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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

series The Comical History of Don Quixote, a 1694 three-part play by Thomas d'Urfey Don Quixote (play), a 2010 play written by Peter Anderson and Colin...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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;...

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

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...

Scapin by Thomas Otway (1676) Sir Gregory Lovemuch in The Counterfeit Bridegroom by Aphra Behn (1677) Apothecary in A Fond Husband by Thomas D'Urfey (1677)...

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

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...

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:...

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)...

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...

English architect, astronomer and mathematician (b. 1632) February 26 – Thomas d'Urfey, English writer (b. 1653) March 13 – René Auguste Constantin de Renneville...

The Revenge (1680), The City Heiress (1682), The Lucky Chance (1686) Thomas D'Urfey – A Fond Husband (1677), Squire Oldsapp (1678), The Virtuous Wife (1679)...