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    Thomas Shadwell (c. 1642 – 19 November 1692) was an English poet and playwright who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1689. Shadwell was born at either Bromehill...
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  • I • Philip Massinger II • Thomas Middleton I • Thomas Middleton II • Nero and Other Plays • Thomas Otway • Thomas Shadwell • James Shirley • Richard Steele...
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    mock-heroic satire written by John Dryden. It is a direct attack on Thomas Shadwell, another prominent poet of the time. It opens with the lines: All humane...
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    manuscript and an attack on the playwright Thomas Shadwell. Dryden's main goal in the work is to "satirize Shadwell, ostensibly for his offenses against literature...
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    that traversed what became Shadwell. Peter Jefferson, the father of President Thomas Jefferson established and named the Shadwell plantation in the mid-18th...
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    Shadwell is an area in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in East London, England. It also forms part of the city's East End. Shadwell is on the north...
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  • poem on Tea (1700). In spite of his consistent Toryism, he succeeded Thomas Shadwell as poet laureate in 1692. His poems were sharply criticised by Alexander...
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    and Palamede in Dryden's Marriage-a-la-Mode, Longvil and Bruce in Thomas Shadwell's The Virtuoso and the eponymous heroine in Sedley's Bellamira. These...
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  • Charles Shadwell (fl. 1710 - died 1726) was an English playwright of the 18th century, date of birth unknown. He was the son of Thomas Shadwell, the playwright...
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    only holder to have been removed from office. Dryden's successor, Thomas Shadwell, was appointed in 1689 for life. He introduced the custom of producing...
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  • Shadwell is an English surname. Notable people with the name include: Thomas Shadwell (c. 1642–1692), English poet and playwright Lancelot Shadwell (1779–1850)...
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  • today. This was a well-established usage by the late 17th century. Thomas Shadwell's play The Squire of Alsatia (1688) contains a character called Mrs...
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  • employs extensive scatological imagery to ridicule Dryden's contemporary Thomas Shadwell. German literature is particularly rich in scatological texts and references...
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  • Matthew Locke The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island (1674) libretto by Thomas Shadwell after John Dryden and William Davenant's adaptation of Shakespeare's...
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    The first English version of Don Juan was The Libertine (1676) by Thomas Shadwell. A revival of this play in 1692 included songs and dramatic scenes...
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    translation, Der Geizige, appeared in Frankfurt in 1670. In England Thomas Shadwell adapted Molière's work under the title "The Miser" in 1672 and added...
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    (1692) Phoebe in The Marriage-Hater Matched by Thomas D'Urfey (1692) Clara in The Volunteers by Thomas Shadwell (1692) Araminta in The Old Bachelor by William...
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  • (1685) Nell in The Devil of a Wife by Thomas Jevon (1686) Isabella in The Squire of Alsatia by Thomas Shadwell (1688) Morayma in Don Sebastian by John...
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    comedies produced tended to be political in focus, the Whig dramatist Thomas Shadwell sparring with the Tories John Dryden and Aphra Behn. Behn's achievement...
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  • Athens the Man-hater, a rewrite of Shakespeare's original play by Thomas Shadwell Timon, a film and television character, originally from the film The...
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  • revived a number of times, and adapted as an opera by Thomas Shadwell in April 1674; Shadwell's revision had a musical score created by a team of composers...
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    print in the title of The Squire of Alsatia, a 1688 play written by Thomas Shadwell. According to the Institut National de la Statistique et des Études...
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  • historical figure. Timon of Athens (Thomas Shadwell), a rewrite of Shakespeare's original play by Thomas Shadwell BBC Television Shakespeare - Third Season...
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    Archaeological Association. British Archaeological Association. 1870. Thomas Shadwell (1668). The Sullen Lovers. :'Play at Catt, Stoolball, Scotch-hopp and...
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    New York: Philosophical Library. p. 354. Saintsbury, George (1907). Thomas Shadwell. London: T.F. Unwin. p. 238. Murphy, Arthur (1956). The Way to Keep...
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    Plautus' play into French as L'Avare (The Miser, 1668) while in England Thomas Shadwell adapted Molière's work in 1672 and a version based on both Plautus...
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    Portraits suggest intelligence but heavy features and the playwright Thomas Shadwell writes in a letter in 1692 that it would have been better to have staged...
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    Timon of Athens (category Plays by Thomas Middleton)
    wilderness. The earliest-known production of the play was in 1674, when Thomas Shadwell wrote an adaptation under the title The History of Timon of Athens...
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  • Mrs Termagant in The Squire of Alsatia by Thomas Shadwell (1688) Mrs Fantast in Bury Fair by Thomas Shadwell (1689) Semanthe in The Treacherous Brothers...
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    1622) Christopher Nevile, English politician (b. 1631) November 19 Thomas Shadwell, English poet and playwright (b. 1642) Prince Georg Friedrich of Waldeck...
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