
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to Purge Melancholy is the title of a large collection of songs by Thomas d'Urfey, published between 1698 and 1720, which in its final, six-volume edition...
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William Wycherley, John Dryden, William Congreve, John Vanbrugh, and Thomas D'Urfey. Collier attacks rather recent, rather popular comedies from the London...
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back to at least the late 17th century. One version was published in Thomas D'Urfey's Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy; a very different one appeared...
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Her first recorded stage appearance may have been as early as 1681 in D'Urfey's Sir Barnaby Whigg. In 1686 she married the actor William Mountfort, and...
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collection was Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy, edited by Thomas D'Urfey and published between 1698 and 1720. Selected songs from Wit and Mirth...
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had replaced Shakespeare's boy heroines on the London stage. The actor Thomas Betterton said that her acting gave "success to plays that would disgust...
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and anti-Catholic political song written by Thomas D'Urfey during the reign of Charles II of England. D'Urfey, a Tory by sympathies, set his own lyrics...
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Alicia D'Anvers – Thomas D'Urfey – John Dancer – George Daniel – Samuel Daniel – Sir William Davenant – Robert Davenport – Thomas Dekker – Sir John Denham...
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Innogen was played by Allison Edwards-Crewe. The play was adapted by Thomas d'Urfey as The Injured Princess, or, the Fatal Wager; this version was produced...
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influenced by Parisian vaudeville and the burlesques and musical plays of Thomas d'Urfey (1653–1723), a number of whose collected ballads they used in their...
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series The Comical History of Don Quixote, a 1694 three-part play by Thomas d'Urfey Don Quixote, a 2010 play written by Peter Anderson and Colin Heath Don...
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version of the song, from Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy by Thomas d'Urfey. Melody Maker made this its folk album of the year. Music journalist...
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title character of Sir Barnaby Whig, a Restoration comedy play by Sir Thomas d'Urfey Cousin Barnaby, in the Meadowsweet, by Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947)...
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D'Ambois by Thomas D'Urfey (1691) Mrs Sightly in The Wives Excuse by Thomas Southerne (1691) Mirtilla in Love for Money by Thomas D'Urfey (1691) Cleora...
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Voyage Round the World – William Dampier 1698 The Campaigners (play) – Thomas D'Urfey 1699 Dialogues of the Dead – William King and Charles Boyle The Bible...
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shall well become me. It was apparently first published in 1720 by Thomas d'Urfey in his Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy. "Maudlin" was a...
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Jean Galbert de Campistron – Andronic John Crowne – Sir Courtly Nice Thomas d'Urfey The Banditti, or A Lady's Distress A Commonwealth of Women (adapted...
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were a 1656 translation of Martial's Epigrams and a 1719 bawdy song by Thomas d'Urfey. In 1986 the Supplement to the OED deleted the "obsolete" label and...
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Congreve and Sir John Vanbrugh most prominently, but also John Dryden, Thomas d'Urfey, and William Wycherley) for moral shortcomings in their works. Collier's...
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Nathaniel Lee – The Duke of Guise Thomas d'Urfey The Injured Princess (adapted from Cymbeline) The Royalist Thomas Otway – Venice Preserv'd William Shakespeare...
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Trick for Trick by Thomas D'Urfey (1678) Rosalinda in Sophonisba by Nathaniel Lee (1681) Aurelia in A Fool's Preferment by Thomas D'Urfey (1688) Mrs Termagant...
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Dobell Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Macaulay Thomas Campbell Thomas Campion Thomas Carew Thomas Chatterton Thomas Dekker Thomas d'Urfey Thomas Edward...
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known appearance in The Marriage-Hater Matched by Thomas D'Urfey in 1692. From 1695 she was part of Thomas Betterton's breakaway company at the Lincoln's...
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music by John Banister) Thomas d'Urfey – A Fond Husband John Leanerd – The Country Innocence Nathaniel Lee – The Rival Queens Thomas Otway The Cheats of Scapin...
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Impostors John Crowne – Regulus John Dryden (with Thomas Southerne) – Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero Thomas D'Urfey – The Marriage-Hater Matched William Mountfort...
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stuttering has led many to believe the scene is based on the habits of Thomas d'Urfey. However, it may also be poking fun at Elkanah Settle, who stuttered...
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made his first stage appearance in London in 1691 as Nincompoop in Thomas D'Urfey's Love for Money. In this part, and as Solon in the same author's The...
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Nothing", Thomas Heywood's The Wise Woman of Hoxton (c. 1604), Molière's Scapin the Schemer (1671), and the plays of Aphra Behn and Thomas D'Urfey. Merriam-Webster...
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