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...

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...

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...

William Wycherley, John Dryden, William Congreve, John Vanbrugh, and Thomas D'Urfey. Collier attacks rather recent, rather popular comedies from the London...

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...

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...

burn" which Eccles originally wrote for Bracegirdle to perform in Thomas D'Urfey's play The Comical History of Don Quixote (1694). She also sang music...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Alicia D'Anvers – Thomas D'Urfey – John Dancer – George Daniel – Samuel Daniel – Sir William Davenant – Robert Davenport – Thomas Dekker – Sir John Denham...

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...

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...

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...

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...

late 17th century. Two versions were published in the fifth volume of Thomas D'Urfey's Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy; a version that is similar...

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...

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...

The Bath may refer to: The Bath (play), a 1701 comedy play by Thomas d'Urfey The Bath (EP), by electronica duo Lemon Jelly The Child's Bath, a painting...

2005. D'Urfey, Tom. Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy. 6 vol. London: Jacob Tonson, 1719–1720. "The Contemplator's Short Biography of Thomas D'Urfey...

Dobell Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Macaulay Thomas Campbell Thomas Campion Thomas Carew Thomas Chatterton Thomas Dekker Thomas d'Urfey Thomas Edward...

Nathaniel Lee – The Duke of Guise Thomas d'Urfey The Injured Princess (adapted from Cymbeline) The Royalist Thomas Otway – Venice Preserv'd William Shakespeare...

were also probably influenced by the burlesques and musical plays of Thomas D'Urfey (1653–1723) who had a reputation for fitting new words to existing songs;...

John Crowne – Darius, King of Persia Thomas D'Urfey – A Fool's Preferment William Mountfort – The Injured Lovers Thomas Shadwell – The Squire of Alsatia Sor...

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...

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...

Baby and me. The earliest recorded version of the rhyme appears in Thomas D'Urfey's play The Campaigners from 1698, where a nurse says to her charges:...

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...